#: 3676 S9/Utilities
    22-May-90  11:09:31
Sb: #3667-#Help with Shar
Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
To: Kevin Darling (UG Pres) 76703,4227 (X)

Kevin -0

A 'shar' is just an ascii file... it's a SHELL ARCHIVE that contains both the
script and data files to unpack itself. If you  had a Unix bourne shell, you'd
just unpack it by doing a:

   /bin/sh 

The .shz suffix makes me wonder.... there IS no standard suffix for a SHAR
file. Also, the 'z' is usually tacked onto something that's been 'compress'ed.

Try uncompressing it first (use a compress -d), and then see if it's ASCII.
Then try the SHAR tool.

Pete

P.S. The UNSHAR I have occasionally crashes... dunno if they're the same.



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