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From: egray@fthood
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Bugs in Unix version of ARC
Message-ID: <1600003@fthood>
Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 14:06:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  5 14:06:00 1986
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Nf-From: fthood!egray    Nov  5 13:06:00 1986


I just can't believe that everyone else's copy of 'arc' is running 
properly on UNIX.  I've got the two versions off the of net, the one
posted in mid Aug and the other in late Sep.  Both seem to compile and
function except for extracting files that have been compressed using one
older 'crunch' routine (which is longer used in creating files, but is
arround for extracting).

The older archives created using method number 6 called "Lempel-Zev
plus non-repeat" (shows up as 'crunched' in the 'v' option) will not
extract properly.  Small files appear to extract, but result in garbage
files.  Extracting large files created with this method will cause the
arc's internal stack to overflow.

Aside from that one minor problem, everything works!

Has anyone else had this problem?  Is there a cure?  I'm running SVR2
on a Masscomp 68000 system.

Emmet P. Gray				US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
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