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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: shar shell archives.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.143409.15011@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 14:34:09 GMT
- References: <4987@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 17
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- khamer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Little Kenny Hamer) writes:
- >How can I get source to the shar/unshar utility? I have a program I would
- >like to try to compile, Xfract, but the only source I can find is in a
- >sharfile. There is not enough room on my university account to unshar it.
-
- Shars can be unshared by feeding them to /bin/sh, although you have to
- be careful to strip any leading and trailing text first (Usenet headers,
- for example).
-
- There are also some packages (most of them called unshar :) that do the
- stripping automatically.
-
- Shars can be created for instance with Rich Salz' cshar-package, from
- comp.sources.unix archives.
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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