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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro.68k
Subject: A standard OS-9 Archive Format
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Date: Mon, 5-May-86 17:43:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 17:43:11 1986
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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Summary: Proposal that we standardize on 'archx.c'


     I noted the posting of 'par.c' and 'archx.c' to mod.sources recently.
I have never used either.  Furthermore, my Unix node doesn't support
'shar' or 'cshar'.  This wouldn't help OS-9'ers anyway since we don't
have a way of unpacking 'shar' files and 'cshar' files on OS-9 systems.
I don't like System V 'ar' format because it seems to use unprintable
ASCII characters for something.  According to the documentation of 'archx.c',
it doesn't.  As such, I'd like to propose usage of 'archx.c' as a standard
archive format for OS-9'ers.

     Another portable archiver posted to the net a while back was
'portar.c'.  I have it on disk somewhere, but I don't recall anything
about it offhand.

     Any comments?

                                          Cheers! -- Jim O.

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