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Article #28267Re: Shell Archive
From: ftw
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1987 13:14
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1987 13:14
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No, you can't undo a "shell archive" with ARC. You need something that runs
Unix. A "shell archive" is actually a program written for the Unix command
line interpreter ("shell"), so you would need this interpreter, plus some
extra utilities that the "archive" will use to unpack itself. The shell
archive provides a means of gathering a bunch of files into one (as does
ARC), with the advantage that the archive format consists entirely of
printable characters. A shell archive will never have a binary file in it,
unless perhaps that binary has been "uuencode"ed.
Farrell T. Woods
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!datacube!ftw From: ftw@datacube.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Shell Archive Message-ID: <105100018@datacube> Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 09:14:00 EDT Article-I.D.: datacube.105100018 Posted: Wed Sep 16 09:14:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 14:14:21 EDT References: <406245@<20118G15@PSUVM>> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:<20118G15@PSUVM>:-40624552:datacube:105100018:000:826 Nf-From: datacube.UUCP!ftw Sep 16 09:14:00 1987