Re: sharutils and compress

[Karl Eichwalder]

address@hidden (Karl Eichwalder) writes:

> 'sharutils' takes it for granted that compress is available.
> Please, consider to check for it using autoconf macros and adjust the
> programs accordingly.  On some platforms --help is misleading (try
> 'shar --help | grep compress').
>
> For unshar purposes consider to provide a simple shell script
> ("compress") that calls "gunzip" when with the switch "-d"; when called
> without a switch, tell the user to go for "gzip" or "bzip2" for zipping.

If there is interest I can start to "fix" this issue.

Is somebody else working on sharutils right now?  I can try to refresh
the auto* and gettext stuff.

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