sharutils-4.11.1

Introduction to sharutils

The sharutils package contains utilities that can create 'shell' archives.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Install sharutils by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test sharutils, run make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Installed Programs: shar, unshar, uudecode, and uuencode

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

shar	creates "shell archives" (or shar files) which are in text format and can be mailed.
unshar	unpacks a shar file.
uudecode	reads a file (or by default the standard input) and writes an encoded version to the standard output. The encoding uses only printing ASCII characters.
uuencode	reads a file (or by default the standard input) and decodes the uuencoded version to the standard output.

Last updated on 2011-10-19 15:18:40 -0500