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- Short: LHA frontend for shell users
- UPLOADER: dtiberio@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu
- VERSION: 1.05
-
- CDLHA Copyright 1993 Area52. All Rights Reserved.
- Programmed by David Tiberio July 13 1993.
-
- FREELY DISTRIBUTABLE. Please include this readme file along
- with any distribution of CDLHA. I accept no responsibility for
- any damage caused using this program. It has been thoroughly tested
- and all bugs have been noted. Feel free to include CDLHA in any
- distributions of LHA according to the distribution guidelines set
- by Stefan Boberg, author of LhA.
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-
- IMPORTANT!
-
- This version of CDLHA has at least two known bugs in it.
-
- 1. CBM allows an interactive Template mode. If you type CDLHA ?,
- you get a list of all the support commands you can pass to
- CDLHA. However, if you use this method, it will not work if
- you enter more than just the filename. However, if you use
- the Templates without the CDLHA ? option, they WILL work.
- For example, typing CDLHA filename.lha SPEED 9 will work,
- but CDLHA ? followed by filename.lha SPEED 9 will not work
- properly. Please note that a huge number of new commands
- have been added that are not listed in the next section (I'm
- uploading this README in 5 minutes so I will document them later).
- Use the ? option from the command line, or the H command,
- for a list of all supported commands.
-
- 2. It randomly crashes (on my machine at least). Sometimes it just
- makes the machine crawl. But let me explain my setup first. I
- am running under 3.0 with XPK and XFH. I have various Shell
- Startup files as opposed to using IconX. I have one Shell
- Startup for programming, one for general use, etc. The one for
- general use is bare bones and does not use XPK or XFH, and
- likewise hardly ever crashes. However, it does crash using
- XFH and XPK randomly and unexpectedly. If it starts spewing
- out something like æWJ: all over the place, open a new Shell
- and type Status. Then look for all the processes called CDLHA.
- Then type Break followed by the CDLHA process ID numbers to
- halt the data spewing. Then again, this bug may be alive only
- on my system.
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-
- This program requires LHA 1.38 or greater to operate. It will use
- the LHA program as long as it is in your search path. This program is
- a frontend, much like the various LHA GUI programs. However, CDLHA
- is for Shell and CLI users only.
-
-
- Here is a summary of commands currently supported:
-
- a ADD
- m MOVE
- e EXTRACT
- x EXTRACT/PATH
- d DELETE
- r REPLACE
- f FRESHEN
- u UPDATE
- l LIST
- v VIEW
- t TEST
- q QUIT
- ? HELP
-
- At the CDLHA prompt, type the one letter command followed
- by any required arguments. If no arguments are specified, LHA
- may attempt to operate on all files. Be careful when using
- this with the D command, as all files will become unrevocerable
- when deleted.
- For a more verbose help file, type the one letter command
- followed by a question mark, such as:
-
- a ?
-
- ...for help using the ADD command. All commands currently must
- be typed in lowercase. This may change soon.
-
- CDLHA allows you to use most Shell commands. It can NOT use
- the CD or CDLHA command unless CDLHA is exited. Otherwise it may
- enter a loop. Use the BREAK command to halt the process from another
- shell. Use STATUS to list all running process ID numbers.
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-
- Here are some sample commands.
-
-
- Instead of typing "LHA l archive.lha", you can enter the archive
- using the command "CDLHA archive.lha" and then enter "l" and RETURN
- at the prompt. This allows you to perform many operations on the same
- archive without repeatedly typing LHA or the archive filename.
- If a non-existant archive is given, a new one will be created in
- the first attempt to add files to it. Otherwise, LHA may report an
- error message that it was unable to open the archive.
-
- Wildcards are supported, such as #? and *. You may type something
- like "l #?.info" to list all the icons in the archive. You can also
- delete large numbers of files in an archive at once, but be careful.
- Typing the "d" command followed by a RETURN will delete all files in
- the archive, similar to the "LHA d archive.lha" command.
-
- To enter a new archive, exit CDLHA and type "CDLHA archive.lha"
- to open the new archive. Remember, you are still in your current
- directory, so typing the AmigaDOS "List" command will list all the
- files that the archive is found in, or wherever CDLHA was started
- from.
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