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From: rmal@cernvax.cern.ch (richard lucock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hidden AmigaDOS files?
Message-ID: <3134@cernvax.cern.ch>
Date: 20 Nov 90 13:28:29 GMT
References: <18621@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au> <3127@cernvax.cern.ch> <1990Nov19.221630.21647@ns.network.com>
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In article <1990Nov19.221630.21647@ns.network.com> dean@ns.network.com (Dean C. Gahlon) writes:
~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.
~
Correct. I stumbled across the archive again last night - the files in
it were dated 1998 (and it was actually zooed, not lharced. So I'm
not sure what I did to get the files to appear (copy, maybe), but it
didn't involve a second archiver). Told you I was muddying the waters !

Richard