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From: hartung@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SEZ: a suggestion for the next version...
Summary: In that case, make finding itself optional
Keywords: Self-extracting ZOO archives
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Date: 30 Oct 88 15:50:59 GMT
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In article <4541@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
#I think there may be a misunderstanding about some things.
#[...]
#2.   No, it is not necessary to copy the self-extracting archive to the
#directory where you wish to extract the files.  For example, if you
#wish to extract the files on disk B: and the self-extracting archive is
#A:runme.exe, do the following:
#
#     a.   Change to B: and execute the self-extracting archive with the
#	  command
#
#               A:RUNME
#
#     b.   When it says "CAN'T FIND RUNME.EXE" and asks you for
#          "File to extract: ", give it the full filename of itself
#          by typing:
#
#               A:RUNME.EXE

I thought I tried this and it didn't work, but in retrospect, it was probably
my fault and not that of SEZ.  (I have the option character changed to '-' on
the machine I most frequently use and am a UN*X user as well, so I tend to use
'/' in my pathnames including, unfortunately, the one machine where the option
character is not changed.  I probably entered A:/VM1088AR.EXE and not
A:\VM1088AR.EXE, or perhaps A:VM1088AR without the .EXE extension.)  In that
case, I suggest that SEZ be given an option so that the resulting archive have
either the current method of prompting via standard input for a file not found
or having the archive trace how it was called if the creator wants to do that.

 --Jeff Hartung--  	
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