TT> George White wrote in a message to Jasen Betts:

 GW> I suppose we ought to consider if directory building on extraction
 GW> should allowed? afaiaa there is no ANSI defined support for
 GW> creating directories.

 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.

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

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


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