Re: HPRT v1.0 posted on comp.binaries - HOORAY!

[jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L Brookes)]

In article <2s42a4$gbh@cyber2.cyberstore.ca>, John Blaby
<jblaby@news.cyberstore.ca> wrote:

>The one thing I would really like to see is multiple file selection.
>The one file at a time (for unpacking) is a bit of a pain.

Due to the way yankit can handle selective extraction of files from
a single archive, it isn't really fesible to include extraction of
multiple files within yankit.

A full-fledged version of a UNIX shell would allow scripting to do this,
but gsh doesn't do this and I'm not sure Orca/Shell does either.  (Anyone
know?)

Brian Tao has written a simple-yet-effective program called 'for' that
kinda simulates the 'foreach' command of most shells.  It's really useful
for exactly this reason.  I'm sure he'll be happy to post it when he
returns to Toronto...

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