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- Cleaner, Comment and Dircheck
- by J.L. Pearson and the Bytebrothers
- -- power tools for those who zip --
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- CLEANER:
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- CLEANER is a utility for those who have zipped files with
- embedded arcs and paks.. CLEANER works hand in hand with
- ZIPPER and uses the same config files and logs.. the syntax
- is simple..
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- CLEANER PATH\FILENAME
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- cleaner d:\arcs
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- will unarc the zips in directory d:\arcs and check for
- embedded PAK or ARC files.. It will convert them to ZIP's,
- add a comment to the ARC that you place at the end of your
- ZIPPER.CFG config file and move to the next file.. Cleaner
- looks for and works only on ZIP files to remove internal
- PAK's and ARC's.. Believe me.. there are plenty of zipped
- files out there with embedded paks and arcs. its a mess!
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- simply entering..
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- cleaner
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- will check, unzip and rezip the internal arcs and paks in all
- zips in the current directory..
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- CLEANER will use the ZIPPER log file and put it's own
- CLEANER log into the file showing the files processed.
- Run a zip viewer to find the dirty files and move them
- to a seperate subdir. Or for only a couple of files just
- enter CLEANER file1.zip.
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- COMMENT:
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- COMMENT is a utlity for those who have zipped files and
- want to quickly add their own comments to the files in
- batch. Comment runs with ZIPPER and CLEANER and uses the
- same config file. Revision E of comment includes a four
- line comment editor for entering extended 4 line file
- comments. The syntax is...
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- comment d:\arcs
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- You will first be prompted to find if you want to use
- the default comment or enter a new one. The comment can
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- be over 200 characters in length. Pressing CR will use
- the default comment stored in the zipper.cfg file. The
- same comment always used by ZIPPER and CLEANER. The
- other option ( typing y) will bring up a comment editor.
- A four line window for you to enter your comment in. The
- comment will be displayed whenever the file is unzipped.
- After entering the four line comment ( which can be an
- ad for your bbs, or even a detailed description of what
- is in the zip file) you are asked if you want this
- comment to become the default. This will replace the
- current default comment used by ZIPPER and CLEANER and
- COMMENT itself. Then all the files in the path you
- specified will be fast tagged with the comment and the
- time and datestamp redated to the original zip. You can
- even get artistic and use TheDraw [tm] to create
- comments with graphic characters in them. You can edit
- your ZIPPER.CFG file and the last four lines are wide
- open to vent your artistic juices on. Sysop's like to
- use this feature to put advertisements into the zip
- files. A more serious use would be to correctly catalog
- the contents of an important archive, or to even add
- installation instructions for the software in the
- archive. A batch switch is also available so if sysop's
- want to run it as an event the syntax is..
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- comment d:\arcs /b
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- comment d:\arcs b
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- This will cause COMMENT to run without prompts or
- intervention and comment the files with the default comment
- in ZIPPER's cfg file. Comment has been modified to correctly
- reset the file date/time stamp. So you can post comment files
- without changing the filedate or timestamp.
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- DIRCHECK:
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- For bbs sysops another problem with conversion is the
- filelist. The list of files in directories that need to
- have their extensions changed from .PAK or .ARC to .ZIP.
- Dircheck will do this automatically. Just point him to
- the filelist file and let him go. It uses the ZIPPER
- config file and logs..
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- ie..
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- dircheck c:\dl1\files.bbs
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- Will go the the filelist files.bbs in the above dir and will
- change all the .ARC and .PAK file extensions to .ZIP for you.
- The utility runs in batch mode by default so it can be used
- in events and called from your own batch files.. DIRCHECK will
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- leave its own entry in your ZIPPER.LOG file. Telling the time
- of the run and the number of .ARC and .PAK filenames found and
- converted.
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