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- ZIPPER Version 1.3
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- Multiple archive creator
- (c) Wolfgang Thronicke & Friedrich Wichmann
- F.R. of Germany
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- Documentation
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- 90-09-18
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- NOTE: ZIPPER is public domain software. You can use it. Forget it. Copy it...
- However, we take no responsibility for any type of damages caused by ZIPPER.
- The only restriction is that you must not change any part of the distribution.
- You do NOT have to pay any amout of money to anyone. If you like it and want
- to let us know you can send us a small note via e-mail. Suggestions for
- future extensions or bug reports are also appreciated for we are also
- interested in improving this piece of software.
-
- E-Mail to: wolf@cadlab.de
- fwich@uni-paderborn.de
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- Contents:
- 1. Intro
- 2. Requirements
- 3. Limitations
- 4. Installation
- 5. Usage
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- 1. Intro
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- The ZIPPER program helps you to distribute files to a series of PKZIP archives.
- It was created with the demand to build archives with a limited maximal size.
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- These are the main features of the program:
- ■ Automatic generation of multiple archivs with limited size
- ■ Inclusion of subdirectories (or not)
- ■ Backup mode
- ■ Specification of files and directories to be archived
- ■ Easy to use (see size of zipper.doc!)
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- 2. Requirements
- ---------------
- ZIPPER needs at least 220K for itself to work. There must be enough memory
- left for PKZIP to work. Please refer to the PKZIP manual for detailed
- information. If you have more than 512K main memory everything should work
- fine. ZIPPER works with DOS Versions greater or equal than 3.0.
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- 3. Limitations
- --------------
- For all the files to be "zipped" are stored in main memory (of course with
- their names and sizes only) you can run into problems if you try to archive
- to many files. We can give only a rough estimation: Less than 2000 files
- surely will be handled properly.
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- 4. Installation
- ---------------
- Simply copy ZIPPER.EXE in your execution path (see DOS -> PATH variable).
- PKZIP.EXE must also be located somewhere in the execution path. That's all.
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- 5. Usage
- --------
- To get a quick overview of ZIPPER's options simply type "ZIPPER" when you are
- in DOS.
-
- To make ZIPPER work two parameters are mandatory:
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- -s<integernum> specifies the maximum size of the archiv in 1000Bytes
- Example: -s360 builds only archives with less than
- 360000 bytes
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- <archivname> The basename of the archiv WITHOUT extension.
- The filename must not exceed 5 letters in length.
- Example: e:\archiv\test is legal
- \archiv\backup\v45\progr is legal
- arc is legal
- archive !too long!
- ^^ (7 letter in filename)
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- ZIPPER will start in the current directory and collect recursively all
- files in it and its subdirs.
- The resulting archives are named <archivname>001, <archivname>002 etc.
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- Options:
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- -i increment to next archive number. ZIPPER looks in the path
- for the archives and searches for already existing archives
- beginning with numbers 001... and chooses the next free
- number for the new archives to begin with.
-
- -n do not recurse into subdirectories
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- -o overwrite existing archives. In normal mode ZIPPER stops when
- it finds an already existing archive to prevent data loss.
- This options toggles this. Use with care!
-
- -p stop before creating the archive. This option allows you to
- change disk when archiving, but note: Creating the archives
- on a floppy disk is much slower than on a hard disk.
-
- -r<file> read files to archived from <file> or stdin if no file
- specified. This option allows you to collect files from
- different places. If no file is given input is taken from
- the keyboard (you can also use a pipe) until EOF is encountered.
- Each line can be:
- - ordinary file
- - directory
- - filename with wildcards
-
- Example:
- File:myfiles
- e:\prg
- d:\work\*.pas
- d:\work\zipper\zipper.doc
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- Call: zipper -rmyfiles -s<xxx> test
- will archive all files in prg (and step recursively through all
- subs), all *.pas files in e:\work and the file zipper.doc.
-
- You can also use the output of other programs. Especially
- utilities that are similar to the UNIX "find" are very
- valuable, for example the "stuff" program from Rahul Dhesi.
- Example: stuff *.pas *.bak | zippper -r -s360 demo
- will archiv all .pas and .bak files in the current
- directory and its subdirectories.
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- (c) WF 1990 PB
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