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- SPAZ 1.50
- October 7, 1990
-
- By Dan Thomson, Andrew Farmer and Jeffrey Nonken.
-
-
- USER MANUAL
-
-
- Copyright (c) 1989-1990 Dan Thomson and Andrew Farmer.
- All Rights Reserved.
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-
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- THE LEGAL BUSINESS
- --------------------
-
- Spaz is guaranteed only to take up space on your hard disk. Use
- it at your own risk. No warranty is stated or implied. The
- authors shall not be responsible for any damages resulting from
- it's use, directly or indirectly.
-
- Spaz is distributed as a Freely Available Copyrighted Program,
- no fee may be charged for distribution and the distribution
- archive is not to be tampered with or altered in ANY way.
-
- Spaz cannot be distributed in a modified form of any sort.
-
- Modified Source code, likewise, may NOT be distributed. If you
- are planning on porting the code to another operating system, or
- have code changes that you think are highly beneficial, then
- please contact the authors directly for assistance or guidance.
-
- While Spaz is freely available for use in non-corporate
- environments, donations to the authors will always be gratefully
- accepted.
-
- The Authors may be contacted at the following network addresses:
-
- Dan Thomson 1:163/115.3@fidonet
- Andrew Farmer 1:163/115.0@fidonet
- Jeffrey Nonken 1:273/715.0@fidonet
-
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- THE DISTRIBUTION ARCHIVE (SPAZ_150.ZIP)
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-
- This archive should have included the following files:
-
- SPAZ.DOC - The Documentation, you read it as we speak.
- SPAZ.NEW - Changes since 1.40.
- SPAZ.COM - The Executable Program.
- SPAZ.ASM - The Complete Assembler Source Code.
-
-
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- WHAT IT DOES
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-
- Spaz checks the archive to determine it's type, sorts the
- contents by date/time to ensure proper mail distribution and
- calls the appropriate unarchive program to extract the contents.
- If you use the /N command line option, the Sorting will NOT
- occur.
-
- Spaz is idealy suited to netmail activities where it can auto
- detect incoming archives and extract them transparent to the
- calling program.
-
- If the Archive is a standard (ARC compatible) Archive, it will
- search first for Pkxarc, then PkUnPak, Pak and ArcE in that
- order, until it finds one on the path. If you use the /A
- command line option, then ArcE will be used exclusively..no
- other program will be searched for.
-
- If the Archive contains Crushed or Distilled files, as created by
- the Pak Program, Spaz will not attempt to use any other
- Un-Archiver it will simply search for and use Pak.
-
- If the Archive was created by ZOO Spaz will search first for Looz
- and then for Zoo, in that order, until it finds one on the path.
-
- If the Archive was created by DWC, then Spaz will not attempt to
- use any other Un-Archiver it will simply search for and use DWC.
-
- If the Archive was created by PKZIP, then Spaz will not attempt
- to use any other Un-Archiver it will simply search for and use
- PkZip.
-
- If the Archive was created by LHARC, then Spaz will not attempt
- to use any other Un-Archiver it will simply search for and use
- LHARC.
-
- NOTE: SPAZ can be renamed to ARCE.COM to be used with OPUS 1.03,
- or it can be used with Confmail by using the '/A SPAZ' option. If
- you rename Spaz to ArcE be sure to have one of the other
- un-archivers on the Path, (and don't use the /A switch)
- otherwise Spaz would be calling ArcE, which would be itself so
- you'd have an endless loop on your hands.
-
- SPAZ can also be used in a batch file (multitasking systems) as
- it understands wildcard filenames. This will remove the memory
- overhead of having Confmail shell to an Unarchiver. If used with
- the /D option, spaz will even delete the archives once processed
- (if the extract was successful.
-
-
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- DISK AND MEMORY REQUIREMENTS
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-
- 1. DOS 2.11 or greater.
- 2. Enough disk space for a 2nd copy of the archive to be processed.
