** Quoting Robert Jung to Joe Negron:
RJ> I am working on a DOS version that handles the extended attributes
  > via an undocumented DOS function interface (used in UC2 and other
  > archivers).  I plan to insert the EA data in the file header in the
  > unused extended header field. The first version will have
  > uncompressed EA data.
JN> Why uncompressed?
RJ> This makes for an easier implementation.  My first attempt seems to
  > work, but I have to deal with multiple volumes now in my second
  > version.  I am also considering making EAs a separate record type in
  > ARJ, but that has its problems also.
Ah, so by "first attempt" are you referring to your internal
alphas/betas, and not to the "first release"?
 
RJ> Now if someone could point out a DOS function to get the long
  > filenames via the DOS box, I will add that function JUST LIKE
  > I added Win95 long filename support.
JN> From Ralf Brown's Interrupt List (INTER53[A-G].ZIP):
RJ> Thank you.
You're welcome and good luck.
RJ> I will check this out to see if it does what OS/2 users need. If
  > this works then I will be planning a DOS release for late this
  > year that handles EAs and long filenames under OS/2.  Not quite what
  > OS/2 users want,
Actually, I hardly see the functional difference between a DOS archiver
which fully supports HPFS and a native OS/2 version.  Of course, the
OS/2 version could be natively 32-bit and not require a DOS memory
management kludge, and therefore be (supposedly) faster in some
instances, but I doubt that for *practical* use it would matter much
(except for those running OS/2 without the DOS component installed).
RJ> but at least I know that I can back up my own OS/2 system with ARJ
  > if necessary.
How do you do backup now?
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