eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) (12/02/88)
I've looked at the both unshar packages in the comp.sources.unix
archives on UUNET. Both of them normally just feed stuff to sh, though
it varies how well they deal with the `exit' at the end of an archive
when it doesn't end the message.
I usually concatenate multi-part archives (from rrn, usually something
like "/Fnord part/jsFNORD") into one file, and then try to unshar that
without bothering to split it. However, the exit at the end kills the
shell...
An approximate fix was to change the `if' in the volume 15 version to
a `while', but that didn't quite work on real files. I don't have time
to fix it myself; does anyone have another version that does more than
this?
Mark Eichin
<eichin@athena.mit.edu>
SIPB Member & Project Athena ``Watchmaker''
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