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MickJT 
LHA 2.12 bug (and xad issue, pg.2)
Posted on 1-Jan-2011 15:01:18
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6.RAM Disk:> version c:lha
LhA 2.12 AOS4 Mar 13 2006
6.RAM Disk:> md5sum c:lha
c4df7dc66b0cf530d0065ba8d0e72cb7 c:lha

This needs an emergency fix. Since the 1st of January 2011, any files with the timestamp in the year 2011 or later that are added to an archive, have the timestamp recorded as being in 1980 (perhaps starting at 1980, then 1982, 82, etc..?).

Does someone here have the skills to patch this, pronto?

I have something to upload to OS4Depot but would rather have the timestamps correct before I do so.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
Posted on 1-Jan-2011 15:31:44
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@MickJT
Confirmed here on my SAM Flex OS 4.1u2. I don't know if it's a new bug but I also noticed that any date that has odd seconds is changed to even seconds when archived. For example, "17-Oct-10 12:21:13" is changed to "17-Oct-10 12:21:12" when the file is added to an lha archive. Are the seconds altered for you too?


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MickJT 
Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
Posted on 1-Jan-2011 15:33:42
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@Xenic

Yes, I can confirm that too. Was that happening before 2011 too?

I'm going to say yes, because the file I added is from September '10

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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I can also confirm the 68k version has the exact same two bugs.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
Posted on 1-Jan-2011 15:49:35
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@MickJT

yes, same happens here..

OT. btw I just noticed lha can't shrink ILBM files to less than 96% of their original size.
A quick try with other compressors does not give better results. is there no way to compress those files?

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
Posted on 1-Jan-2011 16:05:03
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@Xenic
The missing odd seconds might be related to the fact, that LHA is quite old and has MS-DOS origins. MS-DOS can't store odd seconds for a timestamp, as it has only five bits for seconds, instead of six, because of 16 bit limitations (5 bits for hours, 6 bits for minutes, and 5 bits for seconds, 5 + 6 + 5 = 16).

If LHA still uses a similar construct, I suspect that cannot be fixed, except via breaking the file format. This also affects other file formats like ZIP, which derives from the PKZIP format, which was also buildt on MS-DOS constructs.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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ILBM files are compressed already by themselves.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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This one from SVN is the latest version for Unix: http://svn.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lha/trunk.tar.gz?root=lha&view=tar

This can store files with timestamps that have an odd number of seconds.

I can compile it here. It works, sort-of. It cannot do recursive directories unless in a bash shell, but then you end up with rogue 0 byte random filenames for some reason.

Edit: I now have a workaround for users of Dopus4 if anyone is desperate.
Edit2: Found later version (23rd October 2008). Updated link.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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@Amigo1
Palette mapped ILBM files are already small because only the necessary bitplanes are stored and there is also some simple compression. However, most 24bit & 32bit ILBM (IFF) files can be compressed with lha and other archivers. OS4.1 icon images will compress to about half their original size.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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@Chain-Q
I only noticed the missing odd seconds because I was checking out the 2011 date issue. I have checked several old archives and they all have even seconds. Thanks for the info.


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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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@MickJT

Please, please, dont start to mix up lha, too. We already have too many different versions of several archivers, all with some quirks and inconsistencies to the other.

Best way would be to try to reach the last maintainer of Amiga lha, and finally convince him to actually open the source code to lha Amiga for other developers.

This way lha Amiga stays consistent over new versions and several potential bugs could finally be wiped out (there are several, beside this date "bug" you experienced today) by third party developers.

If you establish a version of lha, which works different to the "original" Amiga version, be it as temporary workaround or not, users will experience troubles in the near future.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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The last website for LhA was lha.a1k.org.
I would suggest contacting whomever looks after a1k.org and ask them (the link for LhA is still on the top bar, but the LhA page itself no longer exists).

Failing that, one of the authors must have a copy of the latest source code.

In descending order of update date:
Sven Ottemann ac-logic freenet de
Jim Cooper
David Tritscher
Stefan Boberg

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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@whose

I heard some years back that the LhA sourcecode had been lost. Was it ever recovered? I updated the link to the Unix version. Found an SVN trunk last updated in 2008. It does what I need for the short term, but doesn't support file comments.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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@MickJT

Quote:
This needs an emergency fix.


http://twitter.com/morphosteam/status/21323035915067392

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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@all

I'd propose, as a temporary solution, a port of the latest Unix LHA as linked by MickJT to replace the following outdated Lha port:

http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=utility/archive/lha.tar.gz

with support for the basic stuff required on OS4, i.e. correct filetypes and support for file comments. Later we might think to try to get the sources and update the official Amiga version of LhA. The first step would have to be done ASAP, as we already have an archive on OS4Depot with all the timestamps wrong. This might lead to some confusion as Whose pointed out, but I think that is more important to have a temporary working LhA now, albeit it's simpler, slower and with different syntaxes as Mick has found out, rather than risk to have many wrong archives in the next weeks.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
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@Chris_Y

Quote:
Chris_Y wrote:
In descending order of update date:
Sven Ottemann ac-logic freenet de
Jim Cooper
David Tritscher
Stefan Boberg

I wouldn't bother trying to contact any of the above except Sven about this. As far as I remember, even Jim hasn't had a working Amiga for at least a decade. This was (I believe) one of the reasons Sven took over back then. But whether he can still be contacted, or someone else has access to the source code, I don't know.

Best regards,

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Chris_Y 
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@tokai

Is MOS LhA based on the official Amiga LhA (I'm guessing so, if it has the same bug)?* If so, can they not at the very least produce a 68k binary as well? And preferably open source the code so we don't get stuck in this situation again in the future?

Given how widespread LhA is amonsgst the Amiga comunity, it seems a bit silly to keep this to themselves. Unless they would like to open loads of LhA archives created with the faulty version and have all their timestamps messed up.


* I've just had a nose through the binary:
Version 2.7.10
Copyright © 1991-94 by Stefan Boberg.
Copyright © 1998,1999 by Jim Cooper and David Tritscher.
Copyright © 2000-2011 by Ralph Schmidt and Harry Sintone

So it looks like it is based on LhA 2.7 for other Amiga systems. We'd lose Sven's updates but that is certainly better than the alternative. It should be possible to check a lot of what is in the history to see if it is fixed or not in the MOS version.

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Re: LHA 2.12 Y2K11 bug
Posted on 2-Jan-2011 12:01:27
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A fixed version for AOS4 is in the upload-dir of os4Depot.
Versions for 68k will follow on aminet.


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Yay! Thanks

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@aclogic

Thank you very much!

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