Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!manes 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 Lines: 31 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times trying to compile Thom Henderson's ARC for Microport, not because I'm particularly fond of this archiver (it's out-of-date technology compared to Phil Katz's PKARC, Rahul Dhesi's ZOO and Dean Cooper's DWC) but because my BBS program has list/extraction windows for ARC/ZOO/DWC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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + Steve Manes Roxy Recorders, Inc. NYC + decvax!philabs!cmcl2!hombre!magpie!manes Magpie BBS: 212-420-0527 + uunet!iuvax!bsu-cs!zoo-hq!magpie!manes 300/1200/2400