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- Topic 29 Sun Dec 27, 1992
- B.VRIELING1 at 19:11 EST
- Sub: CS-DOS Extra Utilities Pack comments
-
- V4.0 of the Pack has been released! Major new module: A PKARE style unzipper
- that runs under CS-DOS on your C128.
-
- 12 message(s) total.
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- Category 5, Topic 29
- Message 1 Sun Dec 27, 1992
- B.VRIELING1 at 19:11 EST
-
- Version 4.0 of the CS-DOS Extra Utilities Pack (CS-XTRA4.LZH) has just been
- uploaded to the following places:
-
- 1) Canada Remote Systems
- 2) GEnie
-
- In addition, it will be appearing shortly at the following:
-
- 3) FTP site cocosun.caltech.edu in the pub/rknop/incoming
- directory
- 4) Fido BBS: "The Enterprise BBS" in the United States
-
- V4.0 contains a couple of new commands:
-
- 1) WHERE - hunts through a CMD partition, including through subdirectories,
- for all files matching a given file pattern.
-
- 2) BVUNZIP - a complete unzipper system for the C128.
-
- The BVUNZIP system comes in a number of files: BVUNZIP, UNSHRINK, and
- UNREDUCE. These three CS-DOS files can unzip any PKWARE style ZIP file (the
- ones I've tested anyway). In effect, they allow you to access those ZIP files
- you've always wanted to decompress but never could... until now.
-
- (Note that 'exploding' and 'unstoring' are also supported; the BVUNZIP main
- module takes care of these procedures itself, and shells to UNSHRINK and
- UNREDUCE as necessary.)
-
- The entire archive is roughly 55K in size. I had to abandon the .SFX format,
- as the file simply got too large. My first impulse was to use ARC again, but
- the difference in compressed file size convinced me otherwise - 215 blocks
- LHA'd as compared to 300 blocks ARC'd.
-
- Comments on V4.0 can be directed to me at the addresses listed below, or as
- replies to this message.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- ...Bruce
-
- P.S. This is what that 'master', 'slave' and 'mistress' programming discussion
- was leading up to. ;))
-
- GEnie: B.VRIELING1
- Internet: bvrieling@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
- Fido: Bruce Vrieling @ 1:229/15
-
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- Message 2 Mon Dec 28, 1992
- C128.JBEE at 00:31 EST
-
- Great news! I can't wait to go take a look at the file :) I will release
- it ASAP!
-
- A big [ HUG ] and pat on the back for Bruce :)
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- Category 5, Topic 29
- Message 3 Mon Dec 28, 1992
- CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 02:53 EST
-
- You're gonna be one popular guy when the news gets out... and it will spread
- like wildfire. Probably the biggest advance in capability since QWKRR/QWKIE!
- Nice work Bruce!
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- Category 5, Topic 29
- Message 4 Mon Dec 28, 1992
- S.CRAIK [Steve] at 03:23 EST
-
- Hi Bruce,
-
- Hee,hee... and you told me that you weren't thinking of it.
- or at least thats what I thought you said. Maybe its the ZIPing
- portion that you were talking about.
-
- Anyway, ..with all the other messages about various main modules
- and whatever the names you were using to describe the program that
- you were working on.. I kinda thought you may have being working
- on something to do with ZIP or UNZIP in NATIVE mode.
-
- C O N G R A D U L A T I O N S !!
-
- Hey JBEE,
-
- what is this.. I thought I saw you say you'd make this available
- ASAP! Here, I'm on at 12:19 am Pacific time. I didn't see it in
- the new files. ;-)
- (btw thats 03:19 Eastern on the 28 day of December 1992)
- hmm? ..lets see you were on at "00:31 EST" posting your reply.
- yeap! that should be enough time, huh? ;-) almost 3 hrs.
-
- Steve Craik
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- Message 5 Mon Dec 28, 1992
- HOWIE-CBM at 04:57 EST
-
- Thanks Bruce!
-
- What a nice Holiday present!!
-
- Howie
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- Message 6 Mon Dec 28, 1992
- C128.JBEE at 12:53 EST
-
- LOL! I feel asleep after downloading it, guess Sunday night wore my eyes
- out :D
-
- Going to release it tonight (Monday) when I sign back on. Looks pretty
- good! I think this *might* make Sysop Picks ;D
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- Message 7 Mon Dec 28, 1992
- B.VRIELING1 at 17:14 EST
-
- Steve,
-
- Actually, when I mentioned to you that I wasn't working on an unzipper, at the
- time I was likely telling the truth. :) Unzipping has been a pet project of
- mine for a LONG time. I kept returning to it, and finally last month (or
- longer?) it started clicking - I 'exploded' a file correctly. That gave me the
- incentive I needed to get the other decompression modules working, and finish
- the thing.
