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- From: abaddon@uk.ac.liverpool.scm.suprenum (Kevin o donovan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Bl*!#y Lharc
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 10:43:06 GMT
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- I thought I'd take a look at the Gemfast libraries the other day, so I
- downloaded them from a.a. I wanted the sources since I'm using Lattice C,
- which is not supported in binary form, so I downloaded the sources in the
- form of several .lzh archives. I then tried to unarc them to my hard disk.
- After about 30 minutes of waiting hoping in vain that lharc would stop
- writing to the disk, I resigned myself to having to reboot the machine,
- screwing up that partition of my hard disk in the process (rebooting when a
- file is being written to and the FATs/directory haven't yet been updated).
- Lharc had gotten seriously confused by the files, and tried to write something
- to an infinitely large file. I've got 3 problems with this, all of which
- reinforce the arguments people have made against lharc in the past:
-
- 1) Why does lharc not recognise that an archive is in a format it no longer
- supports/doesn't support yet (in my case the former, I suspect)
-
- 2) Why does Lharc not respond to an abort signal such as Ctrl-C, and stop
- what its doing cleanly (just doing a listing of the archive contents had
- the above effect as well, and even the low level, hacky, interrupt anything
- feature of my shell wouldn't stop it)
-
- 3) Why doesn't Lharc recognise the disk full condition in the above example
- and stop then. At least then the disk wouldn't be corrupted?
-
- FWIW, I tried using lharc versions 2.??c, d, i and l (2.?? - I can't remember
- the minor version number, is it 2.01?)
-
- Kev
-