DECompress v0.1
           Copyright (c) February 3rd, 1996 by Farhan Yousaf
                Documentation Revised on July 17th, 1996
                      This program is E-mail ware.

Ä. Disclaimer .Ä
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This program is provided AS IS. The author accepts no liability for any
damage/loss of data that this program may cause. Use it at your own
risk.

All rights reserved.

You are not allowed to sell this program for any amount of money.

Permission is hereby given to include this file on Shareware CD-ROMs.

Sorry, I had to do that. But, there are some sue-happy people with
twisted minds.

Ä. Introduction .Ä
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This program began its life as a little utility that I wrote in C to
check out files from Shareware CD-ROMs and BBSes. It is a big pain to
manually expand 5-10 files to check them out. Hence, this little gem.

It has been a little more than a year since I made this program. I had
not considered releasing this baby into the wild as I hated writing the
documentation for it. I finally overcame that fear. <g>

I would be very much interested to see where this program winds up being
used and who uses it. I'd appreciate an e-mail message telling me how
wonderful you think this program is! <g>

I do not ask any money for it. But, ofcourse, if you'd like to shower me
with some, how can I refuse? <g> E-mail me to find out my Snail Mail
address.

Ä. Internet E-mail/World Wide Web Page .Ä
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All letter bombs, nuclear waste, death threats, love letters shall be
re-sent (well maybe not these) to the sender.

If you like this program and think it should be further enhanced, then
please e-mail me.

<farhany@interlog.com>
<ca337@torfree.net>

The latest version of this program can be snatched from my WWW home
page at:

http://www.interlog.com/~farhany/

My home page is basically devoted to the Pet Shop Boys. Look through it,
you'll find a link to DECompress.

Ä. Pre-requisites .Ä
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In order for this baby to work you need the following:

1] Computer  [greater than a XT]
2] Keyboard  [perferably with keys]
3] Hard Disk [greater than 10 MB]
4] Monitor   [not really]
5] Decompression programs
6] Brain     [IQ greater than a vegetable]
7] Hands     [perferably with fingers]

You must have decompression programs located somewhere in your path for
this program to work.

I have a directory on my HD called ZIPS, where I keep all of the
compression related programs. You might want to do the same.

Ä. Description .Ä
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DEC <filename>
Wildcards accepted.

It expands archive files to individual directories. For example, if the
directory contains the following files:

FILE1.UC2
TEST.ZIP
ARCH.LZH

C:\>dec

Upon execution, the files will be decompressed by calling the
appropriate decompression program.

In the above case:

FILE1.UC2 will be decompressed to: C:\FILE1\
TEST.ZIP will be decompressed to: C:\TEST\ and so forth.

C:\>dec *.uc2

Will decompress all the files with UC2 extentions. Ever heard of wild
cards? Thought so.

Ä. Programs Supported .Ä
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 1] AIN
 2] ARJ 
 3] BSA 
 4] RAR
 5] DWC
 6] LIM
 7] LZH
 8] SQZ 
 9] UC2 
10] X1
11] ZIP

They should be enough for now.

Ä. FTP Sites for Archivers .Ä
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   AIN v2.2          garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/ain22.zip
   ARJ v2.50a        garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/arj250a.exe
   BSA v2.0        ftp.elf.stuba.sk:/pub/pc/pack/bsa200.zip
   DWC vA5.01        garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/dwc-a501.exe
   LHA v2.13         garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/lha213.exe
   LHA v2.55b        garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/lha255b.exe
 LIMIT v1.2          garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/limit12.zip
 PKZIP v2.04g        garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/pkz204g.exe
   RAR v1.55         garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/rar155.exe
   SQZ v1.08.3       garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/sqz1083e.exe
    UC vII r3        garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/uc2r3.exe
    X1 v0.94c      ftp.elf.stuba.sk:/pub/pc/pack/x1v094c.zip

Ä. Thanks! .Ä
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- Mosh Teitelbaum for giving me the inspiration to write the documenation
  for this program.

- Ad Infinitum for the world's most powerful, versatile and high tech
  compression program, UC2! You can find the latest version of UC2 at
  ftp://ftp.nl.net/gopher/NLnet-connected/aipnl/

- Robert K. Jung for his compressor, that has the most options.

- To all the C/C++ coders.

- To <pretend you see your name here> for using this program!

Ä. Post Script .Ä
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Err... The documentation could've been better. Oh well, why waste breath
when you don't even know if anyone is going to use it or not. <hint-hint>

By the way, if you want a personalized copy of this program, all you have
to do is e-mail me. I know what you're thinking: This guy is obsessed
with e-mail!

Forgive any grammatical errors or lack thereof. <evil grin>

Ä. EOF .Ä
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