On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:06:50 +0000 (UTC), Juhapekka Tolvanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about contacting authors of AmigaOS-versions of LHA? > > http://lha.warped.com/index.html I was going to point out that the (de)compression routines had been written in M68K assembly, but according to <http://lha.warped.com/History.html> that's no longer the case. > Maybe they could release those sources under some free licence and then > somebody could port them to Unix? May be worth a try. The current maintainer has suggested the possibility of releasing the source, and since development seems to have stalled (no new release in 3 years) he may be more open to the suggestion. It remains to be seen how easy it is to port code written for a defunct proprietary (but supposedly ANSI-compliant) compiler on a vaguely unix-like but non-POSIX OS. Frank -- Home Page: <URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: <URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/>
