Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: an lharc problem Keywords: lharc Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 16:14:46 GMT References: <2108@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <3280@sixhub.UUCP> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 15 davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes: >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. Actually, ZOO does a pretty good job with this. Admittedly, information can be lost, but all in all, ZOO is the way to go.