A readable, robust encoding for source postings
Tom Neff
tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM
Tue Jan 1 11:24:20 AEST 1991
In article <62-raymond-terry> raymond!terry at galaxia.newport.ri.us (Terry Raymond) writes:
>The trouble is there is always a new version of shar being used which breaks
>the old unpackers, mine cannot unpack the latest distributions.
Yes indeedy, because there is always someone out there to gild the lily.
Witness the latest pointless "TOUCH=cannot" oddity.
What would be nice would be for someone to concoct a Perl or C program
which accepts a signature prefix to look for (/^X/ for instance) and
writes files from raw shar's, regardless of format.
>I am suggesting that there be some serious discussion about using a packing
>format, with distributed code as is done with uudecode, to replace shar.
There are ASCII archives out there. The problem is enforcing a
standard.
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