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- Star Lynx by Joe Forster/STA
-
- This program was designed to build and extract Lynx archives. It is able to
- build a Lynx archive out of multiple DOS files or the contents of a disk image
- and it can extract a Lynx archive into multiple DOS files or into a disk image.
- The program will keep the names of the files contained in the Lynx archive but
- it cannot handle relative files since I have never seen one. Star Lynx is an
- external utility of The Star Commander but is also distributed separately.
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-
- USAGE:
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- STARLYNX A <filename> [<lynxname>]
- STARLYNX L <lynxname> [-|/V]
- STARLYNX X <lynxname> [<diskname>]
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- Commands:
- A: put files into a Lynx archive (Add)
- L: list the contents of Lynx archives (List)
- X: extract the contents of Lynx archives (eXtract)
-
- <filename>:
- If you want to lynx DOS files then enter their wildcard masks here. If you
- want to lynx the contents of one or several disk images then this parameter
- should have the extension '.D64'.
-
- <lynxname>:
- Type the path, the name and the extension of the Lynx archive here (the
- extension of Lynx archives is always '.LNX'). When lynxing disk images you may
- leave it blank and the name of the archives will be that of the original disk
- images. However, if you lynx DOS files you must enter a name for the resulting
- archive. You can use wildcards to list or extract multiple archives.
-
- <diskname>:
- Type the path and the name of the disk image here (the extension of disk
- images is always '.D64'). Leave this parameter blank to extract the archive
- into DOS files.
-
- Options:
- V: turns verbose listing mode on which means that the creator of the Lynx
- archive (determined from the header) is also displayed after the name of
- the archive.
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-
-
- ERROR MESSAGES:
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- Unknown command
- The command is unknown.
- Invalid option
- The option is unknown or the syntax of its argument is wrong.
- FILENAME.EXT not found
- The file does not exist.
- You must specify the name of the archive
- If you lynx multiple DOS files you must enter a name for the archive.
- Cannot create FILENAME.EXT
- The file could not be created for some reason.
- Cannot add FILENAME.EXT correctly
- Cannot add "filename" correctly
- The file could not be fully added into the archive. It is possible that the
- disk is full.
- "filename" exists, cannot overwrite
- You cannot store two files with the same name in a disk image.
- Cannot extract FILENAME.EXT correctly
- Cannot extract "filename" correctly
- The file could not be fully extracted from the archive. It is possible that
- the disk is full or the archive is corrupted, e.g. some bytes are missing
- from its end.
- DISKNAME.D64 is not a valid disk image
- The disk image is corrupted.
- DISKNAME.D64 has an invalid BAM
- The BAM of the disk image is corrupted. Try validating the disk image.
- Directory is full in DISKNAME.D64
- The directory of the disk image is full. You can store a maximum of 144
- files in a disk image.
- DISKNAME.D64 is full
- The disk image is full. You can store a maximum of 664 blocks in a disk
- image.
- LYNXNAME.LNX has in invalid header
- The header of the Lynx archive is corrupted.
- LYNXNAME.LNX has in invalid entry
- The current entry of the Lynx archive is corrupted or it is a relative file
- which is not supported.
- FILENAME.EXT has an invalid size
- The file is either empty or it is too big to fit into a disk image.
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- THE AUTHOR:
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- You can contact me at the E-Mail address "sta@ludens.elte.hu".
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- 20th May, 1996 Joe Forster/STA
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