Darin McBride wrote in a message to Tom Torfs:

 TT> Besides, I wouldn't like CSplit making all kinds of 
 TT> directory structures on my hard drive. I have a hard 
 TT> enough time trying to keep it organized as it is already.

 DM> I disagree - it is extremely useful in zip, and I see CSplit doing
 DM> something almost similar in nature - reproducing a source "tree"
 DM> from the original developer to the other developers' systems.  If I
 DM> were to give you a tree of inc, src, make directories, wouldn't you
 DM> want them reproduced so you simply have to recompile?

Well, programs that large I'd probably send by private mail rather than
post in the echo, and zipped up with recurse paths option :-)

 DM> I wouldn't want ".." supported, nor *any* type of absolute path
 DM> names, but relative directories would be a nice feature.  :-)

Relative directories are acceptable (provided the feature can be disabled).
Absolute pathnames and ".." are indeed pure evil...
 
greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be

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