Short: Arc 5.21 for PPC, including source
Type: util/arc
Uploader: Andreas_Kleinert@t-online.de
Author: (various, see below)

 Recently I've come across some .arc packed
 files and thought it would be nice to have
 a more uptodate version of this archiver...

 Although it's a little bit outdated, it may
 be of some use sometimes - and so, why not
 directly make a PPC version instead of
 fiddling with 68k first ?!

 So, now it is finally available for
 powerUP (TM), too...

 There was some work necessary for porting
 it to PPC - not actually changes to the
 program itself, but additions to replace
 missing/differing functions within the
 compilers' library.

 Within the directory "src" (archived to src.lha)
 you find the complete, unmodified source code distribution.

 Directory "srcpup" (archived to srcup.lha) does include
 a smakefile + SCOPTIONS as well as the three sourcefiles
 that had to be added (scandir.c, getwd.c, rename.c).

 "rename()" had to be changed to be able to perform
 a move() as well. Adjusting "scandir()" was a
 little bit hacky/kludgy/tricky but resulted
 in the nice bonus, that this version of ARC
 is aware of the AmigaDOS "#?" wildcard
 (should not be too difficult to extend readdir.c
  to support the rest of the wildcards as well...)

 The "bin" directory finally does include the
 ELF binaries.

 Try running these with RunElf, if you encounter
 problems with ElfLoadSeg; nevertheless "e" bit
 already has been set...)

 Last not least:

 Set some environment variables, for example as follows:

   SetEnv TMPDIR  TMP:arc
   SetEnv ARCTEMP TMP:arc

 or

   SetEnv TMPDIR  RAM:t
   SetEnv ARCTEMP RAM:t

 Note, that the given path must not end with a ":" or "/"

 You MUST do these settings as described, otherwise
 archiving won't work (because otherwise the unix-code will
 produce something like "foo:/tmpfile" or "foo//tmpfile).


 How to call the program:

  1. Archiving:    ARC.ELF a archive file1 file2 file3
                   ARC.ELF a archive pattern1#? pattern2#? file1

  2. Dearchiving   ARC.ELF e archive



 P.S.: If the author did not forbid modifications in the
       source code itself, this port would have been MUCH easier.

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 ARK, 8/April/98