Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!bbn!diamond.bbn.com!mlandau
From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Suggestion for shar file posting
Summary: unshar
Message-ID: <10490@diamond.BBN.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 88 20:59:04 GMT
References: <661@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
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In comp.sources.d, creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes:
>   After having unshar'ed many programs, one thing I've noticed that
>causes extra work is having to edit the file before unshar'ing it.
>It would be nice if I could "w" it from rn, then unshar it without
>having to do any editing.

Rich $alz, the moderator of comp.sources.unix, has the best set of tools
for packing and unpacking shar files I've yet seen.  One of the programs in
the toolkit is "unshar" -- unshar looks for a line that contains a "cut
here" string and then unpacks the remainder of the file.  It takes a number
of flags to control options such as the directory into which the files
should be unshared.  The bottom line is that you can often just pipe
articles from rn into unshar -d <dir> and have the right thing happen.

You can pick up r$'s tools from your friendly neighborhood comp.sources.unix 
archive site.
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