kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim E. DeVaughn) (11/17/90)
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Thanks to whoever uploaded the latest version of lharc to the /incoming/amiga
directory on abcfd20!
There are numerous improvements, and some significant new options that improve
its capabilities in several ways. Many thanks to Paolo Zibetti, who has been
VERY responsive to my suggestions, and who has provided an *excellent* utility!
From the Changes document for v1.30:
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-Version 1.30 25-Oct-1990
-Slightly faster
-The new -i switch lets Lharc read the list of files to be archived/extracted
from a file (including stdin, so that, for example, you can easily select
the files to be added with some utility like 'grep' or 'find' and then
pipe the list of files to Lharc).
-The new -d switch tells Lharc to set the date of the archive to the date of
the most recent file included in the archive.
-The new -c switch lets you archive/extract files in interactiove mode: for
each file you'll be asked something like "Compress? (yes, no, all, none)"
-Greatly enhanced sorting functions: you can now choose between case
sensitive and case-insensitive alpha-sorting; you can even choose between
gobal sorting and sorting local to each subdirectory. (see the -S switch)
-Lharc can now store empty directories: this allows you to perfectly
recreate a directory tree (very useful for software developers who want
to use Lharc for reducing the number of their distribution disks (but please
see Lharc.doc for commercial use of Lharc!))
See the -r switch for details and remeber that archives containing empty
dirs are NOT compatible with MSDOS-Lharc
-By popular demand, the -a switch is now activated by default, i.e. Amiga
file attributes will be preserved by default. Use -a0 to turn this
feature off.
-Fine tuned for taking better advantage of big I/O buffers: specifiing a
big I/O buffer with the -b switch could, in some circumstances, cause an
overhead that actually slowed down operations: this problem has been
reduced in this version.
-A more intelligent command line parser reduces the risk of performing
unwanted operations (such as deleting the entire content of an archive) by
mistake.
-Newly created archives have now the flags ----rw-d rather than ----rwed
(since an archive is not an executable!)
-Corrected a bug in the alpha-sorting routine that caused files to be
sometimes incorrectly sorted.
-Other minor bugs removed.
Please refer to Lharc.doc for a more complete explaination of these new
fatures.
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BTW, Paolo *can* be reached via the Intenet/UUCP address of:
Paolo.Zibetti@p6.f101.n331.z2.fidonet.org
and he does respond to email as time permits. I was amazed that my email
actually reached him using the above, and that he could actually get email
back to me!
/kim
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BIX: kdevaughn GEnie: K.DEVAUGHN CIS: 76535,25tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) (11/18/90)
In article <775d02lNe8.M01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim E. DeVaughn) writes: > Thanks to whoever uploaded the latest version of lharc to the /incoming/amiga > directory on abcfd20! Now available as /amiga/archivers/lharc-1.30.lzh ...tad
ked01@ccc.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) (11/18/90)
In article <775d02lNe8.M01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> I wrote: > > Thanks to whoever uploaded the latest version of lharc to the /incoming/amiga > directory on abcfd20! > > -Newly created archives have now the flags ----rw-d rather than ----rwed > (since an archive is not an executable!) Alas. I've found that this only works if the archive is created in ram:. If created elsewhere (rad:, vd0:, df0:, or on a FFS partition), it still sets the bits to "rwed". A minor (though slightly annoying) bug. /kim -- UUCP: kim@uts.amdahl.com -OR- ked01@juts.ccc.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,uunet,oliveb,ames}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 BIX: kdevaughn GEnie: K.DEVAUGHN CIS: 76535,25