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- !Convert:
- Because the filetype had to be changed for gzip'ed files,
- it's necessary that all files you have get the new filetype.
- To ease that task (I myself had alreay gzip'ed hundreds of
- files,and I did it by hand!),!Convert is provided, under the terms
- of the GNU public license,the NO WARRANTY ,NO CLAIMS part applies.
-
- The old filetype was 003,which is a !ArmSI benchmark result filetype.
- I found out just by playing,but in search for a new filetype,I used
- Mark Thompsons' !FileType application,that stores some 580 filetypes
- (in a version of 1 year ago),and found filetype 20h and 21h still unused.
-
- Albeit filetypes lower than &200h are for personal user use only,
- people tend to use them in distributed programs anyway (aehem),because
- they don't bother (:-) to go thru the Acorn bureaucracy to get a
- filetype assigned.
- The new filetype is 020hex ( 32 decimal) . Unix compressed files will
- have 021hex.
- What you do: copy the !Convert application onto the medium that contains
- gzip'ed files of filetype 003. DoubleClick it. The entire medium will be
- searched for type 003 files and ,if found,scanned for the first 3 bytes,
- and if it's really a gzip'ed file,it will be filetyped to 020h .
- That's it.
-
- Hopefully you dont have any directory structures mroe than 8 levels deep,
- or the BASIC program will/might have difficulties.
- Strange,it doesn't work with MemFS, this shouldn't be a problem,but
- MemFS seems to not properly react to OS_GBPB 9 queries, this is also true
- for the operation of !gzip and !cruncher,which means: it won't go
- recursively down the path,but only process the files/directory directly
- dropped on the iconbar icon.
- The program is slow,but will hopefully be seldomly run ,anyway.
- bye,Kai (kai@phantom.com)
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