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- Short: Makes guide of aminet files etc. v1.8
- Author: fini.alring@netmedia.dk (Fini 'Warp' Alring)
- Uploader: fini.alring@netmedia.dk
- Version: 1.8
- Type: comm/misc
- Requires: Arexx, rexxsupport.library, aminet:util/sys/DirII.lha (v3.3a).
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- Fini "Warp" Alring of GiGA Productions.
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- Presents
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- ·GigaGuide (ex. AmiNetGuide)·
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- *************** This program requires this cool Dir replacement: ***************
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- It can be found on Aminet:pub/util/sys/DirII.lha
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- ******************************* NOTE about GIF support: ************************
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- Even though I don't like this format, we have to trouble ourselves, for some time.
- Since GIF is used widely on the net. I suggest you only use PNG & JPEG etc.
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- See more info about the Portable Network Graphics format (PNG) at this URL:
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- W3C - World Wide Web Consortium. >> http://www.W3C.org <<
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- I made it because my new dowload dir, is approx. 80MB, and I simply can't cope with it!
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- Dopus just isn't enough... ;-)
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- GigaGuide scans the first line of all readme files in a given dir,
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- where the Short: description is located (Look at the first line of this text!!!)
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- It then generates an AmigaGuide, with links to both readme and it's main file.
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- It can also be used to make a guide of your pictures dir, or archives dir etc...
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- When you click on the filename gadget,
- the archive will be decompressed into Ram:, or anywhere you desire
- (you can also choose by file requester).
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- Pictures and Samples can be viewed/played by a siple click,
- using you preferable viewer/player.
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- When you click on the Short: text, the whole readme file will be shown.
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- Sub-Dirs are shown as gadgets, and by a click,
- you can generate a Guide for that directory too.
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- It can put the Short:-line into the archive's filenote (comment),
- which is very useful, especially for BBS ownerS! ;-)
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- It can sort files in 'Alphabetical order' or 'Newest at top order'.
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- GOOD NEWS!!!
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- If you own LZX v1.10r (the registered version of 1.10) and up,
- then you can use LZX to decompress LHA & LZH archives, thus
- increasing performance by 25-35% (Acording to LZX.Guide).
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- Mr. Jonathan Forbes has quit his work on LZX, at least on the Amiga Platform.
- A little while ago, some people from the Amiga community, asked Mr. Forbes to
- release a generic keyfile for LZX v1.21r (The newest! ever to be made ;-( )
- and Mr. Forbes graciously agreed... And now we have the product as FREEWARE (Not PD!)
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- Rumour: I (Warp) heard from somewhere that LZX algorithms where sold to the devil
- himself; Bill Gates! And that M$'s CAB format is really LZX in a new form.
- (Windows95 is compressed in CAB format on the CD-ROM it's shipped on).
- Please note: I can't validate this story. But I believe it... ;-)
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- History:
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- (This will be moved to a Guide soon! =)
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- Names bounded with brakets ( [Fini Alring] ) is the names of persons
- who gave me the idea, of the certain feature... thanks guys!!! =)
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- SHORT = Short message about the release.
- FIXED = Fixed
- ADDED = New
- REMOV = Removed
- REWRI = Rewritten
- OVERW = Overworked
- IMPRO = Improved
- REPLA = Replaced
- RENAM = Renamed
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- Future:
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- M2M Gadget - Move to (Local Aminet) Mirror, this is being developed,
- and works fine, but I want to do it properly for aminet release.
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- New in v1.8 - 04.Feb.1998
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- Short: More to come... Just had to make these changes. ;-)
- Preparing complete re-code, for version 2.0 - You want a MUI GUI?.
- 26 Jan - I downloaded an imitation of GigaGuide! ;-D phew! sucked! ;)
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- · ADDED <ED> Gadget - Same as "C:ED dh0:download/SomeFile.ReadMe".
- Note: You have to regenerate the guide, to see the changes.
- Also remember to write Short: on the first line. blah!
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- · ADDED .bat suffix, for AmigaDOS batch-scripts. = "C:Execute MyScript.Bat >CON:"
- - Tell me, if you have an idea how to make this better...
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- · ADDED Option -LZX = Use LZX v1.10r+ to decompress LHA/LZH archives 25-35% faster!!!
