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- 4. MAIN: the use of the UC command in detail
- ============================================
-
- UltraCompressor II (tm) from Ad Infinitum Programs (AIP-NL) is an
- archiver. An archiver is a file handling and compression utility. It
- will make most of your files significantly smaller and it can keep
- related files together. When you need the files, you can decompress
- them with the same UC utility. UC is very easy to use, thanks to its
- highly developed user interface, and has support for all archiving
- needs.
-
- You can order UltraCompressor II by filling out the ORDER.FRM and
- sending it to Ad Infinitum Programs.
-
- One general point about UC is that you can consider an archive in the
- same way as you would a disk. It has a root directory, sub-directories
- and so on. UC always contains the full directory structure. With UC,
- you do not have to deal with 'match path', 'store full path', 'junk
- directory name' etc..
-
- The file extension of UC archives is currently .UC2. In the future, if
- a major new version of UC is released, the extension will become .UC3.
- This means that there can be no confusion about which version of UC
- should be used.
-
- While using UC, the screen will indicate whether everything is working
- properly. When errors occur they are shown in detail on the screen and
- are also written to an error-log file. When this error-log file grows
- over 25,000 bytes, UC will give a warning.
-
- In this document all commands/options in the examples given are in
- upper case, and parameters are always in lower case. In use, however,
- the case is never important. Any mix of upper and lower case can be
- used.
-
- This document contains the following paragraphs:
-
- - A. Commands/options summary
- - B. Adding files, listing contents
- - C. Extracting files
- - D. Other commands and options
- - E. Version management
- - F. Features and automatics
- - G. Credits
- - H. Acknowledgements
- - Z. Summary
-
- To jump to a certain paragraph, press the corresponding letter. To
- jump to a specific document/chapter, press the corresponding digit.
- See chapter 1 paragraph E for an overview of all documentation.
-
-
- 4.A COMMAND/OPTION SUMMARY.
- ===========================
-
- General: UC command [option(s)] archive-name [files]
-
- Starting UC with no commands at all, starts the MANUAL VIEWER and
- CONFIGURATION MENU.
-
- Commands:
- ---------
- A D E ADD/DELETE/EXTRACT files to/from archive.
- (See paragraph B and C.)
-
- L V LIST/VERBOSE LIST contents of archive.
-
- P make archive DAMAGE PROTECTED (approx 1% overhead). Once
- an archive becomes damage protected, it remains damage
- protected, even if it is altered. The P command can be
- combined with other commands (e.g. AP).
-
- U remove damage protection (if present) from archive.
-
- T fully TEST archive. When it is damaged, UC will ask if
- it needs to be repaired. In force mode (see options), UC
- will repair without asking.
- If an archive is repaired 100% this is reported. If the
- archive cannot be repaired 100%, the problems (such as
- which files are still damaged, etc.) are reported on
- screen and in the error-log file.
-
- C CONVERT ZIP, ARC, ARJ etc. archives to UC archives.
- (See chapter 5 paragraph A.)
-
- O OPTIMIZE archive can make an archive even smaller without
- deleting anything from the archive. Especially if an
- archive has been updated many times and/or contains many
- versions (revisions) of specific files, optimize can
- significantly reduce the size of an archive.
-
- R REVISE archive comment.
- (See paragraph D.)
-
- Options:
- --------
- TF TN TT Type-Fast; Type-Normal (default) or Type-Tight/multimedia
- compression.
-
- In TT mode, UC will detect whether a file is a multimedia
- file. Special (lossless) multimedia compression will then
- take place.
-
- Please note multimedia compression is not able to
- compress already compressed files (e.g. *.GIF or *.JPG
- cannot be significantly compressed).
-
- TST Type-Super-Tight compresses a bit better that TT
- compression, but takes noticeable more time. Only
- recomended if time is not an issue. TST compression does
- not affect decompression speed, which remains very fast.
-
- S also process all SUB-DIRECTORIES. By default only the
- files in the current directory are processed.
-
- F FORCE mode. Using this mode, the program will work
- silently. Almost nothing will be asked during execution.
