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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: an lharc problem
Keywords: lharc
Message-ID: <3280@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 91 04:19:29 GMT
References: <2108@cluster.cs.su.oz.au>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <2108@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> lim@cluster.cs.su.oz.au (Hong Lip Lim) writes:

| One way of course is to ensure that the UNIX files do not contain
| multiple dots in their names. But if that is not possible,
| is there an improved version of the lharc program on the PC
| that does not have this problem?

  There is no problem with lharc, the problem is that DOS can't accept
reasonable filenames. The solution is to extract to stdout and redirect
to a file with a restricted DOS name.

  No version of lharc can solve this, because information must be lost,
and it's up to you to decide on a name mapping.

  Lharc and zip alos seem to lose the file permissions and turn readonly
files into regular files. How very nice for them.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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