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xPack V1.2 - English Manual
NAME
C:xPack
SYNOPSIS
xPack FILE/M,METHOD/K,MINSIZE/N/K,SUFFIX/K,
PASSWORD/K,ALL/S,FORCE/S,PROGRAM/S
DESCRIPTION
xPack is a command line interface to the XPK compression library.
It was made to enable you to pack (or unpack) many files quickly
and comfortably, exspecially for use with the "XFH-Handler".
xPack needs OS 2.04 or newer.
Main features:
- supports patterns
- can scan complete directory trees
- protection flags, filenote and date of the files are NOT changed
- packed files won't be repacked by default
For more details about XPK read the documentation supplied.
ARGUMENTS
FILE: You can supply as many files, directories or patterns
as you want.
METHOD: the compression algorithm to be used
MINSIZE: All files which are smaller than this value (in bytes)
won't be crunched (default 512 bytes).
SUFFIX: add/remove supplied suffix if packing/unpacking
PASSWORD: optional Password for encryption (or decryption)
ALL: scan through directory trees
FORCE: Files will be packed even if they're already XPK
packed and/or their size increases.
PROGRAM: pack only executables (e.g. for xLoadSeg)
Examples:
xPack SYS:MetaFont METHOD NUKE ALL
or
xPack Docs/#?.doc METHOD IMPL.40 SUFFIX .xpk MINSIZE 1024
or
xPack Secret.txt METHOD ENCO PASSWORD Joshua
or (Decrunch)
xPack Archive/#?.xpk Archive/#?.pp
HISTORY
XPKSmart 1.0
- first internal Release
xSmart 1.0
- program renamed on a request by Urban "XPK" Müller
- progress display fits better in the CLI window now
- check for increase of size by packing with XPK implemented
xPack 1.0
- program renamed again on a request by Urban "XPK" Müller
- "FORCE", "PASSWORD" and "SUFFIX" argument implemented
- file handling changed, slower but more secure
- removed Enforcer hit
xPack 1.1
- no problems with WShell anymore
- if xPack is started with OS 1.3 a message is printed instead of
displaying a recoverable Alert
xPack 1.2
- added "PROGRAM" parameter
- suffixes may be removed while unpacking
COPYRIGHT
xPack is free to be spread on public-domain and shareware disks as
long as they are sold for a reasonable charge that is less than $6.
This applies not to Fred Fish, he and ONLY he can take more money.
For use in commercial products the permission of the author is
required.
AUTHOR
Matthias Scheler
Schützenstraße 18
D-4799 Borchen
INTERNET: tron@uni-paderborn.de