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Selecting how files are stocked
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`-T'
`--text-files'
     Treat all files as text, regardless of their contents.

`-B'
`--uuencode'
     Treat all files as binary, use `uuencode' prior to packing. This
     increases the size of the archive. The recipient must have
     `uudecode' in order to unpack.

          Use of `uuencode' is not appreciated by many on the net, because
          people like to readily see, by mere inspection of a shell archive,
          what it is about.

`-M'
`--mixed-uuencode'
     Mixed mode.  Automatically determine if the files are text or
     binary and archive correctly.  Files found to be binary are
     uuencoded prior to packing.  This option is selected by default.

     For a file is considered to be a text file, instead of a binary
     file, all the following should be true simultaneously:
       1. The file does not contain any ASCII control character besides
          <BS> (backspace), <HT> (horizontal tab), <LF> (new line) or
          <FF> (form feed).

       2. The file does not contains a <DEL> (delete).

       3. The file contains no character with its eighth-bit set.

       4. The file, unless totally empty, terminates with a <LF>
          (newline).

       5. No line in the file contains more than 200 characters.  For
          counting purpose, lines are separated by a <LF> (newline).

`-z'
`--gzip'
     Use `gzip' and `uuencode' on all files prior to packing.  The
     recipient must have `uudecode' and `gzip' (used with `-d') in
     order to unpack.

     Usage of `-z' in net shars will cause you to be flamed off the
     earth.

`-g LEVEL'
`--level-for-gzip=LEVEL'
     When doing compression, use `-LEVEL' as a parameter to `gzip'.
     The `-g' option turns on the `-z' option by default.  The default
     value is 9, that is, maximum compression.

`-Z'
`--compress'
     Use `compress' and `uuencode' on all files prior to packing.  The
     recipient must have `uudecode' and `compress' (used with `-d') in
     order to unpack.  Option `-C' is a synonymous for `-Z', but is
     deprecated.

     Usage of `-Z' in net shars will cause you to be flamed off the
     earth.

`-b BITS'
`--bits-per-code=BITS'
     When doing compression, use `-bX' as a parameter to `compress'.
     The `-B' option turns on the `-Z' option by default.  The default
     value is 12, foreseeing the memory limitations of some `compress'
     programs on smallish systems, at `unshar' time.