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- SPAZ201
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- Modifications to support .ARJ compression
- by Jim Westbrook (1:382/29.0) 11-09-91
-
- An enhancement of
- SPAZ 1.50
- By Dan Thomson, Andrew Farmer and Jeffrey Nonken.
- Copyright (c) 1989-1990 Dan Thomson and Andrew Farmer.
- All Rights Reserved.
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- With the growing popularity of the ARJ compression tool, and its use by
- some for the compression of Fidonet mail bundles, a need for a tool
- capable of recognizing the .ARJ format and calling the appropriate
- utility for unpacking became apparent. SPAZ v1.50 was able to handle
- all of the compression utilities except for ARJ. Fortunately, Dan and
- company included the source code for SPAZ in the distribution package.
- So, I dusted off MASM and Personal Editor and set about adding the
- means to handle the new format. Once I figured out the header info of
- the .ARJ structure, the rest was fairly simple. Just change a couple
- of JMP instructions, add a couple of new labels, and assemble.
-
- The result, SPAZ201.COM, has been running without difficulty on four
- systems for over a month. These include an 8088, a 80286 speedup card
- in an XT, a 20Mhz 80286, an 80386SX, and an 80386DX. It has processed
- approximately 80Mb of compressed mail on my system alone (mostly in
- .zip format). As the saying goes, you use it at your own risk, and if
- anything breaks you have all the parts. It works here and on all the
- test systems, but your mileage may vary.
-
- You will note that BOTH v1.50 of SPAZ and SPAZ201 are included in the
- distribution. This is to provide the proper credit to Dan, Andrew, and
- Jeffrey who deserve the lion's share.
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- Enjoy!
- Jim
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