Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bsu-cs!neubauer From: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Unarchive programs Message-ID: <6440@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 31 Mar 89 19:27:49 GMT References: <10816@drutx.ATT.COM> Reply-To: neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP (Paul Neubauer) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 18 In article <10816@drutx.ATT.COM> rlm@drutx.ATT.COM (MesenbrinkRL) writes: >Keith is absolutely right. UNARC 1.6 does handle squashed members. I >checked the version of UNARC that I use and it is version 1.6. My >problem was that I would get a error stating that the archive file >could not be found. It turns out that the archive name has an "_" >(underscore) in it. Evidently, UNARC (or CP/M?) doesn't recognize >the underscore as a valid file name character. When I renamed the >archive, all was well. Thanks to Keith for getting me back on track. The problem is in CP/M. You are right, CP/M does not recognize the underscore. This means that some (but not all) programs cannot handle underscores in file names. For example, WordStar (if I remember right) can create files with underscores and then deal with them correctly, but you cannot copy, delete, rename, pip or do many other things to them. -- Paul Neubauer neubauer@bsu-cs.bsu.edu neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!neubauer