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🗂️ MARC(1) — like, the archive merger era 💅

okay bestie, so this is marc, a lil local-commands situation, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

marc — archive merger 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨


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# ✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So the whole vibe is this: it reads files out of the arc archive <purple>`srcarc`</purple> and adds them into the arc archive <purple>`tgtarc`</purple>. That's it, that's the whole job. Merge core 💅✨

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# ✨ HISTORY ✨

ngl this one has *lore* 🎀

Arc has been out here in the <yellow>CP/M</yellow> and <yellow>MSDOS</yellow> world for many many years. <cyan>Thom Henderson</cyan> developed the original version — but fr fr, the important thing to note is that arc is built on the file compression theories developed by <cyan>Huffman</cyan>, <cyan>Welch</cyan>, <cyan>Knott</cyan>, <cyan>Knuth</cyan>, and a whole bunch of other scientists. Iconic lineage honestly. This implementation is based on version <yellow>`5.21`</yellow> of the MSDOS program 👑

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# ✨ BUGS ✨

Okay so here's the tea 🍓

Arc behaves just like the PC version of the program — all functions of the <cyan>`"usage"`</cyan> display are working. Full compatibility with PC ARC files is maintained, and the price you pay for that is: arc does <red>not</red> like long filenames, and it can only archive files with names of up to <yellow>`12`</yellow> characters. It will <hotpink>*sometimes*</hotpink> do The Right Thing with them, but I suggest you put long-winded filenames in a <cyan>`"shar"`</cyan> before arcing them. bestie, just do it, trust 🙈

> There shouldn't be any problems, (hah!) but if you find any, please send them to me at:

hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov


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# ✨ AUTHORS ✨

- Original MSDOS program by <cyan>Thom Henderson</cyan>
- <lavender>COPYRIGHT(C) 1985-87 by System Enhancement Associates.</lavender> You may copy and distribute this program freely, under the terms of the General Public License.
- Original Lempel-Zev code derived from <cyan>`compress 4.0`</cyan>. Modified to support Squashing by <cyan>Dan Lanciani</cyan> (`ddl@harvard.edu`). Ported from MSDOS by <cyan>Howard Chu</cyan>, with help from <cyan>John Gilmore</cyan> (`hoptoad!gnu`), <cyan>James Turner</cyan> (`daisy!turner`) and others. 🦋

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<purple>and that's the whole page, bestie — shoutout to <cyan>Howard Chu@JPL</cyan>, who put this down on <yellow>25 Nov 1992</yellow>, for the MARC(1) manual. 💜 slay, periodt, archive responsibly ✨🎀</purple>
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