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HA is an archiver which I released in January 1993 as version 0.98.
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After that I had plans to improve speed, archive handling etc. which
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would have required total rewrite of the code. For that I unfortunately
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could not find time. Because there has been quite considerably interest
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for internals of HA (especially for the HSC compression method) I
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decided to make a source level release from my current test version
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(0.999 beta) and place it under GNU General Public License. The sources
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for this version are not very consistent or clean, but everything should
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work.
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There are several improvements which should be made before this could be
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called version 1.0. Some of the most obvious of these are:
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- Compression methods should be coded in assembler for PC and using more
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efficient data structures for 32 bit platforms. Current version does
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some things only to overcome 64kB segments of 8086.
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- UNIX port has still some problems and is missing some things (for example
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a grouping operator in wildcard matches).
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- File handling is far from optimum.
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- Archive handling is not too clever either.
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- Testing should be done more thoroughly as there are many special cases
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in compression routines which get used very rarely.
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- Documentation of code and algorithms is totally missing.
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Author: Harri Hirvola <harri.hirvola@vaisala.infonet.com>
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