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#### 3.17.2 Shell Archives

Shell archives (“shar files”) used to be a popular way to distribute sources, but it isn’t used all that much today. In any case, we have some commands to deal with these:

`X s`

  Unshars the current series (`gnus-uu-decode-unshar`).

`X S`

  Unshars and saves the current series (`gnus-uu-decode-unshar-and-save`).

`X v s`

  Unshars and views the current series (`gnus-uu-decode-unshar-view`).

`X v S`

  Unshars, views and saves the current series (`gnus-uu-decode-unshar-and-save-view`).