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From: exodus@uop.UUCP (Freddy Kreuger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shell Archive
Message-ID: <532@uop.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 14:29:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: uop.532
Posted: Wed Sep 16 14:29:53 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Sep-87 06:12:38 EDT
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Organization: Somewhere perpendicular to reality...
Lines: 10
Summary: No, it's something else

No, a shell archive in the UN*X world is a Bourne Shell script that
recreates a bunch of files that have been merged into one or more larger
files.  There is no compaction but twenty files could be merged together 
and made into a shell archive of only 3 files.  The whole point is that
many many files can be mailed as a smaller group of larger files.

A little roundabout but....

Greg Onufer
Univ of the Pacific