From: Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: findfirst/findnext woes
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:10:37 GMT
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In article <4dg35tc0df25mr9krka82lgno0b3pkqsv3 AT 4ax DOT com>,
  Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to write a simple "solid" archiver using BZIP where all
the
> > files are clumped together.  The idea is to have a very simple
archiver
> > (i.e only supports "create" and "extract" functions) with a good
ratio.
>
> You might want to look at `tar'.  It already does what you want.
>
> Tar includes gzip compression, it could be used with `bzip' too but I
> don't know if `bzip' utility is ported to DJGPP yet.

Blush :-) I don't have a copy of tar installed and I don't know how to
use it either... hey it probably has some 'info' stuf... later dudes.

Thanks,
Tom


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