DESCRIPTION: ============ The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format) in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar). This format can be sent through e-mail (which can be problematic for regular binary files). The shar utility supports a wide range of capabilities (compressing, uuencoding, splitting long files for multi-part mailings, providing checksums), which make it very flexible at creating shar files. After the files have been sent, the unshar tool scans mail messages looking for shar files. Unshar automatically strips off mail headers and introductory text and then unpacks the shar files.
Note that unshar is inherently unsafe by design, because it executes arbitrary shell scripts; therefore the creation of shar archives should be limited to situations where the receiver trusts the sender. However, uuencode and uudecode are useful in their own right, and are safe to use. Primary focus: version 3 of GPL Secondary: minor bug fixes & gnulib-ification Download: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.8.tar.gz _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
