PEPRBV@CFAAMP.BITNET (Bob Babcock) (03/14/88)
Has anyone ported the MS-DOS file compression program ARC to OS-9/68K?
It seems like it should be straightforward, but if its already been done,
I don't want to duplicate the effort.
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617-495-7107pete%wlbr@ETN-WLV.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall) (03/15/88)
In article <PEPRBV.880313.163718.B0@CFAAMP.BITNET> PEPRBV@CFAAMP.BITNET (Bob Babcock) writes: >Has anyone ported the MS-DOS file compression program ARC to OS-9/68K? >It seems like it should be straightforward, but if its already been done, >I don't want to duplicate the effort. >------- Well, most of the OS9'ers use 'AR', a LZ packer/compresser written by Carl Kreider a few years back. There are a couple of ARC busting tools that I have seen, one of which is DEARC. This was originally written by Steve Sampson (netaddress?), who is somewhere here on the net. If you can't get a reaction from Steve, let me know, and I'll post one over in Comp.Sys.m6809. Pete -- Pete Lyall (OS9 Users Group VP)| DELPHI: OS9UGVP | Eaton Corp.(818)-706-5693 Compuserve: 76703,4230 (OS9 Sysop) OS9 (home): (805)-985-0632 (24hr./1200 baud) Internet: pete@wlbr.eaton.com UUCP: {ihnp4,scgvax,jplgodo,voder}!wlbr!pete
HELLER@cs.umass.EDU (Stride 440 User) (03/15/88)
There was mention of a port of MS-DOS ARC 5.12 to OS-9 on BIX. I think the port was completed, but am not sure. Porting ARC to a non-8086ish CPU is not easy (it is loaded with 8086ish dependencies), so the port might not be complete and it is un-likely that a port of the newwer version (5.20) will be done... Robert