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- User's Manual for the ARJ archiver program, October 1995
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-
- ARJ software and manual copyright (c) 1990-95 by Robert K Jung.
- All rights reserved.
-
- ARJ version 2.50a release
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-
-
- ** IMPORTANT NEWS ****************************************************
-
- Users of ARJ should read the WHATSNEW.DOC and UPDATE.DOC files
- that contain information about the latest improvements to ARJ.
-
- **********************************************************************
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-
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- TOPICS COVERED IN THIS DOCUMENT
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-
- DEDICATION
- INTRODUCTION
- TERMINOLOGY
- MAJOR FEATURES OF ARJ
- ARCHIVER BENCHMARKS
- RELEASE NOTES
- TECHNICAL NOTES
- ARJR AND DEARJ PROGRAMS
- INSTALLATION
- QUICK START TO USING ARJ
- HOW TO CREATE AN EXECUTABLE SELF-EXTRACTING ARJ ARCHIVE
- CONVERTING OTHER ARCHIVE FILES TO ARJ FORMAT
- HOW TO USE ARJ
- ARJ LIMITATIONS
- IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ARJ AND LHARC:
- IMPORTANT NOTES
- TIPS TO USING ARJ EFFICIENTLY
- USING ARJ WITHIN OTHER PROGRAMS
- ARJMENU PROGRAM
- USING ARJ AS A BACKUP PROGRAM
- BACKUP TYPE ARCHIVES AND BACKUP FILES
- THE FILESPEC "..."
- ARJ ERROR SITUATIONS
- ARJ DOS ERRORLEVELS
- ARJ USER ACTION PROMPTS
- ARJ ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
- ARJ COMMAND LINE SYNTAX
- ARJ RESPONSE FILE SYNTAX:
- ARCHIVE NAME WILDCARDING
- ARJ COMMANDS
- ARJ SWITCH OPTIONS
- ARJ COMMAND OPTIONS
- SAMPLE ARJ COMMANDS
- ARJ_SECURITY ENVELOPE
- KNOWN ARJ ISSUES/PROBLEMS
- ARJ ERROR MESSAGES
- COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- ARJ TECHNICAL SUPPORT
- ARJ AVAILABILITY
- ARJ INTERNET MAILING LIST
- ARJ WEB SUPPORT
- SDN EXTENSION FILES
- DISTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- USAGE AND DISTRIBUTION POLICY
- BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF ARJ AUTHOR:
- FINAL COMMENTS
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-
-
- DEDICATION:
-
- The ARJ program is dedicated to God and to my family.
-
-
- INTRODUCTION:
-
-
- ARJ is the result of a desire to use my interest in compression
- technology to produce an archiver for personal use on PCs and on
- minicomputers that provides power and excellent flexibility.
-
- I expect to continue to improve ARJ in speed, compression, and
- features.
-
- There are plans to port versions of ARJ to other platforms in the
- future pending sufficient time and funding.
-
- This document is designed as an ARJ program reference manual and
- is not appropriate for novices to ARJ. The file named INTRO.DOC
- is aimed at novices.
-
- Please note that the shareware versions of the ARJ programs may be
- limited in functionality. See the UPDATE.DOC for more information.
-
-
- TERMINOLOGY:
-
- The following terms are used through this manual.
-
- ARCHIVE - This is a file containing one or more files in a
- compressed or non-compressed state and containing file related
- information such as filename and date-time last modified, etc.
-
- ARJ FILE - This is an archive created by ARJ, sometimes called an
- arjive in slang terminology.
-
- BACKUP TYPE ARCHIVE - This is an ARJ archive that has the internal
- backup flag turned on. This causes all current and future updates
- to the archive NOT to overwrite internal files in the archive when
- adding files with the same names as ones already in the archive.
- The older duplicate files in the archive will be marked as backups.
-
- COMPRESSION - The process of encoding redundant information into
- data requiring less storage space.
-
- COMPRESSION PERCENTAGE/RATIO - The percentage compression reported
- by ARJ is a variation of one of the TWO standard methods of
- expressing compression ratio in the technical literature. ARJ uses
- the compressed size / original size ratio. The other method is the
- inverse ratio. When ARJ reports 96% as the compression ratio, which
- means that the compressed file is 96 percent of the original size
- (very little compression). Other archivers use their own methods.
- LHARC uses the same ratio as ARJ.
-
- EXTRACTION or UNCOMPRESSION - The processing of recreating the
- exact information that was previously compressed.
-
- SELF-EXTRACTION MODULE (SFX) - This is an archive that is an
- executable file that is capable of extracting self-contained files.
-
- TEXT MODE - In text mode, ARJ inputs the file using the C library
- text mode which translates the carriage return, linefeed control
- characters of MS-DOS to a single linefeed character. This saves
- space and provides the option for cross platform file extraction.
- On another platform, the host C library would change the single
- linefeed to the host text newline separator sequence. In addition,
- for platforms such as PRIMOS which set bit 8 in ASCII text
- characters, ARJ sets/resets bit 8 according to the platform
- extracted to. When extracting a text mode file to the same type
- of platform archived from, ARJ will NOT strip the 8-bit text to
- 7-bit text.
-
- VOLUMES - These are ARJ archives that are in sequence and have been
- created by a single ARJ command. Files in the volumes may span
- volumes in a split format. These volumes are usable archives.
-
-
- MAJOR FEATURES OF ARJ:
-
- Currently ranks as one of the best in compression in terms of size
- reduction of the currently available archivers including PKZIP
- 1.10, PKZIP 2.04, PAK 2.51, ARC 7.0 (ARC PLUS), LHARC 1.13c, LHA
- 2.13 and the new ZOO 2.10. ARJ is particularly effective with
- database files and documents.
-
- The ability to process and archive up to 32,000 files at one time.
-
- Archive and individual file comments with the option of
- inputting comments from a file.
-
- ARJ has MS-DOS 3.x international language support for the proper
- casing of filenames and text.
-
- The ability to put the entire ARJ command line in a response type
- file as in "ARJ @command.rsp".
-
- 32 bit CRC file integrity check.
-
- DOS volume label support.
-
- Default storing of specified pathnames to allow recovery of a
- directory structure.
-
- Empty directory support.
-
- File generation archive support where ARJ will allow the user to
- keep several versions of the same file in an archive.
-
- Test new archive before overwriting the original archive option.
-
- Archives that can span diskettes. This allows the user to backup
- a full hard disk drive to multiple floppies. Recovery of
- individual files is convenient because each diskette archive is an
- individual archive except for the split file portion. No need to
- use SLICE with ARJ. In addition, ARJ in disk spanning mode can
- support the use of 3.5 HD diskettes formatted at higher capacities
- than 1.44 MBytes. Moreover, ARJ can build these disk spanning
- archives on the hard disk drive for later transfer to diskettes.
-
- Archive file re-ordering facility with the option of sorting by
- file size, file extension, CRC value, date-time modified, filename,
- pathname, compression ratio, file attribute and more.
-
- String searching with context display within archive files.
-
- Built-in facility to recover files from broken archives.
-
- Self-extraction feature that is internal to the ARJ runfile. The
- SFX module is full-featured with a built-in help screen. ARJ also
- includes a smaller SFXJR module with fewer features.
-
- Multiple volume self-extracting archives.
-
- The ability to embed command line type options inside
- self-extracting archives.
-
- Internal string data integrity check in ARJ to resist hacking a la
- LHARC to ICE.
-
- Archive security envelope "seal" feature to resist tampering with
- secured archives. This feature disallows ANY changes to a secured
- archive. Even the archive comments can NOT be changed without
- removing the "seal".
-
- Password option to encrypt archived files.
-
- Text mode data compression option to enable movement of text files
- from one host machine to another. Text mode also results in
- slightly greater file size reduction on MS-DOS machines.
-
- File extraction to screen in a paged mode to permit browsing
- through an archive.
-
- Specification of the files to be added to or exclude from an
- archive via one or more list files. In addition, ARJ can generate
- a list file.
-
- Specification of files to be excluded from processing by ARJ.
-
- Sub-directory recursion during compression and extraction.
-
-
- ARCHIVER BENCHMARKING:
-
- This is information for those who plan to publish benchmark test
- results comparing ARJ with other file archivers.
-
- The ARJ -jm compression is intended to demonstrate the best that
- ARJ can do in terms of size reduction. However, the ARJ -jm1
- compression is almost as good in terms of size reduction. The ARJ
- -m2 compression is intended to compete with LHA 2.12. The ARJ -m3
- compression is intended to compete with PKZIP 1.10.
-
- The ARJ -e option is necessary during size benchmarks because ARJ
- by default stores the entire specified pathname in the archive as
- opposed to other archivers which strip path specs.
-
- The very size of the ARJ runfile adds significantly to the
- compression and extraction times when testing smaller archives.
-
-
- RELEASE NOTES:
-
- The use of ARJ in a business, commercial, institutional, or
- government environment requires a license. However, business,
- commercial, institutional and government users may use ARJ for
- evaluation purposes for a period of 30 days. See the LICENSE.DOC
- for full details.
-
- The inclusion of any of the ARJ software (ARJ, ARJR, DEARJ,
- ARJSFX, ARJSFXJR, REARJ) with software and/or hardware for
- distribution requires a license.
-
- While evaluating ARJ, you should use the "-jt" (test archive)
- option to verify new ARJ archives of your data.
-
- This version has been tested under DOS 2.11, 3.3, 4.01, 5.0, and
- DOS 6.0. It also runs under the DOS windows of Windows 3.x and
- OS/2 2.0.
-
- Here is a suggested command that will test ARJ on all of your files:
-
- ARJ a testvol c:\ "-v360sdel testvol.*" -xtestvol.* -y -jf -jt1 -r
-
-
- TECHNICAL NOTES:
-
- A detailed technical description of the ARJ archive format is
- available in the UNARJ distribution archive. This archive
- contains a description of the archive header formats as well as C
- source code for an ARJ archive extractor and lister program. This
- source code has been made portable to several platforms including
- UNIX, NEXT, DOS, and AMIGA.
-
-
- ARJR, DEARJ, and REARJ PROGRAMS:
-
- The new programs ARJR and DEARJ are available to registered and
- licensed users of ARJ. ARJR is the ARJ program without the help
- screen and SFX modules. DEARJ is the ARJR program without the
- archive creation/modification functions, the "w" command, and
- the "-jt1" and "-jt2" switches.
-
- There are two versions of REARJ, the shareware version and the
- registered version. The registered version contains a number of
- additional enhancements including environment variable usage,
- !listfile capability and selection by file date-time.
-
- See the LICENSE.DOC and ORDERFRM.DOC for more information.
-
- UNARJ and DEARJ are NOT the same program.
-
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- I assume that you have a copy of the self-extracting ARJ module
- named ARJ###.EXE where "###" represents the ARJ version number.
- Typing ARJ### [RETURN] at the DOS command prompt will initiate the
- self-extraction feature. ARJ### will by default extract its files
- to the current directory. When ARJ### starts, you will see
- several lines of text describing ARJ and then a line asking if you
- wish to continue extraction. Entering "yes" or "y" will continue
- the extraction. If there are any duplicate filenames in the
- current directory, the program will prompt you for overwriting.
- You can enter "yes", "no", or "quit".
-
- To install the ARJ software, simply copy ARJ.EXE, REARJ.EXE,
- REARJ.CFG, and ARJSORT.COM to one of the directories named in the
- DOS PATH statement found in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. On many PCs, this
- directory may be C:\DOS or C:\BIN. With MS-DOS 3.0 and above, you
- can use path notation "\BIN\ARJ e archive" to use ARJ.
-
- You may, of course, prefer to use ARJ 1.00 or higher to extract
- the contents of ARJ###.EXE file manually.
-
- Example: ARJ e ARJ###.EXE \temp\
-
-
- QUICK START TO USING ARJ:
-
- See the document INTRO.DOC.
-
-
- HOW TO CREATE AN EXECUTABLE SELF-EXTRACTING ARJ ARCHIVE
-
- The command "ARJ y -je archive" will create a full featured
- self-extracting archive from an already built archive.
-
- The command "ARJ y -je1 archive" will create a smaller
- self-extracting archive.
-
- Syntax: ARJ y -je archive produces archive.exe
-
- The registered version of ARJ lets users create multiple volume
- self-extracting archives,
-
- Under DOS systems other than 2.11, 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, and
- 6.2x, you may have to rename the self-extract module to ARJSFX.EXE
- to do the extraction.
-
- See the "-je" option for more information.
-
-
- CONVERTING OTHER ARCHIVE FILES TO ARJ FORMAT
-
- Included with this software is the program REARJ. This program can
- be used to individually or collectively convert archive files from
- other formats to the ARJ format.
-
- REARJ *.ZIP *.ARC *.LZH will convert all ZIP, ARC, and LZH
- archives in the current directory to the ARJ format. See the
- REARJ.DOC for more information about REARJ.
-
-
- HOW TO USE ARJ:
-
- If you type ARJ [return], you will see a simple help screen.
-
- If you type ARJ -? [return], you will see more detailed help
- information.
-
-
- ARJ LIMITATIONS:
-
- ARJ will accept up to: 64 filenames/wildnames on command line
- 32000 filenames resulting from wildnames
- unless the -hm option is specified
- 8000 filenames/wildnames to exclude
- 8000 ARJ filenames resulting from wildnames
- 2048 character comments
- (up to 25 lines or 1 file)
-
- For compressing, ARJ requires approximately 300,000 bytes plus the
- memory necessary to store all of the pathnames to be archived when
- using the default compression method (-m1).
-
- For extracting, ARJ requires approximately 175,000 bytes plus.
- The program DEARJ (available to registered users) requires
- approximately 125,000 bytes plus.
-
- There is no limitation on the number of files that can be stored
- in one archive. However, each add command can only add a maximum
- of 16,000 files at a time depending upon memory availability. I
- expect that a normal maximum of 5,000 to 10,000 filenames can be
- handled without running out of memory during the compress phase.
- The new option "-hm" allows ARJ to archive up to 32,000 files at
- one time by using disk space instead of memory.
-
- Example:
-
- ARJ a -r archive \*.* -hm
-
- ARJ currently does not see that wildnames like "C:*.*" and "C:\*.*"
- can actually represent the same thing. ARJ would expand each of
- those two wildnames into a list that could be up to twice as long
- as necessary.
-
- When updating an archive, ARJ creates a temporary file named
- ARJTEMP.$nn in the current directory or special work directory if
- specified (-hm!F:\).
-
- While ARJ is scanning a wildcard filespec, ARJ will change the name
- of the target archive to ARJTEMP.$nn while the scan is proceeding
- to avoid including the archive itself in an add or move command.
- Also, as a result, you cannot add a file named ARJTEMP.$nn to an
- ARJ archive. Please note that the name of this temporary file may
- change at a future revision of ARJ.
-
-
- IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ARJ AND LHARC:
-
- ARJ by default stores the full specified pathname of files
- archived minus any drive letter and root symbol.
-
- The "e" and "x" commands will by default extract all of the files
- in the archive without using date time stamps to select files. You
- should specify "-u -y" to duplicate LHARC functionality.
-
- The "f" command in ARJ requires the -r switch to be functionally
- identical to the LHARC f command if the original archive were
- created using the -r switch.
-
- ARJ uses the "!" symbol as a prefix character to indicate list
- files.
-
-
- IMPORTANT NOTES:
-
- When using the "-w" working directory switch, ARJ does not check on
- space availability before overwriting the original archive if it
- exists. Be sure that you have enough disk space for the new
- archive before using the "-w" switch. If ARJ aborts in this
- situation because of disk space, ARJ will keep the temporary
- archive.
-
- By default, ARJ does not see hidden or system files. ARJ will
- process system and hidden files when you either specify the "-a"
- switch.
-
- Like LHARC and PKZIP, ARJ requires extra disk space to UPDATE an
- archive file. ARJ will backup the original archive while it
- creates the new archive, so enough room must be available for both
- archives at the same time.
-
- Unlike PKZIP, ARJ does not require additional work space when
- CREATING a new archive.
-
- Currently, ARJ will not extract overwriting a readonly file unless
- the "-ha" option is specified.
