NAME¶
nomarch - extract `.arc' archives
SYNOPSIS¶
nomarch [
-hlptUv] [
archive.arc] [
match1
[
match2 ... ]]
DESCRIPTION¶
nomarch lists, extracts, or tests `.arc' archives. (An alternate extension
sometimes used was `.ark'; these work too.) This is a
very outdated
file format which should certainly not be used for anything new, but you may
still need an extraction utility, and here it is. :-)
The default action is to extract all files in the specified archive; see
OPTIONS below for how to do other things instead.
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- give terse usage help.
- -l
- list files in archive. If verbose listings are enabled, it shows the
filename, compression method, compressed/uncompressed size, date/time, and
CRC; but by default, it just shows the filename, uncompressed size, and
date/time.
- -p
- extract to standard output, rather than to separate files.
- -t
- test files in archive (more precisely, check file CRCs).
- -U
- use uppercase filenames; more precisely, preserve original case from
archive.
- -v
- give verbose output (when used with `-l').
- archive.arc
- the archive to operate on.
- match1 etc.
- optionally specify which archive members to list/extract/test. Those which
match any of these filenames/wildcards are processed. Wildcard operators
supported are shell-like `*' and `?', but don't forget to quote arguments
which use these (e.g. `nomarch foo.arc '*.bar'').
nomarch follows the `unzip'-like practice of working on only one archive per
run, with further `filenames' given on the command-line actually specifying
files to extract (or whatever). The easiest way to work on multiple files with
nomarch is simply to run it multiple times using
for; for example:
for i in *.arc; do nomarch $i; done
The above would extract all archives in the current directory.
USING THE PROGRAM FROM EMACS¶
Emacs's arc-mode facility lets you work with various kinds of archive file
directly from the editor. Making it use nomarch for extracting `.arc' files
isn't too hard. Just add the following to your
~/.emacs file:
(setq archive-arc-extract '("nomarch" "-U"))
BUGS¶
The CRC used by the format is only 16-bit, so `
-t' is a less-than-perfect
test.
One compression method, obsolete even by `.arc' standards :-), isn't supported
yet. This is partly because I've yet to find a single file which uses it,
despite testing an awful lot of files.
Subdirectories in Spark archives are extracted as the `.arc'-format files they
really are, which may not be terribly convenient.
SEE ALSO¶
tar(1),
gzip(1),
bzip2(1),
lbrate(1)
AUTHOR¶
Russell Marks (rus@svgalib.org).