Subj : REDATE2.ZIP
To   : andrew clarke
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Fri Oct 25 2002 05:39 pm

Hi Andrew,

    On Friday October 25 2002 at 17:35,
    Andrew Clarke [3:633/285.4] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about:  REDATE2.ZIP

 >> OS/2 would be nice, also.   :-))))

 AC> I haven't run OS/2 for a few years.  An OS/2 version (16 & 32-bit)
 AC> should be no problem though.

 >> Just curious....  I created an ARJ archive today, with the switches
 >> > that set archive date to newest date in archive (1991), then I
 >> touched it with today's date.  Ran REDATE (my Y2K "bug" version) on
 >> the archive - I'm almost positive that REDATE sets the date on ARJ
 >> archives to the "time of creation" and not to that of the newest
 >> file in the archive.  Can you verify this behavior?

 AC> 17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir test.txt
 AC> 2000-01-01  12:00a         16,209  test.txt
 AC> 17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]arj a test.arj test.txt
 AC> ARJ 2.81a Copyright (c) 1990-2002 ARJ Software, Inc. Jun 12 2002
 AC> Creating archive  : TEST.ARJ
 AC> Adding    TEST.TXT                     28.9%
 AC>      1 file(s)
 AC> 17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir *.arj
 AC> 2002-10-25   5:45p          4,799  TEST.ARJ
 AC> 17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]redate *.arj
 AC> Resetting file date on TEST.ARJ to 10/25/02  17:45:18
 AC> 17:45 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir *.arj
 AC> 2002-10-25   5:45p          4,799  TEST.ARJ

 AC> Looks like it's broken.  Maybe it only works with older ARJ archives.

 AC> 17:47 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]del *.arj
 AC> Deleting E:\devel\csource\redate2\TEST.ARJ
 AC>      1 file deleted
 AC> 17:47 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]arj230 a test.arj test.txt
 AC> ARJ 2.30 Copyright (c) 1990-92 Robert K Jung. Jan 19 1992
 AC> Creating archive  : TEST.ARJ
 AC> Adding    TEST.TXT        29.0%
 AC>     1 file(s)
 AC> 17:47 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir *.arj
 AC> 2002-10-25   5:47p          4,811  TEST.ARJ
 AC> 17:48 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]redate *.arj
 AC> Resetting file date on TEST.ARJ to  1/01/00  00:00:00
 AC> 17:48 voodoo [e:\devel\csource\redate2]dir *.arj
 AC> 2000-01-01  12:00a          4,811  TEST.ARJ

 AC> Yep.  ;-)

Snicker...  I noticed that someone entered (or started) code for DWC and ZOO 
archives (rarely used...) in the ARCHDR.H file, but I've not tried redate 
against either type of archive.

If you're taking requests for archiver types to add to the code - RAR seems to 
be very popular...  <vBg>

This is a list of the archiving utilities that I have on my hard drive. The 
vast majority are seldom used and too many are rather old - I just keep them 
around in the event that I should encounter a "strange archive type."

  ACE v1.0c Copyright by Marcel Lemke (Oct. 19/97)
  AIN v2.32 Copyright (c) 1993-96 Transas Marine Ltd. (Oct. 04/96)
  PKPAK v3.61 Copyright (c) 1986-88 PKWARE Inc. (Aug. 2/88)
  PKUNPAK v3.61 Copyright (c) 1986-88 PKWARE Inc. (Aug. 2/88)
  ARJ v2.70 Copyright (c) 1990-99 ARJ Software, Inc. (Sep 30 1999)
    ARJ.CFG set ARJ_SW=/a /s /jm /jv1 /jyry /i2
  ARJ v2.60 Copyright (c) 1990-97 ARJ Software, Inc. (Nov. 16/97)
    ARJ260.CFG set ARJ_SW=/a /s /jm /jv1 /jyry /i2
  CODEC - COmpressor DECompressor v3.10
  CRUSH v1.8 Copyright J.Rollason 1994 (Feb. 28/95)
  DWC vA5.01 Copyright (c) 1986,1987,1988 Dean W. Cooper (May 31/88)
  HA 0.999á Copyright (c) 1995 Harri Hirvola
  HAP v3.00 Copyright (C) 1992 By Harald Feldmann (Nov. 15/92)
  HPACK v0.79a0 Copyright (c) 1989-93 Peter Gutmann (May 1/93)
  HYPER v2.5 Copyright (c) 1989,1990 P. Sawatzki & K.P. Nischke (Oct. 29/90)
  LHice v1.14 Copyright (c) 1988-89 Haruyasu Yoshizaki (Jul. 15/89)
  JAR v1.02 Copyright (c) 1996-97 ARJ Software, Inc. (Aug. 11/97)
  LHA v2.55 Copyright (c) 1988-92 Haruyasu Yoshizaki (Nov. 15/92)
  PAK v2.51 Copyright (c) 1988-90 NoGate Consulting (Oct. 8/90)
  QUANTUM v0.93 Copyright (c) 1993,1994 Cinematronics.
  RAR v2.03 Copyright (c) 1993-98 Eugene Roshal (Mar. 19/98)
  PAK v2.51 Copyright (c) 1988-90 NoGate Consulting (Oct. 8/90)
  SQZ v1.08.3 Copyright (c) 1993 J I Hammarberg (Jan. 24/93)
  UltraCompress II revision 2 Copyright (c) 1994 Ad Infinitum Programs
  X1 v0.92c, 1/7/1991 - 26/5/1995, (C)opyright Stig Valentini
  PKZIP v2.50 Copyright (c) 1989-99 PKWARE Inc. 03-01-1999
  PKZIP v2.04g Copyright (c) 1989-93 PKWARE Inc.
     PKZIP.CFG
         INCLUDE=hidden/system
         PATHS=all
         ZIPDATE=latest
         COMPRESS=maximal
         VIEW=extension,comments,long
         NET=disabled
  PKUNZIP v2.04g Copyright (c) 1989-93 PKWARE Inc.
  PKUNZIP v2.50 Copyright (c) 1989-99 PKWARE Inc. 03-01-1999
  ZOO v2.10

There are probably more archiving programs that are not in the above list - I 
haven't been pursuing the gathering of new types of archivers lately.

           Cheers ... Gerry

.... The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
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