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).