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- ∫ PROGRAM: DIRARC (C) v1.00 by Scott R. Haymaker and HandMade Software ∫
- ∫ ∫
- ∫ DESCRIPTION: An archiving manager for your directories. ∫
- ∫ ∫
- ∫ PURPOSE: By using the compression capabilities of various archiving ∫
- ∫ programs, DIRARC allows the user to easily compress and ∫
- ∫ decompress directories and thus increase free disk space. It ∫
- ∫ also simplifies the use of such archiving programs allowing the ∫
- ∫ user to create executable archives and archives which contain ∫
- ∫ contain sub-directories for a given directory. ∫
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- I wrote DIRARC out of necessity. I have alot of directories which contain
- files that I seldom use, but I need to keep these directories on my hard
- disk nonetheless. So even though I seldom use them, I still need them to
- be present when I do require them. Thus it occurred to me that it would be
- nice if I could archive these directories and save some space on my hard
- disk. (We all know how valuable hard disk space is in these days of space
- eating applications!)
-
- Anyhow, after writing some fairly intensive batch files to handle this
- process, I decided it would be easier to create a program to take care of
- this chore, and with that DIRARC v1.00 was created.
-
- DIRARC will do the following:
-
- (1) It will use either PKZIP/PKUNZIP, LHA, or the ARJ compression
- utilities to archive your directory(s) into one file.
-
- (2) It is capable of creating archives that are executable and/or which
- contain sub-directories.
-
- (3) After DIRARC creates the archive, it allows you the option to delete
- the files it has archived. Thus you would be left with only one file,
- the archive, which is named after the first eight letters of the
- directory name, or "ROOT" in the case of the DOS root directory.
-
- (4) Whenever you need the directory to be decompressed, you can either
- run DIRARC with the decompress option, or "manually" decompress them
- with the desired archiving program should you choose.
-
- Let's take a look at an example with the given directory of:
-
- ===============================================================================
-
- C:\TEST> dir
-
- Volume in drive C has no label
- Volume Serial Number is 1B77-3AC6
- Directory of C:\TEST
-
- . <DIR> 02-10-94 4:28p
- .. <DIR> 02-10-94 4:28p
- DIRARC EXE 30211 02-15-94 10:48p
- INSTALL EXE 17882 02-07-94 8:40p
- THANKS TXT 140 01-31-94 4:38p
- REGISTER DOC 2599 01-31-94 10:44p
- LICENSE DOC 3707 02-01-93 2:04a
- HISTORY TXT 9060 08-02-91 2:13a
- DIRARC DOC 7189 06-04-93 9:19a
- 9 file(s) 70788 bytes <- NOTE: 70788 bytes used.
- 78118912 bytes free
-
- C:\TEST> dirarc /c /z /q <- NOTE: Create archive
- using PKZIP in
- "quiet" mode.
- ±±±±DIRARC v1.00±±±±(C) HandMade Software '93±±±±
-
- Delete files that have been archived [Y/N]: y <- NOTE: File deletion is
- optional.
- ±±±±DIRARC Run Complete!±±±±
-
-
- C:\TEST> dir
-
- Volume in drive C has no label
- Volume Serial Number is 1B77-3AC6
- Directory of C:\TEST
-
- . <DIR> 02-10-94 4:28p
- .. <DIR> 02-10-94 4:28p
- TEST ZIP 37798 02-15-94 10:48p <- NOTE: Archive name.
- 3 file(s) 37798 bytes <- NOTE: 37798 bytes used.
- 78163968 bytes free
-
- C:\TEST>
- ===============================================================================
-
- As you can see, this saves quite a bit of space! The system creates an
- archive which is named after the directory and prompts the user to delete
- the files (this can be over-ridden via a switch). Note that DIRARC allows
- the user complete control over almost every possible mode of operation!
-
- You can imagine what kind of monster batch files that would have to be
- written to carry out this simple function. With DIRARC, all of this is
- taken care of! Also included are pre-written batch files to even
- further the simplicity of operation.
-
- For more information on command syntax, registration, and other
- acknowledgements, please refer to the following files:
-
- README.DOC - This file.
- DIRARC.DOC - Detailed explanation of command syntax and program usage.
- REGISTER.DOC - Information on how to obtain the SOURCE CODE to DIRARC and
- how to donate to the author.
- LICENSE.DOC - Information on SITE licensing and other restrictions.
- THANKS.DOC - Acknowledgements and personal mentions.
-
-
- ============================[COPYRIGHT NOTICES]================================
-
- PKZIP and PKUNZIP are registered trademarks of PKWARE, Inc.
-
- LHA copyrighted (c) by HARUYASU YOSHIZAKI
-
- ARJ copyrighted (c) 1990-93 by Robert K Jung.
-
- Trademarks of other companies mentioned appear for identification
- purposes only and are the property of their respective companies or
- authors.
-
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