Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 08:17:56 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sharutils-4.5.2-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of sharutils, 4.5.2-1, is available. NEWS: ===== This is a new alpha upstream release, with a new maintainer. However, the previous stable release had a bug that made unshar unusable. Upstream changes since the previous version, 4.4-1, are listed below, and can be found in /usr/share/doc/sharutils-4.5.2/NEWS. Version 4.5.2 - September 2005, by Bruce Korb * fix test that only worked on certain fs types * update .texi usage * incorporate a few new translation updates * improve mail-file usage text * add "BUG REPORTS" sections to the man pages Version 4.5.1 - August 2005, by Bruce Korb * fix mem usage bug in shar * re-enable md5 checksumming. * Use the parameterized here doc parameter everywhere :) * test this stuff some more Version 4.5 - August 2005, by Bruce Korb * fix bug in unshar * better usage examples * test this stuff DESCRIPTION: ============ 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: ======= 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: ========= 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: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake (new) volunteer cygwin sharutils maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDIusT84KuGfSFAYARAknjAJ0bPq5Ip3v9oqjSoH+Jzb+xZUq6cQCfVNPK 9ag+Kih3EZqxlHb/kRCMxdM= =nS4W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/