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From: aliu@nunki.usc.edu (Terminal Entry)
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Subject: Re: LHARC & ZOO
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Date: 21 Feb 90 03:44:18 GMT
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In article <1990Feb20.210211.4202@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca> apang@undergrad.cs.ubc.ca (Anthon Pang) writes:

>Lharc was originally written for MSD*S machines.  It was later ported to Un*x.
>And later ported to the Amiga.  That's at least 3 operating systems (if you
>count all the variations of Un*x as 1 :).  So far, (to my knowledge) the Un*x
>version has compiled 'ok' on several BSD4.3 machines--Vax, Sun, Apollo
>
>(You can ftp the .zuu Un*x Lharc source code from utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
>[133.11.7.250], or I could mail it.)

I have Lharc running on Unix, and it is not really 100% compatible with the
amiga version.

When trying to un-lharc a Unix-created archive on Amiga, Amiga Lharc
(1.xx) complains about not being able to handle CRC32 and some other
stuff, and aborts.

However, Unix Lharc can archive Amoeba-created archives just fine, except
for directory creation.

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Is it just me, or my versions, or does everybody have this compatibility
problem?

			*** YUCK ***

Conclusion: I'll switch to Lharc when both Unix and Amiga versions are
EXACTLY the same. (BTW, the Lharc sources I compiled are the ones from
comp.sources.atari.st)


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