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GuiArc V1.22
Graphical User Interface for Achivers.
1. Copy-rights.
This program is spread as FreeWare. It means you may freely
distribute and copy this program, as long as everything stays
unchanged and all documentation and other files are spread with
it.
It also means, that this program is Copy-righted by me, the
author of this program. You are not allowed to change anything,
ask money for the program or use the program commericaly. Nobody
but myself is allowed to make money with this program. This also
implicates that this program may not be included with any
commercial product without written permission of the author.
This program may be included on non-commercial PD disks like
Fish Disks.
2. Distribution contents.
The distribution should contain at least:
ArcTypes
ArcTypes.info
GuiArc
GuiArc.info
GuiArc_E.doc
GuiArc_E.doc.info
GuiArc_N.doc
GuiArc_N.doc.info
The file 'GuiArcConfig' may absolutely NOT be included in any
distribution. When this file is present, the requester which is
shown at the start of the program, will be disabled, and I think
everybody should see this requester at least one time :-).
3. What's the program for.
This program is written, to give you a user friendly and easy to
use method of dealing with archivers. The main archiver where I
wrote this program for, is 'Lha' from Stefan Boberg, but the
program is fully configurable to use an unlimited number of
different archivers at once.
The program recognizes different types of archives automaticly
from their file pattern. When you, for example, select 5
archives, of different types, and choose 'extract' from the
gadgets menu, all archives will get unpacked, with their own
archiver. The program automaticly selects the correct archiver.
This is also done with all other actions, like adding and
listing. When you create a new archive, and don't explicitly
specify the type, the first defined type (default 'lha') will be
chosen.
4. How to use the program.
You can start the program from CLI or WorkBench. After that, it
will open a window on the WB-screen, that looks like this:
+--------------------+ +--------------------+
| | | |
: A : : B :
: : : :
| | | |
+--------------------+ +--------------------+
| C | | D |
+--------------------+ +--------------------+
+------------+ +-----+ +------------+ +-----+
| | | | | | | |
| E | | F | | G | | H |
+------------+ +-----+ +------------+ +-----+
The blocks A and B will contain the contents of the selected
directory or archive for the left and right work area. C and D
contains the path for A and B. They're editable. Blocks E and G
are short-cuts for the paths C and D. The right-bottom most
gadget of each block is configurable. And at last, F and H
contain gadgets for all different actions you can perform on the
archives.
5. Possible actions.
In this chapter, I will discuss all actions you can perform on
archives with this program. Therefore, I will first introduce
some terms.
The source area
is always the block (A or B) whose contents are
used to perform the actions on. If you selected an action in
F, block A is the source area, and the same with H and B. If
you selected the action by double clicking, the area you
first clicked in, is the source area.
The target area
is the block where the results of the action are
placed. This is always the other block.
The source archive
is a selected archive in the source area. This
can be the source area itself (if you are 'in' a archive) or
one or more selected archives in the source area.
Source files
are the selected files and/or directories in the
source area. This can be files/directories in a directory or
from the archive you're 'in'. This depends on the action you
want to perform.
A target archive
is the selected archive in the targed area.
Again, this can be the target area itself (if you're 'in' an
archive) or exactly one selected archive in the target area.
If not, the program will ask for the name of a new file.
Some actions can be activated with an other method than clicking
the gadget or pressing the underlined letter. This will be
mentioned at the action. An action is always performed from the
source area, to the destination area, or, is case no result will
show up, in the source area. These actions are possible (if
supported by the archiver, Lha supports them all).
Add
With add, you can add files to an archive (surprise!). The
source files are added to the destination archive, which is
created, if nessesary. When a new archive is created, the
default type is the one of the first defined archive type.
Ofcourse you can force the program to use a different
archiver, by adding the right file-extension (or so) to the
name. For example, if you type 'test', the archive
'test.lha' will be created with 'Lha' (supposing 'lha' is
the first defined type) but, if you type 'test.zoo' the
archive 'test.zoo' will be created, with the archiver 'Zoo'.
This way, you can select all different archivers.
You can also start adding files to an archive, by, after
selecting the last file to add, clicking in the destination
archive within the time of a double-click. You must be 'in'
the destination archive in the destination area.
Move
Similair to add, but all added files will be deleted from
the source. This action can not be activated in an other
way.
Ext/Cp
Ext means Extract. All selected source archives, will be
unpacked and the result will be in the destination area. If
you are 'in' a source archive, only
those
files which are
selected, will be unpacked.
Cp means Copy. This will copy all (non-archive) files and/or
directorys to the destination area. The program uses the
cli 'Copy' instruction for this action, so this command
should be available in your path (normally in the C:
directory).
You can also activate extract by, after you selected the