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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Minor ARC bug
Keywords: ARC 5.12, ARC 5.21b, Verbose Listing
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Date: 30 Mar 89 18:22:21 GMT
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In article <318@laas.laas.fr> ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
%From time to time, ARC on my ST would throw up 2 bombs!  I seem now to
%have located the problem: when a file has an invalid (0) date, the
%verbose listing aborts.  This is for both versions of arc: ARC 5.12
%and ARC 5.21b.  It seems even to effect a straight listing (-l) in
%ARC-5.12.  This bug exists also in the Unix version of ARC 5.12, but
%the Unix version of ARC 5.21 produces:
%
%Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
%============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
%FOO.BAR          12714  Crunched   51%      6263   0 (null) 28   0:31a  c8bb
%
%Whoever has the source to ST ARC, would that person look into this?
%It's not unlivable, but it is useful to have some details about what
%has been ARCed.  The problem might come about files being archived on
%a variety of machines.  Therefore a more robust ARC is due.

I fixed this in the Unix version a while back, but haven't posted new ST
binaries in a while. If people want it, I'll send off my current version
to Steven Grimm...
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