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- From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Shell Archive ???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.185323.4810@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 18:53:23 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.144521.7470@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
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- Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
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- In-Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
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- In article <1992Aug21.144521.7470@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>, mueller@schaefer (Carl Douglas Mueller) writes:
- >I wasn't sure where to post this, but this seemed a good a place as any.
- >If I have a file that says "This is a shell archive ... type 'sh file' to
- >unpack it ..." is there any way I can do this on the AMIGA? --- These are
- >UNIX commands (right?). I really don't want to unpack this here at school
- >and dowload files individually!
-
- I believe there is at least one unshar utility for the Amiga. However, if
- you've got access to a Unix box, why not unshar them there (where it was
- meant to be done), and use zoo or lharc or lha to archive the files, and
- send them that way? I do this all the time; it works great.
-
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- Dave Schaumann dave@cs.arizona.edu
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