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In article <814@opal.tubopal.UUCP> ripley@tubopal.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert) writes:
>IMMEDIATELY STOPS INSTEAD? If I do "arc v fubar.arc" and fubar contains
>files which are squashed, I want arc to show me the contents of the
>archive-file. If I do "arc x fubar.arc" I want arc to skip these
>files such as "fubar.xyz - unknown compression method. Skipped.".
>What I don't want arc to do is to abort the whole task.
>
>This has been done by transitioning from arc 5.12 to wunderful(?) arc 5.21
>with its squashing algorithm. This fault has been repeated on arc 5.21,
>which can now be seen when listing an arc 6.xx archive which contains
>sub-directories. Sigh.
>

That does seem to be a problem that the docs don't point to. Dunno why
they did things that way... I'd fix it, but don't have the 6.02 sources.
(Deep sigh.  }-)

>.complaining off
>
>Another one, which is more of a *real* (and heavy) bug:
>Arc lost it's capability of dealing with overlong filenames.

Well, it was pretty non-standard anyway, and the main idea was to maintain
compatibility with the PC version of ARC. (But it was certainly trivial to
allow for arbitrarily long names, really.) The official "fix" I posted for
the Unix side was to make it automatically truncate long names to fit into
12 characters. So it goes. You could easily add back in the code to allow
for long names though. Dunno what you'd do with them when you try to extract
them, but at least it wouldn't choke...
 -- Howard

>Greetings,
>				RIPLEY
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