Extraneous data after OSLib zips

Tony van der Hoff OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 6 09:13:58 GMT 2000


On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, at 21:02:06, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote on
the subject "Extraneous data after OSLib zips":

>
>Have you tried making sure you explicitly close the archive before
>copying it? Only RISC OS tends to allocate space to a file in chunks
>and then claim back the unused bit when you close the file.
>
Well, no. How does one explicitly close an archive that one has not
explicitly opened? It's all cone by *COPY commands!

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