- In all cases where a question would be asked, the program
- acts as if 'yes' was answered. When not using this mode,
- the program will often ask what you want in case of doubt.
-
- when NOT in force mode
- ----------------------
- - UC will prompt you before overwriting files
- - UC will prompt you before creating directories
- - UC will optionally ask if hidden/system files
- should be processed
- - UC will optionally ask permission to convert
- archives
- - UC will optionally ask permission to show/play
- multimedia banners
- - UC will prompt you before repairing a damaged
- archive (T command)
-
- when in force mode
- ------------------
- - UC will overwrite files without asking
- - UC will create directories without asking
- - UC will add hidden/system files (unless
- the configuration does not allow that)
- - UC will always apply auto-conversion
- - UC will show/play multimedia banners (unless
- the configuration does not allow that)
- - UC will repair an archive immediately, if
- the T (test) command finds a problem
-
- I INCREMENTAL mode, for FAST updates and version control.
- Version control is also called revision management. The
- original archive is not changed, changed files are appended
- to the archive. Previous versions (revisions) of a file
- remain accessible this way (version control).
- (See paragraph E.)
-
- B BASIC mode (default unless UC is configured otherwise).
- This is the opposite of incremental mode. In basic mode
- UC overwrites files in the archive. No former versions of
- a file are kept in the archive. If there are multiple
- versions of a file only the latest one is overwritten in
- non incremental mode.
-
- ! EXCLUDE file(s).
- (See paragraph B.)
-
- ;n extract/delete OLDER VERSION of file
- (See paragraph E.)
-
- !DTT=YYYY-MM-DD/HH:MM:SS
- DYNAMIC TIME TRAVEL, option for accessing older versions
- (revisions) of (large) collections of files.
- (See paragraph E.)
-
- # DESTINATION PATH of files in archive while adding or
- DESTINATION PATH of files on disk while extracting.
- (See paragraphs B and C.)
-
-
- & CONCATENATION OF COMMANDS.
- (See paragraph D.)
-
- @ specifies a SCRIPT file which substitutes part of the
- command line.
- (See paragraph F.)
-
- !RELIA= These options allow (temporary) CONFIGURATION of many of
- !ARCON= the values one can configure with the configuration
- !SMSKIP= screen. The exact usage of these options is documented
- !BAN= in chapter 6.
- !VSCAN=
- !SOS2EA= Example: UC A -S !SYSHID=ON arch *.*
- !NET=
- !SYSHID= In this example hidden and system files are also added to
- the archive.
-
-
- 4.B ADDING FILES, LISTING CONTENTS.
- ===================================
-
- Examples:
-
- UC A arch *.cpp
- All *.cpp files in the current directory are compressed into the
- archive arch.uc2. If the archive already exists, the files are
- added to the archive.
-
-
- UC A -TF docs *.* !*.bak
- All (*.*) files except *.bak files are (RAPIDLY) compressed into
- the archive docs.uc2.
-
- UC A -S a:\back c:\doc\*.*
- Create/update archive of complete directory with its
- subdirectories to archive back.uc2 in the root directory of
- drive A:.
-
- When the files to be added are specified with *.*, the command can
- be shortened: 'c:\doc\*.*' can be replaced by 'c:\doc\'.
-
- UC A arch #\dir1 *.cpp
- Move all .cpp files from the current directory to directory
- dir1 in the archive arch.uc2. When a subdirectory does not
- already exist in the archive, UC will ask you if it has to be
- created in the archive.
-
- UC L arch
- List contents of root directory of arch.uc2 without
- subdirectories.
-
- UC V arch
- Verbose list contents of arch.uc2 without subdirectories. Not
- only the files are shown, but also all the versions of the
- files, with date and time of last update.
-
- UC L -S arch
- List contents of all directories and subdirectories in arch.uc2
-
- Possible alternative ways to enter commands
- -------------------------------------------
- Options can be put directly after the command or after the previous
- option (no space allowed) or they can be prefixed by '-' or '/'.
