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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

405.0. "Where did VMSSWEEP.EXE go?" by KIRK::KYZIVAT (Paul Kyzivat) Wed Mar 25 1987 21:14

Hey Dave,
	What happened to cookie::disk$gz_disk:[wecker.amiga]vmssweep.exe?
I had a copy and somehow lost it so I went back for another and it was gone.
I see an ARC.EXE there, but it is protected.  Please tell me its true that a 
vms ARC is coming.

	Paul
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405.1VMS ARC (limited) availabilityCOOKIE::WECKERDave (Cum Grano Salis) WeckerWed Mar 25 1987 21:3337
Paul:	The answers are:

	1.	Yes I got rid of VMSSWEEP, but I just put it back.
	2.	Yes there is a REAL ARC running on VMS
	3.	Yes it is ARC.EXE
	4.	Yes it was protected (not any more).

		The reason for this is that Brad (GENRAL::) Morgan just finished
		porting this version, and we're not exactly sure of the
		legality of distributing it. For now, feel free to use it
		but: DO NOT DISTRIBUTE OUTSIDE OF DEC.

	5.	There is a companion program: CVTARC.EXE that is needed to
		work with most arc files. The problem is that ARC requires
		a STREAM_LF file and VMS (especially KERMIT) needs a VARIABLE
		LENGTH, MAXIMUM 510 byte record file. So.....

		$ cvtarc :== $dev:[dir]cvtarc
		$ arc    :== $dev:[dir]arc

		To use ARC on a file, you have to put it in UNIX mode:

		$ cvtarc u old.arc new.arc
		$ arc v new.arc
		$ arc a new.arc f1.c f2.c ...

		Now return it to a state that KERMIT can use (in SET
		FILE TYPE BINARY):

		$ cvtarc v new.arc old.arc

That's it.

If there are questions or problems with ARC.EXE, please contact Brad directly.

P.S.	This all lives in: COOKIE""::DISK$GZ_DISK:[WECKER.AMIGA]