[Coco] I give up on .ar files

[Bob Devries]

Diego,
The correct command line to decompress AR files is:

ar -x archive_name

This will decompress the file archive_name.ar into the current working 
directory.

A couple of things can happen to AR files from the 'net.
1. CR->LF conversion
2. garbage added to the end of the AR file by older upload programmes using 
XMODEM protocol.

The First can only be circumvented by careful setting of options in your FTP 
programme. The first can be repaired by another OS9 programme called FIXAR 
(also on RTSI).

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Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

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the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diego Barizo" <diegoba at adinet.com.uy>
To: "CoCo List" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:57 AM
Subject: [Coco] I give up on .ar files


> I've been trying for a while to "un-ar" some files in NOS-9
> So far, I only get errors 215 and 216.
> My last try was with ar from 
> http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/coco_game_list.html, but still the same.
> Most of the files I tried to open are gshell versions downloaded from FTP 
> sites.
> Can someone point me to the right procedure?
>
> Thanks,
> Diego
>
>
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