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- UNSHAR V1.4(1) AMIGA Programmer's Manual UNSHAR V1.4(1)
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- ¢1mNAME
- ¢0munshar - extracts files from shar archives
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- ¢1mSYNOPSIS
- ¢0munshar {-overwrite} {-nosort} file1 file2 ...
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- ¢1mDESCRIPTION
- ¢0mUnshar is a utility which extracts files from the ubiquitous
- Unix shar archives. It has the following advantages over
- existing unshar utilities:
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- - Small and fast
- - Handles many cat and sed formats
- - Allows extraction of subdirectories
- - Understands ./file type filenames
- - Understands file continuation with >>
- - Sorts file list by Subject: line
- - Exits cleanly with CTRL-C
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- The total code size is slightly over 5K, for those with
- packed C directories. It treats quotes and imbedded escape
- sequences intelligently and handles all the cat and sed
- formats I've ever seen, including sed commands which strip
- off more than one letter. There may be some formats it
- won't handle, but I've yet to find them.
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- Invoke unshar with as many archive filenames as you like.
- All the files in each archive will be extracted into the
- current directory. If a file already exists, unshar asks
- you how you want to handle it. Entering `Y' will overwrite
- the existing file with the version in the archive, `N' will
- skip past the file without extracting it, and `A' will
- overwrite this file and any other existing files without
- prompting you again. Including the -o flag on the command
- line causes files to always be overwritten.
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- ¢1mOPERATION
- ¢0mUnshar scans through each archive specified on the command
- line, looking for lines beginning with `cat' or `sed'. All
- other lines are ignored. In particular, `echo' lines are
- not echoed. This way, you don't get a load of messages
- which are in any case fairly meaningless, because the
- operations they are describing are unsupported.
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- When a shar archive contains a file for which a full
- pathname is given (as in source/file.c for example) unshar
- will create whatever directories are necessary. It also
- strips off leading /'s and ./'s, to make filenames
- understandable by AmigaDOS.
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- Occasionally, a shar file distribution will contain a file
- too large to fit into a single shar archive (archives are
- typically limited to around 60K or so for transmission over
- Usenet). One method some archivers use to get around this is
- to split the large file into several smaller parts, and use
- the shell `>>' redirection operator to concatenate the parts
- together while extracting the files. In order for this to
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- Copyright Eddy Carroll 1992 -1-
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- UNSHAR V1.4(1) AMIGA Programmer's Manual UNSHAR V1.4(1)
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- work properly, it is important that the archive files are
- extracted in the correct sequence; otherwise, all the pieces
- will get joined together in the wrong order.
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- To assist with this, unshar does a prescan over all the
- files listed on the command line, and checks each file for a
- "Subject:" line. If it finds such a line, it scans it
- looking for any hints as to where the file comes in the
- sequence. Most shar files you feed to unshar will be
- directly from a Usenet sources or binaries group, and will
- include a volume and issue reference on the subject line.
- If unshar can't find such an issue reference, it will look
- for a Part number and use that instead.
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- Unshar then extracts the archives starting with the lowest
- numbered file. This helps to ensure that those extra-large
- files are created correctly. You can tell when such a file
- is being created, because unshar says "Extending file"
- rather than "Unsharing file".
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- If for some reason you want the files to be unarchived in
- the order listed on the command line, you can specify the
- `-n' (nosort) switch, and no sorting will take place.
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- ¢1mDISTRIBUTION
- ¢0mUnshar may be freely distributed, as long as no charge is
- made for doing so.
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- ¢1mHISTORY
- ¢0mV1.0ááFirst release.
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- V1.1ááAdded support for some more unusual uses of sed.
- Increased speed, and reduced size slightly.
- Fixed bug that truncated lines longer than 80 chars.
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- V1.2ááAdded support for sorting by Subject: line
- Added support for file appending via >>
- Fixed small bug in detection of disk write errors
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- V1.3ááFixed bug in "Overwrite (Yes, [No], All)?"áprompt.
- No longer exits immediately on file read error.
- Fixed subtle bug in code to skip existing files.
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- V1.4ááModified to ignore leading blanks in front of command
- names (thanks to Dan Barrett for this).
- Added version string for Workbench 2.0.
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- ¢1mAUTHOR
- ¢0mEddy Carroll
- EMAIL: ecarroll@maths.tcd.ie
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