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From: bd@hpsemc.UUCP (bob desinger)
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Subject: Re: How do you create a shell archive?
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Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 11:51:02 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 23 11:51:02 1987
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> Our local shar is written in C, can send binary files, can do error
> checking at the receiving end, and protects against mailer
> stupidity.  It is very nice to be able to shar up arbitrary files.
> The binaries are encoded into printable ASCII, and an unpacking
> program (in C) is included in the shar.  It is possible to shar and
> mail compressed files.

this is jack applin's shar, posted to net.sources when it was called
that a long time ago.  i combined jack's shar with some features of
rich salz's (based on larry wall's) for support of multi-part kits,
then added yet another option that i wanted---an auto-compress with
auto-decompress upon unpacking---and sent the result to rich salz of
comp.sources.unix fame.  this shar has been tested on system v and
rich is testing it on berkeley.

watch for it in comp.sources.unix in a week or two, maybe less.

bob desinger