---
name: ha
version: 0.999b_1
origin: archivers/ha
comment: The HA archiver using the HSC compression method
arch: freebsd:9:x86:64
www: UNKNOWN
maintainer: ak@FreeBSD.org
prefix: /usr/local
licenselogic: single
flatsize: 55768
desc: "HA is an archiver which I released in January 1993 as version 0.98.\nAfter
  that I had plans to improve speed, archive handling etc. which\nwould have required
  total rewrite of the code. For that I unfortunately\ncould not find time. Because
  there has been quite considerably interest\nfor internals of HA (especially for
  the HSC compression method) I\ndecided to make a source level release from my current
  test version\n(0.999 beta) and place it under GNU General Public License. The sources\nfor
  this version are not very consistent or clean, but everything should\nwork.\n\nThere
  are several improvements which should be made before this could be\ncalled version
  1.0. Some of the most obvious of these are: \n- Compression methods should be coded
  in assembler for PC and using more\n  efficient data structures for 32 bit platforms.
  Current version does\n  some things only to overcome 64kB segments of 8086. \n-
  UNIX port has still some problems and is missing some things (for example \n  a
  grouping operator in wildcard matches). \n- File handling is far from optimum.  \n-
  Archive handling is not too clever either. \n- Testing should be done more thoroughly
  as there are many special cases \n  in compression routines which get used very
  rarely. \n- Documentation of code and algorithms is totally missing.\n\nAuthor:\tHarri
  Hirvola <harri.hirvola@vaisala.infonet.com>\n"
categories: [archivers]
files:
  /usr/local/bin/ha: 22f7c4a6323fb81115fc681ec054cd4cba5309a7a6027b39ad3d1d3534c390c9
scripts: {}
