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diff --git a/archivers/ha/pkg-descr b/archivers/ha/pkg-descr deleted file mode 100644 index 551026c194bd..000000000000 --- a/archivers/ha/pkg-descr +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -HA is an archiver which I released in january 1993 as version 0.98. -After that I had plans to improve speed, archive handling etc. which -would have required total rewrite of the code. For that I unfortunately -could not find time. Because there has been quite considerably interest -for internals of HA (especially for the HSC compression method) I -decided to make a source level release from my current test version -(0.999 beta) and place it under GNU General Public License. The sources -for this version are not very consistent or clean, but everything should -work. - -There are several improvements which should be made before this could be -called version 1.0. Some of the most obvious of these are: -- Compression methods should be coded in assembler for PC and using more - efficient data structures for 32 bit platforms. Current version does - some things only to overcome 64kB segments of 8086. -- UNIX port has still some problems and is missing some things (for example - a grouping operator in wildcard matches). -- File handling is far from optimum. -- Archive handling is not too clever either. -- Testing should be done more thoroughly as there are many special cases - in compression routines which get used very rarely. -- Documentation of code and algorithms is totally missing. - -This archive (ha0999.zip) contains this readme, MSDOS executable ha.exe -and source files for HA 0.999beta. Ha.exe is NOT compiled directly from -included sources. Some critical parts of it were compiled from hand -optimized versions of compiler output. It is somewhat faster than "pure -C" version. - -MSDOS sources are for Borland C 4.0 but older versions of bcc should -work. Makefile needs some editing as some paths are hardcoded in it. -UNIX sources are not very generic. I have only tested this using Linux -on PC and AIX on IBM6000. Only compiler and make utility that I have -tested are GCC and GNU MAKE. - -Porting HA should be fairly easy as all machine specific code is in -machine.h and machine.c under machine specific directories. Md_funcs.txt -documents these functions. Examples can be found from pc and nix -directories. - -Email address where I can be reached is "harri.hirvola@vaisala.infonet.com". -My email addresses have not been very stable and I would not be very -surprised if this one too is only valid for some months... - - Harri Hirvola - - |