Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: PKZip Amiga arrives Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 90 10:42:19 GMT References: <1046@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 22 In-reply-to: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 15 Jan 90 11:18:24 GMT >>>>> On 15 Jan 90 11:18:24 GMT, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) said: larry> In <2374@cpsc6a.att.com>, crs@cpsc6a.att.com (Chris (I'm a programmer, not a Doctor!!) Seaman) writes: larry> Certainly. I use an ARexx script called 'extract'. It recognizes files of the larry> form foo.(lzh|zoo|arc), creates a directory with the same name as the first larry> part of the filename, moves the file into the newly created directory, and larry> applies the appropriate command line to extract the files. Larry, could you post the source to "extract" here on the net, please? I've been meaning to write such a program for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it. It might be fun to have the program recognize a whole bunch of different file types, such as shar files, uuencoded binaries, etc. and do the right things. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM Entry Systems Division -- Engineering