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1 Introduction to this toolset
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GNU `uuencode' and `uudecode' have an history which roots are lost in
ages, and we will not even try to trace it.  The current versions were
brought into GNU by Ian Lance Taylor, and later modernized by Ulrich
Drepper.  GNU `shar' surely has a long history, too.  All along this
long road, numerous users contributed various improvements.  The file
`THANKS' in the distribution, as far as we know, contain the names of
all contributors we could identify, and for which email addresses are
seemingly valid.

   Please help us getting the history straight, for the following
information is somewhat approximative.  James Gosling wrote the public
domain `shar 1.x'.  William Davidsen rewrote it as `shar 2.x'.  Warren
Tucker implemented modifications and called it `shar 3.x'.  Richard
Gumpertz maintained it until 1990.  Franc,ois Pinard, from the public
domain `shar 3.49', made `GNU shar 4.x', in 1994.  Some modules and
other code sections were freely borrowed from other GNU distributions,
bringing this `shar' under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

   Your feedback helps us to make a better and more portable product.
Mail suggestions and bug reports (including documentation errors) for
these programs to `bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu'.