Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!spdcc!merk!alliant!rosenkra From: rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: help with arc Message-ID: <2432@alliant.Alliant.COM> Date: 4 Oct 88 18:00:59 GMT References: <204@arnold.UUCP> Reply-To: rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA Lines: 18 In article <204@arnold.UUCP> dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes: ->I am trying to build arc for System V. Everything compiles ->and runs ok---except it always creates corrupted archives. ->Anybody have similar problems? ->-- ->Dave Arnold ->dave@arnold.UUCP {cci632|uunet}!ccicpg!arnold!dave i had a similar problem, porting a vax version to a 68000 architecure running BSD 4.2. you need to swap bytes in timetamps, etc. i don't recall which files, but if u want i can email the new routine...find out if your original code was from a vax (which handles byte order like 808x). -bill rosenkranz rosenkra@alliant.com linus!alliant!rosenkra rutgers!mit-eddie!alliant!rosenkra