Introduction

Arcgsh is a GEM shell that eases the use of the most popular archiving programs for the Atari ST (arc, lharc, shar, tar, and zoo). Furthermore the programs compress, uud, and uueare supported. compress is able to compress resp. decompress a single file. uud and uue are useful if binary files — e. g. archives — are to be sent or received with electronic mail. What is more: You can use your favorite file viewer and your favorite editor from Arcgsh without any need to leave the program.

With Arcgsh it is no longer neccessary to start a command-line-shell in order to run an archiver, ``cd'' to the directory where your archive file is (or should be created), remember the various archiver options (each archiver has its own set of options), type them in and finally start the program. With Arcgsh you can handle everything with GEM objects: Dialog boxes let you select program options via buttons, and filenames are comfortably selected using the GEM file selector box.

Arcgsh is a shell, not a stand-alone program. In order to make use of the various archiving programs, you must at first have them installed somewhere on your computer. This is what you need:

What does atari.archive mean? Well, those of you who have access to the international Internet can retrieve files by anonymous FTP from the FTP server atari.archive.umich.edu of the University of Michigan (USA). Archiving programs can be found there in the directory /atari/archivers. The table above refers to files within this directory at atari.archive.umich.edu. (If you do not understand what I am talking about you probably have not Internet access. You can get the files you need from me on a disk then.)