{"schema_version":1,"metadata":{"branch":"current","release":"7.9","architecture":"amd64","generated_at":"2026-09-09T04:04:41.004595+00:00","source_url":"https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64/sqlports-7.55.tgz","source_sha256":"fcdbba1b9df747882aa9bab4af20ebec8dac10655069c90f1cd4145c06e1235e","package_count":12031,"source_kind":"sqlports"},"package":{"name":"ha-0.999bp2","path":"archivers/ha","url":"/packages/current/archivers/ha/","comment":"archive files using the HSC compression method","homepage":"","maintainer":"The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>","description":"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\nThis archive (ha0999.zip) contains this readme, MSDOS executable ha.exe\nand source files for HA 0.999beta. Ha.exe is NOT compiled directly from\nincluded sources. Some critical parts of it were compiled from hand\noptimized versions of compiler output. It is somewhat faster than \"pure\nC\" version. \n\nMSDOS sources are for Borland C 4.0 but older versions of bcc should\nwork. Makefile needs some editing as some paths are hardcoded in it.\nUNIX sources are not very generic. I have only tested this using Linux\non PC and AIX on IBM6000. Only compiler and make utility that I have\ntested are GCC and GNU MAKE.\n\nPorting HA should be fairly easy as all machine specific code is in\nmachine.h and machine.c under machine specific directories. Md_funcs.txt\ndocuments these functions. Examples can be found from pc and nix\ndirectories.\n\nEmail address where I can be reached is \"harri.hirvola@vaisala.infonet.com\".\nMy email addresses have not been very stable and I would not be very \nsurprised if this one too is only valid for some months...\n\n\tHarri Hirvola\n","package_architecture":"amd64","stem":"ha","readme":null,"dependencies":[{"path":"devel/gmake","type":"build","package_spec":"","url":"/packages/current/devel/gmake/"}],"reverse_dependencies":{"count":0,"url":null},"categories":["archivers"],"flavors":[],"only_for_architectures":[],"not_for_architectures":[]}}