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From: creps@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ARC Sources for UNIX
Message-ID: <1296@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 88 18:59:29 GMT
References: <5723@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps)
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In article <5723@swan.ulowell.edu> boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator) writes:
>Since there seems to be such a discussion as to ARC being for MS-DOS only,
>and a 'legend' of a UNIX version has been floating around, I'll do this:
>
>I currently have the sources to the BSD 4.2 UNIX version of ARC. I can also

   I assume that's the one posted last summer or fall?

>As is, the UNIX ARC program is FULLY SEA compatible. I have yet to determine
>whether it is squash compatible, but it seems it is. ZOO is not the only
>program available for both UNIX and MS-DOS.

   Well, it's not quite compatible, but only if you're not careful. If you
build an .arc file on your Unix machine which consists of filenames not
compatible with DOS it can cause problems. 1) If the filename contains
characters not allowed by DOS you can't extract the file. 2) If the filename
is too long (> 12 chars) somehow when you try to extract it again its
filename is truncated, but a ^K gets put on the end of the filename. This
causes a minor problem in Unix: you have to rename the file. The problem in
DOS is that it won't extract the file because the filename is illegal.
   One more thing to watch out for: if you try to add files to an archive
and run out of disk space (or disk quota) you will lose the original
archive file.
   My summary is that it's a good program to have on your Unix system,
but you have to be careful and be sure of what you are doing.

>I will post both versions soon. They consist of three shar files each. Be
>ready for them.

   If you can't wait and can get them via anonymous ftp, try looking in
pub/arc at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu. We have them here too.

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