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- From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
- Subject: shar.Z
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:12:34 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan26.165602.25592@PacBell.COM>
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- In article <1993Jan26.165602.25592@PacBell.COM> smmyers@foghorn.srv.pacbell.com (Sean Myers) writes:
- > I have a file with the extension shar.Z I know that the .Z means
- >compressed, but what does the .shar mean ? I've seen it referenced
- >before I think as an archive, but I can't find that reference again.
- >Any help would be great. Thanks.
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- It's a compressed shell archive. After compressing or using zcat, you
- can run it through /bin/sh to extract it. Otherwise, you can find a
- program called unshar for some additional security checking.
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