Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!hyc From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ARC 6.02-bug (was Re: ARC 6.0) Keywords: arc, bug Message-ID: <10615@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 11 Jan 90 18:58:34 GMT References: <814@opal.tubopal.UUCP> Sender: news@math.lsa.umich.edu Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor Lines: 36 UUCP-Path: {mailrus,umix}!um-math!hyc In article <814@opal.tubopal.UUCP> ripley@tubopal.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert) writes: >IMMEDIATELY STOPS INSTEAD? If I do "arc v fubar.arc" and fubar contains >files which are squashed, I want arc to show me the contents of the >archive-file. If I do "arc x fubar.arc" I want arc to skip these >files such as "fubar.xyz - unknown compression method. Skipped.". >What I don't want arc to do is to abort the whole task. > >This has been done by transitioning from arc 5.12 to wunderful(?) arc 5.21 >with its squashing algorithm. This fault has been repeated on arc 5.21, >which can now be seen when listing an arc 6.xx archive which contains >sub-directories. Sigh. > That does seem to be a problem that the docs don't point to. Dunno why they did things that way... I'd fix it, but don't have the 6.02 sources. (Deep sigh. }-) >.complaining off > >Another one, which is more of a *real* (and heavy) bug: >Arc lost it's capability of dealing with overlong filenames. Well, it was pretty non-standard anyway, and the main idea was to maintain compatibility with the PC version of ARC. (But it was certainly trivial to allow for arbitrarily long names, really.) The official "fix" I posted for the Unix side was to make it automatically truncate long names to fit into 12 characters. So it goes. You could easily add back in the code to allow for long names though. Dunno what you'd do with them when you try to extract them, but at least it wouldn't choke... -- Howard >Greetings, > RIPLEY -- -=- PrayerMail: Send 100Mbits to holyghost@father.son[127.0.0.1] and You Too can have a Personal Electronic Relationship with God!