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From: nj@teak.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: LZ "Bug"
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Date: 2 Dec 90 17:58:11 GMT
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yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) said:

>>I got a Archive that LZ can't De-Lharc but On the Unix Machine
>>I have Lharc On the File gets De-lharced Fine.

static@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (geoff c wing) replied:

>WHAT? Didn't quite get this, but I assume that you arc'ed the file on Unix and
>tried to dearc it on Amiga(?). Unless you have an LHARC program on Unix which
>has generic compatibility(for protection bits) you can't do it (easily). 

I've never had any problems creating an archive with Unix LHARC 1.02
(which I believe is available on abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov) and dearchiving
it with Amiga LZ 0.91), even without turning on the generic compatibility
mode on the Unix end.  (That mode seems to be intended to deal with the
braindead MS-DOS filename conventions.)  It would be a poor archive
standard if it weren't transportable across machine types...

nj