koreth@panarthea.EBay.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm) (01/17/91)
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There seem to be zillions of versions of the "lharc" archiver floating around,
with no coherent version numbering scheme so it's next to impossible to tell
which versions are more recent than others. I'd like to coordinate an effort
to come up with one standard version of lharc, and keep track of patches in
one place so that there'll be some order to the version numbers.
The version I'm using right now is "C-LHarc Version 1.00," from alt.sources.
Someone has sent me a version 1.02, derived from 1.00, but with some patches
for better operation on Amiga systems. Which other versions are out there
in source form? The version I'm using seems the most stable of any I've seen,
so I think it's a good starting point.
If the original authors of any of the lharc versions would prefer to keep
control of the source, that's fine with me, but I'd like to know. Right now
there are lots of people doing their own things with the program, and I'd
like to see the mess sorted out for the sake of the users.
At some point, I have some changes to make to the software, too, but I'd rather
change a unified, standard version of the program than create yet another
off-the-wall version to confuse people.
The lharc program is really nice (though a bit slow) and I'd like to see it
become a more widespread standard.
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Steven Grimm Moderator, comp.{sources,binaries}.atari.st
koreth@ebay.sun.com ...!sun!ebay!korethchuckie@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Chuck Schul) (01/19/91)
In-Reply-To: message from koreth@panarthea.EBay.Sun.COM are you the lharc man huh?well i like the compression of lharc but the interface is hard.i come from the apple world and i have to say the interface is bad.maybe you should make it like dcopy for the atari which arc's files.that interface is easy. ---- ProLine: chuckie@pro-odyssey Internet: chuckie@pro-odyssey.cts.com UUCP: crash!pro-odyssey!chuckie ARPA: crash!pro-odyssey!chuckie@nosc.mil
klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (01/21/91)
In article <767@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>, koreth@panarthea.EBay.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm) writes: |> There seem to be zillions of versions of the "lharc" archiver floating |> around, |> with no coherent version numbering scheme so it's next to impossible to |> tell |> which versions are more recent than others. I'd like to coordinate an |> effort |> to come up with one standard version of lharc, and keep track of patches |> in |> one place so that there'll be some order to the version numbers. Oh yes, I do advocate Steven Grimm's attempt! We would get one reliable LHarc running on a variety of machines. Of course I shall support this LHarc by my Arcgsh, the graphical shell for archiver programs for Atari ST. -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386