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- MONTA ver 2.0
-
- MONTA.EXE is a simple program that is used to group text files (such as
- source codes of programs in C and C++ or any other text files) in a large
- text file easely editable by any DOS editor. It was created intending to
- simplify the handling of many C/C++ source files (such as replacing the name
- of a global variable that appears in many files) in projects with many files.
- The large text file (archive) is created with .SRC extension, if none is
- supplied.
-
- It's usage is:
-
- MONTA [/B] filename[.SRC] where:
-
- filename pathname of archive
- /B creates archive with binary file tags
-
- MONTA.EXE allows nested archives, which means that you can store a
- MONTA archive inside another.
-
- Archives created by MONTA can be extracted by EXTRAIA.EXE
-
- Example:
- MONTA HELP.SRC MONTA.TXT EXTRAIA.TXT
- The above example will store MONTA.TXT (this file) and EXTRAIA.TXT in HELP.SRC
-
- Typing MONTA, the name of an existing archive and the names of files to be
- stored. MONTA will prompt for the user (Overwrite/Append/Quit?).
- If the user types O, the archive will be overwritten by the new files to
- store.
- If the user types A, the files to store will be included to the archive,
- without removing the existing files from archive.
- If the user types Q, MONTA will be finished.
-
- THE /B option
- The /B option has been provided to allow compatibility with older versions,
- such as the .SRC archives that comes with CRT1_6s.ZIP. This option instructs
- MONTA to write binary file TAGS in the archive instead of normal ASCII TAGS.
- The earlier versions writes only these binary file tags because they are much
- smaller and easier to handle by computer. Although they are smaller, it's not
- advisable to use these tags because most text editor's can't handle them very
- well (I mean, even though they cause no problem to the editor, it's hard to
- write them in hand (you might need a binary editor to do so) and most Windows
- based editors can't display them correctly). They are displayed below:
-
- Binary opentag => //filename
- Binary closetag => //
-
- EXTRAIA doesn't recognize binary tags and normal ASCII tags simultaneously.
- So creating archives with files stored by normal file TAGS and files stored
- by binary file tags, will create archives with two types of stored files.
- Those that can be extracted without (and only without) the /B switch, and
- those that can be extracted with (and only with) the /B switch.
-
- For further information, read EXTRAIA.TXT
-
- Copyright notices are also in EXTRAIA.TXT
-
- By Márcio Afonso Arimura Fialho
-
- http://pessoal.iconet.com.br/jlfialho
- e-mail: jlfialho@iconet.com.br OR (only in the case the first one doesn't work): jlfialho@yahoo.com