urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs) (02/11/89)
About the only program which I really use under A/UX is StuffIt 1.51.
Surprised me a lot when it didn't crash.
Two problems surfaced:
1- RayLau used the global variable Ticks instead of the function TickCount.
Result: The version number doesn't blink any more. :-)
2- A/UX does not support HFS calls. And GetVolInfo returns a maximum of
one MB of free disk storage. Now I challenge you to unstuff a 2 MB document.
StuffIt is too clever for you and won't do it.
Solution: Find and patch the only occurrence of
6464 2f2e 000e and replace with
6064 2f2e 000e (tried this in UnStuffit 1.51 but should work with
Stuffit too)
This disables the test for "not enough" free storage.
Now if I could only read HFS disks (and hard disks) directly.
(Oh well, waiting for A/UX 1.1 ...)
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urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de -- ++49+721-621127@PTTdwb@Apple.COM (David W. Berry) (02/14/89)
In article <813@smurf.ira.uka.de> urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >About the only program which I really use under A/UX is StuffIt 1.51. >Surprised me a lot when it didn't crash. > >Two problems surfaced: >1- RayLau used the global variable Ticks instead of the function TickCount. > Result: The version number doesn't blink any more. :-) Well, since 1.1 is now announced I guess we can talk about it :-) A/UX 1.1 supports the Ticks low memory variable as part of the ongoing effort to support as much of the toolbox as possible. Know that we've got the major functionality of StuffIt fixed... >2- A/UX does n ot support HFS calls. And GetVolInfo returns a maximum of > one MB of free disk storage. Now I challenge you to unstuff a 2 MB document. > StuffIt is too clever for you and won't do it. Actually, it does support HFS calls, it just doesn't support all of them. Once again, this has been radically improved with 1.1. One remaining known problem is that GetVolInfo returns a fixed amount of free space (1000 blocks). Unfortunately there isn't a clean fix to the problem since HFS is a forest of trees and UNIX has a single tree. Which of the many disks in the unix file system to they want to know the size of? Suggestions gladly accepted. Opinions: MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle) David W. Berry (A/UX Toolbox Engineer) apple!dwb@sun.com dwb@apple.com 973-5168@408.MaBell