rda353l@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (a.r. 8947277 baxter) (08/29/90)
rda353l@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (me) writes: >bmacintyre@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Blair MacIntyre) writes: >>>>>>> On 26 Aug 90 20:48:15 GMT, dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis >>>>>>> Francis Heffernan) said: >>DFH> I seem to be 'having problems' getting goodies from The New >>DFH> Xanth (Oz? Narnia?) through the BITFTP server. Namely, everything >>DFH> comes up corrupt when I try to un-lharc it. >>Here is the banner for the lharc on Watcgl, our Unix system: >>----------- >>LHarc for UNIX V0.03 (Beta Version) Copyright(C) 1989 Y.Tagawa >>usage: lharc {axevludmcp}[qnft] archive_file [files or directories...] >>commands: options: >>----------- >>Could it be that this is the version that created these archives and >>there is some incompatability with the other ones? >You need Lharc v1.00, availiable at a comp.sources.misc (i think) archive >site. Another note: when using lharc 1.00 on UN*X, be sure to specify >-g (generic) mode, this stops lharc from saving userid and permissions >in the archive, which is what seems to confuse Amiga versions of lharc. >(Note: on our machine, I changed the source so this is the default, it >is a trivial change, and makes life much easier :) After posting this, I received some mail saying "What -g option?" Mea culpa. The version of lharc we have is 1.02, the source for which I got from utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (133.1.7.250) The usage information of our version, which includes the modification I made to turn uid/permissions off as the default, is as follows. >LHarc for UNIX V1.02 Copyright(C) 1989 Y.Tagawa >usage: lharc {axelvudmcp}[qvnftgvd] archive_file [files or directories...] >commands: options: > a Add(or replace) to archive q quiet > x,e EXtract from archive v verbose > l,v List / Verbose List n no execute > u Update newer files to archive f force (over write at extract) > d Delete from archive t FILES are TEXT file > m Move to archive (means 'ad') g [NonGeneric] format (not compatible) > c re-Construct new archive > p Print to STDOUT from archive d delete FILES after a/u/c command > NB: This version of lharc defaults to generic mode If you have trouble getting the source, send me mail, and I will mail the source to you (it is about 50K in a compressed tar archive) , or if a few people want this, I will upload it to /incoming on XanthII. (According to the README file, it is freeware) Sorry about that, Anthony Anthony Baxter: rda353l%monu6.cc.monash.oz@uunet.UU.NET Robotics and Digital Technology {uunet}!munnari!monu6.cc.monash.oz!rda353l Monash University, Caulfield