This is the set of GNU shar utilities.

"sharutils" is now licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3
(or, at your option, any later version).

`shar' makes so-called shell archives out of many files, preparing them for
transmission by electronic mail services.  `unshar' helps unpacking shell
archives after reception.  The core of both programs is initially derived from
public domain.  Some modules and other code sections are freely borrowed from
other GNU distributions, bringing `shar' under the terms of the GNU General
Public License.

`uuencode' prepares a file for transmission over an electronic channel which
ignores or otherwise mangles the eight bit (high order bit) of bytes.
`uudecode' does the converse transformation.  They are derived from the BSD
NET/2 distribution, but enchanced with the features described in recent POSIX
standards.  If you have more powerful `uuencode' and `uudecode' already
available, you may want to use `./configure --disable-uucode' to prevent their
installation.

The sharutils package now is internationalized.  This includes the generated
shell scripts.  As described in the `ABOUT-NLS' file you have various options
for handling this internationalization but this package is special in one
point: it always needs the GNU message catalog files to be installed.
Therefore it might be a good idea to always use the GNU gettext functions and
not the functions provided by your system.  This is of course not needed if
your system uses GNU gettext in its system library.

See file `ABOUT-NLS' for how to customize this program to your language.
See file `COPYING' for copying conditions.
See file `TODO' for a list of things people have thought about doing.
See file `INSTALL' for compilation and installation instructions.
See file `NEWS' for a list of major changes in the current release.
See file `THANKS' for a list of contributors.

The man pages are basically unsupported.  Their installation is kept separate
from `make install'.  You use `make install-man' for them.  Better think GNU
and switch to Info.

Your feedback will help us to make a better and more portable product.  Mail
suggestions and bug reports (including documentation errors) for this program
to `bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org'.

Language file updates:
bg	2006-05-22
ca	2010-11-05
cs	2010-08-30
da	2011-01-11
de	2006-05-20
el	1998-06-20
es	2010-11-01
et	2010-11-11
fi	2010-03-09
fr	2010-08-30
ga	2006-05-22
gl	2000-05-30
hu	2002-08-05
id	2010-02-27
it	2010-09-01
ja	2010-10-19
nb	2002-06-25
nl	2010-09-26
nn	2002-06-25
pl	2010-08-29
pt	2002-06-24
ru	2006-05-22
rw	2005-04-04
sr	2005-12-13
sv	2010-08-29
tr	2010-08-29
vi	2010-09-28
zh_CN	2010-09-19
zh_TW	2002-08-03
