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ARJ TOUCH - ARJ ARCHIVE COMMENTER/RE-DATER by Michael Trout 1/92
Program documentation...........
==============================================================================
I will not be held responsible for any damages of ANY kind arising from the
use of (or inability to use) ARJ TOUCH.
==============================================================================
Files: ARJTOUCH.DOC - This file.
ARJTOUCH.EXE - Main program file (goes in your DOS path with ARJ.EXE).
ATCH.COM - Support file (goes in your DOS path with ARJTOUCH.EXE).
A-BANNER.TXT - Sample comment file (you may edit as you wish or create
a new one, but it must be called A-BANNER.TXT in order
to work with this program).
==============================================================================
Additional programs needed: Any release version of ARJ file archiver software
(c) Robert K Jung.
==============================================================================
OVERVIEW..........
Welcome to ARJ TOUCH. This program will place a comment of your own design on
all ARJ files in any directory you wish. After this step it will then open
all archives, check for the newest file date inside and date stamp the archive
itself with this date. (This is handy, as you'll be able to tell the age of
the software inside each ARJ archive, instead of merely when the archive was
made).
ARJ TOUCH does these tricks using documented ARJ commands. Therefore, it will
do exactly what it was written to do but may not work if you have a damaged or
corrupted copy of this program or the ARJ archiver.
NOTE: ARJ TOUCH WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING TO YOUR ARJ ARCHIVES WITHOUT YOUR
PERMISSION. YOU WILL BE PROMPTED WITH Y/N EACH TIME ARJ TOUCH IS
READY TO MANIPULATE ARJ FILES IN ANY WAY. IN ADDITION, YOU MAY
LEAVE THE PROGRAM AT ANY TIME SIMPLY BY FOLLOWING THE PROMPTS.
==============================================================================
Program setup: Setup for ARJ TOUCH couldn't be more simple and direct. Put
the ARJ.EXE (ARJ archiver) anywhere in your DOS path. Put
ARJTOUCH.EXE and ATCH.COM in your DOS path also. (The easy
way to be sure is to put these two files in the same path
directory in which you keep ARJ.EXE itself). That's all. Now
the program itself is ready for use.....but first, you must
edit and place your A-BANNER.TXT file. So read on.......
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About A-BANNER.TXT: This is an ASCII text file which you may edit any way you
like for your own needs, or create a new text if you need
to. It's all up to you. For instance:
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
██ ═════════════ FROM THE SHAREWARE LIBRARY OF: ═════════ ██▒▒
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▒▒
██ ██▒▒
██ Name or any other information you wish, etc. etc. ██▒▒
██ ██▒▒
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▒▒
▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
The A-BANNER.TXT file is a banner for ARJ archives. Once installed any ARJ
archive, this banner will be printed to the screen anytime the archive is
uncompressed. The creation or editing of the file must be done with a pure
ASCII editor. The copy of A-BANNER.TXT included with this program is just a
starting place. Let your imagination go wild as you create you own banner!
I would suggest you not let the file go over 10 lines in length though, or you
will end up with a banner so big it'll become annoying.....
Whatever you create as your banner MUST be named A-BANNER.TXT or else it will
not work with ARJ TOUCH.
One brief note, the program uses the term "branding" for commenting. This is
not as permanent as it sounds. Any banner or comment will stay with the ARJ
only so long as you do not re-ARJ the file or somebody else does not put a new
comment on it. This program will not re-comment ARJ file which have a valid
ARJ security envelope.
As ARJ TOUCH is commenting archives you may see other banners flit by on your
screen. These are merely the banners already on the files which are being
replaced by your own banner, and are no cause for alarm.
==============================================================================
Running ARJ TOUCH. 1. Follow the set up instructions listed above.
2. Edit the ARJ-BANNER.TXT file to your personal taste.
3. Copy the ARJ.BANNER.TXT file into the subdirectory
which holds the ARJ archives you wish to "touch".
4. Go into the subdirectory which holds the ARJ archives
and type ARJTOUCH. Follow the prompts. Easy, yes?
==============================================================================
If you like ARJ TOUCH and use it a lot, I'd be grateful for a small and one-
time contribution of $2.00 (two dollars). You can send it to the P.O. Box
which is listed in the closing screen of the program. I am asking for this
because I am constantly calling long distance BBS to upload ARJ TOUCH and will
be needing a bit of help to defray the expense.
In addition, if you use ARJ archiver it might be nice to register it. Mr. Jung
has spent much time and effort bringing us this fine program, and should be
paid for this......
Coming soon.............ZIPTOUCH...................
Regards, M. Trout
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