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PAKAS v1.0
27 August 1988
Michael J. Housky
Copyright 1988 by Michael J. Housky.
Released to the public domain August 1988. No rights reserved.
PAKAS is a utility program to allow use of the PKPAK archive
utility from PKWARE, Inc. instead of the slower ARCA program, for
archived mail processing. This is similar to the ARCA2PK utilitiy
produced by George A. Stanislav, but adds a sort step to reorder
the archive by file creation date just after packing or before
unpacking the archive.
Usage:
PAKAS archive filespec
Arguments:
"archive" is the name of an archive file to update. If it
does not exist, it is created.
"filespec" identifies one or more DOS files which are to be
compressed and moved to the archive. Wildcards may be
used to move multiple similarly-named files to the
archive in one step.
Operation:
PAKAS first calls PKPAK to move files to the destination
archive, using:
PKPAK -oct -m archive filespec.
This compresses files matching "filespec", adds them to
"archive", then DELETES THE ORIGINAL UNCOMPRESSED FILES.
PAKAS then calls PAKSORT to sort the new archive, using:
PAKSORT archive D+T+F+
This sorts the member files by date, time, and member
name.ext, in that order.
Notes:
The programs PKPAK.EXE and PAKSORT.EXE must be in a
directory identified by the DOS PATH= environment setting
prior to calling PAKAS.EXE. PKPAK is the new name of the
PKWARE, Inc. (formerly called PKARC) archive utility and can
be found on many BBS systems as part of the PK361.EXE self-
extracting archive file. PAKSORT is a public-domain utility
for sorting archive files, and should be obtainable wherever
this program was found, as part of PAKSORT.PAK (or
PAKSORT.ARC, if some sysop has renamed it.)
For use with archived mail processing, PAKAS should be
copied and renamed to ARCA.EXE to replace the regular ARCA
program. If your ARCA is a .COM program, then it should be
deleted or renamed, since DOS looks for .COM programs first.
For compatibility with ARCA, a default filetype extension of
.ARC is supplied by PAKAS to defeat the .PAK default assumed
by PAKSORT and patched versions of PKPAK.
PAKAS v1.0 adds about 14K bytes overhead, compared to PKARC
alone.
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