tep@tots.UUCP (Tom Perrine) (04/10/90)
Help! I have downloaded a file "clfeb90.arc" from several different places, and I can't find a version of ARC that will get the file I want. This arc file contains C source for a memory allocation debugging package that sits on top of UNIX-style alloc()/dealloc() that is described in the Feb 90 issue of Computer Language magazine. I want to port this to sit on top of the native Amiga memory allocation stuff, BUT the latest version of arc I can find can't unpack this archive. It suggests that I need a newer version of arc. The arc I have appears to be either 0.23, .023 or 23, depending on which part of the program you look at. I don't have FTP access, so can anyone mail a newer version of ARC to me, or point to a mail-service archive? Or just send me the Computer Language file, if you have managed to unarc it. Thanks, Tom Perrine (tep) Logicon (Tactical and Training Systems Division) San Diego CA (619) 455-1330 Internet: tep@tots.Logicon.COM GENIE: T.PERRINE UUCP: nosc!hamachi!tots!tep -or- sun!suntan!tots!tep
mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com (Mike Shawaluk) (04/10/90)
In article <127@tots.UUCP> tep@tots.UUCP (Tom Perrine) writes: >Help! I have downloaded a file "clfeb90.arc" from several different >places, and I can't find a version of ARC that will get the file I >want. > ... >I want to port this to sit on top of the native Amiga memory >allocation stuff, BUT the latest version of arc I can find can't >unpack this archive. It suggests that I need a newer version of arc. >The arc I have appears to be either 0.23, .023 or 23, depending on >which part of the program you look at. This message most likely indicates that the file was produced by PKXARC, which utilized a compression algorithm called Squashing, which isn't supported by any version of ARC for the Amiga. However, PKWARE (the authors of PKXARC) created a program called PKAX for the Amiga, which _will_ extract this type of file (and much faster than ARC 0.23, BTW). As an aside, it occurs to me that the program PKAX, which was PKWARE's first offering for the Amiga, is a CLI-based archive extraction program! It's interesting that this program was never strongly supported by Amiga users (I have talked to Phil Katz about the number of contributions he received for this program, which he said were "a half dozen or so"). Granted, this program only did 1/2 of the job, but considering that most users spend more time taking apart archives that they have downloaded vs. putting new ones together, it's probably the more highly used part. - Mike -- - Mike Shawaluk "Rarely have we seen a mailer -> DOMAIN: mikes@lakesys.lakesys.com fail which has thoroughly -> UUCP: ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!mikes followed these paths." -> BITNET: 7117SHAWALUK@MUCSD