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Old 01-16-2008, 07:40 AM
Joerg Schilling
 
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Default Re: Copy a door?

In article <lmbrhz6keh.fsf@privacy.net>,
Dragan Cvetkovic <dragan_usenet@gmx.net> wrote:
>js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>
>> If you use
>> star -copy ....
>>
>> the DOOR file will be "archived" as DOOR but extracted as plain file.

>
>Why? What would be the purpose of creating an empty file upon restore,
>instead of a door?


Doors arre usually mounted on empty files.

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