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Re: nfarchive -d not working? - (nf)

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From: utzoodecvaxccaimajohnl
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1982 17:48
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ima!johnl    Dec 21 11:39:00 1982

The code for nfarchive -d is just bogus.  The fixes are pretty simple --
in main() in nfarchive.c there is a big if statement for the -d flag, but
but in fact there should be about three, so that the locking, deleting,
and compressing is always done and just the archiving is conditional.

John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE (arpa).
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From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl
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Title: Re: nfarchive -d not working? - (nf)
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Posted: Tue Dec 21 17:48:08 1982
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1982 17:48:08 +0000
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