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- From: tomc@siesoft.co.uk (Tom Crossland)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: A minor bug in ARJ 2.30
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.115921.4150@siesoft.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 11:59:21 GMT
- References: <bontchev.716541355@fbihh>
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- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- : I discovered something which I believe is a minor bug in ARJ version
- : 2.30 (it probably exists in the previous versions too). Here is what
- : happens:
- :
- : If you enter the command
- :
- : arj t *
- :
- : this is supposed to mean "Test the integrity of all ARJ archives in
- : the current directory". If all the archives are OK, the command works
- : fine and dandy. However, if one of the archives is corrupted, the
- : program not only reports this - it also terminates (with the
- : appropriate errorlevel) and refuses to process the rest of the
- : archives.
-
- Why not use this instead:
-
- for %f in (*.arj) do arj t %f
-
- (use %%f if it's in a batch file)
-
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