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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (Jim Vaxkiller)
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Subject: which is the 'official' shar?
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 19:05:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: loral.1265
Posted: Wed Oct 15 19:05:08 1986
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At the prompting of our sys admin I'm going through my directories clearing
out cobwebs. Guess what boys and girls, I have 8 - 12 different shar/unshar
pairs!  I've got a compiled set in my .bin directory that has served me well
for over a year but don't know what sources they came from and don't feel
like compiling everything to find out.

What I wanna know is, is there a shar/unshar preferred by the net?  If
so, what's it's name and where do I get it??  Should it be posted so
everybody is on the same wavelength???  Except wizards, whom everybody
knows posts sources using macros in vi.

Note I make no mention of what machine or operating system I'm on.  It
would really be nice if the official shar worked on everything from a
cray running 4.7BSD to my little TI58 calculator.  I'm sick of unsharing
things, then using fpack on them to get them on other machines.

I await a flurry of mail with bated breath.

					Jim

Jim Harkins 
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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