[Coco] trouble with AR

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 08:51:04PM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> please remember that many of the files were uploaded with XMODEM file
>> transfers. As such they are padded to a 128 byte boundary with
>> CTRL-X.
>
> Well, uptime.ar has strings of H's, B's, and D's at the end of the
> first archived file, not at the end of the archive itself.  Like Rob
> said, it even lost a few bytes off the first compressed file.  It's
> pretty definitely hosed.
>
> Been that way for a while, too.  My RTSI CD-ROM has exactly the same
> archive.
>
> So, uptime.ar is hosed, but AKAIK the other .ar files on RTSI are good.

using fixar on uptime.ar allowed a single file to be extracted by ar,
the uptime executable.
no errors in the process.  perhaps it was just never noticed that
there were other files in the archive?

>
>> If you remove those, the files are generally ok. There's even a util
>> that does just that. I think it's called FIXAR.
>
> Never heard of that one!  All it does is trim off XMODEM padding?
>>
>> Also, be careful of EOL translations; CR to CRLF etc.
>
> Always good advice.
>
> Willard
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