Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!rwh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
From: rwh@me.utoronto.ca (Russ Herman)
Subject: Re: lharc on Unix
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.225446.20246@me.toronto.edu>
Summary: lharc-unix-v003.zoo inadequacies
Keywords: lharc
Organization: none
References: <579@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> <2908@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Feb22.031659.18303@agate.berkeley.edu> <511209@nstar.UUCP> <8176@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 03:54:46 GMT

In article <8176@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
>
>I grabbed a Unix version of LHarc a few weeks ago.  Works just fine under
>MACH (BSD 4.3 binary-compatible).
>
>I've put it up for anonymous FTP (since I can't remember where I got it) on
>CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.222.173] in /afs/cs/user/ralf/pub (CD directly there) as
>lharc-unix-v003.zoo.

Unfortunately, that version is a bit out-of-date vis-a-vis the MSDOS version.
It doesn't handle the -r and -p toggles.  Worse, it uses -p for something
else (list to stdout).  So it's still true that zoo is the only archiver
with source available that handles directory hierarchies semi-reasonably.

Russ Herman
INTERNET: rwh@me.utoronto.ca  UUCP: ..uunet!utai!me!rwh