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From: kms@ecsvax.UUCP (Ken Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SHAR format for binary files
Summary: try SHAR on Fish #28
Keywords: only a TINY annoyance, use 'sed'
Message-ID: <6985@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 04:11:28 GMT
References: <6960@ecsvax.UUCP> <614@corpane.UUCP>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <614@corpane.UUCP>, sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
> In article <6960@ecsvax.UUCP> kms@ecsvax.UUCP (Ken Steele) writes:
> >
And then John gives a nice and clear tutorial on using 'sh' 
to unshar files.  Thanks John.  And thanks to others who sent
similar replies for which my mailed thanks bounced.

Then he goes on to query...
> uuencode and uudecode are available for the Amiga, but it would be nice to
> have a program that unshared a .shar file on the Amiga side. Then you could
> do everything on the Amiga. Is there such a beastie?
> 
Yes there is.  It is on Fish #28, and is called 'shar.'  It has
a command line '-u' switch to unshar.  That is one of many reasons
I was in search of a mythical 'unshar' mainframe program.
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Ken Steele   Dept. of Psychology    kms@ecsvax.[bitnet | UUCP]
             Mars Hill College
             Mars Hill, NC 28754