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to: Jasen Betts
from: George White
date: 1998-12-12 07:21:02
subject: Csplit

Hi Jasen,

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

JB>1> there were other parts in the code that weren't ANSI (I
JB>1> forget exactly what)
JB> - something common but non-ansi anyway.

I configured Borland (DOS 3.1 & OS/2 1.0) for ANSI and it was happy
apart from that...

JB>2> not creating directories would cause problems when a number of scripts ha
JB>   similarly named files.

But that is already handled, as name clashes on extract are reported and
if over-write is not allowed extraction is aborted (maybe we should
change things to allow extraction to a modified file name - thoughts
anyone?).

George

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