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From: kim@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shell Archives
Summary: Yes.  There are several.
Message-ID: <33606@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 30 May 88 02:10:04 GMT
References: <3022@crash.cts.com> <4683@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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In article <4683@dasys1.UUCP>, chima@dasys1.UUCP (Chima Ngene) writes:
> In article <3022@crash.cts.com> johnk@pro-pac.CTS.COM (John Krause) writes:
> >
> >Is there a program that I can install and run from my Amiga that will allow me
> >to extract the shell archives once I have ascii captured them to my terminal?
>
>
> I'm afraid not, the best you could do is get the amiga version of uuencode &
> uudecode (I could e-mail to you if need be).

Not so!  Way back on FishDisk #28 there is an (un)shar program for Amy, and
there are a couple of newer ones on Fish #92, as well.  Also, Rich $alz just
posted the sources for a set of tools "to create and unpack shell archives"
in comp.sources.unix, which will also supposedly work on the Amiga (I just
unpacked them, and haven't had a chance to try them out, but I did see some
of Mike Meyer's code in the "dir.amiga" file).

Anyway ... I've been using one version or another of the unshar programs all
the way back to the 1st one.  Most of the time, they work.  Occasionally,
they don't, so you *always* need to take a look at the extracted files to be
sure everything's OK.

Since there are literally hundreds of variations in the exact format of
shar archive files (some of which are pretty damn braindamaged), this kind
of success-rate is about all one can hope for on Amy, I guess.  At least
until you can pick up UNIX(R) [unfortunately SysV instead of BSD] for her ...

/kim


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