category: Archive
sdesc: "The GNU shar utilities including uuencode/uudecode"
ldesc: "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."
homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/