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to: ROBERT JUNG
from: HANS MANGOLD
date: 1997-04-13 16:08:00
subject: ARJ -j# bug?

Hello Robert!
First, let me say that the new option -j# for "hollow" archives is just 
***great***!!!  Love it; it's a very useful item for problem solving on my 
system! :-)
Two observations:
-j# should *not* be used with the -js switch, otherwise the hollow archive 
will end up with a pile of *.zip, *.arj, *.lha (etc.,etc) files.  Even worse, 
if used with a *combination* of -js and -jt1, it will simply not work, for 
good reason :-)  Is there a way for you to have -j# automatically turn off 
-js if set in the environment (Arj.cfg)?  Or can Arj.cfg's function be 
changed to accomodate switches in a similar manner as it sets defaults for 
commands?  Or, can -j# be changed from a switch to a command?
-jt1 of a hollow archive may show at the tail end:
            Found     2 error(s)!
when in actual fact only *one* such error was found; example:
    Testing GOLDED.MSG                  NOT matched, CRC error!
and all other files showed something like:
    Testing CONTEXT.TXT                 Matched,     OK
My test was done in one directory only, with 309 files:
        ------------ ---------- ---------- -----
          309 files    10147445          0 0.000
and only one file was changed between -j# and t -jt1, all screen output was 
re-directed to *.txt files.
Cheers, Hans
... Damn door .CFG files.  And I thought SysOping was a hobby!
--- GoldED/386 2.50+ / Squish / Maximus / Binkley / WINDOWS 95 / V34+
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