-
- Some example alternatives for 'UC A -S -TF docs *.* !*.bak':
-
- UC A -STF docs *.* !*.bak
-
- You can concatenate options.
-
- UC ASTF docs *.* !*.bak
-
- You can append the options directly to the command.
-
- UC -A -S -TF docs *.* !*.bak
-
- It is allowed to preceed the command with an '-'.
-
- UC A /S /TF docs *.* !*.bak
-
- UC does not care wether you use '-' or '/'.
-
- UC A -S -TF docs !*.bak
-
- If no file specifications are present, UC uses *.*.
-
-
- If you want an archive with a name without extension, type a '.' just
- after the archive name:
-
- UC A sources. *.*
- The archive will become 'sources' instead of 'sources.uc2'.
-
-
- 4.C EXTRACTING FILES.
- =====================
-
- Examples:
-
- UC E sources *.cpp
- Extract all *.cpp files from sources.uc2 into the current
- directory.
-
- UC E backup \test\test.cpp
- Extract test.cpp from subdirectory test in the archive, into
- the current directory.
-
- UC E -S backup \test\*.*
- Extract contents of the archive's directory test and all its
- subdirectories, into the current directory.
-
- UC E -S backup *.cpp #\dir1
- Extract contents of the archive's directory test and all its
- subdirectories into the directory \dir1.
-
- When a directory does not exist, UC will ask you if it has to be
- created.
-
- UC D arch *.bak
- Delete all *.bak files from the archive.
-
- UC D arch *.* !*.dbf !*.ntx
- Delete all files except *.dbf and *.ntx files from the archive.
-
-
- 4.D OTHER COMMANDS AND OPTIONS.
- ===============================
-
- Examples:
-
- UC T arch
- Thoroughly test arch.uc2, and if it turns out to be damaged,
- prompt the user for reparation of the archive.
-
- In case the archive is repaired, a new archive is created with
- the name FIX_xxxx.UC (xxxx stands for the sequence number of
- existing FIX files), the original arch.uc2 remains unchanged.
-
- UC P arch
- Makes arch.uc2 damage protected.
-
- UC U arch
- Remove damage protection from arch.uc2.
-
- UC C arch.arj or
- UC C arch.zip or
- UC C arch.lzh etc.
- An archive made with another archiver will be converted to a
- UC archive. The extension (e.g. zip, arj) is optional; UC will
- read 'UC C arch' as 'UC C arch.*'.
-
- Note: be sure the other archiver you need is in a directory
- named in the PATH statement of your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
-
- UC A one *.bat & A -S world *.bak & E -S execs *.exe & A world *.cmd
- With '&' multiple commands can be given at once.
-
- In this command all the .bat files from the current directory are
- added to one.uc2, all the .bak files from the current directory
- and all its subdirectories are added to world.uc2, all the .exe
- files from the archive (including subdirectories) are extracted
- from execs.uc2 and all the .cmd files from the current directory
- are added to world.uc2.
-
- For long commands we advise you to use '@'.
- (See paragraph F.)
-
- UC R arch
- With your favourite editor you can view or edit the comment file
- in the archive arch.
-
- Note: be sure your U2_EDIT.BAT file is accessible and contains
- your favourite editor.
- (See chapter 6 paragraph D.)
-
-
- 4.E VERSION MANAGEMENT.
- =======================
-
- When you want to keep the former versions (revisions) of a file in
- the archive, you can use the -I option to activate 'incremental mode'.
-
- You can use the -B option, to activate 'basic mode', when you do not
- want to keep the older versions of a file in the archive.
-
- In the configuration screen (see also chapter 6) it is possible to
- change the default mode from basic mode to incremental mode or vice
- versa.
-
- In the next examples the default mode of UC is basic:
-
- UC A -I -S a:\back c:\docs\*.*
- Incrementally update an archive (a:\back.uc2)
-
- UC E arch filename.doc
- Extracts the most recent version of the file 'filename.doc'
- from arch.uc2.
-
- UC E arch filename.doc;n
- Extracts the requested version of the file 'filename.doc'.
- 'n' represents the number of the version.
