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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lharc incompatibility (IBM/Amiga versions..)
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Date: 21 Sep 90 01:37:53 GMT
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From article <36782@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, by v069qqqc@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Michael Carrato):
> I got Fish disk 362 from abcfd20 (a.k.a. 'the new xanth') and it seems
> as if it was lharc compressed on an IBM, because all of the directory
> seperators are backwards ('\' instead of '/'). So when I unpack it,
> no directories are created, just a bunch of wierd files in the root 
> directory (i.e. 'foo\bar\readme'). Is the archive corrupt or are they
> incompatible? By the way, I did use the -x switch.

I think that the unix version is capable of doing this if you get the
right set of compiler switches.

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