Shar program needed

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <894 at psc90.UUCP> netnews at psc90.UUCP (Remote mail paths) writes:
>Hi,
>
>	I am looking for a program which will "shar" (pack) a large program for
>posting to the net. At the moment I am only able to unshar using "sh."

The cshar package, written by Rich Salz and available in volume 15 of
the comp.sources.unix archives (either anonymous ftp to uunet.uu.net,
or UUCP mail archives {about which I know absolutely nothing and
therefore can't tell you how to use :-)}), is the most complete
package I've seen.

It produces robust archives that will survive nearly all mailers, and
includes the "makekit" program which will automatically take a large
set of source files and put them into multiple shar files that are
small enough to be mailed.

It also adds the lines to the bottom of shar files that say things
like, "You've got the archive," or "You still need to unpack archives
2 3 4 ..." which are a help.

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