1GNU sharutils NEWS - User visible changes.
2Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4Version 4.2 - November 1995, by Fran�ois Pinard & Ulrich Drepper
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6* New `mailshar' is a wrapper around `shar' and electronic mail.
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8* New `remsync' is a Perl script which uses `mailshar' to help
9synchronizing remote directories, for sites connected only by email.
10
11* Programs (but not scripts) may now speak Dutch, French, German
12and Swedish.
13
14* Option -o offers better control over where to insert the part numbering
15in the file name.
16
17* There are the beginnings of a contrib directory.
18
19* Produced shell archive are now internationalized, too
20
21* uuencode/uudecode are now compliant to the latest POSIX.2d draft
22  (more options, new encoding).
23
24* Updated man pages for shar/unshar by Jan Djarv
25
26* Speed up unshar a little bit.
27
28* Protect against transmission error by using MD5 sum.  The old wc sum
29  is more or less useless, but still the fallback solution.
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31Version 4.1 - November 1994, by Fran�ois Pinard
32
33* GNU shar 4.0 and GNU uuencode 1.0 distributions have been merged
34into this GNU sharutils package, which replaces both.  So this release
35introduces `uuencode' and `uudecode', over `shar' and `unshar'.
36
37* Option --no-verbose (-v) is being replaced by two different options:
38first is --quiet or --silent (-q), second is --quiet-unshar (-Q).
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40Version 4.0 - September 1994, by Fran�ois Pinard
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42* The distribution includes a Texinfo manual and Info documentation.
43Jan Djarv updated the man pages.
44
45* Mixed mode (-M) mode works reliably and is the default, intermixing
46types within file lists (-p) allows `-M'.
47
48* When piping is forbidden (-P), the shar scripts are usable by
49uudecode's requiring an argument as well as by those unable to
50process one.
51
52* Interactive scripts (-X) better protect themselves against
53`unshar' programs and procedures.  The query format is nicer.
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55Version 3.52.3 - July 1994, by Fran�ois Pinard
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57* --gzip (-z) replaces --gzipped-files (-G).  --compress (-Z)
58replaces --compressed-files (-C).  -C is kept for a while, but
59gives a warning about being deprecated.
60
61Version 3.52.2 - July 1994, by Fran�ois Pinard
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63* Long options, among which --help and --version.
64
65* Tildas are protected at the beginning of a line.
66
67* Setting timestamps is attempted by default, using an improved
68check of the local `touch' program at unshar time.
69
70* Generated shar scripts are cleaner on various details.
71
72Version 3.52.1 - June 1994, by Fran�ois Pinard
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74* New options -G and -g<N> to use gzip while making shar files.
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76See file `ChangeLog.OLD' for prior history about shar and unshar.
77