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- 1.7 (c) 1994 David Smith All rights reserved
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- --==≡≡ THE Archive Converter for 1994 ≡≡==--
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- ========== QUICK START ! ==================================================
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- Put STEALTH.EXE in a "test" directory containing some archives.
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- Make sure STEALTH.EXE is in your "PATH=" statement.
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- Type: STEALTH.EXE
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- Now watch as all the archives are converted to your favorite
- compressor! This program finds them all: PAK ZIP HAP SQZ LZH
- plus tons more, then converts them to your 'favorite' archiver.
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- Now type: CD\
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- Notice that STEALTH.LOG has been written there. Use EDIT.COM
- from DOS 5+ and look at it. Just type: EDIT STEALTH.LOG
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- All action from Stealth has been written, including dates, times
- and DOS commands that it used.
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- Type: STEALTH /? for a quick help screen!
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- Advanced users: Welcome to the world of Stealth. This program
- is quite unique, because it will convert ANY archive to ANY
- other archive. The advantages of this over other competition
- programs (like ZZAP, SHEZ, etc...) is:
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- ■ It supports every major archiver available! ARJ, ARC, LHA,
- HAP, SQZ, DWC, PAK, ZIP 1.1 and 2.0, ICE, LHARC, LARC,
- HYPER, SDN, and ZOO.
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- ■ It can recognize PKZIP 1.1 files and PKZIP 2.0 "normal"
- compressed files, then convert them to PKZIP -EX "extra"
- compression. This will save you a ton of hard disk
- space!
- NOTE: PKZIP 2.0 "stored" files are identical to PKZIP 1.1
- format. Therefore, all 2.0 "stored" archives are
- flagged as version 1.1.
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- ■ Recognizes embedded directories, and can include them with
- the conversion.
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- ■ Is perfect for SYSOPS, since it can be run as an "event" to
- update all .ZIP files, or be used as an upload processor.
- Even add comments or strip them from the files...
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- ■ You can "customize" STEALTH to almost any configuration.
- Include some archives, but not others, recurse subdirectories,
- leave SFX files alone, delete files after processing,
- plus MORE.
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- ■ Keeps an accurate log of all activity.
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- No other utility can do this! Plus STEALTH recognizes even
- DWC, SQZ, and LARC self-extracting files. Please notice
- that NO OTHER ARCHIVE program can do that.
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- Is hard disk space important? That PKZIP file you downloaded
- yesterday... it is probably in 1.1 format. In fact, most of
- your PKZIP'ed files are 1.1 or else 2.0 "normal" compressed.
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- Use STEALTH to maximize their compression. You can save 60,000
- bytes of disk space on a few files, and several megabytes if
- you re-archive every downloaded file. Doing that manually will
- take FOREVER. And even batch files are no good, since they are
- so slow. But, you can be assured of accuracy and speed with STEALTH!
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- STEALTH is extrememly simple:
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- 1. Edit STEALTH.CFG to your satisfaction (see below for details)
- (or just use STL_CFG.EXE to create your OWN stealth.cfg)
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- 2. Include STEALTH.EXE and STEALTH.CFG in your path
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- 3. Go to a directory containing some old archives.
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- 4. Type: STEALTH.EXE (or STEALTH *.*)
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- Now note that Stealth processes the entire directory! The
- only filespec you need (optional) is *.*. Stealth ruthlessly
- converts everything it can find using your .CFG file.
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- NOTE: You can use STEALTH *.* or STEALTH *.ZIP .....
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- And wala, you are all done.
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- If you change your mind on archives, or want to change something,
- STEALTH.CFG is easy to edit.
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- Take your favorite editor and change it around.
- NOTE: If Stealth cannot locate STEALTH.CFG file, it will use
- its own defaults.
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- IMPORTANT NOTE: If you specify MAKE ZIPS -EX, then Stealth assumes
- you want to use PKZIP 2.0 as your default archiver.
- It will process files as such!
