reopen 389469 !
thanks
Please excuse this message's being late, I ought to have replied to this
before it was closed. There's a good reason not to close it yet...
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:18:40 +0200
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Montag, 25. September 2006 23:40 schrieb A. Costa:
> > 'man lzop', in examples for archives, suggests:
> >
> > % man lzop | grep -n -A 10 "extract multiple files"
> > 352: archive mode: compress/extract multiple files into a
> > single archive
> > 353- file
> > 354- create
> > 355- lzop a.c b.c -o sources.lzo -> create an
> > archive ...
> > 360- extract
> > ...
> > 362- lzop -x ../src/sources.lzo -> extract
> > to current directory
> >
> > The example in line #362 does not "extract multiple files" from a
> > '.tar.lzo' archive. It extracts a single '.tar' from a '.tar.lzo'.
>
> It does extract multiple files if you put multiple files into it,...
You're absolutely right about the ability of 'lzop' to process
multiple files.
> ...as the example on line 352 does.
Sorry, but line #352 contains no example.
> Of course, if you put a single tar
> file in the archive, you only get a single tar file out.
Here's the catch, the grammatical article "a" is _singular_ in line #352:
352: archive mode: compress/extract multiple files into a single
archive
353- file
...the somewhat redundant adjective "single" tends to stress this
detail. Furthermore "a single archive" is the _object_ of the verb(s)
'compress/extract'. e.g. 'polygamy' can be likewise defined as:
marry multiple wives to a husband.
...whereas to:
marry multiple husbands to a wife.
...would be "polyandry". Often it makes a big difference whether a
noun is a subject or an object.
HTH...
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