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- Hamarsoft (R) Hap & Pah 3.00, November 15, 1992, 0700 GMT.
-
- You will need an 80286 or higher to run these programs.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER : You are using this software at your own risk !
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- Harald Feldmann will in no way be liable for any damages, loss of business
- profits, business interruption or loss of business-, private-, public- or
- other information, arising out of the use or inability to use the Hap and/or
- Pah programs or data processed by the Hap and/or Pah programs, whether
- direct or consequential, regardless of the fact that Harald Feldmann may
- have been advised of the possibilities of such damages.
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- This software is provided to you under the terms of the
- Hamarsoft License Agreement. By using the software you agree to be bound by
- those terms. You are assumed to have taken knowledge of those terms prior to
- using the software.
-
-
- Hamarsoft (R) is a registered trademark and a registered servicemark owned
- by Harald Feldmann.
-
- Hap TM and Pah TM are trademarks of Harald Feldmann.
- Hamarsoft is registered at the CoC of Roermond The Netherlands.
-
- Other mentioned products' trademarks and
- registered trademarks are acknowledged.
-
- These programs were completely designed and written by Harald Feldmann
- throughout 1992.
-
-
-
- Will stay: May be changing soon:
-
- Hamarsoft << Preferred Hamarsoft
- P.O. Box 91 << mail address Beatrixlaan 42
- 6114 ZH Susteren 6114 CE Susteren
- The Netherlands The Netherlands
-
-
- WHY HAP ?
- I introduced something new early 1992 by distributing HAP&PAH 2.10.
- The comments I got clearly showed that HAP needed to grow.
- Although the HAP project no longer had top priority I decided to
- pursue the development of a multi-file archiver anyway.
- This program is a new release, if I receive enough supporting
- comments (and money) I will continue to spend time on it.
-
-
- HANDS-DOWN ?
- Hap usually compresses better than ARJ from Robert Jung
- and also better than PKWARE's PKZIP 1.93alpha, a pre-release of
- their soon-to-be released version 2 - something,
- both are very good programs.
-
-
- SPEED
- Hap was deliberately kept small so virtually all of its code would
- fit into the 80486's internal on-chip cache (which is 8Kb).
- Almost all of Hap's DATA fits into the second-level cache of a
- 486 board. Both these facts should enable Hap to run as efficiently
- as possible on an 80486 equipped machine with 256Kb cache.
- Hap was designed for 80286 and higher CPUs.
-
- BUGS !
- This version was released for tactical reasons.
- So it still contains a few known 'bugs' related to screen-output and
- aborted files.
- The compression and decompression algorithm work FINE, no bugs to the
- best of my knowledge. I compressed a lot of files and all came back
- without a single bit changed.
- You may compare (renamed) original and uncompressed files by using
- fc.com which you may find on your DOS disks. Remember to add
- the /b switch, see your DOS manual for more information.
-
- If you find anything weird that does not relate to screen-output
- send me a message.
- Note that the file format of Hap 2.10 was rudimentary, the revised
- format Hap 3.00 uses should be stable, I have made provisions for
- expansion features in the future. Yes, it means 2.10 files are
- incompatible with Hap 3.00 and vice versa (the internal structure
- differs as well due to an algorithm improvement).
-
-
- CONTACTING THE AUTHOR:
-
- ILINK : HARALD FELDMANN
-
- Mail : Hamarsoft
- P.O. Box 91
- 6114 ZH Susteren
- The Netherlands
-
- In case you send me physical mail:
- I prefer receiving physical mail at the P.o. Box address rather than
- at the 'Beatrixlaan' since that address may change in the near future.
- The P.o. Box will be maintained in that case.
-
- over ilink, send your message in the international COMPRESS echo,
- I should be able to pick it up there.
-
-
- RAMCRAM ?
- Not anymore ! You should now be able to run Hap and Pah with 376 Kb
- free memory. Hap and Pah should accept files of any size and compress
- and decompress them successfully.
-
-
- MONEY ?
- You are encouraged to support me by returning the registration form
- and an amount of USD $20,- to the P.O. box address to stimulate
- further development of Hap and Pah. Please do not take the text on the
- registration form as offensive, I just don't like to get into any
- legal trouble.
- I think it's fair enough to oblige businesses, governmental and
- educational institutions to register and send a gift of USD$ 20,-
- within the 30 day evaluation period.
- Just for the record: the HAP 2.10 discount offer hereby expires.
-
-
- SYNTAX
-
- ADDING FILES TO AN ARCHIVE
-
- <must-supply text> [additional filespecs]
- do not type the <> or [].
-
- <HAP> <a> <haparch> [drive:][\path\]<filespec1> [filespec2 filespec3 ..]
-
- adds the files on drive:\path\filespec to haparch. You may specify any
- filename for haparch even with extensions. Hap will cut off the
- extension, if any, and add .HAP itself.
- Hap 3.00 does not store subdirectories and does not search any within
- another. Note that the <a>, <haparch> AND <filespec1> MUST be supplied.
- Meaning 'add all files in the current directory to HAPPY.HAP' is done
- by:
-
- HAP a HAPPY *.*
-
- Aborting compression leaving the already compressed files intact in
- the archive is done by pressing ESC or CTRL-C.
-
- EXTRACTING FILES FROM AN ARCHIVE
-
- <PAH> <e> <haparch> <filespec> [filespec2 filespec3 ...]
-
- extracts filespec and additional filespecs from haparch to the current
- directory. Note that filespec MUST be supplied, meaning 'recall all
- files in HAPPY.HAP' is done by:
-
- PAH e HAPPY *.*
-
- In order to get your files extracted to a specific directory, move to
- that directory, run the Pah program in its home directory and extract
- from haparch in its home directory.
-
- .....................................................................
- Example:
- PAH is in C:\UTIL\PAH.EXE
- HAPARCH is in D:\HEY\MORE\ME\HAPARCH.HAP
- you want your *.exe and *.com files to be extracted to E:\NEXT\MORE\
-
- you would: move to E:\NEXT\MORE
- then type: C:\UTIL\PAH e D:\HEY\MORE\ME\HAPARCH *.exe *.com
- in either upper or lower case.
- .....................................................................
- To date, PAH extracts to the current 'working' directory, a future
- version may incorporate redirection.
-
-
- LISTING FILES IN AN ARCHIVE
-
- <HAP> or <PAH> <l> <haparch> <filespec> [filespec2 filespec3 ...]
-
- Lists filespec and additional filespecs within haparch. Use the
- 'Pause' key or CTRL-S on the AT keyboard to pause the scrolling.
-
-
- DELETING FILES IN AN ARCHIVE
-
- <HAP> or <PAH> <d> <haparch> <filespec> [filespec2 filespec3 ...]
-
- WARNING
- ! Deletes filespec and additional filespecs from haparch without a
- ! second chance. Be sure to know what you're doing, Hap and pah do NOT
- ! create a second copy of your original archive ! So PCTOOLS et al
- ! won't work to get anything back... Make BACKUPS !
-