- (Read the good news part elsewhere in this document).
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- · FIXED When -NS is enabled all text files opens on current screen.
- [Jonah Hex] - Complaining does work! eh?!
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- · ADDED Proper $VER: implementation. (Try C:Version C:GigaGuide in shell).
- [Jonah Hex] - Gotta do this with all my progs, i guess.. ;-)
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- · RENAM 'Delete' gadget in AmigaGuides®'s are now called 'Del', shorter!
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- · IMPRO Guide text was moved many chars to the left, that has been altered,
- to give more room for extra gadgets (eg. 'Ed' & 'Del', 'M2M').
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- New in v1.7 - 25.Nov.1997
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- Short: At last another Aminet release. I'm planning a v2.0 w/GUI (And CLI!) etc...
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- · IMPRO C:Lha is copied to Ram:, when -X option, is enabled. Faster!
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- · IMPRO GG now also support readme files with the '.REA' suffix, for people who
- download stuff on a M$-PC! - [Thanks Guido! ;-]
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- New in v1.7ß - 19.Oct.1997 - Only for beta testers.
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- Short: Sorry for delay, but I wanted this version to include a lot of things.
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- · ADDED Option -NL = Don't make linespaces in the guide. [Jannik Rasmussen!]
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- · ADDED Option -X = Attempt to extract missing/corrupt readme's from archives (lha only)
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- · ADDED Option -GD = Set Guide Destination, for CD-ROM's etc.. (-GD Ram:)
- [Joel Dulon! - Sorry you had to wait sooo long!]
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- · ADDED Text file suffixes: .text .doc .dok
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- · ADDED .exe suffix supported, file is launched.
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- New in v1.6 - 07-Jul-1997
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- Short: AminetGuide has changed name to GigaGuide. Enjoy this cool version!
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- · FIXED Download dir path, can have spaces in it.
- In v1.4 only my argument handler supported it.
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- · IMPRO Usage text, Delete gadget and other cosmetics.
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- · FIXED The -Aminet.guide will not be shown it it's own list.
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- · ADDED AminetGuide now requires DirII v3.3a+ by Stephen Davies ©1995
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- · ADDED Option: -SM. CASE = Alpha order. DATE = Newest files at the top.
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- · ADDED Filedates are written in the -Aminet.guide.
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- · ADDED Option: -N = Set the min. length of filename gadgets. ( -N 18 )
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- · ADDED Option: -U REQ = Brings up a dir-requester, so you can choose where to unpack!
- Note: If you hit cancel, it will unpack to the dir, where the guide is.
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- · ADDED Option: -NS = No screen, guides will open on workbench screen.
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- · ADDED Option: -SP = Sound Sample player. (-SP C:Play16)
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- · ADDED ZIP support, using C:Unzip.
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- · ADDED PNG picture support.
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- · ADDED IFF picture support.
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- · ADDED HAM picture support.
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- · ADDED HAM8 picture support.
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- · ADDED ILBM picture support.
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- · ADDED FILE_ID.DIZ support using multiview.
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- · ADDED 8SVX sound sample support.
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- · ADDED WAV sound sample support.
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- · ADDED SND sound sample support.
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- · ADDED Old -Aminet.guide's will be deleted automatically.
- (This will be done, in the next couple of versions).
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- · MODIF Because of the new name created guides, will be called -GiGA.guide instead.
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- · IMPRO Info content now shows all options, and supported suffixes, and more.
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- New in v1.5 - 25-Jun-1997
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- Short: Can now unpack/view files, which doesn't have a readme file.
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- · IMPRO AmiNetGuide can see all files, even if they don't have a readme file.
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- · IMPRO This history text, now uses MCP's history format.
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- · FIXED Guide "hanged" when opening a Sub-Dir guide.
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- · FIXED Sub-Dir guides did not use the options set by user.
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- · FIXED Multithreading now works 100% :).
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- · ADDED AmigaGuide® support using MultiView (or other clone).
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- · ADDED NFO support (Text files) using MultiView (or other clone).
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- · ADDED DMS support, unpacks DMS files (defaults to RAD:).
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- · ADDED Option: -D = Set DMS unpack destination. ( -D RAD: )
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- · ADDED Ignores .info files (Icons).
