nomarch(1) Archive Extraction nomarch(1) 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 This is a very outdated file format which should certainly not be used for anything new, but you may still need an extraction utility, and here it is.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, un- compressed 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''). EXTRACTING MULTIPLE ARCHIVES nomarch follows the `unzip'-like practice of working on only one archive per run, with further `filenames' given on the command-line actually speci- fying 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 exam- ple: 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 sup- ported 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). Version 1.4 18th June, 2006 nomarch(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXTRACTING MULTIPLE ARCHIVES | USING THE PROGRAM FROM EMACS | BUGS | SEE ALSO | AUTHOR
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