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- ALSO: PKZIP 2.0 "stored" files are identical to PKZIP 1.1
- format. Therefore, all 2.0 "stored" archives are
- flagged as version 1.1.
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- ========= USING STEALTH.CFG FILE ============================================
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- Included here is STEALTH.CFG, a configuration file for this program.
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- Use the enclosed STL_CFG.EXE program for a quick and easy way
- to create Stealth.cfg. Just fill in the blanks, and change
- the values to what you like best.
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- Press [F10] to save Stealth.cfg and exit.
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- Now you can change it by using a text editor, and type out
- which options you want to use. The format is:
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- Put the archiver you want everything converted to.
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- [archiver] = archiver
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- Whereas archiver could be:
- PKZIP1 ARJ LHA DWC
- PKZIP2 PAK ZOO ARC6
- SQUEEZE ICE HAP LARC
- HYPER LHARC
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- Next, put all the archives you want converted to YOUR archiver.
- For instance, if you put LHA here, all .LZH files will be
- converted.
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- [archiver] = convert
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- Whereas archiver could be:
- PKZIP1 ARJ LHA DWC
- PKZIP2 PAK ZOO ARC6
- SQUEEZE ICE HAP LARC
- HYPER LHARC
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- Now, do you want to strip all comment files in the archivers
- found?
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- NO = strip comment
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- And do you want to add your own comment file to the archives
- that are converted?
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- NO = add comment
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- Then, what comment file do you want added? (leave this line
- out if you want to comment added)
- NOTE: Make sure that the filename is left justified! No spaces
- should be on the left of the filename!
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- B:\COMMENT.DAV = comment file
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- When .EXE self-extracting archives are found, do you want
- them extracted?
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- NO = executables
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- If PKZIP 2.0 files are found that have been compressed using
- "normal" compression, do you want them to be re-compressed
- using "EXTRA" compression?
- NOTE: This will immediately change your ARCHIVER to PKZIP 2.0
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- NO = make ZIPs -EX
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- Do you want to recurse the subdirectories? If YES, then all
- directories beneath the current one will be processed also!
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- NO = recurse subdirs
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- As a default, STEALTH logs all activity into \STEALTH.LOG.
- This makes it easy to see what happened, and keep track of
- what went where.
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- yes = create log file
- \STEALTH.LOG = log file location
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- Also as default, STEALTH deletes the old archives, so that
- your hard disk is not cluttered with old and new versions.
- That would make it extremely difficult to sort through them!
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- yes = delete files
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- THE REGISTERED VERSION INCLUDES VIRUS SCANNING
- USING ALL THE MAJOR SCANNERS!
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- ■ TBSCAN.EXE
- ■ SCAN.EXE
- ■ F-PROT.EXE
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- ============ ATTENTION SYSOPS! ===========================================
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- STEALTH can save you tons of hard disk space, and serve as a
- processor for uploads.
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- If some new member uploads you an ancient archive (PAK or ZOO),
- or some unknown self-extracting .EXE archive, how do you
- find out what it is?
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- It could be a cool game that everybody likes, but the lamer has
- given you a useless file.
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- STEALTH will instantly recognize the .EXE file as DWC, ZOO, PAK,
- ARJ, PKZIP 1.1, PKZIP 2.0, ARC, LHA, etc.
- Then it will convert it to your BBS's archiver, with no problem.
- Even embedded paths are saved!
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- **** Included is UPLOAD.CFG configuration for upload processing ****
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- Is your BBS's hard disk getting full? Run STEALTH as an event
- once a week and convert all of your PKZIP 1.1 and 2.0 "normal"
- compressed files to PKZIP 2.0 "EXTRA" compression!
- That will save MEGABYTES of space (a friend of mine saved over
- 2 megabytes on one directory of uploads)
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- **** Included is EVENT.CFG configuration for event processing ****
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- Plus you can comment all the processed files with your own
- BBS comment file, or simply strip the old comments from
- them.
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- And registration is only $15.00! That includes LIFETIME
- upgrades, BBS and mail support (unlimited), plus more...
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- To register, send $15.00 to:
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- David Smith
- 1104 Mason Dr
- Hurst TX 76053
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- and please fill out the enclosed form for your own "customized"
- PKZIP, ARJ switches. I know many people have favorites, or want
- to include their "-AV" validation in files.
- With registration, YOU CAN!
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- ========= PLEASE READ THIS! ===============================================
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- Please think about what you put into STEALTH.CFG before starting
- the program.
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- 1. If your "Archiver" and "convert" file types are the same, then
- all files will be processed twice:
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- PKZIP2 = Archiver
- PKZIP2 = convert
- PAK = convert
- ARJ = convert
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- because STEALTH will convert all the .ARJ and .PAK files, then
- convert them again because they are now PKZIP 2.0 files!
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- IMPORTANT NOTE: If you specify MAKE ZIPS -EX, then Stealth assumes
- you want to use PKZIP 2.0 as your default archiver.
- It will process files as such!
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- 2. If you have 20 archives with the same name:
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- ANOTHER.PAK
- ANOTHER.ARJ
- ANOTHER.ZIP
- ANOTHER.SDN
- ANOTHER.ZOO
- ANOTHER.ARC
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- all of the contents of ALL THE ARCHIVES will be converted into
- your new file. So, if you said: PKZIP2 = Archiver
- then ANOTHER.PAK's contents will be stuffed into ANOTHER.ZIP,
- and ANOTHER.ARJ's contents will be also. And you will lose
- the original files. So please don't name several archives
- the same file name, then include all those types in your
- STEALTH.CFG file!
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- 3. Embedded directories are NOT processed if you use:
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- yes = recurse subdirs
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- Why? Because when you re-compress the file, then you will include
- all subdirectories under the current one. And if you are in
- the root directory, your whole hard drive will be sucked up into
- the new compressed file!
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- 4. Please don't STRIP a file's comments, then ADD a comment. If you
- ADD a comment, then the old one is automatically deleted.
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- 5. Please make sure ALL FILENAMES IN STEALTH.CFG are left justified!
- For example, your comment file should look like:
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- ║ C:\PCBOARD\COMMENT.FIL
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- Because to get the filename, an ASCII 'zero' is placed wherever
- a 'space' character is. And the filename won't register unless
- it's left justified.
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- NOTE: PKZIP 2.0 "stored" files are identical to PKZIP 1.1
- format. Therefore, all 2.0 "stored" archives are
- flagged as version 1.1.
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- 7. Due to the "human" nature of my C++ compiler, if you have
- a THICK layer of subdirectories (more than 10), and each have
- the exact same filenames, one or two files may be skipped.
- This is because the Data Transfer Area of DOS thinks that it
- already processed that file. This should also be fixed in the
- next version.
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- 8. Also NOTE: Any unsuccessful de-compression of a file will
- result in the original not being erased. So if STEALTH does
- not get an errorlevel of 0, then it aborts the erasure process.
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- =================== WHERE IS DWC? =========================================
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- ARJ, PKZIP, DWC, PAK and all the other archivers can be found at:
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- ║ Hogard Software Solutions BBS ║
- ║ 4533 Marblearch Drive ║
- ║ Grand Prairie, Tx 75052-4629 ║
- ║ ASP Member BBS ║
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- ║ (214) 641-6292 up to 38,400bps ║
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- ║ SysOp: Chuck Hogard ║
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- The SysOp is a great guy, and has all of these files available
- for download. And while you are there, check out the
- Dave's Unique Utilities section. It has all my stuff, and
- is updated weekly.
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- Register now for only $15.00. With registration, you get:
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- 1. Unlimited free upgrades
- 2. Unlimited tech support via BBS and mail
- 3. The nagging "REGISTER NOW" reminder goes away
- 4. Customize your own PKZIP options, plus all
- other archiver's switches!
- 5. Includes -AV support for PKZIP
- 6. Super-advanced features coming up
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