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- = UnPacker v1.1; 1993-08-14. =
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- = Copyright ⌐1993 Erik Sagalara. =
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- = This program is FreeWare. =
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- Description:
- ------------
- UnPacker is an appicon utility for extracting archives. It chooses
- the archiver to use by the suffix, eg. '.lha', '.zip' or '.zoo'.
- You can configure UnPacker for any other arc-program you want to use
- by changing the tooltypes of the icon.
-
-
- Usage:
- -----
- UnPacker only works from the WB. There are two ways to use it:
-
- 1) If you start UnPacker directly from the Workbench it will open
- an appicon. To extract an archive just throw it on UnPacker.
-
- You can double click the icon to get an informative requester.
- Choose the 'QUIT!' button to remove UnPacker.
-
-
- 2) If you use ToolManager you're lucky, because UnPacker works great
- together whith it.
-
- Create an EXEC object whith 'Program Type' = WB and 'Argument' = ON,
- then you use it just as normally.
-
-
- Configuration:
- --------------
- Here is a list of the available tooltypes:
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- 'DONOTWAIT' Add this if you want to place UnPacker in WbStartup.
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- 'XPOS=' Specifies the appicons X-position (from left edge),
- 'YPOS=' respectively the Y-position (from the top).
-
- 'DESTDIR=' Tells in which dir to put extracted files,
- eg. DESTDIR=RAM:
-
- 'XYZ=C:xyz x' These tooltypes are the most important. Add one for
- each achiver you use.
-
- The format is '<SUFFIX>=<COMMAND> <ARGUMENTS>'
- IMPORTANT: You must use capitals for <SUFFIX>.
-
- Examples: 'LHA=C:LhA x', 'ZIP=C:UnZip', 'DMS=C:DMS Write'.
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-
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- Motivation:
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- I wrote this program because although there is a whole array of "appicon-
- type" programs to do all sort of things there still lacks a comfortable
- method to extract archives from the WB.
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- Of course you can make hacks in ToolManager for this, but they can only
- handle one archiver per icon and you can't have dozens of icons for every
- program. The solution to this was one icon that covers all the archivers
- you use, alas UnPacker.
-
-
- History:
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- Version 1.0: The first version; was only uploaded on Aminet.
-
- Version 1.1: Complete rewrite since I lost the source to 1.0.
- Fixes the bug that got the path wrong when the archive
- is in a subdirectory, and some other small enhancements.
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- Contacting author:
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- If you have any questions or just like this program feel free to contact me:
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- EMAIL: d86esa@efd.lth.se
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- MAIL: Erik Sagalara
- TunavΣg. 39 B549
- 223 63 LUND
- Sweden
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