Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!lane
From: lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Having trouble with PKARC's @list feature
Message-ID: <3087@dalcs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 88 12:56:49 GMT
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Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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PKARC/PAK 3.6 added a feature where you could supply filenames to be
operated on in a text file as an alternative to listing them on the
command line.  As I read the documentation, and have tried to use it,
you have a text file LIST with filenames one to a line as:
	FILE1.EXT
	FILE2.EXT
	FILE3.EXT
	.
	.
	.
Then you can enter:
	PKARC x ARCHIVE @LIST
where "x" is any of the option letters.  This is supposed to be equivalent to:
	PKARC x ARCHIVE FILE1.EXT FILE2.EXT FILE3.EXT
and likewise for PKXARC.

Well, I can get it to work for PKARC A, PKARC M, PKXARC -X and PKXARC -V but 
not for PKARC V or PKARC D.  The case of the filenames in the LIST file makes
no difference, as it shouldn't.

Is this a known bug?  Am I doing something wrong?  Have I missed something
in the documentation?  

Thanks for enlightenment.

-- 
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