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From: frank@hpuamsa.UUCP (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Unshar for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <7620003@hpuamsa.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 14:35:53 GMT
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Organization: HP NL
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> This may be a silly question, but is there a program out there that will
> handle a shar file under MS-DOS?

  No silly questions, only silly answers. Here comes one :-) :

  The MKS toolkit from Mortice Kern Systems (sp?) gives you a Korn shell
"vi" and many other UNIX commands. With them you can process shar's
(with some difficulty because of minor differences in "wc", "touch",
"chmod" between the MKS toolkit and "real" UNIX).
  Since the MKS toolkit also contains a fine "cpio" you probably will
want to use "cpio" archives instead of shar's.

Frank "Happy MKS user" Slootweg, Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands.