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- This package containsa fairly crude but nevertheless
- effective un-shar-er for DOS (or other, I suppose) sytsems. It is
- based on one that was posted by Warren Toomey, (email
- wtoomey@csadfa.oz.au@munnari.oz[@uunet]) a couple of years ago,
- I think to comp.sources.misc, or maybe alt.sources (I misremember).
- This archive includes the sources, the un-nroffed manpage, a makefile,
- and a DOS executable.
-
- I have added a couple of "features" to it to make it more suited
- to my needs, but I think they are also generally applicable. My
- modifications are 1) it will make subdirectories as required and
- properly drop the extracted files in them, and 2) it assumes (by
- default) that if, when extracting a file, there is already one
- in the destination directory of the same name, the new data should
- be appended to the existing file. This handles those shars where
- a large file might have been split into multiple shar files. There
- is a command-line switch to disable this behavior.
-
- The original sources required a getopt(), so I have added to the
- package the "public domain AT&T getopt" that I acquired some time
- ago from one of the net sources groups. Also included is the makefile
- I use with Greg Yachuk's make (should work for any reasonably standard
- make), and the tags file I use with PC/VI (probably compatible with
- MKS/VI, I suppose).
-
- Fred Smith
- uunet!samsung!wizvax!fcshome!fredex
-