Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:38:32 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
cc: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>,
        Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: tar for DJGPP
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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:

> 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?

You only need to create the file with conversions once.  I think even
QBasic can check whether a file exists and only create it if not.