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- GNU sharutils NEWS - User visible changes.
- Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- Version 4.2 - November 1995, by Franτois Pinard & Ulrich Drepper
-
- * New `mailshar' is a wrapper around `shar' and electronic mail.
-
- * New `remsync' is a Perl script which uses `mailshar' to help
- synchronizing remote directories, for sites connected only by email.
-
- * Programs (but not scripts) may now speak Dutch, French, German
- and Swedish.
-
- * Option -o offers better control over where to insert the part numbering
- in the file name.
-
- * There are the beginnings of a contrib directory.
-
- * Produced shell archive are now internationalized, too
-
- * uuencode/uudecode are now compliant to the latest POSIX.2d draft
- (more options, new encoding).
-
- * Updated man pages for shar/unshar by Jan Djarv
-
- * Speed up unshar a little bit.
-
- * Protect against transmission error by using MD5 sum. The old wc sum
- is more or less useless, but still the fallback solution.
-
- Version 4.1 - November 1994, by Franτois Pinard
-
- * GNU shar 4.0 and GNU uuencode 1.0 distributions have been merged
- into this GNU sharutils package, which replaces both. So this release
- introduces `uuencode' and `uudecode', over `shar' and `unshar'.
-
- * Option --no-verbose (-v) is being replaced by two different options:
- first is --quiet or --silent (-q), second is --quiet-unshar (-Q).
-
- Version 4.0 - September 1994, by Franτois Pinard
-
- * The distribution includes a Texinfo manual and Info documentation.
- Jan Djarv updated the man pages.
-
- * Mixed mode (-M) mode works reliably and is the default, intermixing
- types within file lists (-p) allows `-M'.
-
- * When piping is forbidden (-P), the shar scripts are usable by
- uudecode's requiring an argument as well as by those unable to
- process one.
-
- * Interactive scripts (-X) better protect themselves against
- `unshar' programs and procedures. The query format is nicer.
-
- Version 3.52.3 - July 1994, by Franτois Pinard
-
- * --gzip (-z) replaces --gzipped-files (-G). --compress (-Z)
- replaces --compressed-files (-C). -C is kept for a while, but
- gives a warning about being deprecated.
-
- Version 3.52.2 - July 1994, by Franτois Pinard
-
- * Long options, among which --help and --version.
-
- * Tildas are protected at the beginning of a line.
-
- * Setting timestamps is attempted by default, using an improved
- check of the local `touch' program at unshar time.
-
- * Generated shar scripts are cleaner on various details.
-
- Version 3.52.1 - June 1994, by Franτois Pinard
-
- * New options -G and -g<N> to use gzip while making shar files.
-
- See file `ChangeLog.OLD' for prior history about shar and unshar.
-