) (05/17/91)
Could someone tell me what the latest version numbers are for ARC, LHARC and ZOO for the ST? I'm having trouble finding a reliable compress/archive program. LHARC is too slow, ZOO falls over with particular files, and ARC seems to be dodgy when extracting. mathew
nox@jelal.north.de (Juergen Lock) (05/23/91)
From article <B2g421w164w@mantis.co.uk>, by mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!): > ... > I'm having trouble finding a reliable compress/archive program. you didn't mention GNU tar + compress. reliable at least, not even too slow. :-) (but forget other ST tar's, GNU is the only one i've seen that works...) > LHARC is too > slow, ZOO falls over with particular files, and ARC seems to be dodgy when ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ thank you, this reminds me of a bugreport i probably should have made months ago already: (do you say it that way? sorry about my english...) ok, there is this zoo 2.01 that someone compiled with Turbo C, (sorry forgot who it was, else i wouldn't have to post this now...) that one had problems with certain (longer) files, like you say. now, an even longer while ago, :-) i compiled zoo 2.00 using the same compiler, and i first had similar problems. the reason was a bug in Turbo C: it didn't compile things like int x=30000; y=foo[x]; (where foo is an int * or something, i.e. anything `bigger' than a char *), properly. (made it something like `move (a0,d0.w),d1', if you know what i mean...) to `fix', i had to cast virtually everything inside [] to long's, to make it use `move (a0,d0.l),d1' like it should. so for the line above that would mean y=foo[(long) x]; . hope this helps, Juergen PS: to be fair, i don't know if the bug still is in TC's latest version (i only have 1.1), but if yes, at least you now know how to make the thing compile a working zoo. :-) -- J"urgen Lock / UUCP: ..!uunet!unido!jelal.north.de!nox / BITNET: d09c@dhbrrz41 ...ohne Gewehr
ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (05/25/91)
In article <a5434559@jelal.north.de> nox@jelal.north.de (Juergen Lock) writes: | ok, there is this zoo 2.01 that someone compiled with Turbo C.... This reminds me that the Zoo that is in starup.tos on atari.archive is not the latest release. Both zoo.ttp and fiz.ttp are slightly out of date. My copy of zoo (from USENET) is 2.01STg. The version in startup.tos is 2.01STe. There is a similar difference for fiz.ttp. Can we get statup.tos updated? -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud owner of a Mega 4 ST. Wishing it was a Mega STe! :-|