-
- Some explanation about 'n':
- ---------------------------
- Different versions of the same file in the archive get a sequence
- number.
-
- The most recent version gets number 0. The oldest version gets the
- highest number. Every time the same file is added to the archive in
- incremental mode, to remain consistent, all versions get a new
- number.
-
- There is no practical limit to the number of versions of a file you
- can keep in an archive.
-
- Now we will look at an archive arch.uc2 after completion of some
- operations:
-
- UC A -I arch test.doc
- The file test.doc is added to the archive arch.uc2. This is the
- first operation on the archive, so it contains only test.doc.
-
- UC V arch
- The verbose list of arch.uc2 shows us:
- TEST DOC 1234 MAR-17-1993 12:24:12
- (name ext nr length date time)
-
- After changing the file test.doc, we add it again to arch.uc2:
-
- UC A -I arch test.doc
- The second version of the same file is added to arch.uc2. The
- archive now contains two files:
-
- UC V arch
- The verbose list of arch.uc2 shows us:
- TEST DOC;0 1245 MAR-17-1993 12:26:26
- TEST DOC;1 1234 MAR-17-1993 12:24:12
- (name ext nr length date time)
-
- After adding some more versions of the file TEST.DOC, the verbose
- list gives:
-
- UC V arch
- TEST DOC;0 1356 MAR-17-1993 14:02:00
- TEST DOC;1 1349 MAR-17-1993 13:50:56
- TEST DOC;2 1298 MAR-17-1993 13:28:32
- TEST DOC;3 1280 MAR-17-1993 13:15:42
- TEST DOC;4 1245 MAR-17-1993 12:26:26
- TEST DOC;5 1234 MAR-17-1993 12:24:12
-
- Now there are six different versions in the archive of the same file
- TEST.DOC.
- When you want to extract the most recent one, type the next command:
-
- UC E arch test.doc or
- UC E arch test.doc;0
- The most recent version of TEST.DOC is extracted from arch.uc2.
-
- When you want to see another version you have to include the version
- number in the command:
-
- UC E arch test.doc;3
- There are three more recent versions in the archive than the
- version extracted.
-
- (Of course the archive is unchanged after extracting a file.)
-
- Deleting a version from the archive is possible with the next command:
-
- UC D arch test.doc
- The most recent version of the file is deleted from arch.uc2.
-
- The verbose list will give the next information:
-
- UC V arch
- TEST DOC;0 1349 MAR-17-1993 13:50:56
- TEST DOC;1 1298 MAR-17-1993 13:28:32
- TEST DOC;2 1280 MAR-17-1993 13:15:42
- TEST DOC;3 1245 MAR-17-1993 12:26:26
- TEST DOC;4 1234 MAR-17-1993 12:24:12
-
- Also an older version of the file can be deleted:
-
- UC D arch test.doc;2
-
- The verbose list will give the next information:
-
- UC V arch
- TEST DOC;0 1349 MAR-17-1993 13:50:56
- TEST DOC;1 1298 MAR-17-1993 13:28:32
- TEST DOC;2 1245 MAR-17-1993 12:26:26
- TEST DOC;3 1234 MAR-17-1993 12:24:12
-
- When you want to remove the total file TEST.DOC with all its versions
- from the archive you type the following command:
-
- UC D arch test.doc;*
-
- When you want to remove all the older versions from the archive but
- keep the most recent one, you type:
-
- UC D arch test.doc;* !test.doc or
- UC D arch test.doc;* !test.doc;0
-
- When the archive contains more files with different versions and you
- only want to keep the most recent version of these files, you type:
-
- UC D arch *.*;* !*.* or
- UC D arch *.*;* !*.*;0
-
- As you can see in the examples, for the most recent version of a
- file, you can just type the file name without number, or the filename
- with ';0'.
-
- Dynamic Time Travel (!DTT=YYYY-MM-DD/HH:MM:SS)
- ----------------------------------------------
- Time travel simulates the status of the archive, as it was at the
- specified moment in the past.