-
- Still, as is, BVUNZIP can use a lot of work. There are NO extra options
- available. Simply "BVUNZIP FILENAME.ZIP" to view a listing of files, and
- "BVUNZIP FILENAME.ZIP <pattern>" to unzip them. Next release should see some
- additional flag options, like the ones you see when you run LHA. And, it has
- already been pointed out to me that *ALL* unzipped files have filetype PRG.
- That was unintentional (ie. given no thought), and now that I think about it,
- perhaps SEQ would have been a better format. Oh well, look for version 2.0 in
- the future. But FIRST, I have to get back to school...
-
- ...Bruce
-
- GEnie: B.VRIELING1
- Internet: bvrieling@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
- Fido: Bruce Vrieling @ 1:229/15
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- Message 8 Tue Dec 29, 1992
- C128.JBEE at 05:37 EST
-
- Okay, it is now live :)
-
- I tested it with a few .zip files I have and it worked fine. One thing
- does bear mentioning, it does not properly handle directory paths in a
- .ZIP archive. Example, if you .zipped a disk on a PC and had
-
- cs-dos/grep/grep.bin
- cs-dos/grep/grep.asm
- cs-dos/grep/grep.doc
-
- on your disk you would get
- cs-dos/grep/grep
- and while dissolving the .zip it seems to take a long time, like a
- recursion or something was going on with the filenames.
-
- Still, very nice to have, unZipped a 89 BLK file in 2.53 minutes on a
- Ramlink.
-
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- Message 9 Tue Dec 29, 1992
- B.VRIELING1 at 10:43 EST
-
- John,
-
- First of all, did you get my email about the CS-XTRA0.LZH file and the CRC
- error? I hope so... :) Everyone else, ignore this little note. :)
-
- As for the IBM subdirectories messing with the filenames, darn it, you're
- right. I had never thought about those. I think for the next release, I'm
- going to simply *chop off* the directory paths - IBM directory paths have
- little relevance on the 128, and we can't create ZIPs yet, so you'll never
- have a REAL 128 path in there.
-
- I'll add that to my list for V2.0. Thanks for noting that John.
-
- And that speed you posted... 2.53 minutes to unzip a 89 BLK file - I trust you
- were being sarcastic when you said this was "nice". ;) Want to guess what the
- time would have been like on a 1581? :) Compared to LHA, that time sucks. I'll
- see what I can do to speed it up. But, like I mentioned in the docs, I was in
- a rush to get it out.
-
- ...Bruce
-
- GEnie: B.VRIELING1
- Internet: bvrieling@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu
- Fido: Bruce Vrieling @ 1:229/15
-
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- Message 10 Tue Dec 29, 1992
- C128.JBEE at 18:26 EST
-
- re:get your message
- Sure did, I went crazy with the 1st upload when I keep getting the CRC
- error right before it dissolved the two slave routines :D
- I redid everything you asked and it is now live as the original name.
-
- re:chop shop
- Yea, just chop everything off in front of the last "/" would be
- fine.
-
- re:speed
- I wasn't being sarcastic, the fact we have it is nice :) Plus, it
- exploded to over 300 blks. I think it is a great "first", especially
- since it is the first deZIPPER for the 8 bits!
- I know Chris had to rewrite the LHA modules partly in ML to address the
- speed issue too.
-
- Was that file B.Lucier uploaded the one you used for the source?
-
- I think this is a great milestone.
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- Message 11 Fri Jan 01, 1993
- B.MCCULLOUGH [fisherman] at 20:13 EST
-
- re cs-xtra4.lzh...Where do I find the LHX module to unravel this file I have
- searched the libraries but no luck.... b. B.McCULLOUGH
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- Message 12 Fri Jan 01, 1993
- YLR.ROSE [* Mistress *] at 21:26 EST
-
- Fisherman.. first, you need the main file called CSDOS, copyright by
- our very own JBee.. also download LHAV12.ARC, using ARC128 included
- in CSDOS to dearc the program, which will give you the LZH,LZD, ect
- files for dearcing the LZH programs. :>
- I know its confusing.. but its the only way I know to do it. :>
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- Topic 34 Tue Apr 13, 1993
- W.MAALOULI [jaafar] at 22:26 EDT
- Sub: AR
-
- Is there a version of ARC for the C128? Also I can't seem to DeARC files on
- drive C: (Device#9) which on my system is a 1581. Any suggestions? I would
- really apreciate it...
- 2 message(s) total.
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- Category 5, Topic 34
- Message 1 Tue Apr 13, 1993
- M.RANDALL2 [Maurice] at 22:52 EDT
-
- CS-DOS what you are looking for.
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- Category 5, Topic 34
- Message 2 Wed Apr 14, 1993
- CBM-MARK at 01:20 EDT
-
- The files you will need from the flagship libraries are:
- #7799 and #7800 the CS-DOS program package and the docs for it. ARC128
- is part of the CS-DOS package. There is a CS-DOS 'help' topic in Category #3
- if you need it. The docs in places are not the most easily understood.
- Fortunately there are several CS-DOS experts who are more than willing to
- help out anyone who needs it ;)
-
- ▐▐Mark▐▐
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