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ArcEx V2.0
Usable only at V37+ systems
oOo
Welcome to ArcEx V2.0
Much has changes since the last release a few months ago. Let me welcome some
new features:
- Wildcards (as used in dos.library V37+)
- Vastly improved archive-recognition, now makes no mistakes (knocking
on wood)
- ArcEx is residentable. It is not yet re-entrant, as I have not
finished my work on some new Aztec startup-code. This means that
you CAN make ArcEx resident, but I guarantee nothing if more than
1 copy of ArcEx is executing at any 1 time.
- All this added, and size reduced to 50% of the last version :-)
Philosophy:
ArcEx is a utility I wrote in conjunction with ReArc, simply because I had
most of the code lying around anyway. Later, however, I decided to add some
more features, as I noticed that I was using the utility alot, and needed a
few things (wildcards for instance).
Another VERY important point is that ArcEx will allow you to do 'LhA-style'
extraction of ANY archive-type, meaning that something like this is now
perfectly ok:
0/01:01:46/CD:ReArc> ArcEx TestArchive1.zip to t:
And the archive will be extracted to "t:", where you had to do a lot of
CD'ing around in the past.
ArcEx knows a list of extensions, therefore it is NEVER neccesary to specify
ANY archive's extension, if the name you enter, ArcEx will automagically
attempt to locate the filename. This means..
0/01:01:46/CD:ReArc> ArcEx Archive.LhA to t:
.. and ..
0/01:01:46/CD:ReArc> ArcEx Archive to t:
.. is excatly the same to ArcEx. Notice that this works with all other
(known) archive-types too.
So as you can see, ArcEx is designed for the lazy CLI archive extractor (like
myself), and the overhead in calling your archivers through ArcEx can hardly
be felt. (especially if you make it resident).
oOo
Notes:
As of V2.0, the source is distributed in the archive. Please do NOT compile
new versions and spread them. If you would like something changed, please
contact me, and I'll most likely implement it.
NEVER EVER distribute (publicly) a modified version of this archive.
Thank you for your attention :-)
Mark Cassidy#2:230/611.0@FidoNet
Mark Cassidy#39:140/103.0@AmigaNet
Wize Productions Denmark
Attn: Mark Cassidy
Rydsaavej 101
5210 Odense NV
Denmark
oOo
Note that ArcEx uses EXTERNAL archiver calls, and you need to have atleast the
following archivers in your path:
External Archivers Needed In System Path:
LHA MUST be V1.20+ (preferably V1.22)
UNZIP Zipfile Extract V4.1 by the fine folks at Info-ZIP
ARC AmigArc - Archive utility, Version 0.16,
created on 07/17/86 at 19:01
ZOO Version 2.00 (J. Brian Waters 1988/04/19)
Version 2.10 can substitute as a ZOO archiver
DECRUNCH Powerpacker V3.0b data-decruncher by Nico Francois
APE Amiga's Packing Enhancement by Jim Geuther
UNARJ UnARJ Amiga V0.5 Copyright (c) Peer Hasselmeyer
All archivers are freely distributable and can be obtained on your local BBS
or via the Fred Fish distribution series. The filenames are currently fixed
(hardcoded), but can be replaced with similar utilities which accepts the
same arguments.