Otherware/Otherware_1_SB_Development.iso/mac/developm/source/mpwtools.cpt/unshar/Read me!

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Thanks to Bill Johnston ([e-mail]) for
testing and many helpful suggestions.

This program and source code is in the public domain.

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To use:

1) Launch "unshar"
2) select "Extract"
3) choose a shar archive that you've downloaded
   (must be a text file).
4) select a FOLDER in which to store the extracted files
5) pick next archive or quit

For batch unsharing:

1) under 7.0, select a group of files (must be TEXT files)
   and drop them into unshar when the appl's icon is
   highlighted.
2) under pre-7.0 systems, select the TEXT files and the appl
   itself, then choose "Open" from the file menu.

Of course, if the file isn't a shar archive, ...

Not all shar files can be processed by this application,
but it will work for the ones in the sumex archives and
those in comp.binaries.mac.

This was built from source code posted by Amanda Walker of
Intercon.

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Notes for hackers:

The same source file can be used for both MPW and Think C.
For use with Think C, you need
  a) TC 4.0.4 or later (for use on 7.0)
  b) the header files distributed on the 7.0B4 CD
  c) TransSkel (from sumex)
If you use the header files distributed with TC 4.0, you may find
things like "FileFilterProcPtr" not defined. Just typedef them to
ProcPtrs and it should compile. Also look at the comment about
LOWMEM vars near the top of the file.

For MPW, use the unshar.make that is provided; you can use the
Build command in the Build menu. I used MPW 3.2, but I think it'll
compile under 3.1 as well.

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Sak Wathanasin
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