From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Traditional method of dealing with embedded shar files
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:07:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf9461a7-c387-4d8b-6eb6-ce35da6bc5d8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2OJsYwymjbg9xD+Lw_zeMx9QShSbw7bheK7cCwnsnYwUw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/20/20 12:52 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 1:25 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com
> <mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-20 17:23 Will Senn
2020-07-20 17:44 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-20 17:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-20 17:56 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-20 18:08 ` Richard Salz
2020-07-20 18:07 ` Will Senn [this message]
2020-07-24 18:29 ` Random832
2020-07-24 18:46 ` Will Senn
2020-07-24 18:57 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-24 19:21 ` Will Senn
2020-07-25 2:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-20 17:55 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-20 18:11 ` Will Senn
2020-07-20 18:41 ` Clem Cole
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