Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

[Karl Heuer]

In article <3131.26a188ca at mccall.com> tp at mccall.com writes:
>In article <1990Jul13.161441.8339 at druid.uucp>, darcy at druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>> Modify shar to [split long lines].  All it would take is to put a '\' if
>> the line goes beyond a certain point and continue on the next line.  The
>> shell will put it back together properly.
>
>Technical question ... Is this true?

No.  Since shar'd files are quoted (via the hack of quoting the word that
identifies the terminator for the here-document), a backslash is not special
there.  You'd have to use an unquoted here-document, and then escape any real
backslashes, dollar signs, or grave accents that appear in the text.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint