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From: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: requests to post zoo
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Date: 20 Aug 88 16:15:20 GMT
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In article <11920@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <2837@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>| >In article <3668@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>| >...All right already.  I'm about to post MS-DOS zoo and related binaries
>| >...to comp.binaries.ibm.pc.  These programs have not been posted to this
>| >...newsgroup since it became moderated, and I keep getting requests, so
>| 
>| I trust the posted version will have one very anti-social aspect
>| fixed:
>| 
>| 	The version I have makes multiple copies of linked files.  It
>| 	then breaks the links on extraction.
>
>  I thought I knew MS-DOS pretty well, but how do you create links in
>DOS? I could save a lot of space doing that. I asked a few people around
>here and they don't know about it either.

Unfortunately, the only linkage I've seen on MSDOS has been when
something got scrambled.  I've had chkdsk report linked files (it
used slightly different terminology, which I've forgotten), and
sure enough, truncating one of the pair truncated the other....

What I should have said is:

(a)	THE **IX version of zoo archives linked files link times.  It
	breaks the links on output and gives you link copies of the
	originally linked files.

(b)	The **IX should emulate tar in its treament of links on **IX
	systems.  On MSDOS systems (when you have imported an archive
	from **IX containing linked files) it should give you the
	option of one copy of the linked files or multiple copies of
	the linked files.

Sorry for the confusing statement.

E H. Kinmonth Hist. Dept.  Univ. of Ca., Davis Davis, Ca. 95616
916-752-1636/0776

Disclaimer: I teach Japanese history.  What do I know about
			programming.

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