Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!unido!laura!heike!klute From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: LHARC problems .... Message-ID: <2199@laura.UUCP> Date: 25 May 90 09:33:37 GMT References: Sender: news@laura.UUCP Reply-To: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) Organization: University of Dortmund, FRG Lines: 30 In article , olorin@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk writes: |> There have been one or two postings lately about lharc |>incompatibilities . The main reason for this is the recently posted |>lharc 1.13 . Throw it away ! It wont read anything but ST and MS-DOS |>lharcs ... there are two reasons for this . One is a bug in the header |>checksum routine which works for MS-DOS but the ST version is totally |>brain-damaged and assumes an ST header .. if the checksum fails you get |>the cryptic 'No File' . Secondly even if this bug wasn't there,there is |>no support for '/' to '\' translation which messes things up somewhat :-) |>In my experience UNIX lharc will extract anything despite it having a |>lower version number ... A port of this to the ST is on dsrgsun. Since |>using that I've never had problems extracting anything . Also it |>doesn't suffer from the silly file limit of 1.13 , or the annoying 'sort |>by filename' feature . Is this common sense? If it is I would like to adopt Arcgsh to it. As I announced here a week or so ago the new version 3.0 of Arcgsh has a graphical interface to LHarc - but that's the LHarc version posted in comp.binaries.atari.st and the above quoted poster suggests to "throw it away". If you all would rather like to see Arcgsh working together with the LHarc version on dsrgsun I could adopt Arcgsh to it (a minor task) before releasing Arcgsh V3.0 to the world. The Arcgsh documentation isn't ready anyway... Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ ...uunet!unido!klute D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663