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From: crehta@tasu77.UUCP (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: More on zfolder
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Date: 14 Mar 90 15:51:06 GMT
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In article <7960@ogicse.ogi.edu> schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
>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)

Sorry, I missed that.  Anyway, this does not work for me for some
reason.

>} 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 "+".

I am most grateful to the people who wrote and maintain mush.  Still,
I don't see why invoking an additional process, after checking whether
$folder exists, constitutes a problem.

Better yet, I think it might be a good idea to add some mechanism
to mush, allowing the user to convert the string +something to 
$folder/something.  People may want to do extra-mush stuff other
than zfolder with folders.

-- Ran
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Reply-To: crehta@taux01.nsc.com (Ran Ever-Hadani)
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