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- Hello again,
- herein you should be pleased to find the complete sources for the
- latest and greatest version of ARC, based on the sources for version 5.21
- of the MSDOS ARC program. The patches to the previous release, 5.12, with
- squashing algorithm, have also been applied here. The code is known to
- work on a Sun 3 running SunOS 3.4, Apollo DN3000 running SR9.7 DOMAIN/IX,
- Vax 750 running 4.3BSD, and IBM 3090 running MTS. It is also now working
- on Atari STs, as well as Apollo DN3000 running SR10 DOMAIN/OS (Beta).
-
- Also included is a detailed description of the format of a .ARC
- file directory entry, in the file named Arcinfo. Could be useful if you're
- trying to port ARC to any more esoteric systems...
-
- Jon Zeeff has sent along some code he used to get this working on
- Sys V style machines. Looks like scandir is all that's really missing. I
- haven't tried any of it out for myself yet, but the code is in the file
- "Sysvarcstuf" should you need it.
-
- One final necessary inclusion: sources for libtws.a, which was
- posted a long time ago to mod.sources as part of a package he called
- "phoon" - a program that calculated and displayed the PHase of the mOON.
- The only thing I use the time routines for here is to convert an expanded
- date/time back into a Unix style time value, for keeping file modification
- times straight.
-
- Thanks to Leo Wilson (leo@cs.buffalo.edu) for sending his copy of
- a man page for ARC. I've updated it for this version, and included it here
- as well.
-
- The default value of the (I)mage mode flag has changed. ARC will
- now treat files as binary files, unless the 'i' flag is given. Handling of
- Carriage Returns has been improved a bit. ARC is now a little smarter about
- temporary files as well.
-
- To compile all this stuff... Edit Make.tws (shouldn't need to change anything
- here, really.) Edit arc.h. After that, just type make and wait a while...
- (Oh yeah - there's a few makefile macros that need redefining for Atari ST...)
- Ok... Well, I've had this for a while, and it works for me, but if somehow
- I've goofed, let me know.
-
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- / Computing Center College of LS&A
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