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- ARCGSH 4.1 (Archiver-GEM-Shell) for Atari ST
-
- In the Atari ST world several archiving program exist, which serve to - as
- the name says - archive files. This means that many files can be stored in a
- single archive file. Regularly a compression is performed at the same time
- so that an archived file needs much less space within the archive than
- before. Depending on the type of data of a file (text, program, graphics
- etc.) compression rates of more than 50 percent are not unusual.
-
- Arcgsh is a GEM shell that eases the use of the most popular archiving
- programs for the Atari ST (arc, lharc, shar, tar, and zoo).
- Furthermore the programs compress, uud, and uue are supported.
- Compress is able to compress resp. decompress a single file. Uud and
- uue are useful if binary files - e. g. archives - are to be sent or
- received by electronic mail. Further more you can use your favorite file
- viewer and your favorite editor from Arcgsh without any need to leave the
- program.
-
- With Arcgsh it is no longer neccessary to start a command-line-shell, "cd"
- to the directory where your archive file is (or should be created), remember
- the various archiver options (each archiver has its own set of options),
- type them in and finally start the program. With Arcgsh you can handle
- everything with GEM objects: Dialog boxes let you select program options
- via buttons, and filenames are comfortably selected using the GEM file
- selector box.
-
- Arcgsh is a shell, not a stand-alone program. In order to make use of the
- various archiving programs, you must have them installed somewhere on your
- computer. This is what you need:
-
- program | file name
- ---------+------------
- arc | ARC.TTP
- lharc | LHARC.TTP
- shar | SHAR_RK.TTP
- tar | GNUTAR.TTP
- zoo | ZOO.TTP
- compress | COMPRESS.TTP
- uud | UUD.TTP
- uue | UUE.TTP
-
- You can get Arcgsh and the archiver it supports on a floppy disk from me
- provided you pay the shareware fee.
-
- You may use, copy and distribute Arcgsh without having to pay anything.
- However, if you find Arcgsh useful and use it regularly you are encouraged
- to transfer DM 35,- to my bank account 4412 46-300 at the Postgiroamt
- Hannover, BLZ 250 100 30 in Germany. Alternativly you can send me a cheque
- or money order made out in your own currency.
-
- A dialog box will pop up from time to time to remember you to pay the
- shareware fee. You may well ignore it (resp. click it away) without having
- to have a bad conscience. However, if you are so kind to send me the
- shareware fee I shall tell you how you can get rid of those dialog boxes to
- appear. Furthermore the xArgv and ARGV extended parameter passing schemes
- will be activated for you. They are useful if you want an archiver to handle
- a long list of file names because xArgv and ARGV allow you to pass long
- parameter strings (more than 125 characters) to dependend programs
- (archivers).
-
- Please do not forget to mention your name and address (e-mail address
- preferred)! I cannot get in contact with you if you forget them!
-
-
- Arcgsh 4.1 differs from version 3.5 by the following improvements:
-
- - The new zoo version 2.1, tar and compress are supported.
-
- - The LHarc interface has improved. Arcgsh can be configured to use any
- LHarc now.
-
- - The documentation is available also in german now.
-
- - An internal code revirement led to a considerably smaller binary and a more
- maintainable source.
-
- - minor corrections
-
- - The first time an "Other program" was called parameter passing did not
- always work right. Fixed.
-
- - The Getrez system call has been removed, so Arcgsh can run on an Atari TT.
-
-
- Included in this package:
- - ARCGSH.PRG executable program
- - ARCGSH.RSC resource file
- - ARCGSH_D.TEX german documentation in LaTeX format, readable for humans
- - ARCGSH_E.TEX english documentation in LaTeX format, readable for humans
- - HISTORY history file
- - README_D this file, german version
- - README_E this file
-
- Available only in the floppy disk distribution:
- - ARCHIVER.ZOO archive containing the archivers Arcgsh supports
- - ARCHIV_D.TXT german instructions to unpack ARCHIVER.ZOO
- - ARCHIV_E.TXT english instructions to unpack ARCHIVER.ZOO
- - ZOO.TTP zoo 2.1 to unpack ARCHIVER.ZOO
-
-
- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
- Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.bitnet
- Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
- D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386
-