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Re: sharutils and compress
From: |
Karl Eichwalder |
Subject: |
Re: sharutils and compress |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Jun 2002 19:08:21 +0200 |
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address@hidden (Karl Eichwalder) writes:
> 'sharutils' takes it for granted that compress is available.
> Please, consider to check for it using autoconf macros and adjust the
> programs accordingly. On some platforms --help is misleading (try
> 'shar --help | grep compress').
>
> For unshar purposes consider to provide a simple shell script
> ("compress") that calls "gunzip" when with the switch "-d"; when called
> without a switch, tell the user to go for "gzip" or "bzip2" for zipping.
If there is interest I can start to "fix" this issue.
Is somebody else working on sharutils right now? I can try to refresh
the auto* and gettext stuff.
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