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- RCX ReCursive .arc/.zipfile eXtractor by Jim Groeneveld, vs. 1.0, 29/1-93.
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-
- ===DESCRIPTION===
-
- Extracts one or more archives (.ARC/.ZIPfiles) into subdirectories named by
- the file_name part of the archive (or 'filename.DIR' if the archive has no
- extension itself) relative to the destination directory.
- ZIPfiles are extracted including their eventually stored directory structure.
- Nested archives (.ARC/.ZIPfiles) are recursively extracted into subdirectories
- named by the embedded .ARC/.ZIPfiles relative to the parent ARC/ZIPfile.
-
- ===PACKAGE===
-
- RCX BAT 10868 1-29-93 1:00a Recursive extraction of archives
- RCX B2C 13293 1-29-93 1:00a Prepared version for BAT2EXEC compiler
- RCX C0M 13560 1-29-93 1:00a Compiled version of RCX.B2C
- RCX EXE * 6027 1-29-93 1:00a LZEXE compressed version of RCX.COM
- RCX DOC 4612 1-29-93 1:00a This documentation file
- RCX HST 2387 1-29-93 1:00a History of RCX
- BAT2EXEC BUG 7006 1-29-93 10:01a Bugs and other differences w/ BAT2EXEC
- COMPILE DOS 10283 12-21-92 9:28a Preparing a .BAT file for compiling
-
- * = absolutely necessary
-
- (*.COM files have been renamed to *.C0M in order to let DOS find and run
- the corresponding .EXE files.)
-
- Furthermore the PD program GETFNX (by me too) and DOS's FIND are very necessary
- (available from the same source(s) as RCX or included here as a .ZIP file).
- Finally the programs PKUNPAK (vs. 3.61) and PKUNZIP (vs. 1.10) by Phil Katz are
- most important as without these nothing relevant will happen.
-
- ===INSTALLATION===
-
- Put RCX.EXE/COM/BAT in your UTIL directory, to be found via your DOS PATH.
- (For the installation and use of GETFNX: see its documentation.)
-
- ===USAGE===
-
- Syntax: RCX «target_path» «source_path_file» [«source_path_file» [..]] [.d]
- in which
- «target_path» = [d:]path of destination (drive/)directory, or relative
- to current ('.') one, excl. trailing '\'!
- «source_path_file» = [d:][path\]filename of ARC/ZIPfile(s) to extract (up to 7)
- (wildcards allowed; extensions redundant)
- Avoid files with the same file name part and
- different archive ext's (.ARC and .ZIP).
- .d = parameter indicating deletion of original archive
- (.ARC/.ZIP) after extraction.
- Embedded ARC/ZIPfiles always are automatically deleted.
-
- Help is being given by only entering: RCX, eventually followed by ?, /?, -?,
- /h or /H.
-
- ===REMARKS===
-
- Attention! Because of a bug in the batch compiler BAT2EXEC it may be possible
- that RCX locks up and tries to send output to the printer port(!).
- In that case do not use the compiled programs (.EXE, .COM), but only the batch
- (.BAT) files, by removing the .EXE and .COM files (see further BAT2EXEC.BUG).
-
- WARNING:
- Avoid the use of path and file names having %-characters in them. These are
- being written literally into auxiliary files and the %-characters including
- their successive characters may be interpreted as batch file or environment
- variables. The results will be unpredictable, but certainly erroneous.
-
- ===SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS===
- - IBM-PC (88/86/x86) or compatible
- - (MS)DOS 2.x or above
- With DOS 2.x change .BAT file lines 'ECHO.' into 'ECHO @', in which
- '@' means the ascii-255 character, thus 'echo ', or it prints "ECHO is off".
- Furthermore, with DOS«3.3 one might change '@echo off' into 'echo off'.
- The DOS 3.3&up CALL command may be changed into 'COMMAND/C' with DOS«3.3 or
- one might apply an external CALL command for the lower DOS versions (by me too).
-
- - At least sufficient memory to load successive copies of COMMAND.COM (batch)
- or nested copies of RCX and GETFNX (compiled) and FIND, PKUNPAK and PKUNZIP
- and other additional temporary scratch batch files. It seems that using the
- .BAT files 128kb would be sufficient, while using the .COM or .EXE files
- 256kb is needed.
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