Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee
From: glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats
Message-ID: <3122@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 88 15:00:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.3122
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Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <868@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>The shar stuff I just released only puts out the leading 'X' when
>the first character is a non-alphabetic.

>Which do people prefer?

Just a caution, if you are going to change the shar scheme to be more
intelligent", please provide an unshar program that can cope with it. Shar is
used on PCs and other non-Unix systems that do not have /bin/sh.

The current version of unshar (the one I am using anyways) just counts
the number of characters in the "sed" parameter and chops that many
characters off the start of the line. In fact, it can't cope with the
shars that has a sed ... /^@/ and ends up chopping the first character
off every line. I know I can fix it, but those shar files are rare,
right now. Your scheme would certainly break the version of unshar I have.


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