From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: shar shell archives. Date: 8 Sep 1992 14:34:09 GMT
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.