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Article #180Re: desk top stuff (and other "shar" "binhex")
From: dlc
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 1984 07:17
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 1984 07:17
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A note to anyone who sends or get binhex (the new, compressed format) files in a "shar" file. The Bourne shell, which processes "shar" archives, likes to do special things with dollar signs and also reverse slashes at the end of a line, both of which occur frequently in binhex files. So, since I sent the first "shar" file with a "binhex" file in it, you are forewarned. Once I received a file instead of sending one, I immediately saw the problem -- every coincidental "$$" had disappeared, and the process id for the shell appeared in its place, and one line was twice as long as the others. I'd say the best policy for the future is to send binhex files in separate news articles, no "shar" involved. This may be why some of you had problems with the new binhex in the first place, if you started from Microsoft BASIC.
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