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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PK ARC, Another View
Message-ID: <3293@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 20:55:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.3293
Posted: Thu Jul 23 20:55:55 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 00:49:40 EDT
References: <287@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com> <206900063@mirror>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <206900063@mirror> by jvc@mirror.UUCP:
+---------------
| > 4: Will not check if something has been previously archived
| > and will re-archive. The user is left with the exercise
| > of figuring out how "deep" the re-re-re-archiving got.
|
| Both ARC520 and PKX35A35 do the same thing if you try to re-add
| a file to an archive. Both report the following the first
| time a file is added:
+---------------
He meant that ARC 5.{12,20} will not add to an archive a file which is itself
an ARC archive. I don't see why not; ARC is a librarian as well as a data
compression utility. Has nobody ever used Unix ar to archive archives? (I
have cpio'd cpio archives....)
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[Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery, all rights reserved]
[Redistribution permitted only if redistribution is subsequently permitted.]
Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc
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