- 3. At least 16K of RAM, plus room to load the Un-Archiver.
- 4. At least 2 available handles. (files= statement in config.sys).
-
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- COMMAND LINE SYNTAX
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-
- Usage: SPAZ [switches] Path/Archive [switches] [file...] [file...]
-
- Items enclosed in Square Brackets ([]) are entirely optional.
-
- Switches:
-
- * -A
-
- Causes Spaz to search for ArcE (and ONLY ArcE) when
- un-archiving a standard Arc Compatible Archive.
-
- * -D
-
- Causes Spaz to delete the Archive once Extract is
- successful. By default it is NOT deleted.
-
- * -F
-
- Causes Spaz to unpack ONLY Network Compressed Mail bundles
- in the specified directory. It will look for .MO?,.TU?,
- etc. files and unpacked them all into the default
- directory.
-
- When this switch is used the Archive name as specified on
- the the command line should be the Path to your Inbound
- area, NOT a FileName.
-
- The -D (Delete) and -O (Overwrite) switches are forces ON
- by the use of the -F switch. Likewise the -N (NoSort)
- switch is forced OFF.
-
- Due to the lack of an Overwrite mode in Looz, if this
- switch is used only Zoo will be called to process Zoo
- Archives, NEVER Looz.
-
- * -Maddress
-
- Causes Spaz to expand the name of each file, and try to
- gleen the sending Net/Node address. This switch will, or
- course, only work properly on Compressed Mail bundles
- coming in over the Net.
-
- This switch must be followed by the 'address' pararmeter,
- which should be YOUR Net/Node address.
-
- * -N
-
- Causes the Archive Sort NOT to be performed. Since the
- sort doesn't take up much more memory, it is strongly
- suggested that you DO NOT use this switch for NetMail
- related tasks.
-
- * -O or -R
-
- Causes Spaz to run in Overwrite Mode. You will NOT be
- prompted if a file with the same name as that being
- extracted already exists in the directory, the existing
- file will simply be overwritten.
-
- Due to the lack of an Overwrite mode in Looz, if this
- switch is used only Zoo will be called to process Zoo
- Archives, NEVER Looz.
-
- * -V
-
- Cause Spaz to run off at the mouth. Displays run-time
- configuration settings.
-
-
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- EXAMPLES
- ----------
-
- * Spaz -D 02986534.MO1
-
- This would sort, then un-archive the bundle and delete it
- when finished.
-
- * Spaz -N 02986534.MO1
-
- This would Un-Archive the bundle but would not attempt
- to sort them and would not delete when finished.
-
- * Spaz -D -N *.MO?
-
- This would process all files matching the wildcard specs
- but would not attempt to sort them and would delete when
- finished.
-
- * Spaz -N HELLO.ARC -Q *.TXT -O
-
- This would only extract files with an extension of TXT, it
- would not sort the archive, it would operate in quiet mode
- & overwrite mode would be used.
-
- * Spaz -F D:\BINK\INBOUND
-
- This would Sort, extract from, then delete any file
- matching the description of a Standard FidoNet<tm>
- Compressed Mail bundle.
-
- * Spaz -F -M163/115 D:\BINK\INBOUND
-
- On 163/115 this would Sort, extract from then delete any
- file matching the description of a FidoNet<tm> Compressed
- Mail bundle. It would also tell me what node sent the
- bundle.
-
-
- ---------------------=*[ IMPORTANT WARNING ]*=----------------
-
- * Spaz -D HELLO.ARC *.EXE
-
- This would only extract files with an extension of EXE, it
- would then DELETE THE ENTIRE ARCHIVE. Be extreamly careful
- with the -D switch if you are only extracting specific
- files.
-
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- CLOSING NATTER
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-
- If you have any problems you can't fix or questions you can't
- answer then please contact one of us via NetMail. We will
- always do our best to support the software, but it is, by
- definition un-supported. We will answer queries as time allows,
- please be patient when awaiting a reply.
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