Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:03:02 -0600 (CST)
From:	"Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Reply-To:	"Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
	Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: tar for DJGPP
In-Reply-To:	<32F65362.C73@cs.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.GSO.3.95.970203174219.24246J-100000@sparkie.gnofn.org>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:
> Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> 
> djtar also supports creation of a list file, listing all the filenames
> in the archive and their converted names upon extraction.  You can do
> this to resolve the duplicate filenames caused by long filename
> conversions.

Good point, but which is faster, handing djtarr a file to pipe to?
Or opening a file, writing the filenames, closeing the file, then invoking
djtar?  Remember I've working with Interperted QBasic.  Which I've sped
up, by the way, by implementing a lookup table!  Hey, reading the stuff on
this news.group really does make you smarter!

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