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Welcome to HA for OS/2 / emx.
HA compresses exceptionally well and was written by Harri Hirvola.
This port requires the emx runtime DLLs (EMX*.DLL). They are available e.g.
at ftp.uni-stuttgart.de.
The program was compiled with emx 0.9a. The distribution contains both the
original EXE (renamed to 'ha_dos.exe'), and the OS/2 version (ha.exe).
Remarks:
- The port supports long filenames; EAs are not handled. EA support is
prepared but cannot be implemented now due to HA format limits.
You can use \ and / as path separators.
Names are not mapped to lowercase any longer. HA for OS/2 should prevent
having 'foo' and 'FoO' in an archive. If you add 'FoO' to an archive
already containing foo, foo should be deleted and the entry should name
'FoO' then.
- This is the first release of the port. It works for me, but it has not
been extensivly tested. You may have some problems. Also, please note
that the ported HA version already is a beta.
- Filename matching is different from DOS. "*.*" means all files with a dot.
- Play around with the options to see what they mean. As far as I know,
there is (as an example) a difference between "ha ae12 \foo\*" and
"ha ae12 c:\foo\*".
- THERE IS NO WARRANTY AT ALL (see GPL for details).
- Use -funsigned-char for compiling with gcc
Define the symbol OS2.
- A hint for EAs: Use an archiver with EA support first with zero compression
(zip -0, as an example) to form a temporary archive, then pack this
archive with HA. With this trick, you can also sometimes increase
compression ratios significantly, especially when archiving many small
files.
Happy compressing.
Comments etc. to: schwabe@rzaix530.rz.uni-leipzig.de
R#2 P#3
PS: The HA sources were compressed as a big file to make the archive smaller.
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ChangeLog.
R#2 P#3
Names are not forced to lower case any longer.
Prepared EA support. Not implemented yet.
malloc leak in md_filetype() fixed.
SIGPIPE.
R#1 P#2
First released version of the port.