Archive
ARCHIVE 2.3 by Jens-Peter HAACK
This archiving program allows for the compression and archiving of a floppy disk or partition while preserving the folder structure. For example:
A:\*.*
To
D:\DISQUE.AR
By clicking on "archive" and OK, your entire disk will be archived and compressed on the D drive, whether it is a hard disk partition or a RAM disk, under the name DISQUE.AR.
To restore your disk, format a floppy disk and insert it into drive A, at least for our example. Proceed as follows:
D:\DISQUE.AR
To
D:\*.*
By clicking on "unpack" and OK, your disk will be reconstructed by recreating the folders and placing the corresponding files in these folders without any intervention on your part. In this example, I have taken the simplest route, but you can specify the path of the folders if you want to archive only one folder and send it to a subdirectory on your hard disk.
The compression rate is much better than ARC and equivalent to COMPI14, and the compression/decompression speed is very fast.
JG
EXTRACT FROM THE DOWNLOAD TOOLS DOC 3615 ATARI C3/ ARCHIVE.PRG
Before clicking on "UNPACK," you must first define the "path" and file names; two lines are provided for this purpose. The first corresponds to the path of the source file, the second to the path (or paths) of the target file(s). In our case, the source files will have the extension xxx.AR, and we will use "wildcards" for the target files. Some examples will illustrate the operation of ARCHIVE.PRG well (the two lines correspond to the corresponding areas of the program):
A:\TOTO.AR A:\*.*
The file to be unpacked, TOTO.AR, is on a floppy disk in drive A, at the root level, i.e., outside a folder, and the unpacked files will be written to the same floppy disk.
A:\EMULCOM3\DUDU.AR B:\*.*
The downloaded file DUDU.AR is on a floppy disk in drive A, in the EMULCOM3 folder; the archived files will be written at the root level on the disk in drive B.
C:\COM\TELECH\FIFI.AR D:\GRAF3D\*.*
FIFI.AR is on partition C of the hard disk, in the COM folder and the subfolder TELECH; the archived files will be written to partition D, in the GRAF3D folder. CAUTION: THE TARGET FOLDER (in this example, GRAF3D) MUST EXIST BEFORE LAUNCHING ARCHIVE.PRG; if this folder does not exist, it must be created.
The "syntax" and the exact file name must be respected. Input areas can be corrected using the "backspace" key or completely erased with the "esc" key. Once the paths are correctly indicated, you can click on UNPACK and then OK.
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