-
-
- TIPS TO USING ARJ EFFICIENTLY
-
- You should use a software or hardware disk cache to speed up ARJ
- access. Diskette drives should NOT be write-delay enabled.
- Write-delay would prevent ARJ from verifying diskette writes.
-
- When archiving to diskettes, you should use the "-w" option to set
- a working directory on your RAMDRIVE or hard disk drive to speed up
- building the archive.
-
- You should use the "-jt" option when archiving to diskettes or when
- you really want to be sure that ARJ will be able to extract what
- you have archived. There are cases where your hardware or memory
- resident software will corrupt your work, so the "-jt" option is
- excellent insurance. If you have bad sectors on your diskettes and
- verify is turned off, DOS will not tell you about diskette errors
- until it is too late. These errors are NOT RECOVERABLE.
-
- Using the "-js" option saves time by not compressing archives of
- PKZIP, LHA, ARC, ZOO, ARJ, etc.
-
- You should use the "-e" option whenever you do not need to store
- pathnames in an archive that you are creating. This will save
- space.
-
- Convert an ARJ archive into a self-extracting archive with a
- command like the following: ARJ y archive -je
-
- To capture a comment from an ARJ archive, use the following
- command: ARJ e archive ... -zcomment.txt (the "..." is
- significant).
-
- ARJ has several compression methods that provide size/time
- tradeoffs. Method 4 "-m4" is about twice as fast as method 1. The
- "-jm1" and "-jm" options modify the "-m1" option to provide even
- greater compression at a cost in time.
-
-
- USING ARJ WITHIN OTHER PROGRAMS
-
- Since ARJ uses over 300,000 bytes of memory during compression, it
- is difficult to use ARJ in a large application program unless that
- program swaps itself out of memory when it executes DOS commands
- like ARJ. However, there is at least one shareware program
- available that will automatically swap your large application
- program out of memory whenever it shells out to DOS to execute a
- command. The program SHROOM by Davis Augustine should be able to
- solve this memory problem for you. The latest version as of
- 03/11/92 is named SHROM19C.ZIP on Channel One BBS. According to
- the SHROOM documentation, you can reach the author at:
-
- CompuServe id 72230,3053
-
- Davis Augustine
- P.O. Box 610
- Sausalito, CA 94966-0610
-
- This is not an endorsement of the product SHROOM.
-
- The easiest way I have found to use this product is to type:
- SHROOM COMMAND.COM
-
- SHROOM -v COMMAND.COM will let you see SHROOM in action when you
- shell out to execute a DOS command.
-
-
- ARJMENU PROGRAM
-
- A program called ARJMENU by Michael McCombs is available. As far
- as I know, it is the only menu-driven interface program that
- supports ALL of the features of ARJ. This program is aimed at
- users who hate command line interfaces. ARJMENU allows the user
- to pick and choose ARJ options. The user does not have to
- remember the ARJ switch syntax. The current version of the
- program supports ARJ version 2.30.
-
-
- ARJ HELP HYPERTEXT PROGRAM
-
- ARJ-Help is an electronic book (brand named Window Book (TM)) that
- allows the user to discover easily how to use ARJ. It runs under
- DOS. It is very fast and has a rich set of features which include
- full-text search, hypertext links, a table of contents that can be
- reorganized to your needs, a complete index, and much more. The
- current version can be found on some BBSes as ARJHLP24.EXE.
-
- Window Book, Inc.
- P.O. Box 390697
- Cambridge MA 02139
- USA
-
- TEL: 617-661-9515 or 800-524-0380.
- FAX: 617-354-3961
-
-
- ARCHIVER UTILITIES THAT SUPPORT THE ARJ FORMAT
-
- The following are some other utilities that facilitate the use of
- ARJ. This list is not all inclusive or is it meant as a personal
- recommendation.
-
- ARCHIVE MANAGER PRO - Archiver shell
- ARJMENU 1.x - ARJ shell
- SHEZ 8.x - Archiver shell
- ARCMASTER 6.x - Archiver shell
- ZGEN 1.x - Archiver shell
- ACZAR 1.x - Archiver shell
- ARJVIEW - ARJ shell
- AVIEW - BBS archive viewer
- WINZIP - Windows archiver shell
- WINDOWS COMMANDER - WIndows archiver shell
-
- A particularly useful ARJ support utility is SARJ (latest version
- is 1.12) by Frederic Taes. It improves upon ARJ compression by
- using ARJ to build "solid" archives.
-
-
- USING ARJ AS A BACKUP PROGRAM
-
- ARJ can be used as a substitute for a backup program. However, it
- does not have the diskette critical error handling or data recovery
- facilities of a FASTBACK, etc. So you should be sure of the
- reliability of your diskettes. The most common cause of failure
- is bad diskettes. You should let ARJ test the archives ON the
- diskettes. Testing the archives before copying them to diskettes
- is not enough. Critical data should always be backed up two or
- more times. Please keep in mind that damage to compressed data
- is many times more serious than damage to uncompressed data.
-
- WARNING: You should never update multiple volume ARJ archives
- especially backup archives. Use a separate set of diskettes to
- an incremental backup.
-
- The following partial command lines illustrate a full backup
- command, an incremental backup command, and a restore command. The
- only parts missing are the names of the files to backup/restore.
-
- ARJ a A:backup -r -vvas -a1 -b2 -js -jt -jiC:\backup.inx -wC:\ -m3
-
- ARJ a A:backup -r -vvas -a1 -b1 -js -jt -jiC:\backup.inx -wC:\ -m3
-
- ARJ x A:backup -vv -y
-
- You should familiarize yourself with the above switches so that you
- can modify the above command lines as needed.
-
- If you have a RAMDRIVE large enough, you should change the "-w"
- option to point to the RAMDRIVE.
-
- If you have enough free hard disk space, you can build all of the
- diskette volumes on the hard disk for later copying to diskette.
- In this case, you will need to change the name of the archive to
- "C:backup" or similar. The "-vvas" option should be changed to
- "-v360", "-v720" or whatever is appropriate for your diskette size.
- Please note that 360, 720, 1200, and 1440 are abbreviations for the
- standard diskette sizes. Other sizes will require your entering
- the entire number. Another change is to add the option "-y" which
- will turn off the "Ok to proceed ..." prompt. Lastly, if the "-w"
- option is pointing to the hard disk, you should remove the "-w"
- option entirely.
-
- ARJ a C:backup -r -v360 <other options> -m3 -y
-
- ***IMPORTANT*** Only a maximum of 100 volumes can be built on disk
- at one time because of the volume suffix rolling over at *.A99 to
- *.A00 when using default archive naming. However, if you specify
- the starting archive name with a suffix of ".000" or ".001", ARJ
- will create up to 1000 or 999 uniquely named volumes.
-
- ARJ a C:backup.000 -r ...........
-
- Both backup commands will pause for a "system command". You can
- execute DOS commands at this point. This is a suitable place to do
- a "dir a:" to make sure that your disk is formatted and has enough
- free space on it. You may need to execute "format a:" or
- "del a:\". A very useful command might be "QDR A:". QDR is a
- utility from Vernon Buerg. You will need to type "exit" to allow
- ARJ to continue.
-
- If the backup fails after completing one or more diskettes, you
- can restart at the next archive after the last successful volume.
-
- There are two methods to do this restart. If you have specified an
- index file with the "-ji" option during the failed backup, you can
- restart by retyping the EXACT SAME command line as before and
- adding the "-jn" option. This will cause ARJ to scan the
- previously written index file for the proper restart information.
- ARJ will automatically set the correct volume name.
-
- Example: ARJ a a:backup c:\ -r -vvas -jiINDEX.FIL
- ARJ a a:backup c:\ -r -vvas -jiINDEX.FIL -jn
-
- The second method is more complicated. Refer to the "-jn" and
- "-jx" descriptions for more details. For example, if the above
- full backup command failed during diskette two, on filename
- "DOS\MODE.COM" which was started at byte 125. This would be the
- correct command:
-
- ARJ a A:backup.A01 -r -vvas -a1 <other> -m4 -jx125 -jnDOS\MODE.COM
-
- The most error prone step is determining the correct "-jn" option.
- A common error concerns the use of the root directory symbol "\"
- with the "-jn" option. Verify the presence or absence of the root
- symbol "\" in the backup index file.
-
- If the restore fails after one or more diskettes, simply retype the
- same command as before but add the right ".Ann" suffix to the
- archive name. If ARJ has aborted because of a disk full on a file
- split between volumes, you will have to restart at the first volume
- that contains that file.
-
-
- BACKUP TYPE ARCHIVES AND BACKUP FILES
-
- New to ARJ 2.30 and above and ARJ archives is the concept of
- "backup" type archives. Normally, when adding duplicate files to
- an ARJ archive, ARJ will overwrite the existing file. However, at
- ARJ 2.30 and above with a backup type archive, ARJ will keep the
- existing file by marking it as a backup and inserting the new file.
- This will make ARJ archives larger than normal. It is possible to
- have more than one duplicate backup file. You can make an archive
- a backup type by using the "-jb" option during the add or by typing
- "ARJ y archive -jb". Any further additions of already existing
- files will result in more files marked as backups. You may reset
- that backup flag by specifying the "-jb1" option as in "ARJ y
- archive -jb1".
-
- This feature is useful when backing up frequently modified files.
- One archive can have several days worth of backups.
-
- The existence of backup files or the backup archive flag is
- indicated when executing the "l" or "v" commands. There will be a
- message at the end of the display. The backup files themselves can
- be displayed by using the "-jg" or "-jg1" options with the "l" or
- "v" commands.
-
- To extract a specific backup file, you have several options. You
- can execute "ARJ e archive filename -jg -q" and enter "yes" on the
- specific instance that you wanted extracted. You can specify the
- exact modification date-time that you want as in "ARJ e archive
- filename -jg -o910101120000 -ob910101130000". You can specify the
- sequence number of the file in the archive. To extract the fifth
- file in the archive, type "ARJ e archive 5 -jg -#". The sequence
- number is available in the "v" command display. Or you can extract
- all occurrences of the file with "ARJ e archive filename -jg -jo".
- Duplicates will be renamed with numeric file extensions (.000).
-
- The "ARJ k archive *.*" command can be used to purge an archive of
- all backup files.
-
- You can unmark backup files with "ARJ y archive -jb2". You can
- unmark specific files such as the fifth file in the archive with
- "ARJ y archive -# -jb2 5".
-
- You should not use the "-e" option when adding files to a backup
- type archive because ARJ will not have the ability to distinguish
- between files with the same filespec and different pathspecs. You
- could end up with duplicate files in the archive as opposed to one
- recent file and several backup files.
-
-
- THE FILESPEC "..."
-
- Several times in this document and the UPDATE.DOC file, there is
- mention of the filespec "...". This filespec is chosen so as not
- to match any existing filename. ARJ will NOT generate an error
- or warning for not matching "..." specifically.
-
- This is a problem when using ARJ on a NOVELL network as the
- filespec "..." is a valid directory name. A partial workaround
- is to specify a non-existent filespec such as "@@@" in place of
- "...". Or you may use the "-hn" option to specify a name that is
- not to match any filename.
-
-
- ARJ ERROR SITUATIONS:
-
- ADD:
-
- If a user specified file is not found during an add, ARJ will
- continue processing, and will keep the archive and terminate with
- an error condition. Note that files specified within an ARJ
- listfile that are not found during an add will NOT trigger an
- error unless the "-hl" option is also specified.
-
- In a disk full condition or any other file i/o error, ARJ will
- promptly terminate with an error condition and delete the temporary
- archive file unless the user has specified the "-jk" switch.
-
-
- MOVE:
-
- ARJ will only delete files that have been successfully added to the
- archive. If you have specified the "-jt" (test) switch, ARJ will
- abort on any error. If you specify the "-jk" switch, ARJ will keep
- the temporary archive upon an abort.
-
-
- EXTRACT:
-
- In a disk full condition or any other file i/o error, ARJ will
- promptly terminate with an error condition and delete the current
- output file.
-
-
- CRC ERRORS OR BAD FILE DATA:
-
- In the case where an ARJ archive has been corrupted, ARJ will
- report a CRC error or a Bad file data error. These corruptions
- can be the result of an unreliable diskette, a computer memory
- problem, a file transfer glitch, or incompatible CACHING software.
- Most of these errors are the result of file transfer glitches and
- bad diskettes. A few are the result of an incompatible
- interaction with SUPER PCKWIK 3.3 advanced diskette support or
- Windows 3.x.
-
- Individual files in an archive that are affected by the CRC or Bad
- file data errors CANNOT be recovered. Other files in a damaged
- archive can be recovered by extracting them using the "-jr"
- option.
-
-
- CRITICAL ERROR HANDLER:
-
- ARJ sets up an interactive critical error handler to handle DOS
- critical errors like "sector not found" and "drive not ready".
- When a critical error occurs, ARJ will prompt the user with the
- message "Retry Y/N?". The user may retry the failed operation by
- pressing "Y". Pressing "N" will fail the operation or abort to DOS
- depending upon the version of DOS. The user can press Control
- BREAK to abort to DOS.
-
-
- ARJ DOS ERRORLEVELS:
-
- ARJ returns a number of DOS errorlevels for different situations.
-
- 0 -> success
- 1 -> warning (specified file to add to archive not found,
- specified file to list, extract, etc., not found,
- or answering negatively to "OK to proceed to next
- volume..." prompt)
- 2 -> fatal error
- 3 -> CRC error (header or file CRC error)
- 4 -> ARJ-SECURITY error or attempt to update an ARJ-SECURED archive
- 5 -> disk full or write error
- 6 -> cannot open archive or file
- 7 -> simple user error (bad parameters)
- 8 -> not enough memory
- 9 -> not an ARJ archive
-
- Please note that DOS batchfiles have a unique method of testing
- for a DOS errorlevel. The batch statement IF ERRORLEVEL 0 ...
- means if the errorlevel is EQUAL TO or GREATER THAN 0. Generally,
- one should test for the highest possible errorlevels first and
- proceed lower as in:
-
- ARJ a archive *.*
- if errorlevel 9 goto not_arj
- if errorlevel 8 goto no_memory
- .
- .
- .
- if errorlevel 1 goto minor_error
- type ARJ command successful
-
-
- ARJ USER ACTION PROMPTS:
-
- ARJ prompts the user for action at certain times. There are
- several types of prompts. One is for yes/no permission, another is
- for a new filename, another is for archive comments, and one other
- is for search strings.
-
- The ARJ yes/no user prompts provide a lot of flexibility. In
- addition to the normal yes and no responses, ARJ also accepts the
- following responses: quit, always, skip, global, and command.
-
- "Global" sets ARJ to inhibit all subsequent user prompts by assuming
- YES for all queries as if "-y" were specified.
-
- "Always" sets ARJ to assume YES for subsequent queries of the same
- class. For example, answering ALWAYS to the overwrite query will
- assume YES for ALL subsequent overwrite queries.
-
- "Skip" sets ARJ to assume NO for ALL subsequent queries of the same
- class.
-
- After "always" or "skip" responses, subsequent user prompt
- messages will still be output to the screen but no user response
- will be accepted.
-
- "Command" prompts for one DOS command and then executes it. ARJ
- then returns to expect an answer to the current yes/no query. You
- should keep the query in mind as ARJ does NOT always redisplay
- the full query message.
-
- Since ARJ uses STDIN for user input, be careful about typing ahead
- anticipating prompts. ARJ may prompt you for an unexpected action
- and use your earlier input.
-
- The "-jy" option lets you change the prompting modes to single
- character query mode. See the section on "-jy" for more
- information.
-
-
- ARJ ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE:
-
- ARJ will first look for an environment variable named ARJ_SW and
- use its value as switch options for ARJ. If ARJ finds such an
- environment variable, it will display a message to that effect.
-
- You can inhibit ARJ from using this environment variable by using
- the "-+" option. You can also set the name of the environment
- variable with the "-+" option as in ARJ a -+ARJ_SW2 archive.
-
- SET ARJ_SW=<switches>
-
- Example: SET ARJ_SW=-w\temp -k -e
-
- Do NOT add any blanks after the variable name ARJ_SW. As in LHARC,
- command line switches can be selected to override ARJ_SW settings.
