From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: tar for DJGPP
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 23:01:33 -0600
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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, John M. Aldrich wrote:
> Colin W. Glenn wrote:
> > I'm sorry, I must of glossed over that point.  I only want to extract the
> > files I want to use one at a time.  When I'm finished with it, I delete.
> 
> djtar, AFAIK, can still use the name conversion file even if it's only
> being told to extract a single file.  You can make the conversion file

Ok, that I follow, but I now find it easier to specify the name to convert
to on the command line, I just don't need all the info about what djtar is
doing to files I _don't_ want.