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- · ADDED Readme files also gets the short: message attached, in -C mode.
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- New in v1.4f - Fixed a bug, no default value for short length...
- ups! why does it always happen!!
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- New in v1.4 (Huge update!!!) 13 Jun 1997.
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- · Made a very good argument parsing, which also alows to use spaces in in args,
- eg. "Dh1:Down load" <- Just put double quote on both sides.
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- · Added Seven (Yup 7! ;) options, of which many have been requested by users.
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- Usage:
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- AminetGuide <Download dir> [Options]
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- Options:
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- -F = Sets Guide font. ( -F Topaz.font 8 )
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- -V = Path to MultiView. ( -V C:Multiview )
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- -U = Set unpack dir. ( -U Dh1:Download/Unpacked/ )
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- -S = Set the length of Short: notes. ( -S 55 )
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- -C = Add Short: into filecomment, of the archieve.
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- -G = Don't make Guide, use if only filecomments are wanted.
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- -P = Path to image viewer. ( -P C:PPshow )
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- · Option characters are non-case dependant ( -c = -C ).
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- · Options can be put in any order, but all it's arguments must be entered.
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- New in v1.3 - (Ups! Pic bug!) 09 Jun 1997
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- · Pictures couldn't be viewed. - Sorry! Won't happen again! ;-D
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- · Added LZH support. - Unpacks using LHA.
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- · Added TXT support. - Using Multiview. - [Per Gustav Ousdal]
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- · Short: message is now 55 chars long. - Legal Short:'s should only be 40 chars,
- but many people don't respect this. Tell me what length you want! Maybe argument?
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- New in v1.2 (Bugfixed v1.1) 08 Jun 1997
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- · Sorry guys!! I didn't test v1.1 good enough, it couldn't unpack lha...
- This is fixed... Once again, I'm very sorry!
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- · Download paths can be bounded with double quotes eg. "dh1:download/"
- This is needed for Dopus v5.5 (and Magellan). ( C:AminetGuide {s} )
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- · GIF is now supported, some guy asked for it, and it was soo easy to support!
- Even though I don't like this format, we have to trouble ourselves, for some time...
- Since GIF is used widely on the net. I suggest you only use PNG & JPEG.
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- New in v1.1 (Added lots of new things.)
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- · Proper Alpha sorting. - [Per Gustav Ousdal]
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- · LZX support - Now also unpack lzx archives.
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- · Added gadget "Delete" - Deletes archive, and readme file.
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- · Readme files are now opened on their own screen.
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- · JPG and JPEG are now supported, requires PPshow.
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- · Sub directories are detected, gadgets at the bottom!! - [Martin Lundqvist]
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- Note: AminetGuide must be in C: to make Sub-dirs work..!
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- Usage: GigaGuide <Download dir> [Options]
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- Other features:
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- · It's MailWare - I only want your own productions, and a little letter...!
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- · It multithreads, so you can unpack many files at ones,
- and have multiple readme windows opened at the same time...
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- · The -GiGA.guide will be placed in the download directory...
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- Future:
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- · Type sorting.
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- · Support of more pictures and Archives.
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- · Maybe support for FILEID.DIZ extraction.
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- · Which picture viewer should be default??
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- · write me!! 8)
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- *** NOTE: To get more help, start the program without arguments ***
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- Author: fini.alring@netmedia.dk (Fini 'Warp' Alring)
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- IRC: Sunsite.auc.dk or irc.FUnet.fi Channel: #AmigaDK
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- NOTE to bug reporters:
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- Please tell me what version you are using, since I make updates frequently.
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- Only Amiga makes it possible!!!
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 687 687 0.0% 04-Feb-98 23:11:52 +GigaCLS.lha
- 858 491 42.7% 04-Feb-98 23:10:30 +GigaCLS.readme
- 13959 13959 0.0% 03-Jul-97 00:41:00 +DirII.lha
- 610 415 31.9% 03-Jul-97 00:41:08 +DirII.readme
- 16048 5398 66.3% 04-Feb-98 23:28:12 GigaGuide
- 11898 5156 56.6% 04-Feb-98 21:41:00 GigaGuide.readme
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- 44060 26106 40.7% 05-Feb-98 06:03:10 6 files
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