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*** Repack 2.0 by Mat Bettinson of the Plot Hatching Factory '95 ***
What is Repack?
Repack is quite simple. All it does is to extract every LHA file in the
specified dir and repack with JFs LZX which is substantially better. It then
deletes the original LHA archive when the LZX archiving is finished.
Usage:
[rx] Repack <Dir> [FORCELZX]
Simple eh? That's assuming that you have slung Repack.rexx in REXX: and have
LHA and LZX in your path of course.
You MUST edit the rexx script and change the temp dir!!
This dir should have PLENTY of space in it and be completely empty because
the script will delete anything in the dir in order to function.
It's generally a good idea to have the temp drawer on another drive other
than the parition that you are repacking on. Why? Because it will lower disk
thrashing and because for a reasonable drawer full of LHA archives, Repack
can take quite some time indeed depending on the speed of your machine...
Note that you can speed it up some by lowing the mode setting which is right
next to the temp dir setting in the header of the script. Even on 1, it will
still be better than LHA and considerably faster.
It took 8 hours to repack all my BBS files on a 25Mhz '030. Some 400MB or
so.... I saved 35MB of HD space.
As of 2.0:
The header of the script has setting for Priority.
File notes are copied to the new archive.
By default Repack wont keep a converted LZX archive that's larger than the
LHA archive. This is normally just small files. You can override this
behavior with the FORCELZX switch after the dir path.
OK that's it. Have fun and enjoy the extra drive space. I know I am!
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/\/\(-) | Fido: 2:254/205.0 & E-Mail: mat@darkside.demon.co.uk