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- Short: CLI utilities for powerpacker
-
- This archive contains PPCompress, a CLI utility similar in operation
- to Unix compress(1), but using the powerpacker.library by Nico
- Francois (not included). PPCompress requires v35 or higher of
- powerpacker.library, and v37 or higher of the Amiga OS (v36 might
- work). PPCompress can also behave like Unix uncompress(1) and
- zcat(1), provided that you make a filesystem link from 'ppuncompress'
- and 'ppcat' to the program 'ppcompress' with the following commands:
-
- c:makelink ppuncompress ppcompress
- c:makelink ppcat ppcompress
-
- I wrote these utilities because I often need to compress files on my
- hard drive, but don't want to abandon the shell to run PowerPacker.
- LhA, while an excellent compressor, is quite more difficult to use
- with, for example, a whole directory of files I want compressed
- separately, and compress's Lempel-Ziz compression just isn't as good
- or as fast as powerpacker's. All three programs, of course, allow
- operation on multiple programs in a single invocation.
-
- PPCompress supports both the efficiency and buffer-size options of
- powerpacker. It only compresses data files; the PowerPacker load-file
- compression is not implemented in powerpacker.library.
-
- PowerPacker.library is probably available from wherever you got this,
- if you don't have it already.
-