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Updated: sharutils-4.5.3-1


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A new release of sharutils, 4.5.3-1, is available.

NEWS:
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This is a new alpha upstream release.  However, the previous stable
release (4.4) had a bug that made unshar unusable.  Cygwin-specific
changes present in 4.5.2-1 have been folded in upstream.  Meanwhile, new
cygwin-specific changes have been made to uuencode and uudecode to ensure
they will work even on text mounts.  Upstream changes since the previous
version, 4.5.2-1, are listed below, and can be found in
/usr/share/doc/sharutils-4.5.3/NEWS.

Version 4.5.3 - September 2005, by Bruce Korb

* Fix up installation directory references

DESCRIPTION:
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The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of tools
for encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format)
in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar).  This
format can be sent through e-mail (which can be problematic for
regular binary files).  The shar utility supports a wide range of
capabilities (compressing, uuencoding, splitting long files for
multi-part mailings, providing checksums), which make it very flexible
at creating shar files.  After the files have been sent, the unshar
tool scans mail messages looking for shar files.  Unshar automatically
strips off mail headers and introductory text and then unpacks the
shar files.

Note that unshar is inherently unsafe by design, because it executes
arbitrary shell scripts; therefore the creation of shar archives
should be limited to situations where the receiver trusts the
sender.  However, uuencode and uudecode are useful in their own right, and
are safe to use.

UPDATE:
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the
http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your system.
Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'sharutils' from
the 'Archive' category.

DOWNLOAD:
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Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need to
find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you:
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

QUESTIONS:
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If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is
the appropriate place.

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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin sharutils maintainer

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