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- ARJSORT September 1991
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- ARJSORT.BAT is a batch file provided to give the user the facility to
- sort the files in an ARJ archive. ARJSORT allows sorting by file
- attribute, CRC value, date-time modified, file extension, filename,
- pathname, and compression ratio. The sort order can be set for
- ascending or descending order.
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- Usage: ARJSORT archive [/order] [/r]
- Where /order is one of the following:
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- /a = attribute /o = ratio
- /c = crc /p = pathname
- /d = date/time /s = size
- /e = extension /t = time
- /f = filename
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- [/r]everse, if specified, must be the last option.
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- ARJSORT has been designed to work at MS-DOS 3.3 and up. The @ECHO
- command in ARJSORT.BAT may cause problems with other versions of DOS.
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- ARJSORT uses the special ARJSORT.$$$ feature of the order command. A
- list file named ARJSORT.$$$ is expected to be in a special format by
- the order command. That format is produced by the ARJ v -jv1 command.
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- ARJSORT requires the MS-DOS SORT program to be available for ARJSORT to
- work. ARJSORT creates several temporary files named ARJSORT.$$?.
- These temporary files will be deleted at the end of the program.
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- Please note that MS-DOS SORT cannot handle input files larger than 64K
- bytes. An input file over 64K in size can happen when sorting an ARJ
- archive with a few hundred pathnames. An insufficient memory error
- message results when SORT encounters too large of an input file.
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- The shareware program QSORT by Ben Baker does not have this 64K size
- limitation. The QSORT document states that QSORT can directly replace
- the MS-DOS SORT program. You can modify ARJSORT.BAT to use the QSORT
- program by replacing the command SORT with the command QSORT. All
- instances of the command SORT are capitalized. There are two instances
- of the word ARJSORT. An easier way would be to delete the MS-DOS
- SORT.EXE program and rename QSORT.EXE to SORT.EXE.
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- ARJSORT Examples:
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- ARJSORT archive - Sort files in ascending alphabetical pathname
- order.
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- ARJSORT archive /r - Sort files in descending pathname order.
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- ARJSORT archive /d - Sort files in chronological date-time modified
- order.
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- ARJSORT archive /d /r - Sort files in descending chronological
- date-time modified order.
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- ARJSORT archive /s - Sort files in ascending file size order.
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- At ARJ release 1.10, ARJSORT.COM (compiled version of ARJSORT.BAT) is
- included with the ARJ software. This program can be used in place of
- the ARJSORT.BAT. This COM version is better for use in DOS BATCH files
- than ARJSORT.BAT.
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- HISTORY:
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- 2.21 - Added -!! option to "ARJ o" command.
- Added -jp- option to stop paging.
- Added errorlevel testing for SORT.
- Tested QSORT with ARJSORT.
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- 1.21 - Fixed deletion of temporary files.
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- 1.20 - Improved ARJSORT.$$$ processing so that EDLIN is not needed.
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- 1.10 - Added ARJSORT.COM.
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