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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Wanted: Amigaguide.lib replacement for compressed files?
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 13:20:40 GMT
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- In article <4dkikr$qf4@nic.com> dis@nic.com (Daniel I. Schwartz) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Use MCP, MCP has an item called CrunchPatch and you can specify which
- programs will have the ability to decrunch files (as well as which
- methods to decrunch with) you then just add #?Amigaguide#? to the list
- and Bobs your uncle. You can crunch all your guides and they still work
- as on-line help, in fact you don't have to use Power Packer to crunch
- them you can even use XPK or StoneCruncher, and still decrunch them.
- Yipee!!!
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