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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