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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: MS/DOS-compatible archivers
Keywords: archive, compatible, ms/dos
Message-ID: <1898@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 89 17:42:56 GMT
References: <243@pallas.UUCP>
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <243@pallas.UUCP> wally@pallas.UUCP (Wally Hartshorn) writes:
| In the MS/DOS world (and, for that matter, the Amiga world) the most
| common file compression formats are ARC, ZOO, ZIP, and LZH.  I know that
| there is a UNIX version of ZOO that is file-compatible with the MS/DOS
| versions.  Are there UNIX versions of ARC, ZIP, and/or LZH (aka Lharc)?
| If so, could someone point me in the proper direction to get them?

  There is a version of ARC which will also handle PKARC compression. It
works on BSD and SysV. I uploaded it to SIMTEL20 some time ago, and I
keep a copy on the archive-server at sixhub. There is some code for LZH,
but it only seems to work if (a) sizeof int (or short) is 16 bits and
LSB byte order is used. It sort of works on Intel and VAX, fails on
Sparc and loops forever on Cray, etc where short is > 16 bits.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
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