Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!beta.its.bt.co.uk!jvt From: jvt@its.bt.co.uk (John Trickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Major Problems Unpacking 'lzh' Files Keywords: archivers lharc arc zoo banter Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 91 12:08:33 GMT References: <1991Jan8.153539.19118@wam.umd.edu> <1991Jan09.010526.15973@convex.com> <742@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> Sender: isode@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Isode Hackers) Organization: BT Applied Systems, Birmingham, UK Lines: 29 In article <742@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> koreth@panarthea.EBay.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm) writes: > .... >Lharc/UNIX handles file ownership and permissions. I don't think this is >true of zoo. (The extra information is ignored on non-UNIX systems; there >is a field in the lharc headers which says, "I have extra information about >this file, and it's at this place in the header and is this long.") >..... Yes - but *badly* ! Perhaps its the originators fault - I've never bothered to look - but it always makes the files owned by root. Great(?) if you're SU but naff if you're not. Luckily it causes me no problems - just hassle but I can imagine it could seriously inconvenience some (most?) users where they cannot use root access. Lets remember we're talking about a PC type of archiver - UID means nothing here so why have it. Personally I prefer zoo but it *does* have its problems. I have never encountered any with the unix version (& I use that to transport all my archives to my ST because of a problem with the FD program here) but the ST version refuses to compress some files (usually binary). In this case I use arc which copes competantly but with less compression. John. -- John Trickey || ..!mcsun!ukc!axion!its G4REV @ GB7SUT Voice: +44 21 333 3369 #include