[TUHS] Traditional method of dealing with embedded shar files

[Will Senn]

On 7/20/20 12:52 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 1:25 PM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com 
> <mailto:will.senn at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     My questions for y'all are how would you go about doing this? Use
>     vi to delete everything through the ==== cut here line?
>
> Yep
Nice, seemed easy enough to me, but I was expecting real Unix folks use 
sed | awk | indent type answers.
> It was so of.  It was a way to send files around that people could 
> easily execute and you new would work through 7-bit based email which 
> is all the SMTP guaranteed in the early days.   Yeh but .. uucp was 8 
> yep.  But some of the legs of the USENET were luck to be based on 
> Arpanet site, which might have had a mailer running BITNET.  When shar 
> was created the 'least needed' style assumptions were used.   As it 
> was it was often that people put tarballs, then compressed them and 
> then uuencoded them inside.  Often a space savings and made it easier 
> -> compressed tar was pretty good, and even with the 3 8-bit chars as 
> 4 6-bit chars of uuencode it will worked out well in practice.

Hmm... can't wait to run across all of these variants :).

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