From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: findfirst/findnext woes
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 12:01:35 +0000
Organization: Customer of Energis Squared
Lines: 10
Message-ID: <4dg35tc0df25mr9krka82lgno0b3pkqsv3@4ax.com>
References: <92rc55$t7p$1 AT nnrp1 DOT deja DOT com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-43.arkansas.dialup.pol.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk 978436905 5503 62.137.55.43 (2 Jan 2001 12:01:45 GMT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jan 2001 12:01:45 GMT
X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net> wrote:

> I am trying to write a simple "solid" archiver using BZIP where all the
> files are clumped together.  The idea is to have a very simple archiver
> (i.e only supports "create" and "extract" functions) with a good ratio.

You might want to look at `tar'.  It already does what you want.

Tar includes gzip compression, it could be used with `bzip' too but I
don't know if `bzip' utility is ported to DJGPP yet.