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From: parker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Jeff Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: lharc unix/amiga
Message-ID: <4498@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 91 14:06:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jan2.071240.24163@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>paquette@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) writes:
        [...]
>
>Almost.  There was a _patch_ posted to alt.sources that gives one of
>the current Unix Lharc's (identified as version 1.02) the ability to
>_also_ compress files readable on the Amiga, if an "A" modifier to
>the "a" command is given.
>
	[...]
>Without the patch, you can use the "G"eneric modifier, but it gives
>you MS-DOS all caps short file names and flat one level directories.
>It _will_ make an archive readable on the Amiga that way, but it is a
>royal pain if what you wanted to pack was a multilevel directory with
>long, mixed case file names.
>
>Kent, the man from xanth.
><xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>

I'm rather stumped at all the problems that people are having.  We are
running Ultrix 4.0 on our DEC box and have UNIX C Lharc v1.00 installed.
I have yet to have a problem compressing or decompressing using the
lharc or lz on the Amiga side.  I regularly go both ways (what a straight
line :) and have encountered no problems to date!

That includes making multilevel directory archives with long names.  In
fact, I prefer the simple options of the Unix version because IMHO it
does the `right thing'.  When I do want to make multilevel (usually), I
can simply say -
	lharc a foo bar/*
and I get the results I wanted.  Likewise it will also extract to
multilevel without having to ask for it. 

BTW, yes I know about the alias command.  I already have some set up.

Thank you for your attention.
Signing off .....