 LHA- and LZX Archives and PMPro
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  On many CD-ROM series LHA archives are widely used. Especially the
  Aminet series which mainly consists of thousands of such archives,
  while any single archive may also contain a number of files.
  For the user, there is almost no chance to extract graphics from
  these archives. Graphics, for example, are not only included in Aminet
  related /PIX directories, but the archives of many programs or demo
  versions of programs may also contain graphics, which the typical
  user will never be able to examine (if you are not able to take some
  days or weeks and extract each single archive and scan it for the
  presence graphics).
  PMPro now offers the unique facility to catalogue graphics formats in
  LHA and LZX archives. Also, the ability to display, print, convert,
  etc. such archived graphics will be automatically managed by PMPro. You
  need no longer worry as all these graphics will be handled just like
  common graphics, so that nearly any operation available for normal
  graphics can also be applied for such archived graphics. There are also
  some functions available in PMPro which allow you to archive (or add
  to an archive) a number of marked/found graphics with LHA 
  (function: searched/found - add to archive).

  Thus you are now able to easily archive a large collection of graphics
  from your hard disk and may save a lot of hard disk space, or reduce
  the number of files on your hard drive, which will be useful in
  conjunction with many disktools (DiskSalv, Undelete, defragmentation
  programs, etc.)


  Now some notes and information concerning LHA/LZX support of PMPro:

  - The LHA/LZx support can be switched on/off via the
    function: "Settings - generate catalog" 

  - When expanding a catalogue all LHA/LZx archives will be
    scanned for graphics. Should these contain graphics, these will be
    automatically catalogued. Working on a CD-ROM with thousands
    of LHA archives (e.g. Aminet series) may take a lot of time,
    since of course any single archive has to be unpacked first.
    
  - After cataloguing the archived graphics will be handled like normal   
    graphics. This means that nearly all functions that can be applied to
    a normal graphic will also work with archived graphics.
    Thus a single mouse click may display, print, convert, process
    or recopy these. Of course such graphics may also be directly
    exported to other programs (user popup). Unpacking graphics is
    handled by PMPro, so that you are not bothered with this process.

  - To allow fast identification (whether a graphic is part of an archive
    or not) during cataloguing the image description is automatically
    used to store type and name of the corresponding archive.
    By using the powerful search and sort algorithms of PMPro you may now
    explicitly search for such graphics.
    Also the information window contains an additional function
    (Button Archives: INFO and QUICK), which is able to present you with
    the complete archive content. This may be redirected for printer
    output.

  - But there also are some small restrictions concerning graphics, which
    are part of an archive:

     - Deleting/Renaming such graphics does not work.
     - Function Catalogue - Validating cannot recognise whether a graphic
       is still in the archive. This is also true for updating of
       catalogues.
     - When recopying/converting whole graphic collections, the original
       archives will not be deleted even if the graphics are part of
       such archives (since it is possible other graphics which are part
       of the same archive might be lost).
     - Function SLIDESHOW skips such graphics (for reasons of delay time
       when unpacking)


 Note: The widely used lHA archiver is included and pre-installed with
 PMPro. The less used LZX archives need their packer to be copied
 to your C: directory. It may be found on nearly any Aminet CD, as
 well as on many other Amiga CD-ROMs.


