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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: How do you create a shell archive?
Message-ID: <6451@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 22:37:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 20 22:37:32 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <545@clsib21.UUCP> dave@clsib21.UUCP (David P. Hansen) writes:
>Being rather new to Unix, I haven't yet discovered what utilities are
>used to pack a shell archive.

Use "bundle" from Kernighan & Pike.  That's essentially what
I do, and I have yet to hear of anyone having a problem
extracting sources I've mailed to them.

Many people think that shell archives should protect against
mailers that mangle files containing (for example) lines
starting with a dot.  I think the mailers should be fixed.