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- LHUNARC 0.96
- 31st March, 1990
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- Fast .LZH extractor for the Amiga
-
- Written by Jonathan Forbes
-
- Disclaimer
-
- I am in no way responsible for anything this program does; you are using it
- entirely at your own risk, so if servile tadpoles from Vega wreak havoc in
- your neighbourhood, the human race is wiped out, the universe suddenly
- explodes, or some other such inconvenience occurs, don't blame me!
-
- If Lhunarc does have a small bug or two, it will show up as a CRC error
- when you decompress a file. If you get a CRC error, use LHARC to decompress
- the file. If LHARC *doesn't* gives you a CRC error, then you've probably
- discovered a bug, and I'd be grateful if you'd inform me of this as soon as
- is humanly possible.
-
-
- What is Lhunarc?
-
- Lhunarc is a lightning fast file extractor for LHARC archives (files with an
- extension of .LZH.) It is compatible with MS-DOS version 1.13c, and is two and
- a half times as fast as Amiga Lharc 1.1, as you will soon discover.
-
- Lhunarc features some incredibly optimised assembly language, enabling it
- to burn through any .LZH archive at high speed. This sucker really cooks!
-
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- Usage: LHUNARC [V] <Archive> [File...]
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- 1) To extract all files from 'BLAH.LZH', type:
- Lhunarc BLAH.LZH
- - or -
- Lhunarc BLAH
-
-
- 2) To extract the files 'HELLO' and 'WORLD' from 'BLAH.LZH', type:
- Lhunarc BLAH.LZH HELLO WORLD
-
-
- 3) Wildcards are allowed, so the following line will cause Lhunarc to extract
- all files beginning with "Glug":
- Lhunarc Glug#?
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- Directories will automatically be created if they are required. If a file
- which Lhunarc wishes to extract, already exists, you will be prompted with:
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- "File exists - overwrite? (Yes/No/All/Quit):"
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- Entering "Y" will overwrite the file, while entering "N" will skip the file.
- Entering "A" will overwrite all files automatically from there onwards, and "Q"
- will abort Lhunarc immediately.
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- Lhunarc will also permit you to view the contents of archives. Simply enter
- a "V" before you enter the name(s) of the file(s) you wish to view. For
- example, the following command will view the contents of WHATEVER.LZH:
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- Lhunarc V WHATEVER
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- For a very brief and useless help screen, type:
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- Lhunarc H
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-
- Acknowledgements
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- The original LHARC (MS-DOS) was written by Haruyasu Yoshizaki. I used his
- freely distributable source code "lzhuf.c" and "lharc.c", and ported "lzhuf.c"
- to assembly language.
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- I used Amiga Lharc 1.1, ported by Paolo Zibetti, for testing purposes.
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- This Program
-
- Lhunarc is a freely distributable, copyrighted piece of software. You do
- not have to pay money to use it, and may upload it wherever you choose, but
- you are not allowed to sell Lhunarc for profit, or include Lhunarc on a disk
- which is sold for profit, without the author's (Jonathan Forbes) permission.
-
- I can be contacted at Canada Remote Systems as "Jonathan Forbes" (isn't
- that better than some twenty digit ID code?)
-
- My BBS (416-921-6638) is currently down, pending completion of Xenolink,
- a full featured FidoNet-compatible BBS program for the Amiga, which I have
- almost finished.
-
-
- Closing Notes
-
- When I ported the decompression routines back into Lhwarp, disks
- decompressed *at least* twice as fast as they did before. A typical disk now
- takes about 5 and a half minutes to decompress. I'll have an update shortly.
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