[clue-tech] Script for Unzipping?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:01:32 -0600
David Anselmi wrote:

> Boy, I'd call that a bug.  Shouldn't a command, given multiple file name
> arguments, just process each file?  That's what you'd get from cat, 
> less, grep, etc.
> 
> I'd think that if you wanted just some files from the archive, a switch 
> for that behavior would be a better design.

My guess is that this is because of code written to mimic the behavior of
a DOS command line program, or maybe a port of a DOS unzipper. It's been
so long since I've use pkzip that I don't remember how it worked though.
But yeah, really poor interface design for a tool written for Unices.

jed
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