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Subject: Re: What's wrong with this picture? (Re: v07i042: VGA X11 Server, Part00/08)
Message-ID: <1990May23.063257.3435@brian386.uucp>
Date: 23 May 90 06:32:57 GMT
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Organization: McCane Consulting
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In article <XGI3L.1@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Think of what an automatic archiver will do with the following...
>
>> Subject: v07i042: VGA X11 Server, Part00/08
>> Message-ID: <135716@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
>> 
>> Archive-name: vga
>
>> Subject: v07i043: VGA X11 Server, Part01/08
>> Message-ID: <135717@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
>> 
>> Archive-name: vga/part01
>
>Here we have a conflict: if you archive the first part first (part00),
>the rest will fail because you can't mkdir() on top of a file.
>
>Oops.

Yeah, big oops ;-).  Another problem I had here, and which probably was
mentioned before I saw this thread.  My diffs all unshared with the
WRONG SIZE!!!  It caused the diffs to be a real pain in the neck to 
apply.  Did someone between here and there modify the files somehow??

	brian