NOTE: this is a trivial update release 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 4.15 of sharutils Version 4.15.1 - May 2015, by Bruce Korb * gnulib updates to fix platform build issues 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-4.15.1.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 -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
