Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!16012_3045
From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Shar/Unshar Wanted for MS-DOS Environment
Message-ID: <2103@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 20 Apr 89 21:25:58 GMT
References: <89Apr20.115638edt.19104@me.utoronto.ca>
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Organisation: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada

In article <89Apr20.115638edt.19104@me.utoronto.ca>, kokody2@me.utoronto.ca (Gerry Kokodyniak) writes:
> Does anybody know of the existance of a shar/unshar package available that
> would operate in an MS-DOS environment and yet behave like the UNIX version
> of shar/unshar. I would appreciate obtaining such code, or any pointers to
> a public archive site.

I've recently come across such a program on a local BBS. Unfortunatley, it
doesn't come with documentation or with source code. It was reasonably easy to
figure out how to unshar (which is what I wanted to do). The program does
provide a (very brief) summary of its arguments if you don't give it any
arguments, so it may be possible to figure out how to shar from that
information.

I don't know how much interest there is in such a program. I'd be willing to
email it (arc-ed and uuencoded) to anyone who wants it. Or, if interest is
sufficient, I suppose I could submit it to c.s.i.p.b.
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