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- FLEXI-ARC Rel 3.1
- by William Wong
- ProbeHouse Software, 1993
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- An amazing shell! For all past, present and future archivers.
- - John C Dvorak
-
- We have 300 top software engineers working on a similar product for the NT.
- - Bill Gates
-
- We were able to unarchive election results much faster than them ... thats
- our advantage - oh? we do use Ataris ...
- - Clinton
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-
- In this world, there have always been new archivers that are faster and
- smaller. Most of them come in non-user friendly IBM-style command line. A
- shell is needed to enhance it ... and so we wait for someone to do it ...
-
- Now there is new shell on the block .... FLEXI-ARC the most flexible archive
- shell there is. FLEXI-ARC will allow users to configure for any past, present
- and future archive programs.
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- Using FLEXI-ARC
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- Before you can you FLEXI-ARC, you need to configure it for your system.
- After configuring it, you now just push buttons to do all your archives. Just
- 4 steps to perform a fuction.
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- 1/ Select the [ARCHIVER] to use.
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- 2/ Select the [ARCHIVED FILE] button to get a list of archived files using
- the system file selector.
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- 3/ Select the archived files to work on by highliting it. Use the [UP] and
- [DOWN] arrows buttons to scroll the entire list. You can add additional
- archived files anytime by selecting the [ARCHIVED FILE] button.
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- 4/ Select the function you want to use. That's it !
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- Move/Add option
- ---------------
- There are 3 modes of operations (if you find another let me know) :
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- 1/ Highlite an archived-file, and the selected file will be move/add into
- that highlited archived-file.
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- 2/ No highlited archived-file & selected file in a sub-directory.
- The selected file will archived and the archive name will be that of the
- sub-directory name.
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- 3/ No highlited archived-file & selected file in root-directory.
- The selected file will archived and will have the default name FLEXI.
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- If no single file is selected from the system file selector, then all the
- files are selected (ie *.*) and are moved/added.
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- Delete Option
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- The archived file and the file to delete from the archived must be entered.
- The system file selector is used to input the file to delete.
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- Configurating FLEXI-ARC or The difficult part
- ----------------------- ------------------
- To configure FLEXI-ARC, select the [config] button.
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- Select the ARC-BUTTON to configure, by selecting from [ARC1] to [ARC5].
- ARC-BUTTON not configured will not be able to be selected in the main
- dialogbox.
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- You will be able to edit for each of the ARC-BUTTON -
- a. The archiver name (use the 3 character extension). This is used to
- select files in the selector & name of the button.
- b. The archiver program file location. Click on it to change.
- c. View command line.
- d. Extract command line.
- e. Move command line.
- f. Add command line.
- g. Delete command line.
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- These command lines will be expanded to include the directory and filename
- information and will be pass to the archiver. A command line parser is used
- to expand these command line as follows :
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- #d = directory of the archived file.
- #f = filename + extension of the archived file.
- #n = filename only of the archived file.
- #s = pathname obtined from system file selector.
-
- example :
- -x #d\#f will be expanded to -x c:\directory\filename.lzh
- -v #f\#n will be expanded tp -v c:\directory\filename
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- Suggestions for LZH -