Care and Feeding of Your Archive Utility Program

Instuctions for use:

1)Extract
     The extract function extracts members from an archive.
Click on the button marked Extract. Select the drive and then use the
Item Selector to select the Archive to be extracted from. Next select the
drive you want the files to go to. Using the item selector select the
folder you want the files in. Hit return or click on OKAY. If you just
wanted to extract the .prg files, enter on the item selector "*.prg". Any
standard wild card selection will work if no program is specified then
the program applies a "*.*" wild card to the archive.
     a) If you set the flag "Folder" to "On", the files will be placed in
     a folder with the name of the archive.
     b) If you set the flag "Packit" to "On", and the archive contains
     archives, the files will be place in folders with the names of the
     archive.
     Note: The flag "Folder" can also be set if you wanted
     the files to be unpacked into a folder with the name of the archive
2)Test Arc
     The test archive function tests the integrity of the files in the
     archive, to ensure that they have been arced correctly.
     Note: As allways wild cards do apply here.
3)Convert
     The convert function allowes you to convert files to newer packing 
     methods without having to dearc and then rearc the files.
     Note: Wild cards apply.
4)List
     Lists the contents of the Archive.
     Note: Wild cards apply.
     a)Verbose gives a full listing.
     b)Short gives a shorter listing.
5)Archive
     The archive function packs files into an archive. First click on
     "Archive", select the drive, then using the item selector, pick the
     archive. In the case of a new archive type in the name of the 
     archive to be created, adding the ".ARC" extender.
     Next select the drive and then using the item selector, pick the
     files to be included in the archive.
     Note: Wild cards apply. If just "OKAY" is clicked on the program
     applies a "*.*" wild card to the archive, allowing you to archive
     the contents of a folder or drive.
     a) Add file just adds files to the archive
     b) Update replaces files with files of the same name.
     c) Move puts files into the archive and deletes the orginal file.
     d) Freshen only adds a file if it is newer than the file already in
     the archive.
     e)Crunch uses the method Crunch as the default method.
     f)Squash uses the newer method Squash as the default method.
     Squash uses a larger hash table for compression and for some files
     may actually produce smaller files.
     e)Packit takes the contents of a folder or drive and compress the
     subdirectories into their own seperate archives. Very usefull for 
     backing up the the contents of a hard drive. Archives made with
     the packit flag can be uncompressed using the Extract function and
     setting the packit flag.
     Note: Packit is disabled in the demo version.
		
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