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- From: Richard Lavey <richard@startide.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Amigaguide.lib replacement for compressed files?
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 20:12:28 GMT
- Organization: Home in Bucks,UK
- Message-ID: <9601192012.AA006tt@startide.demon.co.uk>
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- 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
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