[Coco] I give up on .ar files

L. Curtis Boyle curtisboyle at sasktel.net
Fri Feb 22 00:44:17 EST 2008


On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:54:15 -0600, Neil Morrison <neilsmorr at gmail.com>  
wrote:

I used to know them. 1.3 was 11 bit maximum Lempel-Ziv (non Welch, and I  
have no idea if I am spelling that right), and 1.4 that Bill hacked was to  
allow up to 12 bit (worked a lot better on larger files, which we were  
doing at work at the time). I am not sure what Carl K. did with 2.0.

>
> I once tried to figure out the algorithms used with little success.  
> Anyone else?
>
> Neil
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "L. Curtis Boyle"  
> <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
>
>> Does the command run ok on it's own (can you get a help screen by  
>> typeing 'AR -?', for example)? I am wondering if it is a attributes  
>> thing, or if it is a different version of AR (!.3, 1.4 and 2.0 all had  
>> different, incompatible schemes).
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