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From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au>
To: Owen Newnan <onewnan@uswest.com>
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On 28 Dec 1995, Owen Newnan wrote:



>  So I need a work around installing packages by way of DOS.  Needed is a
> utility that takes a package subtree copied over from DOS and applies the
> tables, restoring the long file names.  Does such a thing exist?  Otherwise,
> I'll write one.

I think you are going about this the hard way. The wcarchive ftp site 
supports tarring of subdirectories on the fly. (or at least it used to)
You just append something like .tar.Z to the end of the subdir name when you 
do a get, and you should get the whole tree.

Anthony