| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I finally dll backga.arc and spudclock. Spudclock has already helped
my marriage ( I can get up and go say high to my spouse).
I unarced backga.arc and ended up with the following files:
list,build,pack and files 01 through files 14..What do I have to
do next? Is there something missing from the file?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1661.1 | EXECUTE BUILD from your CLI | NAC::PLOUFF | Beautiful downtown Littleton | Tue Sep 06 1988 00:51 | 1 |
| 1661.2 | A few more words... | CESARE::ZABOT | Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT | Tue Sep 06 1988 10:32 | 12 |
To be more verbose:
Put a formatted disk into your drive ( let suppose DF1: )
Cd to where your files are ( file1-14 , build etc..). Suggestion:
VD0:
Now, from the CLI ( not from a shell ) do:
EXECUTE BUILD DF1:
Good luck.
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| 1661.3 | Edit build first. | VTHRAX::KIP | No Dukes. | Tue Sep 06 1988 13:45 | 26 |
The build file is a script file which you're supposed EXECUTE; it's
purpose is to recreate the original directories and files of the
product that was ARC'd. Since ARC comes from the MS-DOS domain,
it doesn't handle filenames longer than what that os allows
(8-character filenames with a 3-character extension?). Therefore,
all of the files to be archived are renamed to FILE01, FILE02, etc.
and the directory structure is "saved" by putting appropriate commands
in the "build" file.
Problem is: "build" works in an inefficient manner: each file is
extracted from the archive file with a separate invocation of ARC,
which means that program has to be reloaded for each file in the
archive. Offhand I can't think of a reason it's done this way, unless
it just makes it easier to create the "build" file as files and
directories are scanned. De-arcing takes long enough without this
added loading delay for each file. So I usually extract everything
with 1 ARC command:
1> arc x <archive_name>
then edit "build" to comment out the arc invocations. If you use
an editor with a global replace command, just replace all occurences
of "arc" with ";arc". Then execute build.
Hope this helps
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| 1661.4 | Re.3 and others | PNO::STARKEY | Tue Sep 06 1988 22:39 | 3 | |
I will try it. BTW thanks for all the information..I learn everytime
I read a note.
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