Re: Zip list

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Zip list
Date	2023-02-27 19:26 +0100
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On 2023-02-27 05:56, 28A.I873 wrote:
> On 2/26/23 2:22 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2023-02-26 05:41, 25A.I866 wrote:
>>> On 2/25/23 6:10 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>> On 2023-02-25 06:51, 25A.I866 wrote:
>>>>> On 2/19/23 6:48 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>>> On 2023-02-19 12:13, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>>> On 18/02/2023 21:18, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:15:31 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 18/02/2023 11:43, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2023-02-18 11:12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> RAR was my pet hate...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Why? :-?  :-o
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Could never find an unpacking program that ran on Unix.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> unrar x file.rar
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> should deflate the content into the PWD.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Today yes, not in 1993, to run on SCO Unix.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, RAR for DOS appeared on 1993! :-D
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So in 1993 there wasn't a version for Linux, either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I believe the sources were published with version 2, or version 2 
>>>>>> sources were published when version 3 appeared. The wikipedia 
>>>>>> article doesn't have dates for these. But as soon as those sources 
>>>>>> appeared, anybody could compile a version for Unix.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    Always SOUNDS so simple  :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>    I always wind up having to write fill-ins for the
>>>>>    missing/very-different library routines between
>>>>>    Win and Lin.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Anyway, I'm not sure about the fascination with RAR.
>>>>>    It is good, but then so are many others that are more
>>>>>    modern/portable/supported.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Found an interesting "loop-based" approach to an Str2Int64()
>>>>>    today. Basically it does powers of ten on each digit (derived
>>>>>    from the ASCII values of the digits minus-48). It MAY be a bit
>>>>>    faster than the one I wrote the other day for Pascal that
>>>>>    involves 'shrinking down' the presented number. I'll have
>>>>>    to benchmark. Mine only used integer subtraction and ONE
>>>>>    modulo. Not AS many steps. But, we'll see.
>>>>>
>>>>>    I was writing a "disk visualizer" the other day (turned out
>>>>>    pretty well) but Int64 numbers/functions ARE involved. Today
>>>>>    I took that to write a 'C' "Disk Blaster" ... kinda like using
>>>>>    'dd' to zero (or pattern-write) a whole drive but because it's
>>>>>    not as complex it's about 30% quicker. Added a 'skitter' option
>>>>>    that's applied AFTER the prescribed number of bytes are
>>>>>    overwritten ... 'skittering' means writing yer zero/pattern
>>>>>    block roughly (a little randomness added to annoy) every
>>>>>    50mb on the REST of the disk area. It is not 'erasure'
>>>>>    per-se, but kinda 'corrupts' and is 50x as fast. You can
>>>>>    go thru a 1tb disk in an external USB3.0 fixture in about
>>>>>    five minutes with 'skittering'. So, you totally obliterate
>>>>>    the X-bytes you're most paranoid about and then randomly
>>>>>    insert junk in the rest.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Just gotta smooth-out the params ... there's no slack
>>>>>    right now. Something like 'dd' params would be good.
>>>>>    It always uses the equiv of "bs=1M" ... seems the best
>>>>>    compromise after some experimentation. My visualizer
>>>>>    made it easy to see if the blaster util was doing it
>>>>>    right.
>>>>
>>>> I wrote a tool in pascal to write an entire device with nearly 
>>>> random data, and does so at the SATA speed of the (mechanical) disk, 
>>>> about 190 MB/S last time I tried. I have done 4 TB disks.
>>>
>>>
>>>    Free Pascal (I love Pascal) can indeed write an entire
>>>    terabyte disk full of zeros or whatever. However what
>>>    I discovered is that their "seek" function - despite
>>>    docs to the contrary - seems to be only longint. So,
>>>    you can't seek beyond 2.4gb, the counter just wraps
>>>    into negative numbers. Even tried the 'relative' offset
>>>    approach ... no good and a lot more counters to keep
>>>    track of.
>>
>> Yes, you said so, but I have not noticed this. I may do the experiment 
>> the next time I get an empty hard disk and free time.
> 
>    Please do.
> 
>    There MAY be some compiler directive in FPC, as in GCC, that
>    smooths out this problem. If so I'd like to know, but a lot
>    of searching didn't reveal anything.
> 
>    Anyway, I spent the past week messing around with the seek()
>    problem in FPC and had to give up and run the external 'C'
>    helper pgm instead.

It will not be before August that I get the time to play with a little 
project with a self made file server, and I use encrypted disks. I will 
need buying the hardware first.

You may remind me of this in August or September ;-)


...

...
-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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