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- Star Zip by Joe Forster/STA
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- This program was designed to zip and unzip disk images using the ZipCode
- algorithm. Star Zip is an external utility of The Star Commander but is also
- distributed separately.
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- USAGE:
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- STARZIP A <diskname> [-|/Ixxyy] [<zipname>]
- STARZIP T <zipname>
- STARZIP X <zipname> [<diskname>]
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- Commands:
- A: zip disk images into ZipCode archives (Add)
- T: test the integrity of ZipCode archives (Test)
- X: unzip ZipCode archives into disk images (eXtract)
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- <diskname>:
- Type the path and the name of the disk image here (the extension of disk
- images is always '.D64'). If you leave this parameter blank when unzipping, the
- name of the disk image will be determined by stripping the first two characters
- off of the name of the ZipCode archive. You can use wildcards to zip multiple
- disk images.
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- <zipname>:
- Type the path and the base name of the ZipCode archive here. If you leave
- this parameter blank when zipping, the base name of the archives will be the
- name of the original disk image. However, the name of the archives looks like
- this: '<number-of-part>!<base name>.<extension>'. The default but not mandatory
- extension for ZipCode archives is '.Z64'. You can use wildcards to test or
- unzip multiple archives.
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- Options:
- Ixxyy: the second two bytes of the first ZipCode archive hold the header ID
- of the original disk image. Since there is no block header in disk
- images this field cannot be filled automatically. Its default value
- is the string '64' but you can change it by entering two hexadecimal
- values as an argument of this option.
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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.
- Cannot create FILENAME.EXT
- The file could not be created for some reason.
- DISKNAME.D64 is not a valid disk image
- The disk image is corrupted.
- ZIPNAME.EXT is too big
- The ZipCode archive is bigger than the maximum possible size.
- Invalid track number...
- An illegal track number was encountered in the ZipCode archive.
- Invalid sector number...
- An illegal sector number was encountered in the ZipCode archive.
- Duplicate sector number...
- The current sector was already encountered in the ZipCode archive.
- Unexpected end of file...
- The ZipCode archive has ended although more data is needed to complete the
- unzipping process.
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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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