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From: jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett)
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Subject: Re: which is the 'official' shar?
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Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 18:31:44 EDT
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> 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??
> It would really be nice if the official shar worked on everything from a
> cray running 4.7BSD to my little TI58 calculator.
> Jim Harkins 

    "Bundle", mentioned in another response is a minimum shar.
    (see The UNIX Programming Environment, Kernighan and Pike, Prentice-Hall)

    It lacks the following features which I feel are essential (and available):

    1. Written in C for speed.
    2. Detect and pack binary files in an ASCII form.
       (include an unpacking program)
    3. Detect special input that might cause problems in mailers (lone ".")
       and perhaps prepend X.
    4. Optionally do error checking on receipt by "wc" or "sum".

    I doubt that you could get a TI58 to do the above.  Are you willing to
    grant a C compiler and standard UNIX utilities?