rtaylor@tron.UUCP (Randy Taylor) (02/26/91)
Does anyone out there have a file compressor package that works with Mentor Graphics files ? I have tried the ARC package and UNIX compress with no success. The problem with them is that they both decompress the files into type "unstruct" instead of types "hdru" or "rec", as appropriate. This makes the decompressed files unuseable by Mentor Graphics software packages. Thanks in advance for any help provided. Randy Taylor Westinghouse Electric Corp. Baltimore, Maryland -- rtaylor@sky00.bwi.wec.com from an Internet site (preferred) rtaylor@tron.bwi.wec.com from an Internet site (alternate) "...you know I have the greatest enthusiam for the mission." HAL 9000
rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (02/26/91)
In article <707@tron.UUCP>, rtaylor@tron.UUCP (Randy Taylor) writes:
Does anyone out there have a file compressor package that works with
Mentor Graphics files ?
My former colleagues may be offended at this suggestion, but you could use
'obty' to change the files to unstruct, then compress them. After you
restore them change them back to the original type the same way.turner@smart.sps.mot.com (Robert Turner) (02/26/91)
In-Reply-To: <707@tron.UUCP> Organization: Semiconductor Systems Design Technology, Motorola, Tempe AZ Cc: In article <707@tron.UUCP> you write: > >Does anyone out there have a file compressor package that works with >Mentor Graphics files ? > >I have tried the ARC package and UNIX compress with no success. The problem >with them is that they both decompress the files into type "unstruct" >instead of types "hdru" or "rec", as appropriate. This makes the >decompressed files unuseable by Mentor Graphics software packages. > wbak the file first. wbak will hang onto the file types for you. If you use tar be sure to use the "-A" option. Robert P.S. your email bounced. sorry to post it. -- Robert Turner (602) 897-5441 Semiconductor Systems Design Technology, Motorola turner@dover.sps.mot.com OR ...!uunet!dover!turner "Most Americans do not know or appreciate the fact that citizenship is the primary political office under a constitutional government." Mortimer Adler
thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) (02/26/91)
> <<forwarded message>> > Does anyone out there have a file compressor package that works with > Mentor Graphics files ? > > I have tried the ARC package and UNIX compress with no success. The problem > with them is that they both decompress the files into type "unstruct" > instead of types "hdru" or "rec", as appropriate. This makes the > decompressed files unuseable by Mentor Graphics software packages. No, but I could string together a couple of commands. Basically, you probably want to tar/wbak the Mentor directory (since many Mentor objects are dirs, that might be best anyway), and then compress that w/ your favorite compressor. The uncompress would uncompress and then de-tar/rbak the objects. Note that this works on non-Mentor objects as well as Mentor ones, and keeps entire directories together in one file. (You might want to remove the automatic deletion). Incidentally, I quick wrote these. They are not exhaustively tested, and they tend to assume that nothing too bad will happen. You probably want to modify them at least slightly. In the one test I made, I compressed each directory in the Mentor mil_ls_lib parts library. The compression achived was about 200% E.G.: mentor_crunch: #!/com/sh eon abtsev -e for PATHNAME in ^* by word /com/ld -c -lf -ld -ent ^PATHNAME | @ while readln ONEPATH do DEST := ^ONEPATH + ".Z" if /com/wbak -full -nhi ^ONEPATH -stdout >?/dev/null | @ /usr/ucb/compress -f > ^DEST then /com/args "^ONEPATH compressed to ^ONEPATH.Z" /com/dlt ^ONEPATH -f -du else /com/args -err "?(^0) - Unable to perform wbak/compress on ^ONEPATH" endif enddo endfor mentor_uncrunch: #!/com/sh eon abtsev -e for PATHNAME in ^* by word /com/ld -c -lf -ld -ent ^PATHNAME | @ while readln ONEPATH do DEST := ^"/com/args ^ONEPATH | /com/chpat {?*}.Z @1" if /usr/ucb/uncompress ^ONEPATH -c | @ /com/rbak -stdin -pdt -sacl -all >/dev/null >?/dev/null then /com/args "^ONEPATH uncompressed to ^DEST" /com/dlf ^ONEPATH -f -du else /com/args -err "?(^0) - Unable to perform uncompress/rbak on ^ONEPATH" endif enddo endfor Hope these either work for you, or give you the hint that you need.... -- jt -- John Thompson Honeywell, SSEC Plymouth, MN 55441 thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com Me? Represent Honeywell? You've GOT to be kidding!!!
scott@labtam.labtam.oz (Scott Colwell) (02/26/91)
rtaylor@tron.UUCP (Randy Taylor) writes: >Does anyone out there have a file compressor package that works with >Mentor Graphics files ? >....... The problem >with them is that they both decompress the files into type "unstruct" >instead of types "hdru" or "rec", as appropriate. This makes the >decompressed files unuseable by Mentor Graphics software packages. Try $ wbak blah..blah.. -stdout | compress Don't try tar or cpio because Mentor use symbolic links where the value of the symbolic link is not the actual file but is the version number that must be appended to the name of the link. When tar or cpio try to stat the file through the symbolic link, it gets an error and does not include the link in the archive. -- Scott Colwell Senior Design Engineer Labtam Australia net: scott@labtam.oz.au Melbourne, Australia phone: +61-3-587-1444