At 8:12 AM -0700 4/27/98, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
It's a shell archive. You don't see many of them these
days, but even my
old Amiga could extract one. Of course, once you extract
it I have no idea
whether or not it will run.
Chuq wrote:
It won't. (and to richard, it's a unix program... And shell, unlike
something like perl, isn't going to run on Windows easily).
There are "unshar" programs for DOS/Win.
This shell archive contains Perl scripts. From a quick skim, there are a
few Unixish semantics (e.g. file locking) that might or might not be handled
properly in the latest Perl ports to the Win32 platform. At most a few
minutes of porting work for someone who knows Perl, Unix, and DOS
programming.
-- SP
