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to: Janis Kracht
from: Sean Rima
date: 2003-10-06 00:30:20
subject: Re: Archivers

> Hi Sean,
>>>> I am considering leaving/sending out files in their
original format ie
>>>> tgz etc
>>> 
>>> umm.. one of the problems there is you can't put the archive header on
>>> the files if they're gzip'd tar files... is there a problem with
>>> info-zip and just storing the tgz, rather than archiving it?
>>> 
>> I cannot recall, I will try and see what happens. All files ATM do have the
>> archive header anyway :)
> ok :)  Let me know how it goes :)
> Take care,
> Janis

I wish there was a way in BBBS to automatically add a header, maybe I will
have a looik in the scripts :)

Sean

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