On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:10:48 +0300 Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> darj - arj archive unpacking tool > > I've started writing a free version of unarj. I have unarj installed > in case I come across .arj files on the net or on old floppies, and > vrms listed it once too often :) Cool! > So this is more of an "intent to write" than "intent to package", but > I do intend to package it once it is done. Maybe it should have been `ITW:' then. ;) > I will duplicate unarj's interface as closely as I can (except > for the banner), both for ease of regression testing and in case > there are scripts that parse unarj's output. I considered going > the other way and making it behave like a proper unix utility, but... > maybe in version 2. Why not put the core into a library (libdarj.so or something)? This sounds like something that could be used by a multitude of programs (eg, Nautilus). This would also allow you to make one program that wraps the library and behaves like a proper unix utility, and then another that mimics unarj. > Its current state is that it can list the files in an archive, but > can't uncompress or extract them. I'm not looking for help (I'm > having fun writing this), but if you have any unusual arj archives > lying around then I would appreciate a copy for testing. Are you planning to make a compressor at some point? I imagine if you can figure out the format well enough to extract from it, it wouldn't be much harder to be able to create/modify archives as well. Of course, that's a less-needed feature than decompression (zip, tar/gzip, and tar/bzip2 are more standard than arj these days), so it would be a rather low-priority goal, but it might be useful... Regards, Alex.
