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Article #40044LHARC sources (was Re: LHARC takes over? Sure hope not!)
From: Bill Silvert
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 17:39
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 17:39
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In article <1922@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST) writes:
>In article <5440094@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes:
>>
> >As for Usenet binaries, Steven Grimm has stated that LHARC source must
> >be available before LHARC'd binaries are acceptable. When/if that happens,
> >I would think that conservation of net bandwidth should make LHARC the
> >preferred program.
> >
>well, at terminator.cc.umich.edu in atari/new directory, there is a file
>called LHARCSRC.arc which looks like something worthwhile to look at...
There are clearly sources floating around, but I think that Grimm's
posting referred to the portability issue. I have the LHARC sources for
MS-DOS, and they are mostly in assembler. I use LHARC for distributing
MS-DOS software and I think it has some really great features, but not
being able to run it under Unix is a tremendous inconvenience for me.
This is probably true of anyone who runs archives on different kinds of
computers.
By the way, i haven't been using the ST version of LHARC, but the latest
MS-DOS version, 1.13C, is super, especially with regard to compression
ratio and the flexibility of self-extracting archives.
--
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: LHARC sources (was Re: LHARC takes over? Sure hope not!) Summary: Are there PORTABLE sources?` Message-ID: <1990Jan5.173945.5811@cs.dal.ca> Date: 5 Jan 90 17:39:45 GMT References: <6716@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <5440094@hplsla.HP.COM> <1922@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert) Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Lines: 28