-
- ARJ will allow you to use a different switch character "-" or "/"
- in ARJ_SW and in the command line except when using the "-ju"
- (unix) option.
-
- If the ARJ_SW environment variable specifies a filename (text not
- beginning with a switch character), ARJ will open that filename and
- scan it looking for a line of text that begins in column 1 with the
- same letter as the ARJ command being executed. The following text
- is processed as the ARJ_SW switches. This allows each ARJ command
- to have its own switch settings. In addition, ARJ will also look
- for the "+" (plus) symbol in column 1 to use as a miscellaneous
- switch string. This string will be added to any command switch
- string found if any. If no command switch string is found, ARJ
- will use the miscellaneous switch string as the ARJ_SW switch
- settings. NOTE that the "+" switch settings will NOT be used
- if the "+" string occurs below the command switch string.
-
- SET ARJ_SW=C:\ARJ\ARJ.CFG
-
- C:\ARJ\ARJ.CFG contains:
- a -jm1 -jt -i1
- c -zcomment.txt
- + -jv
- l -jp
- e -i1
-
- AND is equivalent to:
- a -jm1 -jt -i1
- c -zcomment.txt
- l -jp -jv
- e -i1 -jv
- f -jv
- v -jv
- all other commands
- .
- .
- .
-
- In the above example, any ARJ "a" commands will use "-jm1 -jt -i1"
- as the ARJ_SW switch options.
-
- The ARJ_SW variable or the ARJ_SW configuration file switch
- settings may NOT have quoted switches such as "-vasformat a:".
-
-
- ARJ COMMAND LINE SYNTAX:
-
- ARJ <command> [-<switch>[-|+|<option>]...] <archive_name>[.ARJ]
- [<base_directory_name>\] [<!list_name>|<path_name>|<wild_name>...]
-
- or
-
- ARJ @response_filename [-&] | [-+] | [-+environment_variable]
-
-
- Commands and switches can be entered in upper or lower case.
- Switches can be placed anywhere after the command ARJ.
-
- ARJ supports the use of either "-" or "/" as the switch option
- character. The first occurrence of either "-" or "/" that ARJ
- encounters in the ARJ_SW variable will determine the switch symbol
- for processing ARJ_SW. The first occurrence of either "-" or "/"
- that ARJ encounters in the command line will determine the switch
- symbol for processing the command line except when the "-ju" (unix)
- option has been specified in ARJ_SW. You may NOT mix and match
- switch symbols. Throughout this document, the symbol "/" may be
- substituted for "-" in switch usage.
-
- Examples: ARJ a A:archive *.* /va /r is correct
- ARJ a A:archive *.* /va -r IS INCORRECT USAGE!
-
- Switches specified on the command line will either toggle or
- override switches specified with the ARJ_SW environment variable.
- Switch usage is identical to that of LHARC.
-
- "-s+" turns on switch "s".
- "-s-" turns off switch "s".
- "-s" toggles the state of switch "s".
- "-sname" provides the name argument for switch "-s".
- "--" skip processing of any more switch options.
-
- Switch options CAN be combined to save command line length.
- However, some switch options take optional string arguments and
- therefore, must be the last option in a combined argument token
- string because ARJ accepts the rest of the argument token as the
- optional argument. You can combine "-r" and "-i" to make "-ri".
- You can combine "-wd:\" and "-i" with "-iwd:\", because the switch
- option taking the string argument is last. Please note that
- switches that ONLY accept the "+", "-", "0", "1", "2" modifiers can
- be combined in any order. The following switches must be last in a
- combined switch argument: -g, -l, -m, -o, -t, -v, -w, -x, -z, -!,
- -$, -h#, -hc, -hm, -hn, -hx, -jc, -jd, -jh, -ji, -jn, -jp, -js,
- -jw, -jx, -jy, -jz.
-
- WARNING: The "j" in "-jX" option switches is a SHIFT symbol.
- Therefore, a combined "-jatv" is a combination of "-ja", "-jt", and
- "-jv", since the "j" shifts the meaning of subsequent symbols in
- the argument token string. The use of more than ONE "j" shift
- symbol per argument token string is NOT supported for future
- versions.
-
- Examples: -rijvta <=> -r -i -jv -jt -ja
- -i1kwd:\ <=> -i1 -k -wd:\
-
- ARJ will accept an ending "-" on most switches such as "-w-". The
- "-x" switch option is one exception. The one caveat is that for
- switches that support an optional argument such as "-wd:\" or
- "-t1", that switch option must NOT be followed by a concatenated
- switch option such as "-w-r". An argument token string such is
- "-rikw-" is acceptable because the "-w" option is the last one.
- One special switch combination is the "-jyyr" combination. You can
- turn off the "y" and "r" modifiers with "-jyyr-".
-
- The switch option "--" tells ARJ that there are no more switch
- options to process in the current command line. This is useful
- when you need to enter filenames beginning with "-".
-
- Example: ARJ a archive -- -testfile
-
- The standard ARJ file suffix is ".ARJ". Subsequent multiple volume
- archives end in ".A01", ".A02", etc, up to .A99, .A00, .A01. It is
- possible to have multiple volumes start at ".001" and go up to
- ".999".
-
- The ARJ command must be the first non-switch argument after "ARJ".
- The ARJ archive name must be the first filename on the command
- line. The base directory, if any, must be the second filename
- argument. The switches and other filenames can be in any order.
- The base directory name should end with "\" (backslash) or ":"
- (colon). However, ARJ will still accept directory names without
- the "\" character if the directory already exists. This feature
- is limited to the add type and extract type commands.
-
- Wild_names follow MS-DOS convention. "*.*" means all files.
- "*.DOC" means all files with an extension of ".DOC". "?B*.*"
- means all files with a second character of "B".
-
- The default for <wild_name> for all commands except for "d" is
- "*.*".
-
- For the add, move, freshen and update commands, filename matching
- in the archive requires an exact path match depending upon the "-e"
- option. For non-update commands, specified filenames with paths
- will force a full pathname match.
-
- You can supply one or more filenames for files containing lists of
- files to be added to an archive. The filenames must be listed one
- per line with no leading or trailing blanks. The list filename(s)
- must be prefixed with "!". If you want to archive a filename
- beginning with !, you must use the "-!" option to set a new list
- file character.
-
- You can exclude filenames/wildnames from the list of filenames to
- be processed by ARJ.
-
- Example: ARJ a software *.* -x*.exe -x*.obj adds all files
- in the current directory except .EXE and .OBJ files.
-
-
- ARJ RESPONSE FILE SYNTAX:
-
- ARJ @response_filename [-&] | [-+] | [-+environment_variable]
-
- ARJ will now accept an ARJ command line from a response file as in
- "ARJ @command.rsp". The "@" symbol indicates that the appended
- name is the name of the response file. In this case, the file is
- command.rsp. The response file symbol cannot be changed. Only one
- ARJ command line can be processed per response file.
-
- The response file should contain the ARJ command line minus the
- initial "ARJ". The command line may be split over as many lines
- as necessary. The response file feature will NOT accept QUOTED
- command line options. Options with embedded blanks ("-vasTEST X")
- will not be processed as expected. When using the response file
- feature, ARJ will accept only the "-+", and "-&" switch options on
- the DOS command line along with the response file name. All other
- command options must be specified in the response file or in the
- ARJ environment variable.
-
- Please note that the ARJ command line whether or not in the
- response file is still limited to 64 filenames or wildnames. The
- listfile feature should be used to specify more than 64 filenames
- or wildnames.
-
-
- ARCHIVE NAME WILDCARDING:
-
- You can specify a wildcard for the archive name such as "*.ARJ" for
- all ARJ commands except for the add commands (a, f, j, m, u). If
- you also specify the "-r" switch, ARJ will search subdirectories
- for ARJ archives (*.ARJ) also.
-
- Example: ARJ l -r * will list all of your *.ARJ files.
- ARJ c *.arj -zbbs.cmt will comment all of your archives.
-
-
- ARJ COMMANDS:
-
- a: Add files to archive
-
- This is the basic command to add disk files to an ARJ archive.
- You can specify 0 to 64 filename arguments (one can be a
- destination directory). The arguments can be wildnames. If
- you specify the "-r" switch (recurse subdirectories), ARJ
- will add all of the files in all of the subdirectories that
- match the specified wildname.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive subdir\*.*
- Archive all files in directory "subdir".
-
- For maximum compression, use the "-jm" switch option.
-
- b: execute Batch or DOS command
-
- The ARJ b command allows a user to execute a DOS command on
- selected files in an archive. The ARJ b command will prompt for a
- DOS command string to execute per selected file. By default ARJ
- will extract the selected files to the filename ARJTEMP.$$$. This
- filename can be changed with the "-jw" option. The base directory
- option is ignored by the ARJ b command. The output file will be
- deleted by ARJ after the DOS command is executed.
-
- Examples: ARJ b archive
- ARJ b archive file.exe -jwtemp\tempfile
-
- This option can substitute for a simple extract and run command
- where the file to be extracted is an executable. You would specify
- a temporary executable name as the output name and use that name as
- the DOS command to be executed.
-
- Example: ARJ b archive file.exe -jwTEMP.EXE
- TEMP arguments
-
- You can supply the DOS command string on the command line with
- the "-jq" option. Switch options which have embedded blanks
- must be enclosed by double quote marks.
-
- Examples: ARJ b archive file.exe -jwTEMP.EXE -jqTEMP
- ARJ b archive *.c "-jqgrep text ARJTEMP.$$$"
-
- c: Comment archive files
-
- This command allows you to comment the header and individual
- files. ARJ will prompt you for each comment. The user will be
- prompted for up to 25 lines for each comment. A line containing
- only a [return] will terminate the comment.
-
- The user can choose to input comment data from a file by entering
- the comment filename preceded by an "!" as in "!archive.txt"
- starting in column 1 of the first comment line. This file is
- read as a text file. The lines in the text can be up to 2048
- bytes long. Only the first 2048 bytes of the file will be
- accepted by ARJ.
-
- To erase a comment from an archive, type [space] [return] on the
- first comment line and [return] on the second comment line.
-
- To strip archive or file comments from an archive, you can use
- the NUL file feature of MS-DOS.
-
- Examples: ARJ c archive -zNUL strips archive comment
- ARJ c archive name -jzNUL strips comment for "name"
- ARJ c archive -jzNUL strips all file comments
- ARJ c archive -zNUL -jzNUL strips all comments
-
- To add only the archive comment and not file comments, use the
- following command:
-
- ARJ c archive -z
-
- To add only the archive comment at the command line, use the
- following command:
-
- ARJ c archive -zcomment.txt
-
- You may also comment an archive with the "a", "f", "m", "u"
- commands.
-
- ARJ a -zcomment.txt archive *.txt
-
- d: Delete files from archive
-
- This command allows you to delete files from the archive. When
- wildcard selection is not suitable, you can use the "-q" switch
- to set ARJ to prompt you for deletion for each file selected.
- These deleted files are physically removed from the archive.
-
- Example: ARJ d archive *.c
- Delete all files in archive ending in ".c".
-
- ARJ d -q archive *.c
- Prompt before deleting each file ending in ".c".
-
- If specify "*.*" as the filespec, ARJ will prompt for permission
- to delete. You can specify the "-y" or "-jyd" options to
- inhibit the delete prompt.
-
- If ARJ removes all files from an archive, it will delete the
- empty archive.
-
- The delete command normally only deletes non-backup files. You
- must specify the "-jg" option to select backup files, too.
-
- You can specify the "-n" (new) option to delete the files in the
- archive that DO NOT EXIST on the disk. You can use the same
- "-n" option with "ARJ l" to list the files that DO NOT EXIST on
- the disk. This is useful in synchronizing an archive to a
- directory along with an update command.
-
- Examples: ARJ d archive *.* -n
- ARJ l archive temp\ *.doc -n
- ARJ d archive temp\ *.doc -n
-
- e: Extract files from archive
-
- This command will extract one or more files from the archive to
- the current directory or base directory if specified. ARJ will
- prompt the user before overwriting existing files unless the
- user specifies the "-y" switch. If the user gives a "no"
- answer, ARJ will prompt for a new filename. If the user enters
- a single [return] instead of a filename, ARJ will skip the
- current file extraction.
-
- Example: ARJ e archive soft\ *.c
- Extract all files ending in ".c" to subdirectory
- "soft".
-
- When extracting a file located on multiple volumes, ARJ may
- prompt the user with an "Append? " prompt. This will usually
- occur with files split across volumes. You will also need to
- specify the "-v" switch to set ARJ to continue to the next
- volume of a series of volumes. When extracting from one of a
- series of multiple volumes on a diskette, it is easier to use
- the wildcard "*.*" to specify the archive as in:
-
- ARJ e archive A:*.* filespecs
-
- If you wish to extract only a portion of an archive and that
- portion is a directory containing directories, you should use
- the "-p1" switch. See the "-p" switch for more information.
-
- The ARJ e and ARJ x commands now accept the "-d" option to
- provide an extract and delete option. This feature requires
- that you specify the files to extract and delete. ARJ will NOT
- default to "*.*" for this option. This option actually uses
- more disk space than a simple extraction because of the
- temporary archive that is created during the extraction process.
-
- ARJ e archive -d file1 file2
-
- If ARJ encounters a disk full during extraction, ARJ will abort
- with an error. You can bypass the abort by using the "-jd"
- option. Refer to the description of "-jd" for more information.
-
- If ARJ encounters a CRC or Bad file data error during
- extraction, ARJ will delete the corrupted extracted file unless
- the "-jr" option is used.
-
- With the "-ho" and "-ho1" options, you can extract files from an
- archive based upon the success or failure of a text string
- search. Refer to the description of the "-ho" and
- "-ho1"options for details.
-
- Examples: ARJ e archive -ho
- ARJ e archive -ho -jq+3+textstring
-
- f: Freshen files in archive
-
- Update matching files in the archive that are OLDER than the
- selected disk files.
-
- Example: arj f archive *.c *.h
-
- In freshening archives, you should use the same filename
- specifications that you used to create the archive.
-
- Example: arj a archive \temp\ *.* -r
- arj f archive \temp\ *.* -r
-
- If no files or comments have been added to the archive, ARJ
- will not rewrite the archive at ARJ 2.20 and above.
-
- When updating a file in an archive with a file that is NOT
- newer and if the -jv option is selected, ARJ will display a
- message that there is "no change".
-
- g: Garble files in archive
-
- The ARJ "g" command allows a user to garble an already built ARJ
- archive. Please note that only ungarbled files will be garbled
- by the ARJ "g" command.
-
- Example: ARJ g archive -gdinosaur
-
- i: check Integrity of ARJ.EXE
-
- The "i" command allows the user to check the integrity of the
- ARJ.EXE program. ARJ will report "CRC ERROR!" if the tested ARJ
- program does not pass its integrity check. This indicates that
- the program is probably corrupted. Please note that the "i"
- command should not be used on a compressed ARJ executable
- (DIETed, LZEXEd, etc.), since the "i" command will then ALWAYS
- report a CRC error. If the program name is not specified, then
- ARJ will check the current program being executed.
-
- Syntax: ARJ i ARJ.EXE
- ARJ i at DOS 3.0 and up
-
- j: Join archives to archive
-
- The "j" command allows the user to merge several ARJ archives.
-
- Syntax: ARJ j archive archive1.arj archive2.arj
- ARJ j archive *.arj -r
-
- Some switches NOT supported by the "j" command are: -o, -ob,
- -f, -u, -c, -v. Note that there is no error message displayed
- by ARJ when using an unsupported switch with the "j" command.
-
- The "-d" option IS supported by the "j" command.
-
- Note that switches that do work like "-x" select the archives to
- be merged and NOT the contents of the archives.
-
- This command can be used to convert an SFX module to a regular
- ARJ archive.
-
- Example: ARJ j new_name arjsfx.exe
-
- k: pacK bacKup files in archive
-
- The ARJ k command works similar to the ARJ d command except that
- the ARJ k command only deletes files marked as backups. The ARJ
- k command requires a wildname or filespec as a selection option.
