Asher says, "What?!!"
 AD> What's going on involves some incomprehensible flubbing of stdin and
 AD> stdout on all shells following an archiver output redirection attempt. 
Are you running a DOS compresser under OS/2, by chance?  When I need a
DOS utility to pipe its output to a file, I use the PipeDOS utility,
found on your better internet OS/2 archives.
Either that, or your archiver writes directly to the screen for speed
purposes.
        - Mike.
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