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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: ARJ 2.30 minor bug
- Message-ID: <rdippold.726435536@cancun>
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- References: <1993Jan6.183815.16705@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <1993Jan7.155228.9277@crd.ge.com> <bontchev.726428339@fbihh>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:38:56 GMT
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- >davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- >> | There seems to be a minor problem with ARJ 2.30, if you include the same fil
- >> | twice in the file list (e.g. ARJ a test dummy dummy or ARJ a test d* dummy),
- >> | ARJ gives an error of not able to find the file after it has compressed it!
- >> Have you tried this with 2.39?
-
- >Yup, the problem exists there too...
-
- It's a known problem that's been in there a while. The following is
- speculation, but seems to fit the behavior. The problem is with its
- exclusion listing. ARJ keeps a list of things that shouldn't be
- packed. For instance, if you do an "ARJ a test t*.*" you don't want
- test.arj included in the list of things to be packed. And with the
- "d* dummy" you don't want dummy packed twice. It knows it's already
- packed dummy so it doesn't do it again. However instead of just
- noting that and silently ignoring it it reports it as a "file not
- found."
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