-
- Examples: ARJ k archive *.*
- ARJ k archive *.doc -q
-
- l: List contents of archive
-
- List contents of archive to standard output. The display can be
- paused after each screenful with the "-jp" switch. The files
- are listed in stored order. There are no sort options
- currently.
-
- The last field on the display BTPMGVX stands for:
- B -> file has been marked as a backup
- T -> text/binary/directory type
- P -> path information available in "V" listing
- M -> compression method used
- G -> file has been garbled (encrypted)
- V -> archive has been continued to another volume
- X -> this file is an extended portion of a larger file
-
- Example: arj l archive *.c *.h
-
- A "+" sign preceding the date-time field indicates that the date
- is a 21st century date (20nn).
-
- For text mode compression, the original file size reported by
- the "l" and "v" commands is the actual number of bytes input.
- This is usually the MS-DOS file size minus the number of
- carriage returns in the file, since C text mode strips a file of
- carriage returns.
-
- When ARJ has detected a set backup flag in an archive, there
- will be a message "[Backups ON]". When ARJ has detected any
- backup files in an archive, there will be a message
- "[Backups found]".
-
- To indicate that files are marked as backups, ARJ will display
- a "*" in the column right after the file attributes.
-
- The "-jg" option is needed to set the "l" and "v" commands to
- display the names of backup files.
-
- Example: ARJ l archive -jg
-
- You use the "-n" option with "ARJ l" to list the files that DO NOT
- EXIST on the disk.
-
- Example: ARJ l archive temp\ *.doc -n
-
- m: Move files to archive
-
- This command is similar to specifying the "a" command with the
- "-d" switch. The "m" commands adds the selected files to the
- archive. If the adds are successful, then the added files are
- deleted. The move command does not ask permission before
- deleting the files. Use the "ARJ a -d" command for that
- feature.
-
- Example: ARJ m archive soft\*.*
-
- The "m" command when used with "-f" and "-u" will delete any
- successfully added files as well as any files that are already
- up to date in the archive. It is STRONGLY suggested that you
- always use the "-jt" option with move commands to set ARJ to
- verify the archive before deleting the input files.
-
- At ARJ 2.30 and above, ARJ will also attempt to delete any
- directories that are added to the archive. Directories can ONLY
- be selected by using the "-a1" option. Directories with
- UNSELECTED files will not be deleted.
-
- Example: ARJ m archive -a1 soft\*.* soft deletes soft
- ARJ m archive -a1 soft\*.* does not delete soft
-
- n: reName files in archive
-
- This command allows you to change the names of the files stored
- in an ARJ archive. ARJ will prompt for the new name of each
- selected file. You can skip changing the name of a particular
- file by entering a blank line.
-
- Example: ARJ n archive *.c
-
- In the above example, ARJ prompts for new names for all *.c
- files.
-
- o: Order files in archive
-
- This command allows you to re-order the files within the
- archive. You may specify the order of files on the command line
- or you can use one or more list files. Any files in the archive
- that are not specified on the command line or in a list file
- will be placed at the end of the archive in the same relative
- order that they were originally. No wildcard names can be used
- as order specifications. The filenames in the list file must be
- entered one per line.
-
- Example: ARJ o archive file1 file2 file3
-
- In the above example, the files "file1", "file2", and "file3"
- will be ordered first in the archive. Any remaining files will
- follow those.
-
- Example: ARJ o archive !list
-
- In the above example, the archive will be ordered according to
- the order of the names in the file "list".
-
- IMPORTANT: For the "o"rder command, the list file option has
- one special feature. If the list file is named ARJSORT.$$$, ARJ
- will expect the file to have been built with the ARJ v -jv1
- command. This ARJSORT.$$$ list file may be specified with a
- pathspec. See the ARJSORT.BAT batch file for an example of this
- special feature.
-
- To facilitate building list files, the "v" command in ARJ will
- produce special outputs with the "-jv" switch and the "-jv1"
- switch.
-
- The "-jv" switch will display only the pathnames stored within
- the archive. No other listing data is displayed. This output
- can be re-directed to a file for manual sorting into a list
- file.
-
- The "-jv1" switch will display the standard verbose display with
- a few modifications. No sequential number field will be
- displayed. No comment field will be displayed. The pathname is
- appended to the archive file description data instead of being
- on a separate line. Displayed just before the pathname field
- are the file extension and filename. These fields are available
- so that the user can sort the text lines by date-time, file
- extension, CRC value, etc. Text editors like Qedit and SLED
- allow the user to sort text lines via an embedded text field.
-
- At ARJ 2.20 and above, you cannot "o"rder a multiple volume
- archive and should not.
-
- p: Print files to standard output
-
- Output files to standard output. This function works such that
- the output file will contain only the file data extracted. This
- is important for UNIX-like usage.
-
- Example: ARJ p archive manual.doc > output.fil
-
- In the above example, output.fil will be an exact copy of
- manual.doc. There will be no extraneous header information in
- output.fil. All extraction phase information is written to the
- STDERR device, which is normally the display screen.
-
- Example: ARJ p archive manual.doc > LPT1
-
- In the above example, the standard output is redirected to the
- printer device. This does not involve any intermediate disk
- files. However, when redirecting to the printer, ARJ will
- translate binary files to text, causing possible loss of data.
- The ARJ command "ARJ e archive manual.doc -jwLPT1" will output a
- binary file to the printer without loss of data.
-
- ARJ sets the file date-time stamp of the output stream. File
- viewing as in ARJ p archive name | LIST /s will display the
- correct file date and time.
-
- The "-jp" option can be used to pause the screen output as in the
- "s" command. The "-jv" option will allow the display of IBM
- graphics characters with the "-jp" option.
-
- NOTE: Because of a problem using fwrite() and STDOUT, errors
- occurring during redirection to serial and printer ports may not
- be detected. Errors during redirection to disk files will be
- detected.
-
- r: Remove paths from filenames
-
- This command sets ARJ to remove the path component from the
- specified filenames stored in the archive. The default is all
- filenames stored in the archive. This command is useful if you
- forgot to specify "-e" to exclude paths.
-
- s: Sample files to screen with pause
-
- This command is similar to the "p" command except that one
- screenful of data is displayed to the user and a user action is
- then requested. The action prompt can be suppressed with the
- "-y" switch.
-
- The "s" command filters the text to output by truncating at 79
- characters per line and displaying '?' for control characters.
- The "-jv" option will allow the display of IBM graphics
- characters.
-
- t: Test integrity of archive
-
- Test the contents of the selected files for the correct CRC
- value. ARJ uses a 32 bit CRC to validate the contents of the
- files. The use of 32 bit CRCs is many times better than the
- use of 16 bit CRCs for the detection of errors.
-
- u: Update files to archive
-
- Update older files in the archive and add files that are new to
- the archive.
-
- Example: arj u software
-
- When updating a file in an archive with a file that is NOT
- newer and if the -jv option is selected, ARJ will display a
- message that there is "no change".
-
- v: Verbosely list contents of archive
-
- This command lists the full pathname and comments of the archive
- files as well as the same information as the "l" command.
-
- The "v" command now displays a sequence number preceding the
- pathname. This number can be used with the "-#" option to
- access specific files within an archive.
-
- Example: ARJ v archive -jg
- ARJ x archive -# 5 10
-
- Use the "-jp" switch to pause the output after each screen.
-
- The "-jv" switch will display only the pathnames to the screen.
-
- The "-jv1" switch will display the archive data in a manner
- suitable for sorting on various fields for use with the "o"
- command.
-
- w: Where are text strings in archive
-
- This command allows the user to search for text strings within
- archives.
-
- ARJ will prompt the user whether to ignore case when searching.
- This search option takes MS-DOS code pages into account so that
- casing of accented/umlauted characters will be done correctly.
-
- ARJ will also prompt the user for the number of lines of context
- of a match to display. If a number greater than zero is chosen,
- ARJ will display the matched string and the surrounding context
- with all of the non-printable characters including newlines
- replaced by question marks. The context lines displayed will be
- 78 characters in length. When the display context option is
- chosen, ARJ will inhibit the progress indicator. If the "-jv"
- is set, IBM graphics characters (128 to 255) will be displayed.
-
- Then, this command will prompt the user for up to 20 text strings
- to search for within the archive. A count of all matches will be
- displayed after each individual file is scanned.
-
- Search strings are limited to 79 characters.
-
- Matches that span archive volumes will not be detected by
- this string search.
-
- You can search multiple ARJ archives with a command like:
-
- ARJ w \docs\*.arj
-
- You may page pause the display with the "-jp" option.
-
- The "-jq" option can be used to supply the necessary parameters
- to the ARJ w command.
-
- The option string will be parsed as follows:
- 1) the first character must be either "+" or "-" representing
- yes or no,
- 2) the next character(s) represents the number of lines of
- context to display,
- 3) the next character represents a non-digit separator,
- 4) the next characters represent the search text.
-
- Examples: ARJ w archive -jq+3+total caseless search
- display 3 context lines
- search for "total"
- ARJ w archive "-jq-2-to be" case sensitive search
- display 2 context lines
- search for "to be"
-
- You can use the "-hw" options to change the way ARJ displays
- the filenames being searched.
-
- x: eXtract files with full pathname
-
- This command extracts one or more files from the archive to
- their full paths in the current directory or to the base
- directory if specified. ARJ normally stores pathnames as if
- they were children of the target directory. Any drive or root
- directory specifications are stripped before extracting unless
- the "-jf" switch is specified with the "x" command.
-
- Example: arj x archive *.c
-
- If you wish to extract only a portion of an archive and that
- portion is a directory containing directories, you should use
- the "-p1" switch. See the "-p" switch for more information.
-
- The ARJ e and ARJ x commands now accept the "-d" option to
- provide an extract and delete option. This feature requires
- that you specify the files to extract and delete. ARJ will NOT
- default to "*.*" for this option.
-
- Refer to the description of the "e" command for more
- information about extraction.
-
- y: copY archive with new options
-
- The ARJ y command provides an easy interface to the -je and
- -je1 options as well as to the -jb, -jb1, and -jb2 options.
-
- Examples: ARJ y archive -je1 convert an archive to an SFX
- ARJ y archive -jb make an archive a backup type
- ARJ y archive -jb1 reset the backup flag
- ARJ y archive -jb2 unmark all backup files
-
-
- ARJ SWITCH OPTIONS:
-
- ?: Display full help screens
-
- The command "ARJ -?" displays several screens of help
- information with page pauses. The command "ARJ -? -jp" displays
- the help screens without page pauses. You can also redirect the
- output to a file as in:
-
- ARJ -? > help.txt
-
- ARJ may not detect network file redirection and will pause per
- screenful.
-
- -: skip any more switch options
-
- The switch option "--" will cause ARJ to stop looking for any
- more switch options on the command line. This is useful for
- entering filenames beginning with "-".
-
- Example: ARJ a archive -- -file
-
- +: inhibit ARJ_SW usage
-
- The switch option "-+" will inhibit ARJ from using the value of
- the ARJ_SW variable in ARJ switch processing.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive -+ *.*
-
- The "-+" option can now be used to specify an environment variable
- name to use in place of the default "ARJ_SW". This option can only
- be used on the command line.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive -+ARJ_SW2
-
- &: install critical error handler
-
- By default, ARJ sets up a default interactive critical error
- handler to handle errors like "sector not found" and "drive not
- ready". The user has the option of retrying the failed
- operation. The user can press Control BREAK to abort to DOS.
-
- The "-&" option sets ARJ to install a non-interactive critical
- error handler. This is designed for unattended ARJ use. This
- handler will intercept errors that produce the "Abort, Retry ..."
- error messages like bad sector errors and file sharing
- violations. It can be specified on the command line or via the
- environment variable. Please note that if you specify "-&" on
- the command line, the handler is installed immediately before any
- files are processed. If you specify "-&" in the environment, ARJ
- will not install the handler until all switches are processed.
-
- !: set list char
-
- This option allows the user to set the character used for list
- files. The option "-!" with no specified character toggles
- (turns off) the current list file character (default "!").
-
- Syntax: ARJ a archive -!@ @list.fil
- ARJ a archive -! !.bat
-
- The first example above sets the list file character to the one
- used by LHA and PKZIP.
-
- $: add/extract volume label
-
- This option allows the user to store or extract DOS volume
- labels in ARJ archives. It is possible to have multiple labels
- in one archive. At ARJ 2.10 and above, you can only add or
- extract volumes labels at DOS 2.0 and above. The "-$" option
- may be specified with or without a drive specification. The
- drive can be specified by appending the letter and optionally
- the ":" to "-$". If none is specified, ARJ assumes the current
- drive unless a specified target base directory has a drive
- specification.
-
- WARNING: Currently, ARJ allows more than one volume label and
- duplicate volume labels in the same archive. You can delete one
- or more duplicate labels with the "ARJ d -q archive label"
- command. ARJ will query you on each occurrence of "label".
- This "faulty" mechanism allows a file and label of the same name
- to be added to an archive. The capability of having duplicate
- labels in the same archive MAY NOT be present in future versions
- of ARJ.
-
- The SFX and SFXJR modules DO NOT support volume label extraction!
-
- On the list screen, volume labels will be indicated by the "V"
- under the "T" column.
-
- Syntax: ARJ a archive -$ add all files and the label
- of the current drive.
- ARJ a archive ... -$B add only the label of drive B
- ARJ a archive ... -$B: add only the label of drive B
- ARJ u archive ... -$B: add only the label of drive B
-
- To extract volume labels, you must select the label by setting
- "-$" and specifying a matching wildname/filename.
-
- Syntax: ARJ e archive doslabel -$ extract the label named
- doslabel to the current drive.
- ARJ e archive -$D: extract all files to the
- current drive and extract the
- label to drive D:.
- ARJ e archive label B:\ -$ extract all files to B:\ and
- the label to drive B.
-
- ARJ will display all labels over 8 characters with a "." in it
- like a normal DOS filename. However, ARJ will not restore this
- extra "." when extracting. ARJ will only create standard
- uppercase DOS volume labels.
-
- Volume labels created by utilities other than standard DOS
- commands like LABEL and FORMAT may cause label access problems
- for ARJ. For example, Norton's VL.EXE can create labels with
- lowercase letters. You will need to use LABEL.COM to delete
- these labels in order to let ARJ set a new label. Programs that
- delete unusual labels must do absolute writes to disk or use a
- wildcard ("*.*") delete of files with the label attribute in the
- root directory. A single bit corruption in the program can
- result in the deletion of ALL files in the root. ARJ currently
- chooses not to take that risk.
-
- #: select files by order number
-
- The "-#" option allows the user to select files from an archive
- by their order number in the archive. For example, the number 1
- selects the first file in the archive. This option is useful in
- selecting files where there are duplicates in the archive. It
- is also useful for batch type utilities that need to extract
- files sequentially from an archive for processing. Archive menu
- programs should find this option very useful in processing
- archives with duplicate filenames.
-
- You can specify a series of files with the n1-n8 type syntax.
- No embedded spaces are allowed.
-
- ARJ e archive -# 1 4 12-25 40-100
-
- NOTE that the order number starts from 1 for each individual
- archive including multiple volume archives. In other words, the
- first file in archive.a04 is number 1.
-
- Do NOT mix filenames with the numbers other than the base
- directory.
-
- Example: ARJ e -# archive basedir\ 1 3 5 20 21
-
- a: allow any file Attribute
-
- By default ARJ will not select system or hidden files via
- wildcarding unless the "-a" option is specified.
-
- The "-a1" switch sets ARJ to add any directories in the selected
- set of matching filespecs to the archive being built. This
- switch also selects hidden and system files as in the "-a"
- switch. Even empty directories will be added. The "l" command
- will display such directories with a "D" under the "T" (file
- type) header.
-
- Older releases of ARJ will skip over empty directory entries.
- The ARJSFX and ARJSFXJR modules CAN process empty directory
- entries.
-
- This option is useful for saving software directories with
- needed empty directories.
-
- b: Backup changed files
-
- The "-b" switch will select only files that have the archive bit
- set. It will NOT reset archive bits.
