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From: muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au (Murray Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: lharc.lzh part 2
Keywords: lharc.lzh, compression
Message-ID: <902@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
Date: 19 Apr 91 02:10:36 GMT
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Hi there

Following several replies to my previous posting, I will tell the following
tale:

I wanted to compile lharc on a sun 3/50 which did not have lharc already, so I
went searching thru FTP lists for a location for lharc source.  I could only
find the file "lharc.lzh", so I downloaded it, hoping to dump it to a
PC, unarc it, and upload the source.

I downloaded it ok, but the only version of lharc I had for the PC refused
to extract the archive for two reasons (I think):

		1) It treated the / in the archive pathnames not as
		   a filename delimiter, but a character, so

		2) As the files in the archive were prefixed by
		   "lharc/source/...." (longer than 8 chars), they would have
		   extracted as the same file.

Interesting to note that the archive would test and list ok, but not extract.

Consequently, I downloaded "lharc.lzh" to my Amiga, which handles "/"
delimiters ok, but the Amiga lharc claimed that lharc.lzh was corrupt.  (There
is nothing wrong with my Amiga's lharc- this is the first time in two years
of constant use that I have had a compatability problem with lharc).

The next stage in my attempt to extract the file was to use a binary editor to
change the "/"s to "\s" in an attempt to get the PC version of lharc to extract
it. Alas, lharc's internal checksum caught this backdoor attempt, and spat the
file out as corrupt... 

THE SOLUTION: I eventually found lharc-src.zoo...

SO! While I realize that there is a valid reason for storing "lharc.lzh", it
does lead to problems for initially installing lharc on a filesystem.

Flames returned in triplicate. :-)


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