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- LHSFX - Self Extracting Archive Creator
- By Mike Kennedy ©1991
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- Version 1.1 20/04/91
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- Have you ever wanted to create a self-extracting archive? They make
- life much easier for software developers and provide protection from
- bogus copies of your precious work. LHSFX allows you to create your
- own self-extracting archives... with data compression better than
- ZIP and LHARC.
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- LHSFX uses compression an improved version of the LHARC compression
- algorithm which allows an speed increase of over 40% and 3% better
- compression. Decompression is almost incomparable... Apples to
- Oranges... Usually around 500% faster. On small files the
- increased compression may not be apparent because the extraction
- header is a little over 2k long.
-
- Here are some compression comparisons between LHSFX & LHARC...
-
- Picture 640x400x8 - 256000 bytes
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- Final Compress Extract
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- LHSFX - 86428 02:49 00:05
- LHARC - 90932 04:23 00:42
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- Executable file - 140768 bytes
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- Final Compress Extract
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- LHSFX - 72312 01:01 00:08
- LHARC - 78962 01:48 00:38
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- ASCII text file - 41635 bytes
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- Final Compress Extract
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- LHSFX - 12796 00:15 00:02
- LHARC - 13391 00:36 00:09
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-
- LHSFX is easy to use. Once you've started it up, enter the name of
- the archive you want to create. It will check to see if it exists
- and if it does, it will ask you if you'd like to overwrite it.
- Then begin entering names of files you want compressed. If you want
- a text file displayed while the archive is extracting, type in it's
- name and press D for Display at the prompt. Otherwise, press F for
- File. For files, enter the extract path, in other words the name
- of the file when it is decrunched, including names of subdirectories.
- Here's an example....
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- DESTINATION > ram:testfile.exe
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- ORIGINAL > df0:info.txt
-
- »> df0:info.txt (1234 bytes)
-
- Compressing... Please Wait.
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- Crunched 1234 bytes to 374 bytes.
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- [F]ile or [D]isplay : D
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- File Added to Archive.
-
- ORIGINAL > df0:program
-
- »> df0:program (4321 bytes)
-
- Compressing... Please Wait.
-
- Crunched 4321 bytes to 1342 bytes.
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- [F]ile or [D]isplay : F
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- Extract Path > myprogram/program
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- File Added To Archive.
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- ORIGINAL >
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-
- To close off and finish an archive just press return at an empty
- ORIGINAL prompt. LHSFX will then complete and close your archive.
- It is now a fully self-contained, self-extracting archive. To
- extract the above archive, all you'd type 'testfile.exe' at the CLI
- prompt.
-
- This program is distributed under the concept of ShareWare. If you
- like and/or use this software please send a donation of $10+ to:
-
- > Mike Kennedy <
- > 140 Westside Dr. < Upon reciept of your donation, you will be
- > Oakville, Ontario < sent a full featured update of LHSFX.
- > Canada L6K 1P3 <
-
-
- /// Amiga....
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- \\\/// What more can I say?
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