Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: zoo enhancements solicited (really ARC limitations)
Message-ID: <4311@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 16:52:49 GMT
References: <1631@van-bc.UUCP> <1929@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
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Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
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In article <1929@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>
>1. Truncation of file names.  (unix to Amiga?  come on, they both have 14+
>   character names!)

This really really really bugs me. One #define somewhere is screwing up all
the long file names.

>2. Work with subdirectories.  

The Unix arc I can't even get to create an archive in a different directory
(eg arc a ../foo *) or unarc from a different one. Also Unix arc will gladly
remove your files when you use the "m" option even if it can't create the
archive (because you don't have write permission on the directory) or can't
read the file (a problem sometimes when uudecoded files create binaries with
odd protections and you don't notice).

John
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