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From: dean@ns.network.com (Dean C. Gahlon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hidden AmigaDOS files?
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.221630.21647@ns.network.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 22:16:30 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.182903.20247@qut.edu.au> <18621@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au> <3127@cernvax.cern.ch>
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In article <3127@cernvax.cern.ch> rmal@cernvax.cern.ch (richard lucock) writes:
>
>To muddy the waters still further, I recently unarchived a .lzh file onto
>my amiga. The 'dir' command worked ok, but 'list' did not show the files
>(I was using the ARP versions of these commands).  Delete worked, luckily.
>Further, only one of the unarchiving programs caused this problem, the other
>worked OK (but I can't remember whether it was LZ or LHARC that didn't
>work properly).  This was on an FFS hard disk partition.
>
>Richard

	I was wondering when this would come around in this thread.  What
happened here is that the ARP list command can't handle bad dates in file
timestamps, so it doesn't print out files that have such dates. (It's
documented in the ARP docs, so I guess it's a feature, rather than a bug :-)
In other words, it shouldn't have been a result of the unarchiver, unless
one of them sets the file timestamps to what they were when the file was
archived, and the other sets them to what they are when the file is
unarchived.  

	I was bitten by this a while back, and it confused me for a bit
until I remembered that bit from the docs.


					Dean C. Gahlon
					dean@ns.network.com