Re: an lharc problem

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From: Doug Dougherty
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1991 16:14

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davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) writes:

>In article <2108@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> lim@cluster.cs.su.oz.au (Hong Lip Lim) writes:

>| One way of course is to ensure that the UNIX files do not contain
>| multiple dots in their names. But if that is not possible,
>| is there an improved version of the lharc program on the PC
>| that does not have this problem?

>  There is no problem with lharc, the problem is that DOS can't accept
>reasonable filenames. The solution is to extract to stdout and redirect
>to a file with a restricted DOS name.

Actually, ZOO does a pretty good job with this.  Admittedly, information
can be lost, but all in all, ZOO is the way to go.

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Subject: Re: an lharc problem
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