-
- Example: arj a a:backup c:\*.* -b -r -va simulates FULL BACKUP
-
- b1: Backup changed files and reset archive bits
-
- If you specify the "-b1" option, files with the archive bit set
- will be selected AND the archive bits of all archived files will
- be reset after a successful archive has been built.
-
- Example: arj a a:backup c:\*.* -b1 -r -va simulates BACKUP
-
- b2: Only reset archive bits
-
- The "-b2" switch does NOT affect file selection. It does cause
- ARJ to reset the archive bits of added files. If the "-f" or
- "-u" option has been selected, ARJ will also reset the archive
- bits of files that are already duplicated in the archive.
-
- Example: arj a e:archive c:\*.* -b2 -r archives all files on
- the C drive and resets all archive bits.
-
- b3: reset archive bit during restore
-
- The "-b3" switch is used to reset the archive bits of files
- being extracted. It is useful for setting the archive state so
- that a subsequent incremental backup will not backup these
- extracted files.
-
- b4: do not restore file attributes and reset archive bit
-
- The "-b4" switch is used to set ARJ to NOT restore any file
- attribute bits and to reset the archive bit of files being
- extracted. It is useful for easing the cleanup/deletion of
- temporarily extracted archive files as in a virus scanning
- process.
-
- b5: do not restore any file attributes
-
- The "-b5" switch is used to set ARJ to NOT restore any file
- attribute bits and to allow the archive bit to stay set of
- files being extracted.
-
- c: skip time-stamp Check
-
- Normally with the "u" and "f" commands, ARJ will only update
- newer files to an archiver. The "-c" switch will set ARJ to
- update the archive regardless of the date-time modified time
- stamps.
-
- When extracting files from an archive with the "-y" and "-f"
- switches set, ARJ would normally skip extracting older files.
- The "-c" switch will set ARJ to extract these older files.
-
- d: with Delete (move)
-
- This switch provides the standard MOVE command. Successfully
- added files will be deleted. When used with the "-f" or "-u"
- option, ARJ will also delete files that are already duplicated
- in the archive. ARJ will prompt the user before deleting the
- files unless the "-y" switch is specified. Also, you can use
- the "m" command which does not prompt before deleting the files.
- At ARJ 2.30 and above, when using the "-a1" to specify the
- selection of directories, ARJ will also delete the selected
- directories.
-
- ARJ a archive filename -d -y is equivalent to
-
- ARJ m archive filename and
-
- ARJ a archive filename
- delete filename
-
- The ARJ e and ARJ x commands now accept the "-d" option to
- provide an extract and delete option. This feature requires
- that you specify the files to extract and delete.
-
- ARJ e archive -d file1 file2
-
- e: Exclude paths from filenames
-
- By default ARJ always stores the pathname of the archived file.
- This switch will set ARJ to store only the filename component.
-
- The "-e1" switch option sets ARJ to NOT store the base directory
- name with the filenames in the archive.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive C:\SOFTWARE\ARJ\ *.* -r -e1
-
- In the above example, ARJ will NOT store the C:\SOFTWARE\ARJ\ as
- part of the filenames.
-
- When updating files within an archive, ARJ uses the full
- pathname to match against the full name of the selected files.
- The "-e" and "-e1" option affect this exact matching. If "-e"
- is specified, only the filespecs of the selected files will be
- matched against the full pathname of the files in the archive.
- If "-e1" is specified, the full pathname minus the base
- directory of the selected files is used to match against the
- full pathname of the files in the archive.
-
- In other words, ARJ will only update a file within an archive if
- the name of the new file as stored in the archive would be
- identical to the name of the original file stored in the
- archive.
-
- f: Freshen existing files
-
- This switch used with the "e" or "x" commands sets ARJ to only
- extract newer files from the archive.
-
- This switch used with the "m" command sets ARJ to update only
- input files with newer dates than the ones in the archive.
- After the archive has been updated, all updated selected files
- and all up to date selected files will be deleted.
-
- The ARJ m -f command is very similar to the LHARC m command.
-
- f1: Freshen existing files (OLDER)
-
- This switch used with the "e" or "x" commands sets ARJ to only
- extract OLDER files from the archive.
-
- g: Garble with password
-
- This switch followed by a password "-gpassword" will encrypt or
- decrypt an archived file. During a "l" or "v" command, a
- garbled file will display a "G" after the method number.
-
- Example: ARJ e archive -gpassword
-
- If the "-g" option is followed by a question mark "?", ARJ will
- prompt the user for the password without displaying the password
- input. The backspace key can be used to erase characters.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive -g?
-
- Using the wrong password during extraction will result in a
- "Bad file data" or "CRC error" error message.
-
- Use the "g" command to garble an already existing ARJ archive.
-
- Please save your password in a safe place. It may be nearly
- impossible to retrieve your garbled files if you forget your
- password. There is no trick to recovering a lost password.
-
- i: with no progress Indicator
-
- Do not display the percentage progress indicator. The progress
- indicator appears during the add, extract, search, and test
- operations.
-
- The "-i1" option provides a bar type graphical progress
- indicator for the compression, extraction, and testing type
- commands of ARJ. This provides an alternative to the simple
- numeric increasing percentage progress indicator.
-
- The "-i2" option provides a combined percentage and bar progress
- display.
-
- j: selects alternate set of switch characters.
-
- This switch toggles the set of switch characters. The toggle is
- reset at end at of each separate switch sequence back to the
- main set of switch characters.
-
- For example, "-ja" is not the same function as "-a". However,
- "-jja" is the same as "-a" because of the double toggle. Also,
- "-jaje" is NOT the same as "-ja -je". The switch sequence
- "-jae" is the same as "-ja -je".
-
- k: Keep a .BAK of ARJ archive
-
- Create a ".BAK" of the original archive file during an update.
- The original archive will be suffixed with ".BAK". Any existing
- ".BAK" file will be overwritten.
-
- This has no relation to "backup type" ARJ archives.
-
- l: create List_name file
-
- This switch will set ARJ to dump to the filename specified after
- the "-l" switch all of the filenames to be processed by this ARJ
- command. For add type commands, this list contains all files
- that matched the file wildnames given on the command line. For
- other commands, the file will contain only the original
- filenames and/or wildcard names. Other options do NOT affect
- the output of filenames to this list file. To get an index file
- for backup purposes, use the "-ji" option.
-
- This list file can be used as a listfile on the command line.
-
- Example: ARJ a -lname.lst archive *.exe
-
- This example will create a file named "name.lst" with all *.exe
- files.
-
- m: with Method 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
-
- Method 0 = storing (no compression)
- Method 1 = best compression for general use
- (default compression method)
- (requires 300,000 plus bytes memory)
- Method 2 = slightly less compression and faster
- (requires 282,000 plus bytes memory)
- Method 3 = less compression and less memory and faster
- (requires 250,000 plus bytes memory)
- Method 4 = fastest compression
- (requires 235,000 plus bytes memory)
-
- Example: ARJ a archive *.exe -m2
-
- The "-jm" option will usually improve the size reduction of
- method 1 at the cost of speed and memory. The behavior of
- "-jm" with -m2, -m3 and -m4 is UNDEFINED.
-
- Method 4 uses a different decoder than 1 to 3. Method 4 is
- almost twice as fast as method 1.
-
- During extraction, ARJ uses less memory than during compression.
- See the section on ARJ LIMITATIONS for more memory usage
- information.
-
- n: only New files (not exist)
-
- With the "e" or "x" commands, extract files that do not exist in
- the target directory.
-
- With the "a" or "m" commands, archive files that do not exist in
- the target archive.
-
- With the "d" or "l" commands, specify files that do not exist in
- the target directory.
-
- o: On or after date YYMMDDHHMMSS
-
- The switch "-o" by itself means select files modified today. If
- "-o" is followed by a date and optionally a time, ARJ will only
- select files modified on or after that date-time.
-
- Example: ARJ a test -o9001021700 means select files modified
- on or after Jan 2, 1990, 5:00 PM.
-
- Years less than "80" will be considered as 21st century years.
-
- There is no option for using other date-time formats.
-
- The switch "-ob" selects files modified before today. If "-ob"
- is followed by a date and optionally a time, ARJ will only
- select files modified before that date-time.
-
- ARJ now accepts the use of "-o" and "-ob" options simultaneously
- to specify a range of selected dates. This is useful for
- selecting files on a specific date.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive *.* -o910101 -ob910102
-
- The "-o" option and/or the "-ob" option will default to today's
- date at midnight (0000 hrs) when specified without dates.
-
- The "-od" switch sets ARJ to select files no older than the
- specified number of days. The days are calculated from
- midnight.
-
- Examples: ARJ a archive -od0 select files modified today
- ARJ a archive -od1 select files modified yesterday
- and today
-
- p: match using full Pathnames
-
- When "-p" is specified, ARJ looks for an exact pathname match.
- This can be modified by the "-e" option.
-
- For non-update commands and specified filenames with paths, ARJ
- will match the full path with or without the "-p" switch.
-
- To match directory paths that contain subdirectories, you should
- use the "-p1" switch. This switch sets ARJ to match only the
- initial portion of the pathnames against the wildnames
- specified. For example, if your archive contains the TURBOC++
- directory named TC and you wish to extract the INCLUDE
- subdirectory along with the subdirectory INCLUDE\SYS, you can
- use the following command:
-
- ARJ e archive TC\INCLUDE\*.* -p1
-
- If you wanted to extract all of the INCLUDE\S*.* files including
- the contents of the SYS subdirectory, you can use the following
- command:
-
- ARJ e archive TC\INCLUDE\S*.* -p1
-
- q: Query on each file
-
- This switch causes ARJ to prompt the user prior to acting upon
- each archived file for all but the "j", "l", "t", "v", and "w"
- commands. This allows you selectively to delete, add, etc.
-
- r: Recurse subdirectories
-
- This switch will set ARJ to recurse any wildcards specified on
- the command line including ARJ archive filenames by traversing
- all subdirectories scanning for matches.
-
- ARJ will also recurse non-wildcard filenames as in:
- ARJ a archive FILE.BBS -r
-
- s: set archive time-Stamp
-
- This switch causes ARJ to set the date-time stamp of the archive
- to that of the newest file in the archive.
-
- This option will also work with non-update commands as in:
- ARJ l archive -s ...
-
- The "-s1" switch is used to keep the old archive date-time
- stamp. The new archive will have the same timestamp as the
- original archive.
-
- The "-s2" switch is like the "-s" switch except that it only
- works for archive modification commands. This makes it more
- suitable for use in the ARJ_SW environment variable.
-
- t: set file Type
-
- This switch causes ARJ to open and read the file to be archived
- in binary or text mode. The default is binary mode (-t0). To
- archive in text mode, use the -t1 switch. The "-t" switch is
- equivalent to "-t0".
-
- If you specify the switch "-t0", ARJ will always use the binary
- mode even for freshening text mode files already in the archive.
-
- The file type "text" is only needed for future cross platform
- transfers of ARJ archives. It enables ARJ to extract text files
- to the host file system with the text newline sequence that is
- correct for that operating system.
-
- However, this mode may produce slightly better size reduction.
- The "-t1" option combined with "-jh65000" can produce some of
- the best size reduction numbers. Extraction of files compressed
- in text mode is slower than the extraction of binary files.
-
- You should NOT use the "-t1" switch while archiving in multiple
- volume mode.
-
- ****************************************************************
-
- DO NOT USE THE TEXT MODE ON NON-TEXT FILES!!! Word processor
- format files are NOT TEXT FILES! Text files are files like
- those created by EDLIN, EDIT, QEDIT, NOTEPAD, and BRIEF. On
- non-text files ARJ will prematurely stop input if it finds an
- embedded EOF character (CTL Z). This will produce a LOSS of
- data on binary files. As of ARJ 2.30 and UNARJ 2.30, ARJ will
- extract text mode data in 8-bit format when extracted to the
- original type of platform. Only when the text file is extracted
- to a different type of platform will the 8-bit text be stripped
- to 7-bit text.
-
- ****************************************************************
-
- In "-t1" text mode, ARJ will look at the first 4096 bytes of the
- input file looking for non-text characters. In "-t1g" text with
- graphics mode, ARJ will look at the first 4096 bytes of the
- input file looking for too many byte values over hex 7F. If ARJ
- finds either condition it will automatically backtrack and
- switch to "-t0" (default) binary mode for that particular file.
- In addition at the end of compressing the input file, if ARJ
- finds that the input file size is not greater than 80 percent of
- the binary file size (size on disk), ARJ will backtrack and
- re-archive that file in binary mode. This should help to avoid
- the problem of accidentally compressing executable files with
- the "-t1" option which results in lost data. These tests are
- not foolproof.
-
- The original file size reported by the "l" and "v" commands is
- the actual number of bytes input during text mode compression.
- This is usually the MS-DOS file size minus the number of
- carriage returns in the file, since C text mode strips a file of
- carriage returns. There can be problems with the file size
- because compressing in TEXT mode can be LOSSY (unnecessary
- characters may be lost). This can cause problems for some
- archive conversion programs that check file sizes.
-
- The "-t" option has been modified to allow setting file type by
- suffix similar to "-js" option. If you want to set the file type
- to text mode for .ASM and .C files, you would specify the option
- "-t1.asm.c".
-
- ARJ a archive *.* -t1.asm.c.h.doc
- ARJ a archive *.* -t1g.txt.doc
-
- Note that in the switch sequence "-t1f -t1f.doc.asm", the second
- switch does not override the first switch which specifies that
- all files are to archived in text mode.
-
- If you want to specify the binary file type by suffix, you must
- specify the default file type to text and then specify the type
- by suffix, because the default file type is normally binary.
-
- ARJ a archive *.* -t1 -t0.com.exe.obj
-
- Because of the way ARJ checks all files to be archived in text
- mode, some true text files will not pass the test. In this
- case, you can specify the "f" modifier to force text mode. This
- modifier can be combined with the "-t1." suffix option. The "f"
- modifier must follow the "g" modifier if any.
-
- ARJ a archive *.bat -t1f
- ARJ a archive *.txt -t1gf
- ARJ a archive *.* -t1f.bat.asm.doc
-
- One trick that you can do with the -t1 option is to convert UNIX
- text files to MS-DOS text files. If you have extracted the
- files out of the ZOO 2.10 archive and need to convert the
- linefeeds to carriage return/linefeed, you can use the following
- commands:
-
- ARJ a archive *.* -m0 -t1
- ARJ e archive *.* -y
-
- u: Update files (new and newer)
-
- This switch used with the "e" and "x" commands causes ARJ to
- extract newer and non-existing files.
-
- This switch used with the "m" command causes ARJ to update only
- input files with newer dates than the ones in the archive and
- add new files to the archive. After the archive has been
- updated, all added files and updated selected files and all up
- to date selected files will be deleted.
-
- u1: Update files (non-existing and OLDER)
-
- This switch used with the "e" and "x" commands causes ARJ to
- extract OLDER and non-existing files.
-
- u2: Update different files
-
- This switch used with the "e" and "x" commands causes ARJ to
- extract CHANGED (different date-time or different size) and
- non-existing files.
-
- v: enable multiple Volumes
-
- This switch is required to put ARJ into multiple volume mode.
-
- This switch allows the creation of multiple volumes in the ADD
- mode. The command "arj a a:arjvol \*.* -b -r -v360000" allows a
- user to backup up all files changed since the last backup to
- multiple floppy disks. ARJ will pause between volumes to allow
- changing disks. Subsequent volumes will be suffixed .A01, .A02,
- .A03, ... , .A99, .A00, .A01, etc. You can start the volume
- series at .A01 by specifying the full name of the starting
- archive as "name.A01".
-
- After the pause to change diskettes, ARJ will check to make sure
- that the diskette has been changed. However, this check is
- limited to 3 retries for the same volume. This test can be
- inhibited with the "i" modifier.
-
- Example: ARJ x a:archive -vi
-
- ARJ normally only creates volumes numbered up to .A99 for one
- hundred uniquely named volumes. Then the numbers roll over to
- .A00. When the archive name ends in .000, ARJ will create
- volumes numbered up to .999 for one thousand uniquely named
- volumes. You can also start the series at .001.
