Return-Path: Received: FROM BRL-TGR.ARPA BY USC-ISIB.ARPA WITH TCP ; 20 Jun 85 15:17:35 PDT Received: from usenet by TGR.BRL.ARPA id a002873; 20 Jun 85 14:12 EDT From: John White Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: PC-DOS version of shar Message-ID: <590@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Date: 19 Jun 85 02:33:13 GMT To: info-ibmpc@usc-isib.ARPA > The "shar" command is a good way of sending multiple files > in a single mailing from one UNIX to another. > I'm wondering if anyone has developed companion shar commands, > one UNIX-based and the other PC-DOS based, that can be used > to create a shar file on unix, download it to the pc, > then extract files onto the pc. > A converse use would be to create a shar archive on the PC, > upload to UNIX, then extract on unix. > Here is a quick and dirty shar archiver that I use on an MS-DOS machine to package several C source files for porting to a UNIX system. The compiler I use (DeSmet) converts "\n" to "\r\n" so I run the resulting file through a '\r' remover (such as tr -d '\015'). The archive uses the "cat" format and goes to file "shar.out".