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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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Subject: Re: which is the 'official' shar?
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Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 16:31:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: sigma.904
Posted: Mon Oct 20 16:31:53 1986
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Summary: [You don't need Unix utilities]

In article  jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Bob Jewett) writes:
>>[...]It would really be nice if the official shar worked on everything from a
>>cray running 4.7BSD to my little TI58 calculator.
>[...]I doubt that you could get a TI58 to do the above.  Are you willing to
>grant a C compiler and standard UNIX utilities?

I will grant a C compiler (but I'll bet it could even be done in -ugh- Basic),
but Unix utilities aren't necessary.

Example: I am using a shar utility on my CP/M machine (no Unix utilities like
"sh" there!), written by a fellow named Mike Kerstenbrock (I hope that's
right) in Oregon (great job, Mike!). It works quite well, as long as somebody
hasn't tried to make a Trojan Horse shar file.