Section: LOCAL COMMANDS (1)Updated: 25 Nov 1992Local indexUp
NAME
marc - archive merger
SYNOPSIS
marctgtarcsrcarc [ files ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Reads files from the arc archive srcarc and add them to the
arc archive tgtarc.
HISTORY
Arc has been in use in the CP/M and MSDOS world for many years.
Thom Henderson developed the original version, but it is important to note that
arc is based on the file compression theories developed by Huffman, Welch,
Knott, Knuth, and many other scientists. This implementation is based on
version 5.21 of the MSDOS program.
BUGS
Arc behaves just like the PC version of the program; all functions
of the "usage" display are working.
Full compatibility with PC ARC files is maintained, the price for which is
that arc doesn't like long filenames, and can only archive files with
names of up to 12 characters.
It will *sometimes* do The Right Thing with them, but I suggest
you put long-winded filenames in a "shar" before
arcing
them.
There shouldn't be any problems, (hah!) but if you find any, please
send them to me at:
Original MSDOS program by Thom Henderson
COPYRIGHT(C) 1985-87 by System Enhancement Associates; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Original Lempel-Zev code derived from compress 4.0.
Modified to support Squashing by Dan Lanciani (ddl@harvard.edu)
Ported from MSDOS by Howard Chu,
with help from John Gilmore (hoptoad!gnu), James Turner (daisy!turner)
and others.