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  • lbrate 1.2 - extract/decompress LBRs on Unix/Linux

    From Russell Marks@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 8 10:35:49 2023
    lbrate extracts/decompresses files from LBR archives. (It can also
    list and test them.) It does this in an unzip-like manner, mostly
    hiding the details of individually compressed and renamed files, and transparently deals with any required decompression/renaming.

    It can also decompress individual squeezed, crunched, etc. files
    directly, treating them as if they were really single-member LBRs.

    The web page is here:

    https://zgedneil.nfshost.com/lbrate.html

    Version 1.2 fixes an erroneous memory allocation attempt with corrupt
    files. (The fix was ported from nomarch 1.5.)

    -Rus.

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  • From Eric N@21:1/5 to Russell Marks on Fri Sep 8 04:59:33 2023
    On Friday, September 8, 2023 at 5:35:51 AM UTC-5, Russell Marks wrote:

    Version 1.2 fixes an erroneous memory allocation attempt with corrupt
    files. (The fix was ported from nomarch 1.5.)

    Thanks for the update. I've been using lbrate for a while now and it's a handy tool for my CP/M work. Compiles and works for both Linux and Mac systems, too.

    Eric

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  • From Russell Marks@21:1/5 to Eric N on Fri Sep 8 13:43:47 2023
    Eric N <eric@neilsonhart.com> wrote:

    Russell Marks wrote:

    Version 1.2 fixes an erroneous memory allocation attempt with corrupt
    files. (The fix was ported from nomarch 1.5.)

    Thanks for the update. I've been using lbrate for a while now and it's
    a handy tool for my CP/M work. Compiles and works for both Linux and
    Mac systems, too.

    Thanks. It's a minimal change, but having (finally) noticed this
    problem I figured I should sort it out like I did for nomarch.

    One amusing point was when I realised I ought to test all the Walnut
    Creek CP/M CD's LBR files like I did before, just as a basic check
    things were fine - even if that would clearly take a while to run.
    Except that it's not 2001 any more, so it took under a minute. :-)

    -Rus.

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