GNU shar utilities: 1. Introduction to this toolset

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# 1. Introduction to this toolset

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.

The few wrapper scripts and the `remsync` program have been contributed more recently by Franc,ois Pinard, just as an attempt for making this GNU `sharutils` toolset more useful.

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'`.

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