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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: LHARC source and UNIX
Keywords: No source, no like.
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Date: 22 Dec 89 19:47:26 GMT
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In article <51989@ccicpg.UUCP> paulm@ccicpg.UUCP (tmp Paul Moreau usenet acct) writes:
>Well it seems that the LHARC is going to take over the atari archiving
>world.  I for one use a UNIX system for posting and recieving news
>and binaries.   I uudecode, and unarc on the unix system and examine
>the stuff before going through the expense of going home, making a 
>LONG DISTANCE call to work and download the stuff.  If LHARC is to be
>the new standard (which I can see the benefit in smaller archives) I'd
>like to get the source so I can port it to our UNIX system.
>If the source is protected (which it seems to be) then I don't think
>I'll be downloading any more files unless I know what to expect in them.
>
>I hope that the source is available!
>I think that the majority of readers on the net here are on UNIX machines
>and would also like to get LHARC on thiers also.

I have the source for LHARC. I haven't bothered doing anything with it yet.
It's 80% 8086 assembler. Even the C source code is full of ASM compiler
directives. Most of the comments are in Japanese, for a Kanji character
set, and show up as weird diacriticals on an ST display. I doubt any
printer would like them very much.

I haven't seen very much of anything archived with LHARC, which is why
I haven't been too eager to look at it. Is there really that much demand
for it? Maybe a show of hands (  }-)  ) for people saying "yes, I've used
it, I like it" ? I've seen discussion of LHARC on GEnie, they weren't too
thrilled with it because the ST version was slow, buggy, and incompatible
with the PC version. I think that's changed recently, with a new ST version,
but I haven't paid it too much attention.

I'm still waiting for SEA to send me the ARC 6.02 sources. I sent 'em a floppy
months ago, a few messages on CI$, made a few phone calls and left messages
that way, and now I'm in limbo, waiting, waiting,
waiting... Needless to say, I'm somewhat perturbed at them. They just sent me
a copy of their newsletter, which mentions the Atari ST and Unix versions of
ARC, (as well as all the other systems it's been ported to) but no credit to
the respective authors, or even any indication that the work was done by
outside people. (To be fair, they don't blatantly claim it as their own, either.
Just mention the existence of such, not how it came to be...)
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