NETOPRWA@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu (Wayne Aiken) (09/03/90)
What is the current valid version of the LHarc archiver? I have found
two different ones which claim to be it, and I have also heard
warnings about versions labelled 1.14 being bogus.
I received two versions. The first was uploaded to my BBS:
LH113DE COM 36575 5-14-90 9:18p
and this is from SIMTEL20, uploaded in July:
LH114B COM 36204 8-29-90 12:59a
When I unpacked the first, it displayed a title screen:
>LHarc's SFX 1.13S (c)Yoshi, 1989.
>LHarc v1.13d Jan 15, 1990
>
>This is perhaps the final version of LHarc v1.1xx series.
>
>See you again with new LH v.2.xx series!
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>From LHarc v1.13c:
>
> Minor bug was fixed in large SFX model.
>
> In ordinary usage, LHarc v1.13c makes no trouble.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> NIFTY-Serve SDI00506 H.Yoshizaki
> ASCII-pcs pcs02846 Yoshi
>
>Type Y to extract your new LHARC.EXE and manual for LHarc v1.13c.
Note where it says "this is perhaps the final version of LHarc v1.1xx
series". The title in the documentation file says:
> User's Manual for High-Performance File-Compression Program
>
> LHarc Version 1.13d
> 01/15/90
>
> Copyright (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki (Yoshi), 1988-90
and the revision history says:
>LHarc User's Manual page 22
>
>10. History of Revisions
>
>v1.13d
> 1. Minor trouble on MS-DOS 2.xx fixed in large SFX model.
>
>v1.13c
> 1. Following Mr.Okumura's sugestion, a check is now made for
Contrast this with the title in the documentation for version '1.14 beta':
> User's Manual for High-Performance File-Compression Program
>
> LHARC Version 1.14a
> 07/31/89
>
> Copyright (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki (Yoshi), 1988-89
Note that version '1.14b' predates '1.13d' by about 5 months. The revision
history for '1.14b' is:
> LHARC User's Manual page 22
>
>10. History of Revisions
>
>v1.14b
> 1. Modified the '.' and the 'o' , to '0' and '[' for the graph
> when (Un)LHARC'ing. This was done because someone patched my
> v1.13 to do this and then called it ICE, preventing (s)he was
> me!
>
>
>v1.13c
> 1. Following Mr.Okumura's sugestion, a check is now made for
No mention whatsoever of version '1.13d'!!
One or the other of these, possibly both, is bogus. SCANV v66 did not
detect any viruses in either executable or archive.
Thanks for any help you can provide on this.
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