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to: JOE NEGRON
from: BRYAN RAPP
date: 1996-05-22 16:08:00
subject: RCVT vs. REARJ

Joe Negron wrote in a message to Bryan Rapp:
BR> REARJ is still a very good archive converter (but, so is RCVT).
 JN> RCVT is not nearly as good as REARJ.  RCVT's biggest problem (for
 JN> me) is that it does not allow one to specify the temp. directory. 
 JN> This is a problem in converting archives - if one is to maintain
 JN> the file order in the archive, the archive must be extracted to a
 JN> FAT partition since if it is extracted to an HPFS partition HPFS
 JN> will automatically sort the filenames by name.  REARJ, since it
Remember though, RCVT is mainly for conversion to RAR.  RAR will, by default, 
re-order the files in a solid archive anyway. 
Bryan
94338@ef.gc.maricopa.edu 
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