GNU sharutils consists of two pairs of utilities: shar and unshar, and uuencode and uudecode. "shar" makes so-called shell archives out of many files, preparing them for transmission by electronic mail services (converting binary data to ascii representations, breaking the text into multiple shar scripts, etc.). "unshar" is the safe way to extract and reassemble the original files. It will automatically strip off the mail headers and other introductory text.
"uuencode" and "uudecode" are programs that convert binary files into ascii text so that the original data can pass through the email system without having intermediate hosts "fixing" the files en route. This is a bug fix release for version 4.14 of sharutils Version 4.14.2 - December 2014, by Bruce Korb * translation updates * use ftello, fseeko and fflush * augment copyright marks in shar.c and shar-std.def * Happy 2014 copyright dates, just in time for 2015 :) * fix up man pages (use newer doc generation code) sharutils home: http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/ primary ftp: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/ .tar.gz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.14.2.tar.gz bug reports: bug-gnu-utils at the usual GNU domain (be sure to mention "sharutils" in the subject... it helps to spot the message.) bug archive: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-utils/ maintainer: Bruce Korb - bkorb at the usual GNU domain _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
