Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > sharutils

\"The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of toolsfor encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format)in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar). Thisformat can be sent through email (which can be problematic for regularbinary 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 sharfiles.\"