| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
COULD SOMEONE OUT THERE BRIEFLY EXPLAIN HOW TO USE SHAR.C OR TELL
ME WHERE TO FIND SOME DOCUMENTATION ON IT?
THANK YOU......STEVE
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 430.1 | needs to be compiled | TRUMAN::LEIMBERGER | Wed Apr 01 1987 20:49 | 8 | |
Shar.c needs to be compiled before you use it . I have an arced
file of shar that works . After ith files are extracted you type
shar -u filename and the shard file will be broken out into several
files . There is a shar.exe file for the vax . I have it in my
public directory . TRUMAN::USER3:[LEIMBERG.PUBLIC]
Bill
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| 430.2 | How does SHAR relate to ARC? | KIRK::KYZIVAT | Paul Kyzivat | Wed Apr 01 1987 21:57 | 6 |
Can someone explain the purpose of SHAR (and UUENCODE/UUDECODE) in relation to ARC. Are all of the competitors? Why would I want to use them instead of ARC? I gather that they may only work on source, but are they better than ARC for source? Paul | |||||
| 430.3 | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Wed Apr 01 1987 23:37 | 16 | |
UUENCODE converts files to ASCII text files
used mostly for mailing .exe and .arc files
UUDECODE converts UUENCODEd files back to their original form
SHAR combines multiple ASCII files into one ASCII file
or breaks apart a SHARed file into multiple ASCII files
ARC combines and compresses both ASCII and binary files into a file
or decombines/decompresses them
SHAR and UUENCODE are used if you want to send files over a text
media, such as mail. You can UUENCODE an ARC file for mailing.
If you have a bunch of UUENCODED ARC files you want to mail, then
use SHAR to combine them.
-dave
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