-
- Example: ARJ a -v720 -y -r archive.000 d:\
-
- Archived files can be split across volumes. ARJ will try to
- fill each volume to within 200 to 1000 bytes of specified
- maximum size.
-
- The modifier "w" specifies to ARJ that files are NOT to be split
- across volumes except for one case. That case is where the
- archived file would not fit in ONE whole volume. This feature
- does not optimize the use of space in these type of volumes.
- With this feature, it is possible to have a volume of only 100
- or less bytes.
-
- An advantage to "w" type volumes is that updating of these
- volumes is supported for the "f"reshen command and other
- commands that do not add new files to the archive. You can add
- files to these volumes only if you do NOT limit the volume size.
-
- The command "arj x a:arjvol -v" would restore files starting
- from arjvol.arj. You must specify the entire ARJ volume name
- including the .Ann suffix when starting from the middle of a
- series of volumes or when the series starts with ".A01" or
- ".000", etc.
-
- You can suppress the next volume prompt with the "-jyv" option.
- When the multiple volume ARJ files to be used are located on
- drives with removable media (diskette drives, etc.), ARJ will
- ALWAYS PROMPT for the next diskette even with the "-y" option
- specified. At DOS versions before 3.0, only drives A and B are
- considered removable.
-
- ARJ x a:arjvol -v -jyco
-
- The above example extracts in multiple volume mode and
- suppresses prompting for permission to create directories and to
- overwrite existing files. ARJ will assume yes in these cases.
-
- Because of the splitting process, archived split files with a
- size of zero bytes are possible. This is not an error.
-
- If you comment your archives with long comments, you should take
- that into account when specifying volume size. You should
- specify a smaller volume size during the "a" command before
- adding the comments.
-
- The "-v" switch will accept the abbreviations 360, 720, 1200,
- and 1440. These will be translated to 362,000, 730,000,
- 1,213,000, and 1,457,000 bytes, respectively. Please note that
- if the available disk space is less than the requested amount,
- ARJ will prompt the user for permission to continue.
-
- You can use the "K" modifier as a shortcut for "000". For
- example, 100K means 100000. "K" does NOT mean 1024.
-
- The "-vv" switch turns on the next volume beep option. When you
- select this option, ARJ will sound a beep prior to the next
- volume.
-
- The "-va" switch sets the disk space auto-detect option. ARJ
- will check for the disk space available on the target directory
- and try to use all or most of it. This option is aimed at
- diskette usage. Please note that this switch option detects
- free disk space. It does not detect formatted disk space.
- If the space available is less than 10,000 bytes, ARJ will
- prompt the user for permission to continue. Please note that
- ARJ can support the use of diskettes formatted at higher than
- normal capacities such as 3.5 inch HD diskettes formatted at
- 1.6 MB.
-
- Examples: ARJ a A:backup -b -va
- ARJ a backup -v360
-
- The "r" modifier allows the reservation of disk space on the
- first volume. The number after the "r" specifies the space to
- reserve. This is useful for software installation volumes.
-
- Example: ARJ a install -v360r50K make first volume 50000
- bytes smaller than 360K.
-
- The switch modifier "s" can be used to make ARJ execute one
- specified system command prior to each volume or make ARJ pause
- for manual execution of system commands. This is useful for
- purging target diskettes before ARJ writes to them. Please note
- that when processing a large number of files, ARJ may not have
- enough free memory left to properly execute the system commands.
-
- The switch modifier "z" is identical to the "s" modifier except
- that the system command is NOT echoed to the screen.
-
- Optionally, after the "s" modifier, you can specify a system
- command or batch filename. ARJ will automatically execute the
- command or batch file before each volume. If the command has
- embedded blanks, then the entire switch option must be
- surrounded by double quotes. The system command is executed
- before ARJ executes the auto-detect space option.
-
- Examples: ARJ a A:backup -vas
- ARJ a A:backup -vvas
- ARJ a A:backup -v360s
- ARJ a A:backup -vvw360s
- ARJ a A:backup -vaspurge.bat
- ARJ a A:backup -v360sdelete.bat
- ARJ a A:backup "-vasFORMAT A:"
- ARJ a A:backup "-vasDIR C:\ "
-
- Note that the last example has a space before the last double
- quote mark. If the last space is missing, the internal command
- line parser will make the double quote mark part of the DIR
- command.
-
- The "-v" switch now accepts its modifiers in any order. The "s"
- and "z" modifiers must be last because any succeeding text is
- considered the system command to execute.
-
- Examples: ARJ a volume -vavw beep, autosize, whole files
- ARJ a volume -vavsDIR beep, autosize, execute DIR
-
- Volume archives can be used as stand-alone archives for non-update
- commands except for the files that are split across volumes.
-
- It is recommended that the "-jt" (test archive) option be used
- with the "-v" switch to ensure perfectly built volumes as it is
- tedious to retest volumes after they are built.
-
- During ARJ operation in non-update commands, ARJ will not abort
- when it cannot open the correct sequential ARJ volume archive.
- It will report the open error and proceed to the "Ok to process
- the next volume?" prompt. At this point it is possible to swap
- diskettes to put the correct volume in place. This feature is
- disabled if the "next volume" prompt has been disabled.
-
- For those who have enough free hard disk space, the -v option
- can be used to make backing up the hard disk fairly easy. ARJ
- can be set to create multiple floppy sized volumes on the hard
- disk for later copy to diskettes. So even if ARJ is slow, you
- can fire up an ARJ backup and some time later, you can quickly
- copy the volumes to floppies. Below are sample backup commands:
-
- arj a backup *.* -b2 -r -v360 -y -jt -js full backup
- arj a backup *.* -b1 -r -v360 -y -jt -js incremental backup
-
- *****************************************************************
-
- See the "-jn" and "-jx" options to see how to recover from an
- abort in the middle of a backup type operation. ARJ will allow
- a restart in the middle of an aborted backup at the disk where
- the failure occurred.
-
- *****************************************************************
-
- WARNING: Updating multiple volume archives with the "-v" switch
- set is NOT supported or recommended. We cannot provide any
- technical support for this type of update. By default, ARJ
- will not allow the updating of multiple volume archives. You
- can specify the "-hu" option to bypass this protection.
-
- Example: ARJ c archive -hu -zcomment.txt
-
- *****************************************************************
-
- TIP:
-
- To pre-determine the number of diskettes required to archive a
- set of data, you can take advantage of the "s" option of the
- "-v" switch. The "s" option lets you execute a DOS command
- prior to each volume. You can specify a command that deletes
- the previously created archive volume. This lets you use the
- same floppy diskette/hard disk space to build the multiple
- volumes.
-
- Example: ARJ a -r "-vasdel a:volume.a??" -y a:volume c:\*.*
-
- w: assign Work directory
-
- This switch option is HIGHLY recommended if you are archiving
- directly to diskettes or if you have a sufficient RAMDISK space.
-
- By default, ARJ builds a new ARJ archive file in the same
- directory as the old archive file. By specifying the "-w"
- switch, you can specify the working directory where the
- temporary archive file will be built. After the temporary
- archive file is built, it is copied over the original one and
- deleted.
-
- Normally ARJ requires enough disk space for the original archive
- and the new temporary archive. Specifying the "-w" switch
- allows you to move some of that disk space requirement to
- another directory.
-
- When using the "-w" switch while archiving to multiple volumes,
- ARJ will check the available disk space in the work directory.
- If there is not enough space, ARJ will prompt for permission to
- continue. This prompt can be suppressed with the "-y" and
- "-jyk" switches.
-
- If the copy of the temporary archive on top of the original
- archive aborts, you will have to do the copy manually. ARJ will
- not delete the temporary archive in this error situation.
- If you press CTL BREAK during the copy process, ARJ will delete
- both the temporary archive and the target archive unless this
- was a modification of an existing archive.
-
- Example: ARJ a -we:\temp\ archive *.c
-
- For speed reasons, you should always use the "-w" option when
- creating or modifying archives on diskettes. You should specify
- a work directory on your hard disk or ramdrive.
-
- Example: ARJ a -we:\ b:archive *.c
-
- x: Exclude filenames
-
- This switch is used to exclude filenames or wildnames from the
- list of filenames to be processed.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive soft\*.* -r -x*.exe -x*.obj -xtest
-
- This example will archive all files in the soft directory and
- subdirectories with the exception of any files named "test"
- or ending in ".exe" and ".obj".
-
- You can also specify an exclude file list by preceding the
- filename with the list character "!". The exclude file list
- must contain a list of filenames/wildnames one per line with no
- leading or trailing blanks.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive soft\*.* -r -x!exclude.lst
-
- You can specify a pathname to exclude as in:
-
- ARJ a archive \dir\*.* -r -x\dir\*.*
-
- In the above example, ARJ will exclude all files in \dir
- but not the subdirectories in \dir.
-
- The "-x" option also allows you to exclude an entire path
- including subdirectories from being selected for processing.
-
- Syntax: ARJ a archive C:\*.* -xC:\TEMP\
-
- The "\" after C:\TEMP indicates to ARJ that everything below
- C:\TEMP\ is to be excluded.
-
- Note that the exclude directory option requires that the
- directory be specified in the same relative path that the
- selected files use.
-
- Example:
-
- arj a archive \temp\*.* -x\temp\firstdir is correct usage
- arj a archive \temp\*.* -xC:\temp\firstdir is NOT correct because
- of the C:
-
- The "-x" switch also works for non-update commands like
- "e"xtract and "l"ist.
-
- Examples:
-
- arj e archive -x*.exe extract all files except *.exe files
- arj l archive -x*.exe -x*.obj list all files except *.exe and *.obj
-
- A maximum of 8000 filenames or wildnames can be excluded.
-
- Note that the "-x" option is unaffected by the "-p" option.
-
- y: assume Yes on all queries
-
- Use this switch for batch type uses of ARJ. This switch
- disables most of the normal user queries during ARJ execution.
- Use this switch to suppress overwrite queries in the "e" and "x"
- commands, to suppress the make new directory query in the "e"
- and "x" commands, to suppress the new filename prompt when an
- open file operation fails in the "e" and "x" commands, to
- suppress the pause during the "s" command and to suppress the
- next volume pause using the "-v" option to create volumes on the
- hard disk.
-
- The "-y" switch will NOT suppress the "-v" next volume prompt
- when the archive is located on a drive with removable media
- such as a diskette drive.
-
- Use this option with due caution, especially during extraction
- as this sets ARJ to overwrite files. However, the "-n" option
- can be used to avoid any overwriting.
-
- As an alternative, you can use the "-jy" option which lets you
- suppress individual types of user queries.
-
- z: supply file for archive comment
-
- The "-z" switch has been provided to facilitate batch commenting
- of ARJ archives with the "c" command. When the "-z" option has
- been specified with or without a comment file, ARJ will only
- process the archive header comment and will skip any file
- commenting unless the "-jz" switch has been specified.
-
- A comment file containing only a single blank can be used to
- erase comments from ARJ archives.
-
- Syntax: arj c archive -z
- arj c archive -zcomment.txt
- arj a archive -zcomment.txt
-
- The "-z" option also allows one to dump the ARJ archive header
- comment to a file. This will only extract the main archive
- comment and not the individual file comments.
-
- Syntax: arj e archive ... -zcomment.txt dumps only the comment
- arj x archive -zcomment.txt dumps comment and files
-
- ja: show ANSI comments
-
- Display any ANSI escape sequences unaltered. By default, escape
- characters in comments are not displayed. Not displaying ANSI
- command is the default because of ANSI BOMBS. Using ANSI
- commands, it is possible to redefine the keyboard of users using
- certain ANSI drivers. For example, a key could be redefined to
- "echo y | del \*.*".
-
- ja1: inhibit the display of the archive comment
-
- The "-ja1" switch will suppress the display of the archive
- comment.
-
- jb: set archive Backup type
-
- If you modify an archive with the "-jb", ARJ sets the backup
- flag in the archive. On adding, updating, or moving files to a
- backup type archive where a duplicate filename exist, ARJ marks
- the original file as a backup and inserts a copy of the
- duplicate filename. The backup flag will stay set until reset
- with the "-jb1" option.
-
- These backup files take up space in the archive. They can be
- purged with the ARJ k command.
-
- Examples: ARJ a -jb archive dir\file1
- ARJ e -jb archive dir\file2
- ARJ k archive *.c
- ARJ y -jb archive just sets the backup flag
-
- Normally, backup files will not be selected by ARJ commands. In
- other words, an ARJ l archive command will not display backup
- files. However, the "-jg" option will include backup files in
- the selection process. For example, ARJ l archive -jg will
- display all files including backup files.
-
- This option is especially useful for backing up files. You can
- maintain several generations of the same file in the same
- archive.
-
- jb1: reset Backup type archive
-
- This switch allows you to reset the backup flag in a backup type
- archive. Addition of files to such an archive will no longer
- result in files being marked as backups. However, this option
- does not remove already existing backup files.
-
- Example: ARJ y archive -jb1
- ARJ a archive filename -jb1
-
- jb2: unmark backup file
-
- The "-jb2" option is used with the "y" command to unmark files
- marked as backups. Note that this may produce duplicate files
- in the archive.
-
- Example: ARJ y archive -jb2 unmark all backup files
- ARJ y archive *.doc -jb2 unmark all *.doc files
- ARJ y archive -# -jb2 5 unmark the 5th file
-
- jb3: mark as backup file
-
- The "-jb3" option is used with the "y" command to mark files as
- backups.
-
- Example: ARJ y archive -jb3 mark all files as backups
- ARJ y archive *.doc -jb3 mark all *.doc files
- ARJ y archive -# -jb3 5 mark the 5th file
-
- jc: exit after Count of files
-
- The "-jc" option sets ARJ to exit early from an archive scan
- when the specified number of files have been extracted, listed,
- printed, etc. If no number has been specified, ARJ will set
- that number to the number of filename arguments.
-
- Examples: ARJ e -jc archive file1 file2 file3
- ARJ e -jc5 archive *.bat
-
- Note that "*.*" is considered a count of ONE argument.
-
- This option does NOT WORK when modifying an archive.
-
- jd: ensure free Disk space
-
- In extraction mode, this option causes ARJ always to ensure that
- it will leave the user specified amount of disk space available.
- ARJ will skip files that would exceed the disk space available
- limit. Each file that is skipped will count as an error. The
- default free space is zero bytes.
-
- Example: ARJ e archive basedir\ *.doc -jd100K
-
- In the above example, ARJ will not extract any files that will
- cause the disk free space to be less than 100,000 bytes. The
- "K" is a synonym for "000". For example, 100K means 100000.
-
- In "l"ist or "v"erbose list mode, this option sets an error
- check at the end of the listing screen based upon the total of
- the original sizes of the files selected. If the total size
- would exceed the user specified free space limit, ARJ will
- report an error at the end of the listing screen.
-
- Example: ARJ l archive *.doc -jd10000
-
- In this example, ARJ will report an error if the current
- available disk space minus the total of the *.doc files is less
- than the specified minimum of 10,000 bytes.
-
- Example: ARJ e archive *.* -jd0
-
- In this example, ARJ will skip extraction of any files that
- would result in a disk full error.
-
- je: create self-Extracting archive
-
- This option causes ARJ to create a self-extracting .EXE file
- instead of an .ARJ file. This ARJSFX self-extractor is about
- 16K bytes in size and supports full pathname extraction.
- The "-je1" switch creates a smaller self-extracting .EXE file.
- The ARJSFXJR module is about 6K bytes in size. Both modules
- support display of the archive comment. The ARJSFX module also
- provides a query to continue the extraction after the display of
- the archive comment.
-
- When the "-je" option is used with the "-v" option, the new
- ARJSFXV module is used. The ARJSFXV module supports multiple
- volume archives. This is a very large module, about 27K bytes.
-
- The "-je -v" option combination requires DOS 3.0 and above to
- create the self-extracting archive.
-
- The suppress all messages option "-*" is only available to
- registered users in the commercial version of ARJ.
