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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: More on zfolder
Message-ID: <7960@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 15:53:46 GMT
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In article <3524@taux01.UUCP> crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes:
} 
} My problem: 'zfo' does not recognise '+' (as in 'zfo +comp_folder').

I quote from the zfolder script:

# Bug: can't handle names beginning with + or ~
#  (use file completion: zfo +^[name where ^[ is escape)

} The cause should be easy to find and fix, but I don't have the time
} to play with it.  So for the time being I do 'cd $folder' and continue
} without the '+'.

If it were easy to find and fix, believe me, I would have.  It isn't a
question of "finding" -- the problem is that the shell, which must be
used to run compress/uncompress with I/O redirected to or from the target
folder, does not understand "+" as a file metachar.  Without invoking
and additional process, say `echo +name | sed s/+/$folder/` (which fails
if $folder isn't set) there is no way for zfolder to use "+".
-- 
Bart Schaefer          "EARTH: Surrender IMMEDIATELY or we PICKLE DAN QUAYLE"

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