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From: page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SHAR info needed ...
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Date: 15 May 89 03:15:16 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swap.sun.com (Bob Page)
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There is no standard format, or spec for shar files.  It's just a
bunch of commands that the unix bourne shell can execute (or cause to
be executed).

Rather than re-inventing the wheel, use the unshar program recently
posted to comp.sources.amiga .. works great.

If you don't have it for some reason, send mail to
archive-server@kilowatt.sun.com with this as the body of the message:
send unix/unshar.1
of course you can't unshar this either, so you'll have to edit the shar
file by hand, but all you really need to do is strip the X from the
beginning of each line and then uudecode the file.

..bob