Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: lharc unix/amiga Message-ID: <1991Jan2.071240.24163@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 2 Jan 91 07:12:40 GMT References: <1990Dec31.071223.23929@news.cs.indiana. <27805853-1970.2comp.amiga-1@point.UUCP> <1991Jan1.224843.9559@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 28 paquette@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) writes: > Not really. The UNIX Lharc (if compiled to do so) has a DIFFERENT header >the the Amiga Lharc. It adds the permission bits (rwxrwxrwx) and the uid/gid >of the file. > There is a define that will make it Amiga compatible. 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. With the patch, that all works; I use it several times a day. I've sent four packages of the whole program, packed to unpack with an _existing_ lharc executable (sadistic, huh? ;-) to folks who've written and asked. There doesn't seem to be an appropriate place to post it, though. Kent, the man from xanth.