Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 19:19:48 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>,
        "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: tar for DJGPP
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<Hi John tossed you in here too.>

>djtar, it always prompts me when a duplicate file will be created and
>lets me rename it.  Also, to redirect stderr under DJGPP you need to use

Ok, that's right, I forgot.  But this is for a no-intervention project,
it's being set up to run all night without me babysitting it.

On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 	djtar -x -p -o /dir/subdir/file archive.tar >temp.dat
> this will put only the file named after the -o switch to temp.dat.

In other words, I'm piping it to temp.dat instead of extracting it as an
independant file?  Cool, I have means to generate unique filenames, which
is necessary because I might have as many as 4-5 files waiting to be
processed at any one time.  (and each needs to be deleted after being
used.)