[comp.os.minix] Problems unpacking shar archives

paradis@encore.UUCP (04/30/87)

If I get a shar archive from, say, net.sources and try to
unpack it under MINIX, /bin/sh complains: "Out of string space".
Has anyone else seen this problem?  Does /bin/sh do something
stupid like try to store ALL of the redirected input in memory?
Or are there styles of shar'ing that plain don't work?

   +----------------+  Jim Paradis                  linus--+
+--+-------------+  |  Encore Computer Corp.       necntc--|
|  | E N C O R E |  |  257 Cedar Hill St.           ihnp4--+-encore!paradis
|  +-------------+--+  Marlboro MA 01752           decvax--|
+----------------+     (617) 460-0500             talcott--+
You don't honestly think ENCORE is responsible for this??!!