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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!robjung
- From: robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung)
- Subject: Re: ARJ 2.30 minor bug
- Message-ID: <C0K1Hn.E8x@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1993Jan6.183815.16705@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <C0JDtv.JAM@world.std.com> <rdippold.726518975@cancun>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:39:22 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
-
- >robjung@world.std.com (Robert K Jung) writes:
- >>After due consideration of this problem, it seems acceptable not to call
- >>situations such as "ARJ a test dummy.bat dummy.bat" an error. Since LHA
- >>does not consider this wrong and since ARJ is styled after LHA, ARJ at the
- >>next release will NO LONGER consider this an error.
-
- >After pontificating like that on the exclusion list, I've gotta
- >know... was I right? :)
-
- Actually, the add_list routine would return a zero match when the filename
- argument was excluded or already added to the internal list of filenames.
- The routine now returns a positive match for both of these situations so
- that "ARJ a test -xd*.* dummy.bat sort.bat" will not return an error.
-
- >P.S. the new PKZip is making the solidity of ARJ look more and more
- >impressive.
-
- I hope that the next release of ARJ will be as solid as ARJ 2.30 is. :)
-
- Regards,
- Robert K Jung
-