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The files in this archive are some barebones demonstrations of some of the
special features of QAZ. They are standard, no-frills DOS batch files
meant to show what QAZ can be used for.
They are covered under the same license and disclaimer as the rest of the
QAZ package. (Again, no gurantees of any sort are made for these files).
The exception is that you may modify and distribute these (assuming you
make any improvements) so long as you distribute them seperately from the
QAZ distribution archive.
If you improve them or write new batch (as well as .BTM or .AWK) files,
or seperate executables/utilities which make use of QAZ, drop me a line
and let me know (my address is in the QAZ.DOC file).
UNQAZ.BAT
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Usage: UNQAZ archive.ext
ie: UNQAZ FOO-BAR.ZIP
This batch file demonstrates the use of the /r (Return exit code).
It uses QAZ to identify the archiver and then calls the appropriate
utility to unarchive the file.
You may have to do a bit of customizing is you use different utilities.
QAZTEST.BAT
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Usage: UNQAZ archive filespec
ie: UNQAZ FOO-BAR *.TXT
This batch uses QAZ to generate a bare-bones listing which it then
sends to PKUNZIP to use as a pick-list file for testing the archives.
QFIND.BAT
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Usage: QFIND disk filespec
ie: QFIND C: FOO{0-9}.TXT
This file demonstrates recursive-search feature of QAZ. It will search
all recognized archives on the specified disk for the filespec you give.
It also demonstrates the use of the QAZSPEC variable and extended file-
specs (Rather than type each possible extention individually it uses a
shorthand that describes several file-extentions at once).
Note that since QAZ v2.29ß you can also use the /us switch instead of
(or along with) the /ue switch to use the standard, hard-coded file-
specs. See the documentation for more info.
QAZSPEC.BAT
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Usage: QAZSPEC
This file just initialized the QAZSPEC environment variable if you don't
have it set in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The comments also have a brief
'translation' of the extended filespecs (same as in QFIND.BAT).
XQAZ.BAT
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Usage: XQAZ cmd archive datafile
ie: XQAZ E FOO-BAR.ARK *.*
This file evolved from UNQAZ.BAT and is the barebones of a universal
archive-viewing/testing/extracting batch file as one can get. Acceptable
commands are V (view), T (text), E (extract) or S (extract and scan for
viruses).
QFC.BAT
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Usage: QFC archive1 archive2
ie: QFC FIRST.ZIP SECOND.ZIP
The file will use QAZ to generate an alphabetized listing of each archive
then then use the DOS FC command to compare the two listings... a sort-of
no-frills archive comparison utility.
QAZENV.EXE
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Usage: QAZENV
This program shows the contents of the QAZCMD and QAZSPEC environment
variables--useful to check if any problems you are having with QAZ are
due to their values.
QVIEW.BAT
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Usage: QVIEW file
ie: QVIEW TEXT.GZ
This is my favorite QAZ demo, actually. It uses QAZ to identify a file--
if it's text, it's piped to a text reader (change MORE to your favorite
reader). If it's compressed with GZIP or Unix Compress, it uses GZIP
(GNU-Zip) to decompress to stdout (piped through MORE) so that you can
read the file: the result is that you can keep frequently read text and
info files compressed and yet still e able to read them!