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A·R·C·D·E·S·T
(v1.00)
written by Freak of NFA
This is a little utility that was created to make unarchiving easier
from within Amigaguide documents, it's much like the one on the Aminet
CD's, which is where I got the idea, but this one is completely free for
use by anyone, spread it as you please!
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R·E·Q·U·I·R·E·M·E·N·T·S
To sucessfully use ArcDest you need the following:
- Personal.font size 8 - this was given away on a coverdisk and is
given away with most new Amigas, so it's easily avalable, and is
in this archive just in case.
- Lzx and Lha, depending what files you're depacking, these need
to be in your C: directory or path and are not included in this
archive.
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U·S·I·N·G A·R·C·D·E·S·T
Using ArcDest from the CLI:
Why? Oh never mind, well it's easy enough if you want to do it,
just type:
ArcDest <archiver> <archive>
where <archiver> is either lhz or lzx and
<archive> is the name of the archive file.
Using ArcDest from an AmigaGuide document:
Create a button along the lines of the following:
@{"<button text>" System "ArcDest <archiver> <archive>"}
where <buttontext> is the text for your button
<archiver> is either lhz or lzx and
<archive> is the name of the archive file.
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W·H·A·T I·T D·O·E·S
You give it three arguments, and it turns those arguments, together with
a destination directory, into a string capable of calling Lzx or Lha or
whatever with the correct arguments to unpack that file.
It also remembers the last directory you unpacked to for future
reference in a file called "S:ArcDest.path", which is loaded, used and
updated every time you use ArcDest.
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That's all you need to know, I'd appreciate it if anyone using ArcDest
would be kind enough to send me a postcard or a copy of the AmigaGuide
project they're using it in so that I can see how things are going.
Post to: R. Monks.
P.O.Box 42,
Grimsby,
N.E.Lincs.
DN33 1RY
ENGLAND
Thanks for reading this document!
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