1GNU sharutils NEWS - User visible changes. 2Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 3 4Version 4.2 - November 1995, by Fran�ois Pinard & Ulrich Drepper 5 6* New `mailshar' is a wrapper around `shar' and electronic mail. 7 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. 30 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). 39 40Version 4.0 - September 1994, by Fran�ois Pinard 41 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. 54 55Version 3.52.3 - July 1994, by Fran�ois Pinard 56 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 62 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 73 74* New options -G and -g<N> to use gzip while making shar files. 75 76See file `ChangeLog.OLD' for prior history about shar and unshar. 77