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- _Special_Reminder_: ARK runs ONLY on Z80 systems. No support is
- planned for 8080 systems.
-
- Usage:
-
- ARK [-bksw] <archive> <file1> . . . <filen>
-
- -b retain backup of .ARK
- -k force crunching
- -s force no compression
- -w supress warning messages
-
- <archive> = name of archive file (default type = .ARK)
- <filex> = file to be added to archive (wildcards ok)
-
- ARK presently supports three types of members: type 2
- (uncompressed), type 3 (ncr encoding - 'packed'), and type 8
- (Lempel-Ziv-Welch encoding - 'crunched'). ARK will choose the
- most efficent method of compression and save the file using that
- format.
-
- In general, the command you will use to do most of your
- archiving will be:
-
- A>ARK d:archive e:*.*
-
- Note that ARK will either add or replace members of the
- archive, so you do not need to specify that it is an update.
- (This example makes (or adds to) D:ARCHIVE all the files on E:.)
-
- On systems supporting the BDOS T_GET (105) call, (which
- includes Z80DOS, Turbo-DOS, MP/M, and I think CP/M+), the time
- and date of each member in the archive is set to the current time
- and date. On other systems the date is defined by the bytes at
- 103h-107h as YYMMDDHHMMM. A future version of ARK will allow for
- systems that support actual date-stamps (Z80DOS and DateStamper).
-
- Please send your problems or comments (please include
- version number information!) to:
-
- Brian Moore or GEMAIL to B.E.MOORE
- 1550 High Street, #2
- Eugene, OR 97401
- (503) 687-8531 [voice]
-
-