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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: rm -rf ${WRKDIR} in do-extract 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 1995 04:35:57 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 05:42:53 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> The only reason I can think of it is (since we are here, there sure
> isn't a work/.extract_done) to safeguard against the case when the
> previous extraction failed in the middle and left a half-baked work/

That's correct.

> subdirectory.  If that's the case, it (and the following "mkdir work"
> line) should probably move to the main "extract" target, these are
> "meta" stuff (just like the cookies) that the do-* targets shouldn't
> have to worry about....

I agree - this was poorly designed initially.  Go for it!

					Jordan