-
- Please note that including the SFX modules, DEARJ, or ARJ as
- part of a hardware and/or software package ALWAYS REQUIRES an
- ARJ distribution license EXCEPT when distributing between two
- computers already licensed for ARJ usage.
-
- As of ARJ 2.10, the SFX executable modules are pre-compressed
- using LZEXE. This may cause false indications with EXE scanning
- programs showing that an ARJ SFX archive is a LZEXE compressed
- file. Only the executable header module is LZEXE compressed.
- The actual archive is ARJ compressed, of course. The LZEXE
- header is modified to avoid extraction by UNLZEXE type programs.
- UNLZEXE may truncate an ARJ self-extractor of its archive.
-
- All SFX modules have an identification string located in the
- first 1000 characters of the executable. The identification
- string is "aRJsfX" without the quotes and in the exact case.
-
- The current commands ARJSFX supports are:
-
- Usage: ARJSFX [-command] [-switch(s)] [directory\] [file(s)]
-
- Commands:
- e: Extract files v: Verbosely list contents
- l: List contents x: eXtract files with pathname (default)
- t: Test contents
-
- Switches:
- a: show ANSI comments m: Make directories
- b: prompt for directory n: only New files
- c: skip time stamp Check o: Overwrite files
- d: display program option p: match with Pathname
- f: Freshen existing files s: skip Security check
- g: unGarble with password u: Update files
- i: no progress Indicator w: skip extract prompt
- k: long extract messages y: assume Yes on queries
- *: suppress all messages
-
- NOTE!!! ARJSFX uses the "-" character before all commands and
- switches. This is to allow extraction of files named e, l, etc.
-
- The default ARJSFX command is "-x" extract files with pathnames.
- At ARJSFX startup, the self-extracting archive will display any
- archive header comment followed by a query to "Continue
- extraction?". This query can be suppressed by specifying the
- "-w" option on the command line.
-
- The "-b" option prompts the installing user for the name of the
- install directory. If a target directory is specified on the
- command line, it is used as the default install directory which
- the installing user may change. Note that the target directory
- must end in "\"; otherwise, it will be interpreted as a filename
- spec.
-
- Example: ARJSFX C:\INST_DIR\ -b
-
- When extracting pathnames, ARJSFX will prompt for permission to
- create new directories unless the "-m" or "-y" option is
- specified. ARJSFX will create absolute or relative directories
- depending upon whether the root directory has been stored in the
- pathname in the archive. Saving the root is done using the
- "-jf" option of ARJ.EXE.
-
- To avoid extracting to paths, the archive creator should use the
- ARJ "-e" option to exclude path specs. The user extracting the
- SFX module can specify the "-e" command to extract to the
- current directory.
-
- ARJSFX does not support compression method 4.
-
- The ARJSFX module supports the ARJ-SECURITY envelope feature by
- itself. The ARJ-SECURITY feature is only available as a
- licensed option. It is intended as a feature for software
- developers. The "-s" option allows the user to skip the testing
- of the ARJ-SECURITY envelope.
-
- ARJ will create a self-extracting module without an intermediate
- archive file.
-
- Example: ARJ a software *.* -je
-
- If you want to make a self-extracting module from an ARJ
- archive, use the "y" command.
-
- Example: ARJ y software -je
-
- IMPORTANT: When executing an ARJSFX module on a system with the
- CONSOLE device set to RAW mode, the ARJSFX module will abort on
- user input to avoid hanging the system. Use of the "-y" switch
- on the command line will avoid the problem.
-
- Example: ARJ230 -y
-
- The ARJSFXJR module created with the "-je1" switch is a
- stripped-down version of ARJSFX. ARJSFXJR does not support method
- 4 or text mode "-t1" or garbled "-g" archives. An ARJSFXJR
- module containing files with pathnames will extract to the paths.
- ARJSFXJR will automatically create directories as needed to build
- the paths.
-
- Example: ARJ y software -je1
-
- The current commands ARJSFXJR supports are:
-
- Usage: ARJSFXJR [-switch(es)] [drive:][directory\]
-
- Switches:
- n: set ARJSFXJR to NOT count as an error the skipping of files
- o: set ARJSFXJR to overwrite existing files
- *: suppress all display messages
-
- You can specify a target_directory or drive or both. However,
- you must specify the ending "\" or ":" symbol.
-
- ARJSFXJR -o C:\SOFT\ -> self-extract into directory "C:\SOFT\"
- in overwrite mode.
-
- Both the ARJSFX and ARJSFXJR modules will by default extract to
- relative/absolute path specs if the archive contains
- relative/absolute path specs.
-
- More examples:
-
- Build an SFX module with absolute pathnames for extraction to
- the absolute pathnames:
-
- ARJ a -r -je -jf DISTRIB \product\*.*
-
- The user need only type "DISTRIB -y" to recreate automatically
- the "product" directory on the current drive.
-
- Build an SFX module with relative pathnames for extraction to
- relative pathnames:
-
- ARJ a -r -je DISTRIB \product\*.*
-
- The user need only type "DISTRIB -y" to recreate automatically
- the "product" subdirectory in the current directory. The user
- can recreate the "product" subdirectory in another directory by
- typing the command "DISTRIB -y directory_name\".
-
- Build an SFX module with relative pathnames for extraction to
- relative pathnames excluding the base directory:
-
- ARJ a -r -e1 -je DISTRIB \product\ *.*
-
- The user need only type "DISTRIB -y" to recreate automatically
- the files and subdirectories of the "product" directory in the
- current directory.
-
- Build an SFXJR module with filenames (no path specs).
-
- ARJ a -e -je1 DISTRIB \product\*.*
-
- The user need only type "DISTRIB" to extract automatically the
- entire contents of "DISTRIB.EXE" to the current directory.
-
-
- The current commands that ARJSFXV supports are as follows:
-
- Usage: ARJSFXV [-command] [-switch(s)] [directory\] [file(s)]
-
- Commands:
- e: Extract files v: Verbosely list contents
- l: List contents x: eXtract files with paths (default)
- t: Test contents
-
- Switches:
-
- a: show ANSI comments u: Update files
- b: prompt for directory w: Write to filename
- c: skip time stamp Check y: assume Yes on all queries
- d: check Disk space z: assume yes for queries
- f: Freshen existing files a - append file
- g: unGarble with password c - create directory
- h: display this screen k - disk space check
- i: no progress Indicator m - ok to extract
- j: overwrite readonly n - new filename prompt
- k: skip preset options o - overwrite file
- n: only New files r - erase type-ahead
- p: match with Pathname v - proceed to next volume
- r: set Recover mode #: start install at disk N
- s: disable file Share mode $: extract volume label
-
- Please note that the switch options for ARJSFXV use different
- letters than ARJ.EXE does.
-
- The "-#" option assumes that the first diskette is number ONE.
-
- Build an ARJSFXV module with filenames (no path specs).
-
- ARJ a -e -je -va A:INSTALL c:\product\*.*
-
- It is strongly recommended that multiple volume self-extracting
- archives NOT be built by modifying an existing multiple volume
- archive.
-
-
- With this new release, users can control the behavior of the
- self-extracting modules by embedding the command line within the
- self-extracting archive. This allows the builder to make
- self-extracting archives that create directories by default.
- The user may bypass the embedded command line by specifying
- any command line options at the DOS command prompt.
-
- Example: ARJSFX -x bypasses any embedded command line
- ARJSFX temp\ bypasses any embedded command line
-
- To implement this feature, you would insert the required command
- line as the first line of the ARJ archive comment. The beginning
- of the command line must be preceded by the two characters "))".
- Only the first 80 characters of the embedded command line will
- be processed.
-
- Example: )) C:\DIR\ -o -s options for ARJSFX
-
- The registered version of this software will not display the
- customized command line demonstration message. Please note that
- the specific switch letters may differ for the different ARJ
- self-extracting modules.
-
- jf: store/use Full specified path
-
- Normally, ARJ will strip all pathnames of drive letter and root
- symbol. This switch disables this action. When extracting with
- the "x" command from an archive that was built with this switch,
- ARJ will normally strip any drive letter and root symbol, unless
- the "-jf" option is specified again.
-
- Example: ARJ x archive -jf f:\data\1995\report.*
-
- The "-jf1" option will strip only the drive spec and NOT the
- root symbol. You can use either the "-jf" or "-jf1" option
- during extraction to force use of the root directory.
-
- As of ARJ 2.42a, ARJ will always filename match using the full
- pathname even for extraction.
-
- Example: ARJ x archive d:\temp f:\data\1995\report.*
-
- jg: select backup files
-
- The "-jg" switch allows the user to include the selection of
- archive files that are marked as backups by the "-jb" option.
- Normally, backup files will not be processed by any commands
- except for the "k" and "y" commands.
-
- Examples: ARJ l -jg archive
- ARJ e -jg -q archive name.c
- ARJ d -jg archive *.*
-
- jh: set Huffman buffer size
-
- ARJ has a default static Huffman buffer size of 16,384 bytes.
- This buffer size is better for compressing executable files.
-
- The buffer size in ARJ 0.15 and earlier was set to 65,500 bytes.
- That size is better for large text files. You may specify a
- buffer size from 2,048 to 65,535 bytes.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive *.txt -jh65500
-
- If you specify a Huffman buffer size, ARJ will use that size for
- all types of files specified by the archive command.
-
- ji: set Index filename
-
- The "-ji" switch is used to create an index file containing the
- filenames archived or meeting certain criteria. This is
- especially helpful when using ARJ to do multiple floppy type
- archives. This file SHOULD NOT be created on the floppy
- diskette if the floppy diskette is changed during the archival
- process.
-
- If the index file already exists, ARJ will append data to it.
-
- The index file contains three types of text lines. The first
- type is the volume name record. It contains the date, time,
- starting file position, and the archive name. The second type
- is the filename record. It contains only the filename. The
- third type only occurs during archival with testing "-jt". It
- is a line containing "Testing " and the archive name.
-
- This information is also useful for restarting "-v" multiple
- volume archives. You need the filename and the starting file
- position.
-
- The "-ji" switch will log the following events:
-
- a, f, m, u - Log actual filenames added to archive and if testing
- is enabled, the actual filenames that failed testing.
- d - Log archived filenames deleted.
- e, x - Log archived filenames successfully extracted.
- Extracted files with CRC errors are NOT logged.
- j - Log archived filenames added to archive.
- l, v - Log archived filenames listed.
- t - Log archived filenames that failed testing.
- w - Log archived filenames that contain string matches.
-
- This logging function is especially helpful when testing and
- searching archives.
-
- The "-hi" option will set ARJ to write more details to the index
- file.
-
- jk: Keep temp archive on error
-
- When the "-jk" switch has been specified, ARJ will keep the
- temporary archive during an aborted archive build/update.
- During a failed build, ARJ will modify the temporary archive to
- make it usable by removing the broken portion.
-
- jl: display only filespecs
-
- The "-jl" option sets ARJ to display only the filespec of a
- filename during the progress displays. This will simplify the
- display output.
-
- jm: set Maximum compression
-
- The "-jm" switch sets the maximum compression mode. This mode
- is used with method 1 "-m1" to increase its compression. This
- may increase compression time significantly.
-
- You can get a 1 to 5 percent improvement in compression with
- ARJ -m1 -jm.
-
- The "-jm1" option provides slightly less compression than "-jm"
- at a faster speed. This can range from slightly faster to much
- faster.
-
- Use of "-jm" with "-m2", "-m3", or "-m4" is NOT SUPPORTED.
-
- jn: set restart Name
-
- The "-jn" switch is used to restart interrupted multiple volume
- archives in conjunction with the "-jx" switch. All selected
- files are skipped up to but not including the named file.
-
- Example: ARJ a volume -v360 -r -jn\BIN\TREE.COM -jx1230
-
- In the above example, all files scanned up to \BIN\TREE.COM are
- skipped. Archiving will start at file position 1230 of file
- \BIN\TREE.COM.
-
- IMPORTANT!!! The exact name of the starting file must be
- specified according to the wildnames/filespecs specified. This
- name is the same as displayed by the Adding filename display and
- the same as written to the "-ji" index file. Please note that
- \DOS\TREE.COM is not considered the same as DOS\TREE.COM with
- this option.
-
- New at ARJ 2.39 is the feature where ARJ will automatically
- scan the previously written index file ("-ji") to get the
- necessary restart information. You only need append "-jn" to
- the previous backup command line. This option will not work
- without the index file. ARJ will automatically set the correct
- volume name.
-
- Example: ARJ a a:backup c:\*.* -r -vvas -jiINDEX.FIL
- ARJ a a:backup c:\*.* -r -vvas -jiINDEX.FIL -jn
-
- jo: query when updating an archive file
-
- The "-jo" option has two flavors.
-
- The "-jo" switch is used to query the user when using the ARJ
- "a" or "m" commands to add files to an archive. Before ARJ
- overwrites an existing internal archive file when using "-jo",
- ARJ will query the user with "Update <filename>? ". Without
- this option, ARJ will overwrite the internal archive file
- without querying.
-
- jo: extract to unique Output names
-
- The "-jo" switch during extraction allows automated handling of
- duplicate filenames.
-
- On extraction with the "-jo" switch where the output file
- already exists in the target directory, ARJ will attempt to
- generate a unique filename by changing the file extension to a 3
- digit number from .000 to .999. If ARJ cannot generate a unique
- name, it will skip extracting the file.
-
- Do not try to extract multiple volume split files in separate
- extraction sessions using the "-jo" option. ARJ will not be
- able to determine the correct output filename.
-
- jp: Pause after each screenful
-
- This switch will cause ARJ to pause after listing each screenful
- of data for the "l", "p", "v", "w" commands. Press the ENTER
- key to continue the listing. You can also enter "quit" to exit
- ARJ.
-
- In one special case, "ARJ -? -jp", the use of the -jp switch
- toggles page pauses off, because by default in help mode,
- pausing is on.
-
- You can specify the page size with the "-jp" option as in
- "-jp50". This also turns on the pause mode. If you wish to use
- this in ARJ_SW, it is suggested that you use "-jp50 -jp-" to set
- the page size and to turn off the pause mode.
-
- jq: set string parameter
-
- The "-jq" option is used to supply additional parameters to the ARJ
- w and ARJ b commands. If the parameters contain blanks, then the
- entire "-jq" option must be enclosed by two double quote marks.
-
- See the "w" and "b" commands for the correct "-jq" syntax.
-
- jr: Recover broken archive files
-
- This switch is used to access headers and files in an archive
- that has been corrupted either with bad data or missing data.
- This switch lets ARJ find the next valid header for listing,
- extraction or testing. ARJ will continue to look for headers
- until it finds the end of archive marker. If the archive is
- damaged, ARJ may display a message stating that it encountered
- the end of file unexpectedly.
-
- This switch also will allow extraction of files with CRC or
- Bad file data errors. Normally, ARJ will delete such extracted
- files.
-
- If file header data has been corrupted, ARJ will be unable to
- recover any file data associated with that header. As of ARJ
- 2.30, "Bad file data" errors will not abort the recovery
- process.
-
- Example: ARJ e archive -jr
-
- The "-jr1" version of this switch allows processing of damaged
- ARJ archives that have an end of archive mark in the middle of
- the archive. However, the use of this switch will always cause
- ARJ to display an "unexpected end of file" error message and to
- return a non-zero errorlevel.
-
- js: Store archives by suffix
-
- This switch is used to set ARJ to store and not compress files
- with the following extensions: .ARJ, .ZIP, .LZH, .PAK, .ARC.
-
- The file extensions can be specified as follows:
-
- ARJ a archive -js.zoo.ice.gif
-
- The above command will store files with extensions ending in
- .ZOO, .ICE, and .GIF. This overrides the defaults.
-
- You can use the environment variable ARJ_SW to set up your own
- defaults as follows:
-
- set arj_sw = -js.arj.zip.lzh -js-
-
- The "-js-" turns off the option by default so that when you
- specify the "-js" switch on the command line, ARJ will already
- know what extensions you want to store.
