GNU shar makes so-called shell archives out of many files, preparing them for transmission by electronic mail services. A shell archive is a collection of files that can be unpacked by /bin/sh. A wide range of features provide extensive flexibility in manufacturing shars and in specifying shar smartness. For example, shar may compress files, uuencode binary files, split long files and construct multi-part mailings, ensure correct unsharing order, and provide simplistic checksums.
GNU unshar scans a set of mail messages looking for the start of shell archives. It will automatically strip off the mail headers and other introductory text. The archive bodies are then unpacked by a copy of the shell. unshar may also process files containing concatenated shell archives.
You can find the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/manual/.
The project source can be found here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/REL-4.6.3.
The translation project page for sharutils is:
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/domain-sharutils.htmlIf you have another translation of the message strings, please have it added to this repository. Only translations from this site will be incorporated into sharutils.
The homepage/directory of the .po files is:
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/maint/sharutils/
The translation coordinator may be reached at:
translation@iro.umontreal.ca
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Updated:
1 July 2005 Bruce
11 Dec 1999 jonas