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an Atari running Atari DOS 2.0/2.5, or any other DOS that doesn't
allow underscores in filenames.
+**ALF files don't normally contain other ALF files, are you trying to extract/list multiple ALF files at once?**
+ You gave a *wildcard* argument that ends with *.alf*. This is OK if
+ your *ALF* file actually contains another *ALF* file, but that would
+ be a pathological case. Most likely, you're trying to extract multiple
+ *ALF* files with one command, which doesn't work. Use one **unalf**
+ command per file.
+
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