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- W R A P T O R V 3
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- Program by Bill Lucier and Doreen Horne
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- Text by Fender Tucker
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- C-64 subscribers to LOADSTAR are quite familiar with WRAPTOR V3 since I
- use it to pack all of the Geos stuff for LOADSTAR 64. It's a program that
- can take any number of files and pack them into one big file that's easy to
- copy -- with a savings of around 40% in disk space. Ordinarily, Geos files
- can only be copied by Geos, and besides, even though Geos documents are
- packed, the technology used is quite old and inefficient by today's
- standards.
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- WRAPTOR V3 is a 64-mode program so be sure to switch to the 64 mode
- before loading it. You'll be unWRAPping from the LOADSTAR disk to a Geos
- workdisk, preferably a geoPaint workdisk. The opening screen is the Main
- Menu. First, use I and O (for Input and Output) to set the drives. Input is
- the same as "source" and Output is "destination". If you only have one
- drive, you'll need to copy "banjo.wr3" with a file copier to a disk with at
- least 50 blocks free. Then set the I and the O as the same drive.
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- At the Main Menu select A for Archive menu and at that menu select E
- for Extract. If you don't see the filename "banjo.wr3" in the file
- requestor window, press E again. Sometimes drives need to be cajoled a bit.
- Move the cursor highlight to "banjo.wr3" and press M to Mark the file. An
- asterisk will appear next to the filemane. Then press RETURN. You have
- selected to unpack "banjo.wr3".
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- At the next prompt, enter A for All. Then sit back and wait for the
- unWRAPping to take place. The geoPaint document is a 32-block USR file so
- it won't take more than a minute or so to unWRAP. At 20 MHz it only takes a
- few seconds. You'll end up with the USR file "banjo" on your workdisk,
- ready to be viewed or printed.
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- Put WRAPTOR V3 on your utility disk. Whenever we publish Geos stuff, it
- will be WRAPped. We might also WRAP some other software in the future, and
- not have room to include WRAPTOR V3 again.
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