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   Bj”rn Wiberg to g00r00   
   Potential left-over files when downloadi   
   05 Aug 21 09:27:56   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 2:201/137 75cd5e57   
   TZUTC: 0200   
   Hello g00r00!   
      
   As you already know, most archivers are configured in Mystic to junk paths on   
   unpacking.   
      
   I noticed that when viewing an archive which doesn't use the built-in archive   
   viewer -- i.e. the archive is not ZIP/RAR/LHA/LZH -- and which contains files   
   in subdirectories, and selecting (D)ownload File from the archive view prompt   
   (prompt #304), and then entering a path as part of the File Name prompt   
   (prompt #353), e.g. subdir/subdir.txt, Mystic will extract the file (the   
   archiver will junk the paths of the extracted file) and then look for the file   
   as subdir/subdir.txt to send to the user, fail to find it, and the file (named   
   subdir.txt only, not in a subdirectory, as the paths were junked) will be left   
   over in the root of the temp* directory.   
      
   Is there any smart way to avoid this? Could Mystic perhaps perform a 'basename   
   ' on the entered File Name when locating it for download, looking   
   for that name in the root of the temp* directory?   
      
   Note that there *are* reasons for *not* peforming a basename operation to the   
   "%2" argument to the archiver -- only for the download operation! There might   
   be multiple files with the same name in different subdirectories, and letting   
   "%2" contain a path allows the user to specify exactly which file with that   
   name that should be extracted/downloaded.   
      
   Best regards   
   Bj”rn   
      
   --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/07/31 (Linux/64)   
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