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

[Bob Devries]

Only the AR programme written by Carl Kreider will unarc those files. 
There's an MSDOS version on the os9archive ftp site.

ftp://www.rtsi.com/OS9/MSDOS/AR.EXE


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George's Coco Address" <yahoo at dvdplayersonly.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Ar V1.2 - archive file manager


>
>>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!
>
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