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Re: unshar needed & sh discussion (was Re: cc ... & dmake)

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From: Kevin Henigan
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:06
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In article <bazyar.725048507@teal> bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>henigan@quando.quantum.de (Kevin Henigan) writes:
>
>>The new version of gsh will support if/then/else etc... is it compatible
>>enough to unpack un*x shar files or to run un*x sh scripts.
    NOTE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>  But seriously, I've got code for an sh clone, and will finish a port
>as soon as I add more robust UNIX-style fork() support to GNO.  I'll
>actually be adding vfork(), which the sh clone can be modified to use
>instead of regular UNIX fork.

great, the unpacking is easy, but there are a lot of un*x shell scripts that
only run with /bin/sh, therefore I asked about /bin/sh.

>  If anyone can find the sh-less unshar, I'd be happy to port it.

I'll have a look and see if I can find a program.

In the mean time for you emacs buffs, how about this :-

from comp.sources.misc 
v06i047:Subject: v06i047: meunshar, a MicroEmacs macro to split shar files

Is anyone interested in looking at it?????

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From: henigan@quando.quantum.de (Kevin Henigan)
Subject: Re: unshar needed & sh discussion (was Re: cc ... & dmake)
Message-ID: <1992Dec23.100637.9783@quando.quantum.de>
Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
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