From:	"Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: tar for DJGPP
Date:	Tue, 4 Feb 1997 23:49:14 -0600
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > Good point, but which is faster, handing djtarr a file to pipe to?
> > Or opening a file, writing the filenames, closeing the file, then invoking
> 
> You only need to create the file with conversions once.  I think even
> QBasic can check whether a file exists and only create it if not.

I'm sorry, I must of glossed over that point.  I only want to extract the
files I want to use one at a time.  When I'm finished with it, I delete.

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