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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1231.0. "VMS ARC problem" by VTHRAX::KIP (Entropy isn't what it used to be.) Tue Mar 08 1988 09:13

    I am having some trouble with the VMS version of ARC --- I have
    this installed on a VAXstar, have been using it with no problems
    until recently.
    
    When I try to build a new arcfile, with a command such as:
    
    $ ARC A SAMPLE *.*
    
    arc states that it is building the arcfile SAMPLE.ARC, but immediately
    exits with the error such as:
    
    Cannot create copy of arcfile: $DISK1:[KIP].Arc2023.ARC
    
    That looks like an illegal VMS filename to me, but I have no idea
    where it's being generated nor why.
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1231.1WJG::GUINEAUDo you know we exist?Tue Mar 08 1988 09:4422
    
>    Cannot create copy of arcfile: $DISK1:[KIP].Arc2023.ARC

That certainly looks invalid to me. Although, in VMS you can
substitute a "." for the ";" version seperator. 

	ex. filename.extention.version#

But the version# must be numeric. The filename in your ARC error message
is indicating a file with no name, an extension of "Arc2023 and a 
version of "ARC". The version is most likely the problem.


I always use "ARC -M arcname *.*"  to build an archive.

I believe The -M option moves files to a *new* archive, while the -A option
adds them to an *existing* one.


John
1231.2Same results with "-m"VTHRAX::KIPEntropy isn't what it used to be.Tue Mar 08 1988 10:052
    Yes, I tried the "-m" switch also, but it gives the same error message.
    Thanks for trying to help!
1231.3It works for me...LOWLIF::DAVISThat's not a BUG, it's a FEATURE!Tue Mar 08 1988 10:357
>    $ ARC A SAMPLE *.*

Hmmm, that always works fine for me.  What copy of ARC are you using?  You 
might grab my copy from MDKCSW""::DUA2:[DAVIS.AMIGA.TOOLS]ARC.EXE and see
if they are the same.
							...richard
1231.4Close, but no guitarVTHRAX::KIPEntropy isn't what it used to be.Tue Mar 08 1988 15:347
    Richard, I replaced my copy of ARC.EXE with yours...no change!
    I still get the same error msg!  Thanks, anyway.
    
    Can anyone steer me to the proper notesfile from which I may be
    able to get more info on VMS ARC?
    
    Thanks to all.
1231.5check logical namesSAUTER::SAUTERJohn SauterTue Mar 08 1988 15:485
    Check your logical names.  Possibly ARC is translating a logical
    name and then editing the result to get what it thinks is a valid
    file spec.  Do a SHOW LOGICAL and see if you have a logical name
    that translates into some substring of the bogus file name.
        John Sauter
1231.6Not the logicals (or symbols)VTHRAX::KIPEntropy isn't what it used to be.Tue Mar 08 1988 17:008
    I checked all of the logicals, I couldn't find any correlation;
    b.t.w., the number ARC uses in the filename it tries to create changes
    from time to time (possibly built from the system time?)
    
    This has definitely got me stumped!
    
    Thanks for helping...
1231.7WJG::GUINEAUDo you know we exist?Tue Mar 08 1988 18:4311
>    b.t.w., the number ARC uses in the filename it tries to create changes
>    from time to time (possibly built from the system time?)

Most likely your process ID.    

Is it possible your running out of disk quota? ($ SHO QUOTA)
ARC makes a couple intermediate files which end up eating disk space.

John