ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (03/31/89)
From time to time, ARC on my ST would throw up 2 bombs! I seem now to have located the problem: when a file has an invalid (0) date, the verbose listing aborts. This is for both versions of arc: ARC 5.12 and ARC 5.21b. It seems even to effect a straight listing (-l) in ARC-5.12. This bug exists also in the Unix version of ARC 5.12, but the Unix version of ARC 5.21 produces: Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC ============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ==== FOO.BAR 12714 Crunched 51% 6263 0 (null) 28 0:31a c8bb Whoever has the source to ST ARC, would that person look into this? It's not unlivable, but it is useful to have some details about what has been ARCed. The problem might come about files being archived on a variety of machines. Therefore a more robust ARC is due. Please post the new ARC when done, please! Thanks, -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!mcvax!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: SOBEK@FRMOP11.BITNET sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (03/31/89)
In article <318@laas.laas.fr> ralph@laas.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:
%From time to time, ARC on my ST would throw up 2 bombs! I seem now to
%have located the problem: when a file has an invalid (0) date, the
%verbose listing aborts. This is for both versions of arc: ARC 5.12
%and ARC 5.21b. It seems even to effect a straight listing (-l) in
%ARC-5.12. This bug exists also in the Unix version of ARC 5.12, but
%the Unix version of ARC 5.21 produces:
%
%Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC
%============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ====
%FOO.BAR 12714 Crunched 51% 6263 0 (null) 28 0:31a c8bb
%
%Whoever has the source to ST ARC, would that person look into this?
%It's not unlivable, but it is useful to have some details about what
%has been ARCed. The problem might come about files being archived on
%a variety of machines. Therefore a more robust ARC is due.
I fixed this in the Unix version a while back, but haven't posted new ST
binaries in a while. If people want it, I'll send off my current version
to Steven Grimm...
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