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  3.       The QBARCV program is a routine that is CALLed from
  4. a Quick Basic program. It creates a file called TEMPARC.DIR
  5. which contains a verbose directory listing. If no drive and
  6. path is specified, QBARCV will take advantage of an FilePath
  7. utility.
  8.  
  9. Installation:
  10.         QB yourprog/...;
  11.         MASM QBARCV;
  12.         LINK yourprog+QBARCV;
  13.  
  14. Usage:
  15.         ARCNAME$="name of file"   'the extension defaults to .ARC
  16.         RETCD%=0                  'a return code is placed here
  17.                                   ' - zero if all okay
  18.                                   ' - nonzero if any problems
  19.         CALL ARCV (ARCNAME$,RETCD%)
  20.         IF RETCD=0 THEN ...       'process TEMPARC.DIR now
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