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- REFORMAT.REXX
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- I don't know about anybody else, but I like to store my programs in
- PAK format, as developed by Mark Riley. Unfortunately the vast majority
- of programs downloaded from BBS's are in ARC format, and this entails
- decompressing them, recompressing them into PAK format, and storing them
- away, then cleaning up the files left lying around.
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- This program does it automatically by opening a ram: directory called
- formatdir, transferring the file there, decompressing, deleting the original
- compressed file, recompressing in the new format, transferring to the
- original location of the original file, and then deleting the ram:
- directory.
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- The only interaction is for you to indicate what new format you wish.
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- I had thought about substituting file formats by deleting the original
- file, but decided that people may want to keep the original for whatever
- reason.
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- This is the first AREXX program that I've written, so criticisms will
- probably be forthcoming. Feel free, I want to learn.
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- Basil
- PIN 71361,2622
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