pmswl@dcatla.UUCP (Scott W. Leonard) (05/10/89)
I'm looking for a pkarc utility that adds a large comment file to the
beginning of a .arc file. I have similar programs that adds comments to
.zip files from a pre-made text file, but nothing for .arc files. If
anybody has such a utility, could you please email me a copy.
Thanks
Scott Leonard
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Scott W. Leonard
Digital Communications Associates
Alpharetta, Georgia 30201 pmswl@dcatla.com or gatech!dcatla!pmswlc328-10@sbcs.sunysb.edu (cse328 student) (05/11/89)
In article <18700@dcatla.UUCP> pmswl@sunb.UUCP (Scott W. Leonard) writes: > >I'm looking for a pkarc utility that adds a large comment file to the >beginning of a .arc file. I have similar programs that adds comments to >.zip files from a pre-made text file, but nothing for .arc files. If >anybody has such a utility, could you please email me a copy. > > Thanks > Scott Leonard why? the .arc format has been superceded by .zip in addition there is a moral reason not to be involved with .arc at all, in support of Phil Katz' fight against SEA. you might as well be looking for a B compiler, even though it has been replaced by C. .zip gives you everything you want and more, so why are you still working with .arc? Cliff Heller --> no signature, because they're stupid.
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) (05/12/89)
In article <2786@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, c328-10@sbcs.sunysb.edu (cse328 student) writes: >In article <18700@dcatla.UUCP> pmswl@sunb.UUCP (Scott W. Leonard) writes: >> >>I'm looking for a pkarc utility that adds a large comment file to the >>beginning of a .arc file. I have similar programs that adds comments to >>.zip files from a pre-made text file, but nothing for .arc files. If >>anybody has such a utility, could you please email me a copy. >> >> Thanks >> Scott Leonard > >why? the .arc format has been superceded by .zip >[...] >.zip gives you everything you want and more, so why are you still working >with .arc? I can think of two reasons that I still use ARC, and they are named Unix and AmigaDOS. PKZIP has been ported to neither of these, while ARC has. In addition, c.b.i.p is still using ARC, so I wouldn't exactly call it dead... To answer Scott's original question, you can't. The ARC format only allows a one-line comment. Because the ZIP format was created from scratch, the bigger comment was one of the things added. -- Marc Unangst UUCP smart : mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us UUCP dumb : ...!uunet!sharkey!mudos!mju UUCP dumb alt.: ...!{ames,rutgers}!mailrus!clip!mudos!mju Internet : mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us
porter@caip.rutgers.edu (Adam Porter) (05/12/89)
>I can think of two reasons that I still use ARC, and they are named Unix >and AmigaDOS. PKZIP has been ported to neither of these, while ARC >has. Where can I get a UNIX version of PKXARC for BSD 4.3? -Adam
Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (05/14/89)
In article <374.2469E1A0@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>, mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: }In article <2786@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, c328-10@sbcs.sunysb.edu (cse328 student) writes: } >.zip gives you everything you want and more, so why are you still working } >with .arc? } }I can think of two reasons that I still use ARC, and they are named Unix }and AmigaDOS. PKZIP has been ported to neither of these, while ARC }has. In addition, c.b.i.p is still using ARC, so I wouldn't exactly }call it dead... I have no problems extracting ZIP files on my Unix account.... }To answer Scott's original question, you can't. The ARC format only allows }a one-line comment. Because the ZIP format was created from scratch, the }bigger comment was one of the things added. The ARC format does not allow *any* comments. Those were added by PKARC with an additional data area at the end of the archive (which is why SEA ARC would not maintain comments added by PKARC, at least for several versions after PKARC introduced them--I haven't tried SEA ARC for a long time) -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=-=- Voice: (412) 268-3053 (school) ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/31 Disclaimer? I claimed something? Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out. --James Dent