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Re: Memorymanager &8000

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In message <527ba02023steve@revi11.plus.com>
          "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> wrote:

> In article <8db1a07a52.beeb@ron1954.woosh.co.nz>,
>    Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> wrote:
> > The Load and Save slice off the header section of Confix's setting
> > file (OK) as it cant be converted into something Obey compatible.
> > The tail part I can use for any number of variables.
> > I can add some for options for like multipart size, bzip gzip etc
> > but I think I can do some testing archiving a harddrive now.
> 
> Please tell me this is for your own use and not for some to-be released
> program. It sounds like an horrific collection of bodges which for some
> reason I cannot understand are being used instead of writing a proper
> utility to process the input file(s).
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Steve
> 

It is an exercise in RISC OS CLI scripting which due to some
limitations does lead to bodges. I have improved on the
above situation and am not using &8000 at all now.
I am doing in three lines what  BASIC is doing in a page,
not that that is neccessarily important either.
The nature of Tar, bzip, gzip and xz are such that they are
mainly involved with renaming, copying and deleting and 
that also suits working from the script.

They are plain unixlib ports that are not optimised in any way
for RISC OS other than Filename compatibility. 
The benefit is that they appear to be fully working and offer
some alternate compatibility, especially tar/bzip2 and tar/xz.
I haven't had any trouble with Spark and Tar/gz to date.

However, the prime reason was to have non-compressed 2GB
multipart tar archiving with ,xyz filetyping to give compatibility
with Linux as well.

It has been quite a long haul getting Tar and unixlib to work with
all the possible filenames. I started off knowing little about
!GCC and the Autobuilder, and it has been an ideal project.

Ron M.

  

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Memorymanager &8000 Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-04-01 15:25 +1300
  Re: Memorymanager &8000 jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Graham Harston) - 2012-04-02 00:53 +0100
    Re: Memorymanager &8000 Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-04-02 21:15 +1200
      Re: Memorymanager &8000 Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-04-04 00:58 +1200
        Re: Memorymanager &8000 "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-04-05 12:28 +0100
          Re: Memorymanager &8000 Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-04-06 01:27 +1200
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