2ZIP: .ARC/.MD/.PAK/.ZOO to .ZIP Conversion Utility Version 1.2\89.02.14 1. 2ZIP Disclaimer 2ZIP is provided "as-is". I make no claim that it is suitable for any particular purpose. It may, in fact, not work at all. I've had some pretty good luck with it, but you might not. If 2ZIP formats your hard drive you are ON YOUR OWN! 2ZIP won't format your hard drive, though, and I will try to correct any reported bugs (mistakes) as quickly as possible. 2. 2ZIP Credits 2ZIP was inspired in some small way by a program called ZIPPER. ZIPPER does basically what 2ZIP does, but only for .ARC and .PAK files. ZIPPER would also like you to pay a fifteen dollar shareware fee. 2ZIP payment is a little different. See the "2ZIP payment" section of this document (coming right up). If you've used ZIPPER, you may also think it is annoying (whistling windows, etc.). As Chuck Forsberg likes to say, "...if you're looking for a modem video game, Pro-YAM is not for you..." Likewise, if you're looking for a PKZIP conversion video game you should probably look elsewhere. 3. 2ZIP Payment 2ZIP is free. I'm offering it as a service to promote what I believe is a superior compression program (PKZIP/PKUNZIP). I would certainly appreciate your comments on 2ZIP, and I would probably be willing to add an enhancement or two if it's needed, (and if you say I'm a nice guy for doing it). If you use 2ZIP a lot and really feel like you owe me cash, send a donation to my address in the $2 to $5 range. Please do not send more than five dollars in any event. Any money collected will be used to expand my toolbox for other public enhancement utilities like 2ZIP. If you've got tons and tons of money, I would recommend registering the shareware programs you use, like PKZIP/PKUNZIP, DSZ, GT Power, Etc. THESE authors depend on your support, I don't. 4. 2ZIP Installation First, you must have a copy of each de-compression program you are currently using on your system in one of your DOS search directories. This is probably already the case, but if you want to be extra sure 2ZIP will work in all cases (at least all cases it was designed for), copy PKUNPAK.EXE (v3.61), PAK.EXE (v1.60), ZOO.EXE (v1.41), MDCD.EXE and PKZIP.EXE (Current version) in your DOS search directory. I'm using my \UTIL directory for this purpose. 2ZIP: .ARC/.MD/.PAK/.ZOO to .ZIP Conversion Utility Version 1.2\89.02.14 Next, you should set up a WORK/LOG directory using the 2ZIP environment variable. Place a line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file which reads SET 2ZIP=C:\UTIL (or whatever you want your WORK/LOG directory to be). This directory _must_ exist. If it doesn't, 2ZIP won't work correctly. A subdirectory will be created under this WORK/LOG directory called TMP$KMS, so it is perfectly O.K. to have other files in this directory. The TMP$KMS subdirectory will be removed after each 2ZIP session. 5. 2ZIP Usage 2ZIP is fairly easy to use (once you've performed the above installation steps). To convert a single archive to the ZIP format you would type: 2ZIP file.arc 2ZIP TEST.ARC (to convert TEST.ARC to TEST.ZIP) Wildcards are allowed, so to convert all .ARCs to ZIP format: 2ZIP *.ARC And multiple command-line files are allowed, so to convert all archives, all PAK files, and FOO.ZOO you would type: 2ZIP *.ARC *.PAK FOO.ZOO Pretty straightforward, huh? While 2ZIP is processing you'll see something like this: 2ZIP .ARC/.MD/.PAK/.ZOO to .ZIP conversion utility! Version 1.1 Copyright (c) 1989, Kelly Stanonik All Rights Reserved. TEST1.ARC Un-archiving. ZIPing. Setting Date and Time. Done. TEST3.ARC Un-archiving. ZIPing. Setting Date and Time. Done. TEST5.PAK Un-PAKing. ZIPing. Setting Date and Time. Done. TEST6.ZOO Un-ZOOing. ZIPing. Setting Date and Time. Done. LZ.MD Un-MDCDing. ZIPing. Setting Date and Time. Done. TEST7.MD Un-MDCDing. ZIPing. Setting Date and Time. Done. Finished! 6 files converted. Note that 2ZIP sets the date and time of the resulting .ZIP file to the original date and time of the .ARC, .PAK, .MD, or .ZOO file. This should make you sysops out there happy. 2ZIP automatically selects PKZIP's highest compression ratio for both ASCII and Binary files. This can result in a longer compression time, but decompression will be faster and file sizes will be smaller. - 2 - 2ZIP: .ARC/.MD/.PAK/.ZOO to .ZIP Conversion Utility Version 1.2\89.02.14 6. 2ZIP Error Log If, for some reason, 2ZIP is unable to create a .ZIP file, the word "Error." will replace "Done." in 2ZIP's output, and a line will be added to the 2ZIP_BAD.LOG file (located in whatever directory you set the 2ZIP environment variable). This log file contains the name of the original file and the target .ZIP file, and the date and time of the attempt. 2ZIP does not delete the original file if an error occurs. 7. 2ZIP Bug Reports Kelly Stanonik (KMS) Bix: kms Box 803 CompuServe: 75170,14 Kearney, NE 68848 Home: (308) 236 7514 8. 2ZIP Versions What program would be complete without a list of versions? A new one perhaps? Well--I'd imagine so. 2ZIP is pretty new, but I've already got a couple. Version 1.1 This was the first release version of 2ZIP. Version 1.2 2ZIP now converts .ARC files located within archives. Sorry, but 1.2 only converts one level deep (if you 2ZIP FRED.ARC, and FRED.ARC contains BOB.ARC and SALLY.ARC, these files will be Zipped too. If BOB.ARC contains SAMMY.ARC, though, SAMMY.ARC will remain SAMMY.ARC). I guess my personal opinion is that if someone puts eight levels of archives within an archive they deserve to convert it themselves. My mind may be changed if folks think multiple level archive conversion would be useful. - 3 -