-
- The above explanation and samples work excellently for a small
- amount of files, but not when large collections of files, all with
- many versions, are involved. For this the 'Dynamic Time Travel'
- option is the perfect solution.
-
- Time travel is only available for the extract (E) and the list (L
- and V) commands. Its syntax is !DTT=YYYY-MM-DD/HH:MM:SS with YYYY
- being the year (e.g. 1993), MM being the month, DD being the day,
- HH being the hour (e.g. 21), MM minute, SS second. The year MUST be
- 4 digits, all other numbers MUST be two digits.
-
- You can supply only the left part of the arguments, UC will fill in
- the rest:
-
- e.g. !DTT=1993-03-17 will be expanded to 1993-03-17/00:00:00
- !DTT=1991 will be expanded to 1991-01-01/00:00:00
- !DTT=1992-01-22/18 will be expanded to 1992-01-22/18:00:00
-
- Please note the -/:'s are optional, e.g. !DTT=19930317 can be used
- instead of !DTT=1993-03-17. (Actually UC ignores the -/:'s
- completely, their only purpose is to make the entered command more
- readable.)
-
- For the next two examples, assume the archive contains:
-
- TEST DOC;0 1349 MAR-17-1993 13:50:56
- TEST DOC;1 1298 MAR-17-1993 13:28:32
- TEST DOC;2 1280 MAR-17-1993 13:15:42
- TEST DOC;3 1245 MAR-17-1993 12:26:26
- TEST DOC;4 1234 MAR-17-1993 12:24:12
-
- An example:
- UC E !DTT=1993-03-17/13:30 arch test.doc
-
- In this case a 'time travel' to 17 march 1993, 13:30 is executed.
- Since at that moment the 13:28:32 version of test.doc was the one
- last added to the archive, THAT version will be extracted.
-
- Another example:
- UC V !DTT=1993-03-17/13:20 arch
-
- TEST DOC;0 1280 MAR-17-1993 13:15:42
- TEST DOC;1 1245 MAR-17-1993 12:26:26
- TEST DOC;2 1234 MAR-17-1993 12:24:12
-
- Note two versions have 'disappeared' and all other versions have
- got a new index.
-
- Please note Dynamic Time Travel NEVER alters the contents of
- an archive, it only creates a different viewpoint.
-
- Important note
- --------------
- Especially where an archive has been updated many times and
- contains many versions of specific files, optimize can
- significantly reduce the size of an archive.
-
- A just optimized archive, which contains multiple versions of
- files, will often be only a little bit larger than an archive which
- contains only the last version of all files.
-
-
- 4.F FEATURES AND AUTOMATICS.
- ============================
-
- Many advanced features are automatic in UC. The following topics are
- covered in this paragraph:
-
- - Smart skipping
-
- - Superior error handling
- - Superior control-break handling
- - Ensure mode
- - Crash management
-
- - Auto-Conversion of other archives
- - Virus scan during conversion
-
- - Script files
- - Wildcards in archives specification
-
- - OS/2 2.x extended attributes
- - Multimedia banners
-
- Smart skipping
- --------------
- Smart skipping means: Do not do unnecessary things. While updating
- an archive, files can be changed or not. Unchanged files will be
- skipped, when smart skipping is on. This makes updating faster.
-
- In the configuration, smart skipping can be on or off. UC compares
- filename, filesize, file time and file date.
-
- Superior error handling
- -----------------------
- No matter how deep UC gets into trouble, it will handle everything
- with grace.
-
- UC allows you not only to notice the error but also to do whatever
- is needed (including going to DOS!) to solve the problem. UC does
- not just stop, undoing all the work it has already done for you.
- E.g. when a floppy turns out to be write protected, you can remove
- the write protection and continue UC.
-
- Superior control-break handling
- -------------------------------
- When you interrupt UC, you do not just stop it, cancelling all
- valuable work you have done. Instead, you are given the opportunity
- to go to DOS to do whatever you like (after which UC can continue
- where it left off). You can of course also abort the program.
-
- If you press control-break while UC is adding files to an archive,
- you get an extra option which allows you to skip all pending
- additions. All additions already performed, remain in the archive.
