shar 3.49 (part 1 of 2)
Richard H. Gumpertz
rhg at cpsolv.CPS.COM
Thu Sep 20 13:21:24 AEST 1990
In article <90261.205650QQ11 at LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> QQ11 at LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>At the risk of some flames, how about putting a feature in your shar which
>I couldn't find (well not with 3.43....)? The version shipped by my
>vendor will add the uudecode source for sending to sites where they don't
>have it.
Talk about creeping featurism! No, I won't add this. Just refrain from
sending uuencoded shar files to people who don't have uudecode.
Actually, ALL versions of shar support this already: just specify your
favorite version of uudecode.c as the first argument to shar!
Maybe I am missing something. Do you want uudecode to be automatically
compiled and installed such too? In that case, we better send a C compiler,
assembler, and linker in the shar file too (in case the recipient is missing
one of those)! Hey, that's the ticket: shar could do the whole bootstrap
process for porting Unix: just send the Unix source to a new machine and it
will automatically do everything needed to port Unix to that machine! Moby
Sigh.
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