nomarch(1)

1nomarch(1)                    Archive Extraction                    nomarch(1)
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NAME

6       nomarch - extract `.arc' archives
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SYNOPSIS

9       nomarch [-hlptUv] [archive.arc] [match1 [match2 ... ]]

DESCRIPTION

11       nomarch lists, extracts, or tests `.arc' archives. (An alternate exten‐
12       sion sometimes used was `.ark'; these work too.) This is  a  very  out‐
13       dated  file format which should certainly not be used for anything new,
14       but you may still need an extraction utility, and here it is. :-)
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16       The default action is to extract all files in  the  specified  archive;
17       see OPTIONS below for how to do other things instead.
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OPTIONS

20       -h     give terse usage help.
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22       -l     list files in archive. If verbose listings are enabled, it shows
23              the filename, compression method, compressed/uncompressed  size,
24              date/time,  and CRC; but by default, it just shows the filename,
25              uncompressed size, and date/time.
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27       -p     extract to standard output, rather than to separate files.
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29       -t     test files in archive (more precisely, check file CRCs).
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31       -U     use uppercase filenames; more precisely, preserve original  case
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37              the archive to operate on.
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39       match1 etc.
40              optionally  specify  which archive members to list/extract/test.
41              Those which match any  of  these  filenames/wildcards  are  pro‐
42              cessed. Wildcard operators supported are shell-like `*' and `?',
43              but don't forget  to  quote  arguments  which  use  these  (e.g.
44              `nomarch foo.arc '*.bar'').
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EXTRACTING MULTIPLE ARCHIVES

47       nomarch  follows  the  `unzip'-like practice of working on only one ar‐
48       chive per run, with further `filenames' given on the command-line actu‐
49       ally specifying files to extract (or whatever). The easiest way to work
50       on multiple files with nomarch is simply to run it multiple times using
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53       for i in *.arc; do nomarch $i; done
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55       The above would extract all archives in the current directory.
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USING THE PROGRAM FROM EMACS

58       Emacs's  arc-mode  facility lets you work with various kinds of archive
59       file directly from the editor. Making it  use  nomarch  for  extracting
60       `.arc'  files  isn't  too hard. Just add the following to your ~/.emacs
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BUGS

66       The CRC used by the format is only 16-bit, so `-t' is a  less-than-per‐
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69       One  compression  method,  obsolete even by `.arc' standards :-), isn't
70       supported yet. This is partly because I've yet to find  a  single  file
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73       Subdirectories  in  Spark  archives  are extracted as the `.arc'-format
74       files they really are, which may not be terribly convenient.
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AUTHOR

80       Russell Marks (rus@svgalib.org).
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84Version 1.4                     18th June, 2006                     nomarch(1)