Could we have a standard "shar" file format?

Peter da Silva peter at graffiti.UUCP
Fri Sep 27 01:59:39 AEST 1985


> It doesn't handle all the cases (like metachars after the #) but I wrote
> the smallest possible C program: "main(){}", called it #, and put it
> in /usr/local/bin.

That's not a solution, since the #: messages only annoy. Metacharacters
are the things that cause most of the problems. Shar files should start
with : '...'.



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