netnews@psc90.UUCP (Remote mail paths) (05/07/89)
Hi,
I am looking for a program which will "shar" (pack) a large program for
posting to the net. At the moment I am only able to unshar using "sh."
Thanks
Deryk
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In article <894@psc90.UUCP> netnews@psc90.UUCP (Remote mail paths) writes: >I am looking for a program which will "shar" (pack) a large program for >posting to the net. At the moment I am only able to unshar using "sh." Although there are zillions of "shar" implementations, I just use "bundle" from Kernighan & Pike's "The UNIX Programming Environment". Be warned that the moderator(s) of USEnet source newsgroups seems to think that it is important to accommodate brain-damaged mailers, but my preference is to give them all the grief I can in the hope that eventually the complaints from their clientele will cause them to be fixed.
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (05/08/89)
In article <894@psc90.UUCP> netnews@psc90.UUCP (Remote mail paths) writes: >Hi, > > I am looking for a program which will "shar" (pack) a large program for >posting to the net. At the moment I am only able to unshar using "sh." The cshar package, written by Rich Salz and available in volume 15 of the comp.sources.unix archives (either anonymous ftp to uunet.uu.net, or UUCP mail archives {about which I know absolutely nothing and therefore can't tell you how to use :-)}), is the most complete package I've seen. It produces robust archives that will survive nearly all mailers, and includes the "makekit" program which will automatically take a large set of source files and put them into multiple shar files that are small enough to be mailed. It also adds the lines to the bottom of shar files that say things like, "You've got the archive," or "You still need to unpack archives 2 3 4 ..." which are a help. Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 410 Memorial Drive, No. 223F jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Cambridge, MA 02139-4318 Office: 617-253-4261 Home: 617-225-8218