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From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: You can help improve shar
Message-ID: <574@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 88 00:11:36 GMT
References: <1823@erix.ericsson.se>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1823@erix.ericsson.se> howard@erix.ericsson.se (Howard Gayle) writes:
>I am working on yet another version of shar, called trshar
>because it uses the tr command when necessary.  Trshar will
>archive any files containing any bytes, using tr if necessary
>to encode unprintable characters in printable form.  It will
>automatically switch to a binary encoding such as btoa or
>uuencode if that is more compact than a tr encoding.  (Files

I took Rich $alz's 'cshar' package a while back and modified it
to compress and then uuencode binary files.  I hacked it in
quickly, and haven't sent the changes to Rich to approve
as an official patch.  I would suggest, however, that anything
you do be based upon Rich's package.  The quick hack I did
will be readily apparent in the upcoming JetRoff shar's in
comp.sources.misc.  I had to change findsrc.c (to indicate to
makekit that a file is binary), makekit.c (to figure out what
the compressed/uuencoded size of a file will be), and shar.c
(to compress/uuencode the file and put the proper wrapper
around it).
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