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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: LHARC available for MINIX!
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.011235.5774@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Summary: NO! It works!
Keywords: lharc archive compress
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
References: <1990Jul2.143113.2267@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <781@rossignol.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 3 Jul 90 05:12:35 GMT
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In article <781@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> nfs@cs.Princeton.EDU (Norbert Schlenker) writes:
>LHARC wasn't written with portability in mind.  The archive header
>format is dependent on byte order within words and on the length of
>integers.  A PC archive cannot be read on an ST and vice versa,
>without considerable pulling of teeth.

Have you actually tried this?  I'm sorry but I think you're wrong about
this.  Yes, the headers weren't written with portability in mind, but
the UNIX source I'll be posting handles this very well.  I've transfered
.LZH files from my PC under DOS to a Sun and to Minix and the same archived
file is readable on all systems.  There was a version out awhile ago that
I also ported and had to write my own INTEL <-> Motorola transfer
functions, but this version is by the original author of LHARC and much
cleaner.

-- 
Mathematics: That branch of Human Thought which takes a finite set of trivial
axioms and maps them to a countably infinite set of unintuitive theorems.

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