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[The Well-Beloved Bard <dezmond AT bardicgrove.org>]

two quick responses below...

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Dufflebunk wrote:
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> > Before anyone gets on my back about this, I'm doing it as a learning
> > experience - I've nearly worn out my m, a & n keys. Though a few ideas
> > have come up that would be nice to have in sorcery.
> Why the HELL are you wasting your time with ... ;) hee hee  
> Dare I ask: "m"?

heh. "m" as the first of the three-letter command "man"
+1 amusing

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> > produce a patched source directory. ua should even handle a
> > patch.tar.Z.gz.bz2 file properly if someone was daft enough to make
> > one. It's extensible to allow extra archive formats to be added
> > (I'm planning rpm & pkg at some point!) - the recursive part just adds
> > piped commands to a TEMPCMD variable to be eval'd at the end of the
> > top layer. The plan is that the bzip2 spell manages it's entry in the
> > ua command and so on..
> Hmm, interesting.
> As a side note isn't .Z the same as .gz?

Actually, no.  .Z is the default extension for a "compress"ed file, which 
was the standard compression on UNIX a long, long time ago, before .gz 
came along with better compression ratios, before .bz2 came along with 
(sometimes) even better compression ratios.

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