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From: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (Stephen Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: problems with !extract
Message-ID: <7632@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 18 May 91 12:00:44 GMT
References: <1578@mike.ukc.ac.uk> <7619@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> <10346@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (Stephen Thomas)
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In article <10346@castle.ed.ac.uk> gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal) writes:
>>everything), *without changing anything*, everything worked OK.  Since it
>>uses Graham Toal's tar program, I thought that maybe it was something to do
>>with tar$scrap not being defined.  I don't know.
>
>Pardon???!!! - I think I must have been programming in my sleep again :-)
>
>[Frank Lancaster's tar I suspect - you probably got us confused since
>we both hack TeX]

Whoops!  Absolutely right, I'm sorry.  I think I may be working too hard.

Actually, it's a pity that !Extract cannot extract incrementally, as you
dropped the parts into the window.  This would enable you to unpack
archives when disk space is tighter.  As I understand !Extract, it
would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to do this.  I was going
to write an archiver that did this, but unfortunately, that is well
down my list of Things To Do.

Stephen
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