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- README.DOC February 1991
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- Robert K Jung
- 2606 Village Road West
- Norwood, MA 02062
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- This archive contains a new file archiver called ARJ. This is release
- 1.00. This is a standard production release. This is a full featured
- UNCRIPPLED public release. ARJ is free for non-commercial personal use.
- Commercial or governmental use requires a site license.
-
- Major features of ARJ include:
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- Production of consistently smaller archive files than produced by
- PKZIP 1.10, PAK 2.51, and LHARC 1.13c. This has been verified by
- many ARJ users from Brazil to Canada and across the Atlantic in
- England. ARJ is particularly effective on text files and database
- files.
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- Option to create multiple volume archives with one command making ARJ
- useful for making backups to multiple floppies or archiving a very
- large file to several floppies without "SLICE"ing.
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- Option to test newly created archive before overwriting original
- archive or deleting input files for a move command.
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- Selectable compression options including FAST!!! compression modes.
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- Command to change the filenames of files stored in archives.
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- Command to re-order the files within the archive in any user
- specified order.
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- Multiple string searching within archives.
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- 32 bit CRCs for file integrity.
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- Text mode compression to enable cross-platform extraction of files.
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- Filename specification via list files option.
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- Filename/wildname exclusion option.
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- Built-in facility to recover files from broken archives.
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- Setting of comments for archive and files with a file input option.
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- ARJ internal CRC checks to resist hacking a la "ICE".
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- Archive security envelope to resist tampering. ARJ-SECURITY
- disallows archive update of any kind including commenting.
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- Self-extraction option built into ARJ.EXE. Self-extractor has
- security envelope checking feature.
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- This archive contains the following files:
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- README.DOC - This file
- WHATSNEW.DOC - Changes from ARJ 0.20
- ARJ100.EXE - An ARJ-SECURED self-extracting archive containing the
- following files:
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- ARJ.DOC - ARJ user manual
- ARJ.EXE - Version 1.00
- ARJSORT.DOC - ARJSORT user manual
- AV.C - Turbo C source code for ARJ file lister
- AV.EXE - ARJ file lister
- HISTORY.DOC - Release history of ARJ
- LICENSE.DOC - License policy
- ORDER.FRM - Order form for ARJ
- README.DOC - This file
- RESULTS.DOC - Compression comparison of various archivers
- TECHNOTE.DOC - Technical information about ARJ
- WHATSNEW.DOC - Changes from ARJ 0.20
- ARJSORT.BAT - Sort archive by various parameters
- ????????.BAT - Various sample batch files using ARJ
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- To list the contents of ARJ020.EXE, type:
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- ARJ100 -l
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- To verify the ARJ-SECURITY envelope and contents of ARJ100.EXE, type:
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- ARJ100 -t
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- To extract the files in ARJ100.EXE, type:
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- ARJ100
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- This will extract the files in ARJ100.EXE to the current directory.
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- You can also use ARJ 0.15 or later to extract the contents of the
- ARJ100.EXE archive. If you have a ARJ100.ZIP archive, you can skip
- the PKUNZIP function and type the following:
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- ARJ e ARJ100.ZIP
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- This will extract only the embedded ARJ100.EXE in the ZIP file.
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- end of readme.doc
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