- (Since smart-skipping will automatically skip files which are
- already in the archive (when unchanged), you can continue the
- interrupted command later.)
-
- Ensure mode
- -----------
- For those who need absolute reliability, e.g. mission critical data
- compression tasks, UC has an ENSURE operation mode. In this mode UC
- handles all updates to an archive as transactions. A transaction
- can only be confirmed if PROOF has been gathered that the
- transaction was completed 100% without problems. When a problem has
- occurred, irrespective of the cause, e.g. hardware failures,
- software conflicts, they will never get by unnoticed and the
- operation can be reversed.
-
- Crash management
- ----------------
- When adding files to an archive in basic mode, crashes can do no
- harm, because UC works with a temporary file. Only when everything
- has been completed successfully will the temporary file, which
- contains the new archive, be copied to the archive file. To prevent
- data loss while adding files to an archive in incremental mode, UC
- creates a new file with recovery information of the archive. This
- file is called arch.UR2 (UltraRecover).
-
- When everything goes right, this .UR2 file will be deleted
- automatically and you will never notice it ever existed. But when
- your computer crashes during adding files to the archive in
- incremental mode, this .UR2 file will mostly still exist after the
- crash.
-
- If you try to do anything with the archive now, you will get a
- message to repair the archive with 'UC T'. After the repair, the
- files arch.UC2 and arch.UR2 will still exist. The repaired archive
- is stored in the file named FIX_xxxx.UC2 (xxxx stands for the
- sequence number of existing FIX files). Before you can use the
- archive again, you have to move FIX_xxxx.UC2 to arch.UC2 and delete
- the file arch.UR2. Now the situation is similar to the one before
- the crash.
-
- Auto-Conversion of other archives
- ---------------------------------
- Archives made by other archivers can be converted by UC. The
- automatic conversion can be set ON in the configuration (see also
- chapter 6 paragraph A option D).
-
- Adding a file to the archive or any other operation on it, starts
- automatically with the conversion of it. It is important to know
- that, when using an archive made with another archiver, you have to
- type the archive name with the extension (e.g. arch.zip, arch.arj).
-
- Note: be sure the other archiver you need is in a directory named
- in the PATH of your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- Virus scan during conversion
- ----------------------------
- The archive to be converted can be optionally scanned for virusses.
- In the configuration this virus scanning can be switched ON or OFF.
- In the batch file U2_CHECK.bat some virus scanners are called. Make
- sure you have those virus scanners on your disk, in a directory named
- in the PATH of your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- You can change the batch file and use different virus scanners (see
- chapter 6 paragraph D).
-
- Script files
- ------------
- A 'script' file can contain a large list of files (e.g. to be
- compressed). A script file can also be used as a substitute for
- multiple (complex) commands. Script files can be nested, to allow
- the construction of 'building blocks'. Script files can be
- extremely long (multi-megabyte).
-
- UC @exam
- The contents of 'exam': A arch *.bat & V arch
- The .bat files are added to the archive arch.uc2 followed by a
- verbose list of arch.uc2.
-
- In this example multiple commands are concatenated by '&'.
-
- UC A arch @names
- The contents of 'names': *.bat *.cpp *.doc
- The .bat, .cpp and .doc files are added to the archive arch.uc2.
- In this example the files to be added are substituted by 'names'.
-
- UC @toback *.cpp
- The contents of 'toback': A c:\back
- All .cpp files are added to c:\back.uc2.
-
- Wildcards in archives specification
- -----------------------------------
- Instead of adding a file or a group of files to different archives
- in different commands, it is possible to work with wildcards.
-
- UC V *
- Gives the verbose list of all the archives at once.
-
- UC A * filename
- The file 'filename' will be added to all the UC archives in the
- current directory. Using a wildcard is the only way to access
- more archives in one command. Only one archive description is
- allowed in a command.
-
- UC A * *.cpp *.bas
- Of course more wildcards may be used for the files to be added.
- All .cpp and .bas files will be added to all archives in the
- current directory.
