Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!uccba!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PK ARC, Another View Message-ID: <3293@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 20:55:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.3293 Posted: Thu Jul 23 20:55:55 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 00:49:40 EDT References: <287@cpsc6b.cpsc6a.att.com> <206900063@mirror> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 21 As quoted from <206900063@mirror> by jvc@mirror.UUCP: +--------------- | > 4: Will not check if something has been previously archived | > and will re-archive. The user is left with the exercise | > of figuring out how "deep" the re-re-re-archiving got. | | Both ARC520 and PKX35A35 do the same thing if you try to re-add | a file to an archive. Both report the following the first | time a file is added: +--------------- He meant that ARC 5.{12,20} will not add to an archive a file which is itself an ARC archive. I don't see why not; ARC is a librarian as well as a data compression utility. Has nobody ever used Unix ar to archive archives? (I have cpio'd cpio archives....) -- [Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery, all rights reserved] [Redistribution permitted only if redistribution is subsequently permitted.] Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!cwruecmp!hal,cbosgd}!ncoast!allbery <>