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PAKSE v1.0
27 August 1988
Michael J. Housky
Copyright 1988 by Michael J. Housky.
Released to the public domain August 1988. No rights reserved.
PAKSE is a utility program to allow use of the PKUNPAK
archive utility from PKWARE, Inc. instead of the slower ARCE
program, for archived mail processing. This is similar to the
ARCE2PK 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:
PAKSE archive
Arguments:
"archive" is the name of an archive file to unpack. It must
exist and be writeable (for the sort step.)
Operation:
PAKSE first 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. PAKSE then calls PKUNPAK to unpack
files from the destination archive, using:
PKUNPAK -r archive
This unpacks ALL member files from the designated
archive and places the unpacked copies in the current
working drive and directory. Files with duplicate names are
OVERWRITTEN.
Notes:
The programs PKUNPAK.EXE and PAKSORT.EXE must be in a
directory identified by the DOS PATH= environment setting
prior to calling PAKSE.EXE. PKUNPAK is the new name of the
PKWARE, Inc. (formerly called PKXARC) archive unpack 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, PAKSE should be
copied and renamed to ARCE, replacing the regular ARCE
program. If your current ARCE program is a .COM file, it
should be deleted or renamed, since DOS searches for .COM
programs first.
For compatibility with ARCE, a default filetype extension of
.ARC is supplied by PAKSE to defeat the .PAK default assumed
by PAKSORT and patched versions of PKUNPAK.
PAKSE v1.0 adds about 14K bytes overhead, compared to PKARC
alone.
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