From: wht@n4hgf.uucp (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: shar321/patch01
Message-ID: <675@n4hgf.uucp>
Date: 20 Apr 90 18:03:21 GMT
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This ought to do it for a while.  I'm sure the net has more
interesting things to do than belabor this.  I got 31 requests
for shar, which is the largest amount of mail I've ever received
on a single subject.  So, if you are interested in shars, e-mail me
and I'll managle/manage a mailing list.

>Subject: bug in shar321
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 90 10:29:40 -0100
>From: Colas Nahaboo <gatech!mailrus!uunet!avahi.inria.fr!colas>
>Status: ORS
>
>unshar need to check if the file argument is not an absolute path: otherwise,
>when saying, in directory /foo: "unshar /bar/gee.shar", it will try to open the
>file /foo/bar/gee.shar
>
>This patch corrects it.

avahi$ diff -c unshar.c.orig unshar.c
*** unshar.c.orig       Fri Apr 20 09:23:10 1990
--- unshar.c    Fri Apr 20 09:25:07 1990
***************
*** 117,125
  	{
  		for(i= optind; i < argc; ++i)
  		{
! 			strcpy(s1024,argvdir);
! 			strcat(s1024,"/");
! 			strcat(s1024,argv[i]);
  			if(!(in = fopen(s1024,"r")))
  			{
  				perror(s1024);

--- 117,129 -----
  	{
  		for(i= optind; i < argc; ++i)
  		{
! 			if(argv[i][0] = '/') {
! 				strcpy(s1024,argv[i]);
! 			} else {
! 				strcpy(s1024,argvdir);
! 				strcat(s1024,"/");
! 				strcat(s1024,argv[i]);
! 			}
  			if(!(in = fopen(s1024,"r")))
  			{
  				perror(s1024);

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