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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, The Well-Beloved Bard wrote:

> two quick responses below...
> 
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Dufflebunk wrote:
> {snip}
> > > 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
*LOL* Ahh, yes, I know that command very well.

> 
> {snip}
> > > 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.
This isn't the compress MS uses for it's .cab files is it? 

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