From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Can DJTAR *not* tell me about existing directories?
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 10:59:29 +0000 (UTC)
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

:> I looked up the DJTAR docs, and there is apparently no way to tell it
:> *not* to tell me about "existing directories" and offer me a chance to
:> rename them.

: Right, there's no such option.  DJTAR makes a point of making you
: alert to any such cases, because they can happen due to clash of file
: names after truncation to 8+3 limits, or when the 8+3 alias created by
: Windows clashes with an existing file (a known Windows 95 bug), or if
: the silent renaming of some special file names causes a clash with an
: existing file.

:> When unloading a lot of DJGPP archives at once, this can get to be
:> more than a little annoying, requiring an Enter keypress for every
:> one.

: I think the extra safety you get is well worth this annoyance.

I'm in favour of adding an option of not warning if the directory
already exist unless somebody can explain why this would be a very bad
idea.


Right,

						MartinS