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From: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: ARC on Microport SysV/286?
Message-ID: <2177@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 04:14:25 EST
Article-I.D.: dasys1.2177
Posted: Tue Dec  8 04:14:25 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 16:34:05 EST
References: <2259@killer.UUCP> <137@csd_v.UUCP>
Reply-To: manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes)
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
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In article <137@csd_v.UUCP> bak@csd_v.UUCP (Bruce) writes:
>In article <2259@killer.UUCP>, wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) writes:
>> I keep getting errors in arclzw.c ("typedef evaluates to 0"), and
>> the linker complains about the BSS in arclzw.o being to large.
>
>Yes I'm having the same problem exactly.  I even changed the code 
>to eliminate the sizeof problem that you also may have seen.
>
>> If anyone has a fix for this problem, or a working source/binary
>> of ARC, please e-mail me.

Alas, the fix is something Microport V/AT ain't got.  ARC wants a > 64k
buffer for its LZ compressor and Microport doesn't support a -HUGE model.
I went to the well many times trying to compile Thom Henderson's ARC for
Microport, not because I'm particularly fond of this archiver (it's
out-of-date technology compared to Phil Katz's PKARC, Rahul Dhesi's ZOO and
Dean Cooper's DWC) but because my BBS program has list/extraction windows
for ARC/ZOO/DWC files.  Alas #2, only Rahul Dhesi's ZOO will compile for
Microport, mainly because Rahul owns a Microport box and knew how to
write for this compiler limitation.  The bright side is that (my opinion)
ZOO is the best archiver of the bunch.  There's talk that Phil Katz is
working on a PKARC/Unix and Dean Cooper.. whose archiver is the fastest and
yields the smallest archives of all.. is toying with the idea of a Xenix
port.  For the moment though, the only archivers I've seen running under
Microport are ZOO and good ol' tar.Z.

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