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- Program: AX
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- Purpose: Dissolve archives or SDA's as created by the Commodore 64 or
- Commodore 128
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- Usage: AX filename
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- Description: If no extension is given, AX tries .SDA, .ARK or .ARC in that
- order.
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- AX simply dissolves the entire archive/SDA.
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- Because Commodore 64/128 filenames are allowed to
- contain awkward characters like / and \ and so on, I've evaded
- the filename problem by renaming the files as they are taken
- out of the archive and providing a batch file to rename them.
- This gives the user a chance to edit the batch file with a
- text editor if there are filename conflicts. It also allows you
- to ARC or ZOO or ZIP or SIT or PIT or whatever the results
- without too much hassle.
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- Here's what you'll see on your directory after you've dissolved
- the file...
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- FILE.001 These are the files in the archive
- FILE.002
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- ...
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- File.xxx
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- re-name.bat A batch file for MS-DOS or AmigaDOS to
- rename the files to what they're supposed
- to be called. It may be nessessary to
- edit this file before actually executing
- it.
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- re-name.bas A Commodore BASIC program to rename the
- files to what they're supposed to be called
- This will run on the 64 or the 128.
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- contents A text file summarizing what was in the
- archive and whether or not the checksum was
- ok when it was dissolved. If you're using
- AX to convert over to ZIP or ZOO or some
- other format you like better, don't discard
- this file since it provides file type info.
- A Commodore user may need to know this
- when he goes to use the files.
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- Copyright: There is none. AX is hereby placed in the public domain.
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- Warranties: Ditto
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- Source Code: Should compile with any ANSI C compiler. I tried several and
- they all worked fine.
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- If you have further questions: Read the source code.
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- 06/89 - Chris Smeets
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