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RCX ReCursive .arc/.zipfile eXtractor by Jim Groeneveld, vs. 1.0, 29/1-93.
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===DESCRIPTION===
Extracts one or more archives (.ARC/.ZIPfiles) into subdirectories named by
the file_name part of the archive (or 'filename.DIR' if the archive has no
extension itself) relative to the destination directory.
ZIPfiles are extracted including their eventually stored directory structure.
Nested archives (.ARC/.ZIPfiles) are recursively extracted into subdirectories
named by the embedded .ARC/.ZIPfiles relative to the parent ARC/ZIPfile.
===PACKAGE===
RCX BAT 10868 1-29-93 1:00a Recursive extraction of archives
RCX B2C 13293 1-29-93 1:00a Prepared version for BAT2EXEC compiler
RCX C0M 13560 1-29-93 1:00a Compiled version of RCX.B2C
RCX EXE * 6027 1-29-93 1:00a LZEXE compressed version of RCX.COM
RCX DOC 4612 1-29-93 1:00a This documentation file
RCX HST 2387 1-29-93 1:00a History of RCX
BAT2EXEC BUG 7006 1-29-93 10:01a Bugs and other differences w/ BAT2EXEC
COMPILE DOS 10283 12-21-92 9:28a Preparing a .BAT file for compiling
* = absolutely necessary
(*.COM files have been renamed to *.C0M in order to let DOS find and run
the corresponding .EXE files.)
Furthermore the PD program GETFNX (by me too) and DOS's FIND are very necessary
(available from the same source(s) as RCX or included here as a .ZIP file).
Finally the programs PKUNPAK (vs. 3.61) and PKUNZIP (vs. 1.10) by Phil Katz are
most important as without these nothing relevant will happen.
===INSTALLATION===
Put RCX.EXE/COM/BAT in your UTIL directory, to be found via your DOS PATH.
(For the installation and use of GETFNX: see its documentation.)
===USAGE===
Syntax: RCX «target_path» «source_path_file» [«source_path_file» [..]] [.d]
in which
«target_path» = [d:]path of destination (drive/)directory, or relative
to current ('.') one, excl. trailing '\'!
«source_path_file» = [d:][path\]filename of ARC/ZIPfile(s) to extract (up to 7)
(wildcards allowed; extensions redundant)
Avoid files with the same file name part and
different archive ext's (.ARC and .ZIP).
.d = parameter indicating deletion of original archive
(.ARC/.ZIP) after extraction.
Embedded ARC/ZIPfiles always are automatically deleted.
Help is being given by only entering: RCX, eventually followed by ?, /?, -?,
/h or /H.
===REMARKS===
Attention! Because of a bug in the batch compiler BAT2EXEC it may be possible
that RCX locks up and tries to send output to the printer port(!).
In that case do not use the compiled programs (.EXE, .COM), but only the batch
(.BAT) files, by removing the .EXE and .COM files (see further BAT2EXEC.BUG).
WARNING:
Avoid the use of path and file names having %-characters in them. These are
being written literally into auxiliary files and the %-characters including
their successive characters may be interpreted as batch file or environment
variables. The results will be unpredictable, but certainly erroneous.
===SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS===
- IBM-PC (88/86/x86) or compatible
- (MS)DOS 2.x or above
With DOS 2.x change .BAT file lines 'ECHO.' into 'ECHO @', in which
'@' means the ascii-255 character, thus 'echo ', or it prints "ECHO is off".
Furthermore, with DOS«3.3 one might change '@echo off' into 'echo off'.
The DOS 3.3&up CALL command may be changed into 'COMMAND/C' with DOS«3.3 or
one might apply an external CALL command for the lower DOS versions (by me too).
- At least sufficient memory to load successive copies of COMMAND.COM (batch)
or nested copies of RCX and GETFNX (compiled) and FIND, PKUNPAK and PKUNZIP
and other additional temporary scratch batch files. It seems that using the
.BAT files 128kb would be sufficient, while using the .COM or .EXE files
256kb is needed.
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