shars and security concerns.

[Tom Neff]

In article <1203 at chinacat.Unicom.COM> chip at chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>TODAY'S HELPFUL HINT:  If you need to do something special with the setup
>or installation of your software distribution (e.g. chmod, uudecode,
>etc.), please provide a ten-line sh script in the archive rather than
>making it part of the shar archive itself.

I agree except that 'chmod +x' ought to be allowed.  It's common already,
and basic to making scripts executable.  That exact syntax could be
standardized for simulation elsewhere.

>Not rhetorical: would shar format be an appropriate topic for an RFC?

I think so.  Someone 'major' would have to do it.