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From: tinle@aimt.UU.NET (Tin Le)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ARC Extracting under U*ix
Summary: ARC on UNIX
Message-ID: <3182@aimt.UU.NET>
Date: 16 Jan 90 03:43:01 GMT
References: <26300004@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Organization: AIM Technology, Santa Clara, CA
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In article <26300004@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>, dkchen@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 	Is there a PD archive extracting utility for U*ix? Before I download
> 	the archives to my PC, it would be nice to test it's integrity and
> 	have a look at the docs. Too many times I only have to find out the
> 	archives are corrupted after hours transmission.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dean


Source code for ARC v5.21 is available from your local BBS or archive sites.
I've seen it around on local BBSs for over a year now, and I don't know as to
whether it is "freeware" or not (freeware - free for personal use but is
copyrighted material).  The version I have will work with PKARC created files
(i.e. 'squashed' files).

The copy I have was ported to run on Xenix 286 (ARC is written for the 80x86
chip).  I've ported it to run on our Sun and various other machines around
here.  It's a simple fix to I/O routines (make it swap bytes when it
reads in the data and when it writes out).

By the way, if you want to be able to look at archives on your UNIX before
d/l to your PC, you might also want zoo, zip, and lzh.  All of them has been
ported to UNIX.

-- Tin Le

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