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- Here is a version of unshar that I have `knocked up' in the past few weeks.
- It isn't as flash as the standard unshar, but I've made it modular so it
- can be enhanced easily.
-
- However, it has some advantages:
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- - it does not call any other program, especially /bin/sh
- - it can extract specific files from the shar
- - can give a table of contents without extracting files
- - takes several input files, or the standard input
- - ignores leading `junk' e.g news headers
- - emulates sed, gres and cat to do the unsharing
- - avoids the Minix `cat /dev/null > file' problem :-)
- - it works `as is' under MS-DOS (needs getopt)
-
- I've used it to unshar lots of different files; there are bound to be
- some that it can't extract, but fixing the program should be easy.
-
- Warren Toomey - wtoomey@csadfa.oz.au@munnari.oz[@uunet]
-