-
- The commands P, U, T, O and C accept multiple archive
- specifications. Here the archive specification cannot be confused
- with the files specification because there is none.
-
- UC C *.zip *.arj *.lzh
- All zip, arj and lzh archives will be converted.
-
- OS/2 2.x extended attributes
- ----------------------------
- When the option 'Store OS/2 2.x extended attributes' (see chapter
- 6 paragraph A) is active, UC gets the capability to store OS/2
- extended attributes. For example if you attach an icon to a file,
- compress it and extract it somewhere else, the file will still have
- its icon. Of course this is only possible on an OS/2 machine. When
- you extract a file from an archive, the extended attributes will be
- the same as when you put the file in the archive. An archive
- optimized on a machine without extended attribute support (e.g. a
- plain DOS machine) will still contain extended attributes.
-
- Multimedia banners
- ------------------
- Music, graphics and text banners can be added to an archive.
- (See chapter 5 paragraph B.)
-
-
- 4.G CREDITS.
- ============
-
- Ad Infinitum Programs would like to thank the following people for
- their involvement, work, support, idea's, testing, checking, etc. etc.:
-
- Ad Nuhn Jan van Leeuwen
- Ad Spijkers Jan-Willem Overbeek
- Allen Koberg Jean-loup Gailly
- Andrew Cadach Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers
- Andy Hakim Joe Emenaker
- Arjan Bosse Joergen Hjort
- Arno Haket Joost Pruijt
- Bernardo Javier Siu Fabry Kai Uwe Rommel
- Bruus Antonides Leonid Yakovlev
- Conny de Vries Leslie Klieb
- Danny Bezemer Marc de Boer
- Dirk Schrieb Marijke Hoytink
- Doug Lamb Mark Adler
- Doug Tooley Mark Kovarski
- Ellen de Vries Mike Charnock
- Eric Morel Mike Davis
- Eric Veldhuyzen Mike McCombs
- Fabian Meuller Nico de Vries
- Forrest Aldrich Paul Kocher
- Frank Leene Peter Oudenhoven
- Fred Snijder Piet van Oostrum
- Fred Wijshoff Rafael Ramirez
- Glenn Evan Copeland Rianne van Leur
- Graeme Cross Richard Foster-Dingley
- Greg Roelofs Robert Lindeman
- Gregory Flint Ronald Raymond Dippold
- Hans Klunder Ryan Watkins
- Hans Peer Sjuck Brongersma
- Helen Derks Stefan Hermansson
- Ian Spenser Nelson Thomas Wolff
- Ingrid Foster-Dingley-Groot Timothy F. Sipples
- Jan-Pieter Cornet Willem Verloop
- Jan van Hees
-
- We especially want to thank YOU, the reader of this manual, for
- considering the use of our products.
-
- Help us to make this product even better. Tell us what you want us to
- improve in UC and all our other products. AIP-NL applications are
- always designed in close cooperation with the people who use them.
- Comment on the manuals in general, or on a manual in a specific
- language, is also very welcome.
-
-
- 4.H ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
- =====================
-
- Naming or not naming of specific products in the manuals is
- non-intentional.
-
- UltraCompressor II is a trademark of Ad Infinitum Programs (AIP-NL).
-
- Most mentioned brand and product names are trademarks or registered
- trademarks of their respective companies.
-
-
- 4.Z SUMMARY.
- ============
-
- UC command [option(s)] archive-name [files]
-
- COMMANDS: A D E add / delete / extract
- L V list / verbose list
- P U damage protect / unprotect
- T test (& repair)
- C convert archive to .UC2 archive
- O optimize (especially with many versions of files)
- R revise archive comment
-
- OPTIONS: (directly after command, or preceded by '-' or '/')
- TF TN TT fast / normal / tight-multimedia
- S include subdirectories
- F force mode (never ask, always yes)
- I B incremental mode (keep versions) / basic mode
-
- ;n specify version !DTT=YYYY-MM-DD/HH:MM:SS dynamic time travel
-
- ! exclude files # destination & concat commands @ script file
-