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From: mj@myrias.com (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Problems with "." in filenames with Unix 'lharc'
Message-ID: <637445274.6082@myrias.com>
Date: 14 Mar 90 20:07:51 GMT
References: <8795@nfs4.rl.ac.uk>
Organization: Myrias Research, Edmonton
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From article <8795@nfs4.rl.ac.uk>, by jjsc@inf.rl.ac.uk (John Cullen):
> When a file with any kind of extension (or in fact any
> character in the name *other* than the basic alphanumeric set) is added to
> the archive the "." (or whatever else) is (apparently) removed. Unfortunately
> I have been unable to then retrieve the file from the archive. Kind of
> annoying if you know what I mean :-)
> 
In a function which writes header (write_header ?) there is a call to
toupper() which is not guarded by "if (islower(c)) {...".  This may or
may not make your life hard depending on how your toupper behaves.

If you are using 'lharc' only for storing and retirieving files on Un*x,
and not for exchanging with other, non-case-sensitive operating systems,
you want probably undefine macro STRICT. Otherwise names of all unpacked
files will come in lowercase only.  As a side effect this will solve
also the problem above as an offending 'toupper()' call will be not
executed.


	Michal Jaegermann
	Myrias Research Corporation
	Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
	mj@myrias.COM
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