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From: sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter)
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Subject: Re: How do you create a shell archive?
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Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 19:50:52 EDT
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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. What's available or does everyone have
> there own program. Would anyone out there like to share what they have??

There are lots of shell scripts that usually go by the name of "shar"
that people use to pack archives.  I've got a version written in C
that completely blows all the shell-versions away--here's the section
of the manual-page that mentions all who worked on this one:

    Gary Perlman (based on a shell version by James Gosling, with
    additions motivated by many people on the UNIX network:  Derek
    Zahn, Michael Thompson, H. Morrow Long, Fred Avolio, Gran
    Uddeborg, Chuck Wegrzyn, nucleus!randy@TORONTO, & Bill McKeeman)

Ask around your site and neighboring sites; somebody's bound to have
something you can use.  I've got my own little list of improvements to
be made to the C-written version--I'll post to comp.sources.unix when
done.  (P.S. to r$: do you maintain archives?)

-- Steve Alter
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