GNU sharutils NEWS - User visible changes. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Version 4.2 - November 1995, by François Pinard & Ulrich Drepper * New `mailshar' is a wrapper around `shar' and electronic mail. * New `remsync' is a Perl script which uses `mailshar' to help synchronizing remote directories, for sites connected only by email. * Programs (but not scripts) may now speak Dutch, French, German and Swedish. * Option -o offers better control over where to insert the part numbering in the file name. * There are the beginnings of a contrib directory. * Produced shell archive are now internationalized, too * uuencode/uudecode are now compliant to the latest POSIX.2d draft (more options, new encoding). * Updated man pages for shar/unshar by Jan Djarv * Speed up unshar a little bit. * Protect against transmission error by using MD5 sum. The old wc sum is more or less useless, but still the fallback solution. Version 4.1 - November 1994, by François Pinard * GNU shar 4.0 and GNU uuencode 1.0 distributions have been merged into this GNU sharutils package, which replaces both. So this release introduces `uuencode' and `uudecode', over `shar' and `unshar'. * Option --no-verbose (-v) is being replaced by two different options: first is --quiet or --silent (-q), second is --quiet-unshar (-Q). Version 4.0 - September 1994, by François Pinard * The distribution includes a Texinfo manual and Info documentation. Jan Djarv updated the man pages. * Mixed mode (-M) mode works reliably and is the default, intermixing types within file lists (-p) allows `-M'. * When piping is forbidden (-P), the shar scripts are usable by uudecode's requiring an argument as well as by those unable to process one. * Interactive scripts (-X) better protect themselves against `unshar' programs and procedures. The query format is nicer. Version 3.52.3 - July 1994, by François Pinard * --gzip (-z) replaces --gzipped-files (-G). --compress (-Z) replaces --compressed-files (-C). -C is kept for a while, but gives a warning about being deprecated. Version 3.52.2 - July 1994, by François Pinard * Long options, among which --help and --version. * Tildas are protected at the beginning of a line. * Setting timestamps is attempted by default, using an improved check of the local `touch' program at unshar time. * Generated shar scripts are cleaner on various details. Version 3.52.1 - June 1994, by François Pinard * New options -G and -g to use gzip while making shar files. See file `ChangeLog.OLD' for prior history about shar and unshar.