#HELP! with ARC
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Help! I've begun downloading, and have no luck dearcing! I've tried ARC.
exe and Dearc and the best I've gotten is that my Amiga 500 dearcs the file
to the Workbench disk, which is generally full. I've tried switching,
removing disks, using df1: in various places to no avail. I've read the help
files and followed the formats, but the computer won't cooperate. Any ideas?
Frustrated, Andrea
Andrea, you can copy the file to RAM: and then CD to the disk you want it to
unARC on and type ARC X RAM:filename . Doing that allows you to not have the
ARCed file and the unARCed contents on the same disk. This can be done if
the ARCed file is on another disk and not in RAM: as well.
BTW, we have a full name policy here – so at your convenience please type OP
at the FUNCTION prompt to change it. (thanks).
Marlene
Thanks for the tip- I will try. By the way, my problem is NOT avoiding
having the arc file on the same disk as the unarced file, but in getting them
on the same diskk! No matter what I do, it unarcs on the workbench disk,
whether work bench is in df1: or df0:. Why can't I just unarc onto the disk
drive I want?
Thanks, Andrea Mandel
Andrea,
Arc extracts to your current directory. After you boot, drive df0: and WB
are the one's you are logged into. You must CD to the disk, using a
volume/device name to change your current directory.
Type CD in CLI to see what directory you are curently in, and cd <whatever>
to change.
If you want Arc to dump to another disk, named Stuff, cd stuff: before you
invoke Arc. Note the colon, which tells the OS that its a root directory
you're talking about. It's easiest to copy the arc file to ram: then cd
ram:, then invoke arc. No disk thrashing that way. The only gotcha using
this method is how much ram you have available.
Hope this helps,
Doug
Andrea,
As Doug mentioned, you can CD to the disk with the ARCed file on it.
Alternatively, you can unARC to any directory as follows:
arc e filename df1:*
arc e df1:filename df1:dirname/*
The first example unARCs a file in your current directory and places the
extracted files on DF1: and the second example unARCs a file on DF1: and
places the extracted files in DF1:dirname (assuming you have a directory on
DF1: of that name)
-larry