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Hamarsoft (R) Hap & Pah 3.00, November 15, 1992, 0700 GMT.
= Re-Release of March 21st 1996 12:00 GMT =
You will need an Intel 80286, NEC V20 or higher to run these programs.
DISCLAIMER : You are using this software at your own risk !
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Harald Feldmann will in no way be liable for any damages, loss of business
profits, business interruption or loss of business-, private-, public- or
other information, arising out of the use or inability to use the Hap and/or
Pah programs or data processed by the Hap and/or Pah programs, whether
direct or consequential, regardless of the fact that Harald Feldmann may
have been advised of the possibilities of such damages.
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This software is provided to you under the terms of the
Hamarsoft License Agreement. By using the software you agree to be bound by
those terms. You are assumed to have taken knowledge of those terms prior to
using the software.
Hamarsoft (R) is a registered trademark and a registered servicemark owned
by Harald Feldmann.
Hap TM and Pah TM are trademarks of Harald Feldmann.
Other mentioned products' trademarks and
registered trademarks are acknowledged.
These programs were completely designed and written by Harald Feldmann
throughout 1992.
Send all mail to:
Hamarsoft
Harald Feldmann
P.O. Box 451
6400 AL Heerlen
The Netherlands.
WHY HAP ?
HAP is a datacompression program that generally outperforms many
other datacompression programs. It is very small and easy to use.
The latest release, available to registered HAP 3.00 users only,
gives much improved compression speed; typically two to five times
as fast as 3.00.
SPEED
This demo release of HAP is not very fast. It is being distributed
to allow you to test HAP's compression abilities.
If you like the compression performance (level of size reduction)
you can register this version in order to get the full and much
faster version 4.0x.
Hap was designed for Intel 80286, NEC V20 and higher CPUs.
BUGS !
This demo version was released for tactical reasons.
So it still contains a few known 'bugs' related to screen-output and
aborted files.
Note that this demo version has a file handling bug which prevents
you from deleting files which differ only in the last character of
the file extension (thus the filenames must be identical)
Example: HAPTESTA.BAK
and HAPTESTA.BAT
These two will be processed simultaneously during a 'd' or 'e' command.
So both will be deleted or extracted when specifying either one.
The registered version does not have this bug.
The compression system in de demo version is fully operable and
allows you to test the compression performance sufficiently to
decide whether you want the full version with more functions and
even better compression and speed.
CONTACTING THE AUTHOR:
Internet: feldmann@xs4all.nl or feldmann@pi.net
WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~feldmann
Hamarsoft *always* monitors the Internet Newsgroup comp.compression.
Mail : Hamarsoft
Harald Feldmann
P.O. Box 451
6400 AL Heerlen
The Netherlands
MEMORY:
You should be able to run Hap and Pah with 376 Kb free memory.
Hap and Pah should accept files of any size.
MONEY ?
This is a demo. The full version is sent only to those who register
the demo. The full version (HAP 4.0x) has more functions, is more
than twice as fast than this demo version and compresses
significantly better on 24-bit TGA and BMP files and several
popular audio file formats like WAV, 669 and SMP. SMP files are
sample dumps of professional sampling instruments like the AKAI
and Roland samplers.
You can get the registered, full, version by filling out the form
in the newdeal.frm file and following the payment instructions in
the hap4info.doc and 2pay4hap.doc files.
Note that in addition to greater speed, HAP 4.0x provides new
features such as incremental backup support and a move command.
HAP 4.0x detects and uses advanced features of 80386 and higher
processors. PAH 4.0x supports full drive and path redirection.
HAP and PAH 4.0x also support archive seals which use double 32-bit
CRCs and date filtering on all commands. A very fast test command is
also implemented. HAP and PAH are optimized for the Pentium Processor.
HAP and PAH do not use the Pentium FDIV instruction or any variant
thereof in their compression / decompression routines.
Just for the record: all previous discount offers have expired.
Bank transfers should be made to:
Account number 614498422
ABN AMRO Bank
Promenade 297
6411 JJ Heerlen
The Netherlands
The account is owned by:
H.E. Feldmann
Postbus 451
6400 AL Heerlen
SYNTAX
ADDING FILES TO AN ARCHIVE
<must-supply text> [additional filespecs]
do not type the <> or [].
<HAP> <a> <haparch> [drive:][\path\]<filespec1> [filespec2 filespec3 ..]
adds the files on drive:\path\filespec to haparch. You may specify any
filename for haparch even with extensions. Hap will cut off the
extension, if any, and add .HAP itself.
Hap 3.00 does not store subdirectories and does not search any within
another. Note that the <a>, <haparch> AND <filespec1> MUST be supplied.
Meaning 'add all files in the current directory to HAPPY.HAP' is done
by:
HAP a HAPPY *.*
Aborting compression leaving the already compressed files intact in
the archive is done by pressing ESC or CTRL-C.
EXTRACTING FILES FROM AN ARCHIVE
<PAH> <e> <haparch> <filespec> [filespec2 filespec3 ...]
extracts filespec and additional filespecs from haparch to the current
directory. Note that filespec MUST be supplied, meaning 'recall all
files in HAPPY.HAP' is done by:
PAH e HAPPY *.*
In order to get your files extracted to a specific directory, move to
that directory,(make that directory your current directory) and run
the Pah program from there.Your files will always be extracted to your
current directory.
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Example:
PAH is in C:\UTIL\PAH.EXE
HAPARCH is in D:\HEY\MORE\ME\HAPARCH.HAP
you want your *.exe and *.com files to be extracted to E:\NEXT\MORE\
you would: move to E:\NEXT\MORE
then type: C:\UTIL\PAH e D:\HEY\MORE\ME\HAPARCH *.exe *.com
in either upper or lower case.
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To date, PAH extracts to the current 'working' directory.
The registered version, PAH 4.0x, incorporates full drive and path
redirection.
LISTING FILES IN AN ARCHIVE
<HAP> or <PAH> <l> <haparch> <filespec> [filespec2 filespec3 ...]
Lists filespec and additional filespecs within haparch. Use the
'Pause' key or CTRL-S on the AT keyboard to pause the scrolling.
DELETING FILES IN AN ARCHIVE
<HAP> or <PAH> <d> <haparch> <filespec> [filespec2 filespec3 ...]
WARNING
! Deletes filespec and additional filespecs from haparch without a
! second chance. Be sure to know what you're doing, Hap and pah do NOT
! create a second copy of your original archive ! So PCTOOLS et al
! won't work to get anything back... Make BACKUPS !