Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!BRANDEIS.BITNET!COBB From: COBB@BRANDEIS.BITNET (wes cobb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k.pc Subject: arc for os9/68k Message-ID: <8803191526.AA06422@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 19 Mar 88 15:25:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 26 Approved: info-68k@ucbvax.berkeley.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 88 08:27 EDT > From: Stride 440 User > Subject: RE: ARC for OS-9/68K > To: info-68k@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU > X-Vms-To: IN%"info-68k@ucbvax.berkeley.edu" > > There was mention of a port of MS-DOS ARC 5.12 to OS-9 on BIX. I think > the port was completed, but am not sure. Porting ARC to a non-8086ish > CPU is not easy (it is loaded with 8086ish dependencies), so the port > might not be complete and it is un-likely that a port of the newwer > version (5.20) will be done... hunh! well all i can say is that i *have* an executable on my system that was ported from UNIX SYSV ARC V5.12 -- and it runs just fine under OSK. it also generates archives that are a hell of a lot smaller than the ones AR makes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- wes cobb physics dept. brandeis university waltham, mass 02254