[Coco] [Color Computer] Ar V1.2 - archive file manager

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>From: "Robert Gault"


> George Ramsower wrote:
>> Can someone tell me how to instruct Ar V1.2 - archive file manager to 
>> crunch the contents of a directory?
>>
>> OS-9 L2 512K coco hard drive.
>>
>> George
>>
>>
>
> The program has in-line help but the syntax is missing a crucial piece or 
> information; where the archive name should go. The correct syntax for your 
> purpose follows.
>
> ar -u archive_name path_name
>
> The archive name will be of the type name.ar and the path_name can be 
> either a complete path ( /D0/GAMES/KRIFT/* ) or local KRIFT/* depending on 
> your current location. So if you want to archive SYS and you are in the 
> root directory the command could be:
> ar -u sys.ar SYS/*
>

That worked great. Now I can't un ar the file on this XP box. I downloaded 
IZarc and it doesn't recognize the ar file. HECK!