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Re: Stop copying Starfighter.
« on: September 18, 2007, 03:35:56 PM »
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Does the game contain any notice that it can not be sold, actually in the game or its official documentation? Was it published under a license prohibiting sale? If not, while its very lame, it may not be actually illegal. I hope you can put a stop to it, but it may not be completely straightforward legally.

Eh. That is nonsense.
 

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Re: Please stop copying Starfighter.
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2007, 02:43:12 AM »
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so anyway, decompressing a -lh6- file ? which util on aminet do I need to do this?

Ummm, how about a program called LhA?
 

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Re: Stop copying Starfighter.
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2007, 02:46:53 AM »
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Regarding the lh6 issues - I guess the best bet is if I can ask someone to unpack the main lha and patch files, re pack them with a standard Amiga compressor and upload them. From there I will transfer them to my site.

When creating the archives use -2 (amiga) or -o5 (unix) option to force LhA to create a "lh5" archive. This is compatible with even the older LhA versions.
 

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Re: Stop copying Starfighter.
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2007, 03:44:08 PM »
Instructions, not link.

Let me try again, here's the usage from the Windows port of LhA:
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C:\>lha
LHarc    for UNIX  V 1.02  Copyright(C) 1989  Y.Tagawa
LHx      for MSDOS V C2.01 Copyright(C) 1990  H.Yoshizaki
LHx(arc) for OSK   V 2.01  Modified     1990  Momozou
LHa      for UNIX  V 1.00  Copyright(C) 1992  Masaru Oki
LHa      for UNIX  V 1.14  Modified     1995  Nobutaka Watazaki
LHa      for UNIX  V 1.14i Modified     2000  Tsugio Okamoto
                   Autoconfiscated 2001-2005  Koji Arai
usage: lha [-]<commands>[<options>] [-<options> ...] archive_file [file...]
  commands:  [axelvudmcpt]
  options:   [q[012]vnfto[567]dizg012e[w=<dir>|x=<pattern>]]
  long options: --system-kanji-code={euc,sjis,utf8,cap}
                --archive-kanji-code={euc,sjis,utf8,cap}
                --extract-broken-archive
                --help
                --version
commands:                           options:
 a   Add(or replace) to archive      q{num} quiet (num:quiet mode)
 x,e EXtract from archive            v  verbose
 l,v List / Verbose List             n  not execute
 u   Update newer files to archive   f  force (over write at extract)
 d   Delete from archive             t  FILES are TEXT file
 m   Move to archive (means 'ad')    o[567] compression method (a/u/c)
 c   re-Construct new archive        d  delete FILES after (a/u/c)
 p   Print to STDOUT from archive    i  ignore directory path (x/e)
 t   Test file CRC in archive        z  files not compress (a/u/c)
                                     g  Generic format (for compatibility)
                                        or not convert case when extracting
                                     0/1/2 header level (a/u/c)
                                     e  TEXT code convert from/to EUC
                                     w=<dir> specify extract directory (x/e)
                                     x=<pattern>  eXclude files (a/u/c)

C:\>


We're interested in the compression method, thus:
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o[567] compression method (a/u/c)
...is the interesting part. -o5 will generate -lh5- archives.