Date:	Thu, 30 Jan 1997 20:44:17 +0000 ( )
From:	Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc:	"Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: tar for DJGPP
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On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> 
> > creator of this tutor has made available his sources in the form of two
> > TAR's, great, wonderfull, something to print out!  BAD NEWS, it's *inx
> > filenames and paths.  Can't unload it to one dir, or even to the tree, DOS
> > would corrupt the names.  Solution, write QBasic program to get each file
> > from the archive as it's needed, find out what the resulting DOS name is,
> > use it, and when finished, delete it.  Hence, multiple DeTar'ing in one
> > sitting, as I said, up to 160 access's to the TAR.
> 
> You should definitely check out DJTAR (it should be in your bin/ 
> subdirectory).  It has the following features that can help you out:
> 

aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! so we are finally back to what i said ;;;;))))
yeah, check out djtar. its great 

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