[Coco] LHA question

[Wayne Campbell]

It has been some time since I used lha. However, if memory serves me at all, 
there is an option to allow duplicate files/dirs.

Hope that helps.

Wayne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gene heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 2:41 PM
Subject: [Coco] LHA question


> Greetings all;
>
> I am trying to make lha do a project that may well be beyond its means as
> it will take it several days to do, but the error its throwing makes
> nada/zero/null sense to me.
>
> On a drive that has had lots of use with multivue, there are going to be
> otherwise identical AIF.whatever files by the hundreds laying around, each
> copy in its own subdir.  This should _not_ be an error and lha should just
> collect it, putting it in the correct sudbir structure of the output .lzh
> file.
>
> But it has had a litter of about 17 cows so far over duplicate files in my
> attempts to make a backup of the full maxtor-7120s image.  Example:
>
> {t2|07}/S1:lha a maxtor.lzh -p9 /dd/maxtor/ -r
>
> Creating archive : maxtor.lzh
>
>
> Same names in another path : 'AIF.doc'
> LHA Error #2
> ERROR #001
>
> {t2|07}/S1:
>
> And of course the archive is not created.
>
> If I leave the -r off, then it does the root directory just fine, but
> without any recursion into the dozens of subdirs that exist in that image.
>
> Am I yet doing something wrong and need a slap upside the head, or what?
> Or is lha211c really that badly broken in this regard?
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> No self-made man ever did such a good job that some woman didn't
> want to make some alterations.
> -- Kim Hubbard
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco