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 minor enhancement release for version 4.13 of sharutils Version 4.13.4 - March 2013, by Bruce Korb * POSIX compliance: The Austin Group ruled that uudecode should ignore any errors in attempting to "chmod(3)" the output file. This is now done when POSIXLY_CORRECT has been defined in the environment. * Option processing has now been completely turned over to AutoOpts handling. * output file names may be encoded in the uuencoded file. By specifying '--encode' on the command line, the output file name will be base64 encoded in the uuencode file. 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-4.13.4.tar.gz .tar.xz: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sharutils/sharutils-4.13.4.tar.xz 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 <[email protected]> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
