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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: It doesn't matter which (ZOO/ARC), just try to be sensible!
Message-ID: <990@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 9 Jul 89 09:53:29 GMT
References: <8906292158.AA01546@jade.berkeley.edu> <576@kullmar.se> <3306@titan.camcon.co.uk> <8588@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <8588@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US> chasm@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett) writes:
[about ZOO (dis)advantages]
>
>I also remember giving up once, because the file name was impossible to
>extract under MSDOS -- I wish I couldremember what the prblem was here.

I've encountered the reverse problem, too: converting some stuff from
arc to zoo failed because a file name had some character in it zoo
couldn't cope with, something with 8th bit on I believe (seems zoo
stripped the 8th bit off, then tried to access the file and complained
it couldn't find it).

The problem with names that aren't distinct in the target environment
could be fixed by checking against duplicate names and (possibly as
an option) appending or replacing last characters with numbers (say).

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