On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Boon, Eric wrote:
> What I'm _really_ after is a Linux util to decompress PMA's.
Yesterday I converted part of Alwin Henseler's UnPMA to Java (thanks for
publishing the source, Alwin!).
The Java program can now unpack "-pm2-" type streams.
In the UnPMA docs there is a mention of a "-pm1-" packed type (PMARC
version 1?). Are there any files of that type around? Alwin wrote he didn't
find any. So let's ignore "-pm1-" for now.
To make a full PMA decompressor, the stored format "-pm0-" should also be
supported (simple) and the archive directory should be processed (easy,
but a lot of work).
I think there are 2 ways to proceed:
1. Add "-pm0-" and archive directory handling to the Java program.
2. Modify the source of LHA to include "-pm0-" and "-pm2-" handling.
This is possible, because the archive directory of PMA files is correctly
processed by LHA.
I prefer option 2. I already added "-pm0-" support, but "-pm2-" support is a
lot harder. The main problem is that I'm not that experienced with C. Help
is appreciated.
Bye,
Maarten
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