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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: mod.amiga.binaries
Message-ID: <148600141@uiucuxc>
Date: Sun, 14-Sep-86 22:44:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 14 22:44:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton    Sep 14 21:44:00 1986


>There
>is a program that runs on both Unix and the Amiga called ARC that would
>solve the problem in that it both compresses files and stores them in a
>"tar"ish format which when run on the amiga lets files end up the right
>size.
>    Now is where it gets complicated.  There is a version of ARC out on
>the Amiga, but the guy who released it only released binaries, and he
>"booby- trapped" them so that after certain dates it doesn't work.  I
>am sorry, but I don't like this attitude with software that was
>released into the public domain on both Unix and the IBM-PC (which BTW,
>these versions ARE compatible with the Amiga version!)

    arc was not "booby-trapped"; what you saw were preliminary versions,
and the author wanted to make sure people didn't continue using old
(presumably buggy) versions after the "final" version was released.
(i bet ibm software developers wish there were such "boobytrap"s in old
versions of ms-dos).  version 0.16, which has been out for months now,
has the timeout removed.  even when it was in, you could defeat it by
changing the DOS date.

>I guess the question would be, does anyone
>out there have a good method to post binaries to this group so they
>will end up OK on the other end, without having to truncate them or
>whatever?  Does someone have ARC source converted to the Amiga?  If
>not, what would be the best way to post things according to all of you?

    didn't someone post an amiga uudecode a while back?  i know there
are PD versions of it available.

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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