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- From: dis@nic.com (Daniel I. Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Amigaguide.lib replacement for compressed files?
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 02:04:02 -0500
- Organization: NIC Internet Connection in NJ: email info@nic.com
- Message-ID: <4dvct2$ser@nic.com>
- References: <4dkikr$qf4@nic.com> <9601192012.AA006tt@startide.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <9601192012.AA006tt@startide.demon.co.uk>,
- Richard Lavey <richard@startide.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >Daniel I. Schwartz (dis@nic.com) led us to believe in <4dkikr$qf4@nic.com> that...
- >> I am suprised that I've never seen anyone ask about this but what I'm
- >> looking for (I think) is a program or other solution that would intercept
- >> what I would guess are calls to amigaguide.library from programs that
- >> support the Help key.
- >
- >> Amigaguide files are good candidates for compression. (eg. 80k -> -> 26k)
- >> There are amigaguide replacements, such as "Showguide" which was recently
- >> posted to Aminet, which will read these files.
- >
- >> However, if a program supports the help key, either in a context sensitive
- >> fashion or just calling up a help file, and the program is powerpacked (or
- >> otherwise compressed) you just get a screen of gibberish.
- >
- >> I tried replacing amigaguide with Showguide, but nothing happened. That's
- >> why I suppose it must have something to do with the amigaguide.library.
- >
- >> Does anyone know of a way to do this? Maybe the author of one of the
- >> amigaguide replacements could tackle this.
- >
- >There's a program on Aminet called PowerData that intercepts all loads and
- >saves and can compress or decompress *any* type of file that you specify
- >using Powerpacker. This compression is transparent to the program, so
- >allowing anything to read and/or write powerpacked files.
- >
- >It'll do exactly what you want.
- >
- >PowerData210.lha util/pack 157K 96 Transparent powerpacker cruncher/decrunc
- >--
-
- Thanks. PowerData does exactly what I wanted. I have it set so all it
- does is decrunch pp'd guide files.
-
- BTW, as for as the suggestion to rename showguide or xpkguide to
- amigaguide: that doesn't work. You can even delete amigaguide entirely and
- programs with context sensitive help will still open the amigaguide
- documents.
-
- one other question about PowerData: Does anyone know if it is still
- actively supported? The latest version is from September '93. In other
- words if I send in a registration will I hear anything? (Unlike MWB!!)
- It's important in this case because PowerData is crippled by having a time
- limitation.
-
- -=Dan=-
-
- --
- Daniel I. Schwartz
- email: dis@nic.com or dschwartz7@genie.geis.com
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