[comp.sys.mac] .shar

RWERMAN@vms.huji.ac.il (03/06/90)

    I can handle the unstuffing of binhexed files that are either
*.sit and *.pit, but can someone help me with those rare birds
that come in *.shar instead of *.hqx?
    Thanks.
           __Bob Werman
           rwerman@hujivms

rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry) (03/07/90)

>I can handle the unstuffing of binhexed files that are either
>*.sit and *.pit, but can someone help me with those rare birds
>that come in *.shar instead of *.hqx?

shar files need to be converted on a Unix box.  Look at the man page
for shar for more info.

Ray

rht@smsdpg.uu.net (Randy Thompson) (03/09/90)

From article <-286499960@hpcupt1.HP.COM>, by rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry):
>>I can handle the unstuffing of binhexed files that are either
>>*.sit and *.pit, but can someone help me with those rare birds
>>that come in *.shar instead of *.hqx?
> 
> shar files need to be converted on a Unix box.  Look at the man page
> for shar for more info.

Not so, quite a while ago I had the same question since I was doing
some porting of *nix sources to the mac. Anyway, when I posted to the
net asking if someone had already hacked unshar to work on the mac,
someone at Applewas nice enough to send me the sources. unshar compiled 
easily under THINK C 4.0 and LsC 3.0. I would be happy to forward them
to those that ask, or, if the demand is high enough, to post them.
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