-
- The "-js" switch will recognize "." alone as a file extension
- indicating no file extension as in "-js." and "-js..arc"
-
- jt: Test temporary archive
-
- The "-jt" switch can used to set ARJ to execute an archive
- integrity check on an intermediate temporary archive before
- overwriting any pre-existing original archive. If any error
- occurs, ARJ will not overwrite the original archive. When used
- with the "-w" switch option, ARJ will also test the final
- archive file as well as the temporary archive before deleting
- any input files.
-
- Example: ARJ m archive *.c -jt
-
- The "-jt" switch can be used with extract type commands to set
- ARJ to verify the archive before doing any extraction of files.
- If the archive fails verification, the extraction is NOT
- attempted. This is useful for handling MAIL packets where
- archive corruption due to a bad file transfer is a fairly
- frequent event.
-
- Example: ARJ e archive -jt
-
- The "-jt1" switch allows an actual file contents comparison in
- addition to the normal file CRC calculation check. This option
- can also be used with the ARJ t (test) command.
-
- When used with the ARJ t command, ARJ "-jt1" will use the
- base_directory option and the filename stored in the archive to
- locate the original file.
-
- When used with the ARJ add/move/update type commands, ARJ will
- use only the filename stored in the archive to locate the
- original file. Therefore, the "-jt1" option does NOT work with
- the "-e" option or when the original filename has a drive letter
- or root directory in it and you did not specify "-jf".
-
- Examples: ARJ t -jt1 archive dir\
- ARJ a -jt1 archive e:\temp\*.* -jf
-
- The "-jt2" switch allows the same features as "-jt1" except that
- the file compares are only done for the newly added/updated
- files. This avoids the situation where the some of original
- input files are missing or have changed. NOTE that a problem
- can occur with the "f" and "u" commands when files in the
- archive are NEWER than the files being added. ARJ will
- considered the file up-to-date and added and will do a file
- compare.
-
- Example: ARJ u -jt2 archive dir\
-
- ju: translate UNIX style paths
-
- This switch causes ARJ to translate any subsequently encountered
- pathnames to MS-DOS style from UNIX style. This switch also
- causes translation of filenames entered as a result of ARJ
- prompts such as in comment filenames.
-
- Example: ARJ a archive -ju /soft/*.c
-
- jv: set Verbose display
-
- This switch sets ARJ to display more information during the
- "t"est, "l"ist, and "ex"tract commands.
-
- Example: ARJ t archive -jv
-
- The "-jv" switch causes the "v" command to display only the
- pathnames to the screen.
-
- The "-jv1" switch causes the "v" command to display the archive
- data in manner suitable for sorting on various fields.
-
- The "-jv" switch will set the "p", "s", and "w" commands to
- display IBM graphics characters (128 to 255).
-
- When updating a file in an archive with a file that is NOT
- newer and if the -jv option is selected, ARJ will display a
- message that there is "no change".
-
- jw: set extract output filename
-
- The "-jw" option allows you to specify the name of the
- extraction output file. You should only select one file to
- extract when using this option.
-
- This is similar but not exactly the same as using the "p"
- command with DOS output redirection. Using DOS redirection would
- cause all of the output of the extraction to be put into the
- output file. Using "-jw" would set ARJ to prompt for
- overwrite permission per each file extracted to the output file.
-
- This option may be needed when trying to output binary data to
- a printer.
-
- Example: ARJ e archive printer.dat -jwLPT1
-
- jx: start at eXtended position
-
- This switch is used to continue a file onto a new archive
- manually. This switch is normally for use when a multiple
- volume "a" command has aborted.
-
- Example: ARJ a arjvol.a01 manual.doc -jx100000
-
- This example archives manual.doc starting from file byte
- position 100,000 and on.
-
- In extraction mode, this sets ARJ to extract a file to an output
- file at a specified starting position.
-
- Example: ARJ e -jx2000000 archive file1
-
- This example extracts the file "file1" to file1 starting at
- position 2,000,000 or at the end of the file.
-
- This is similar to using the command "ARJ p archive >> output".
- To duplicate this redirection with ARJ would require the
- following:
-
- ARJ e -jx2000K -jwoutput archive
-
- NOTE that the -jx option is NOT functional when adding a file to
- an archive that already contains one or more files.
-
- jy: suppress queries assuming YES
-
- This switch is used to suppress individual ARJ user prompts.
-
- Syntax: ARJ e archive -jy<flags>
-
- where <flags> is one or more of the following characters: a, c,
- d, k, n, o, s, v. For each flag selected, ARJ will act as if
- you had answered YES to the suppressed question.
-
- A - skip append query during a multi-volume extraction
- C - skip create directory query
- D - skip delete files query
- K - skip disk space availability query
- N - skip new filename prompt
- O - skip overwriting existing file query
- R - erase all typeahead before prompting
- S - skip scanned enough text query
- V - skip ok to proceed to next volume query
- Y - accept single character Y/N/A/Q inputs
-
- Example: ARJ x volume -v -jyaco
- suppress append, create, and overwrite prompts.
-
- ARJ will allow you to specify individual "jy" options in
- separate switch strings as in "-jyy -jyr". You may inhibit a
- switch as in "-jyr-". As with other switches, the "jy" switches
- toggle as in "-jyr -jyr".
-
- jz: supply file for file comment
-
- The "-jz" switch has been provided to facilitate batch
- commenting of one or more files within an ARJ archive. Only one
- comment file can be specified. That file will be used to
- comment each file specified on the command line.
-
- A comment file containing only a single blank can be used to
- erase comments from ARJ archives.
-
- Syntax: ARJ c archive file1 -jzcomment.txt
- ARJ c archive file1 -zheader.cmt -jzfile.cmt
-
- h#: append current date/time string
-
- The "-h#" switch sets ARJ to append the current date string in
- the form YYMMDD to the current archive name while keeping the
- file extension the same.
-
- The "-h#1" switch sets ARJ to append the current time string in
- the form HHMMSS to the current archive name while keeping the
- file extension the same.
-
- The "-h#2" switch sets ARJ to append the current date-time
- string in the form DHHMMSS to the current archive name while
- keeping the file extension the same. In a ten day period, this
- option can be used to generate unique archive names.
-
- Examples: ARJ a XX -h# *.c creates archive name XX931209.ARJ
- ARJ a YY -h#1 creates archive name YY123000.ARJ
- ARJ a Y -h#2 creates archive name Y8123000.ARJ
-
- This function does NO checking for exceeding the proper filename
- length. There are no options for rearranging the date/time
- formats.
-
- ha: ignore readonly Attribute
-
- The "-ha" switch sets ARJ to reset the attributes of a file to be
- overwritten or a file to be deleted. This allows the overwrite
- or delete operation to proceed.
-
- A slight performance degradation may result from using this
- option.
-
- Examples: ARJ e archive -ha
- ARJ m archive -ha dir\*.*
-
- hc: execute DOS Command at ARJ start
-
- The "-hc" switch sets ARJ to execute a DOS command at the start
- of the execution of ARJ immediately after the command line switch
- options have been processed, but before the wildcard search is
- started. This can be used to clear the screen to hide the
- command line or to provide a pause option to allow swapping
- diskettes.
-
- Examples: ARJ a -hcCLS archive -gpassword
- ARJ a -hcPAUSE archive *.*
-
- he: skip test of security Envelope
-
- The "-he" switch sets ARJ to skip the verification step when
- accessing an ARJ-SECURED ARJ archive. If an ARJ archive has
- a damaged ARJ-SECURITY envelope, you will have to use the "-he"
- option to extract the archive.
-
- he1: set error on security Envelopes
-
- The "-he1" switch sets ARJ to abort with an error code of 4 when
- processing a possibly ARJ-SECURED archive. This is useful as a
- REARJ.CFG option for ARJ. This will prevent REARJ from
- converting an ARJ-SECURED archive to the same or another format.
-
- Examples: ARJ l secured.arj -he1
-
- hi: full detail display in Index files
-
- The "-hi" switch when used with the "-ji" switch sets ARJ to
- include the file date-time stamp, the original file size, the
- compressed file size, the compression ratio, and the filename in
- the index file.
-
- Example: ARJ a a:backup c:\*.* -r -va -jiINDEX -hi
-
- hl: return error for Listfile error
-
- The "-hl" switch sets ARJ to report the "file not found" type
- of errors when processing the filenames in an ARJ listfile
- during an "add" type command (a, f, m, u). ARJ will
- subsequently return a non-zero DOS errorlevel when such an
- error has been found. Previous versions of ARJ ignored these
- types of errors.
-
- Example: ARJ a a:backup !listfile -va -hl
-
- hm: increase filename capacity
-
- The "-hm" switch sets ARJ to transfer the list of filenames to be
- archived from precious memory to file storage. This allows a much
- larger number of files to be processed (over 32,000). This option
- is ignored for all ARJ commands except "a", "f", "j", "m", "u".
-
- Normally, this switch sets ARJ to wait until it is out of memory
- storing filenames into a list before transferring that list to a
- temporary file. That temporary file is put in the current
- directory or the special work directory if specified (-hm!F:\).
- However, there may be a few cases where ARJ will run out of
- memory doing other tasks while it is storing this list. In
- these cases, ARJ will abort. The user can specify a numeric
- argument to this switch to force ARJ to transfer the list to
- file storage sooner. This argument specifies the maximum number
- of filename entries to store in memory. If the list exceeds
- that number, the entries are transferred from memory to a
- temporary file.
-
- The "-hm" work directory is specified by appending a "!" to the
- "-hm" or "-hm5000" options and then appending the filename to
- the option. See below.
-
- Examples: ARJ a archive c:\*.* -r -hm
- ARJ a a:archive c:\*.* -r -va -hm5000!F:\
- ARJ a a:archive c:\*.* -r -hm!G:\temp\
-
- This feature has at least two disadvantages. The checking for
- duplicate filename specifications may become disabled (ex: *.DOC
- and MANUAL.* duplicates MANUAL.DOC). Updating archives will become
- slower. Extra disk space is required for the temporary file list.
- The use of a RAMDISK directory will provide the fastest
- operation.
-
- hn: specify non-existent filespec
-
- The "-hn" switch sets the filespec that does NOT match any file.
- The default filespec is "...". However, on some systems like
- using NOVELL, there is a valid filespec "...". Since ARJ
- sometimes needs a filespec that is strictly a placeholder, this
- option should be used to specify some name that does not exist
- on disk.
-
- This option must be specified prior to any use of the
- non-matching filespec. Setting it via the ARJ_SW variable is an
- excellent choice.
-
- Examples: ARJ e -hn#### archive #### -zcomment.txt
- SET ARJ_SW=-hn####
-
- ho: Only extract files with matches
-
- The "-ho" switch used with the "e" or "x" extract commands allows
- file extraction based upon a text search. ARJ will prompt the
- user for text strings to search unless the "-jq" option has been
- specified. See the "-jq" option in ARJ.DOC for detailed use
- information. ARJ will extract a file within an archive if the
- file contains at least one occurrence of any of the specified
- search strings.
-
- Examples: ARJ e archive -ho
- ARJ e archive -ho -jq+3+textstring
-
- ho1: Only extract files without any matches
-
- The "-ho1" switch used with the "e" or "x" extract commands
- allows file extraction based upon a text search. ARJ will
- prompt the user for text strings to search unless the "-jq"
- option has been specified. See the "-jq" option in ARJ.DOC for
- detailed use information. ARJ will extract a file within an
- archive if the file contain NO occurrences of any of the
- specified search strings.
-
- Examples: ARJ e archive -ho1
-
- hr: force processing of successive archives through errors.
-
- The "-hr" switch sets ARJ to attempt to continue processing
- successive archives even when they contains errors. This option
- is aimed at ARJ wildcard use such as in the "ARJ t *.ARJ -hr"
- command.
-
- hs: disable file Sharing
-
- The "-hs" switch sets ARJ to disable its file sharing feature.
- This may be necessary for some unusual applications.
-
- hu: allow the Updating of multiple volume archives
-
- The "-hu" switch sets ARJ to allow the updating of multiple
- volume archives. At this version, by default, ARJ does not allow
- updating of multiple volume archives because of the possibility
- of losing data.
-
- Example: ARJ c archive -hu -zcomment.txt
-
- hv: verify the ARJ version number
-
- The "-hv" switch is used to verify the ARJ version number and/or
- whether the ARJ program is registered. If the "-hv" option is
- specified by itself or with an appended "R", an unregistered ARJ
- will abort with an errorlevel of 1. If a version number string
- is appended to the "-hv" option, a lower version numbered ARJ
- will abort with with an errorlevel of 1.
-
- Examples: ARJ a archive -hv check if registered
- ARJ a archive -hvr check if registered
- ARJ a archive -hv2.50 check for version >= 2.50
- ARJ a archive -hvr2.50 check if registered and
- version 2.50 or greater
-
- hw: modify search filename display
-
- The "-hw" switch sets the ARJ w command to display the
- "Searching ..." filenames messages in a scroll saving format.
- Filenames of files that do not contain string matches will be
- overwritten on the screen.
-
- The "-hw1" switch sets the ARJ w command to display ONLY the
- "Searching ..." filenames messages for files that contain string
- messages.
-
- hx: specify archive file extensions
-
- The "-hx" switch allows the user to specify what the default
- file extension or extensions that are to be used by ARJ to
- access archive names that are not specified with file
- extensions. ARJ will assume that the first extension specified
- will be the main default extension.
-
- Examples: ARJ a archive *.* -hx.SDN assumes default .SDN
- file extension
- ARJ l archive -hx.SDN.ARJ looks for archive.SDN and
- if not found, then looks
- for archive.ARJ
-
-
- ARJ COMMAND OPTIONS:
-
- Some of the following options have variations such as -s as in
- -s, -s1, -s2.
-
- The following options work for ALL ARJ commands.
-
- !names.lst
- -o
- -ob
- -od
- --
- -+
- -&
- -!
- -i
- -l
- -r this affects wildcarded archive names, too.
- -s
- -x
- -y
- -ja
- -jl
- -jt
- -ju
- -jy
- -h#
- -h#1
- -hc
- -he
- -he1
- -hn
- -hr
- -hs
- -hv
- -hx
-
- The following options work for all ARJ commands that modify
- ARJ archives.
-
- -k
- -s
- -w
- -z
- -jb
- -je
- -jk
- -jz
- -hu
-
-
- In addition the following options work for ARJ a, f, m, u commands.
-
- -a
- -b
- -m
- -r
- -t
- -jh
- -ji
- -jm
- -jn
- -js
- -hi
- -hl
- -hm
-
-
- The following options work for ARJ y command.
-
- -jb
- -je
-
-
- The following options work for ALL but the ARJ a, f, m, u commands.
-
- The name of the archive can be a wildspec.
- -#
- -d
- -e
- -p
- -jg
- -jr
-
-
- The following options work for the ARJ a, f, m, u, e, x
- commands.
-
- -$
- -c
- -f
- -g
- -n
- -u
- -jf
- -ji
- -jx
- -hi
-
-
- The following options work for the ARJ e, x commands.
-
- -d
- -jc
- -jw
- -ho
- -ho1
-
-
- The following options work for the ARJ l, v commands
-
- -n
- -jp
-
-
- The following options have limited use.
-
- -q - works for all commands except j, l, n, o, t, v, w, y
- -v - works for l, v, w commands
- -jc - works for e, x, l, v commands
- -jp - works for l, v, w commands
- -jq - works for b, w, commands
- -jv - works for most commands
- -hw - works for w command
-
-
- SAMPLE ARJ COMMANDS:
-
- a: Add files to archive
-
- ARJ a archive
- ARJ a archive -n
- ARJ a archive -f
- ARJ a archive -jt
- ARJ a archive -jt1
- ARJ a archive -jt2
- ARJ a archive -q
- ARJ a archive -r
- ARJ a archive dir\ -o
- ARJ a archive dir\
- ARJ a archive dir\ *.doc *.exe
- ARJ a archive !names.lst
- ARJ a archive -- -name-.txt
- ARJ a archive name1 name2 name3
- ARJ a a:archive -we:\ -vas c:\ -r -b2
- ARJ a a:archive.001 -we:\ -vvw360 c:\ -r -b1
- ARJ a archive -vw360 c:\ -r -y
- ARJ a archive c:\ *.* -r -jt1 -jf
-
-
- b: execute Batch or DOS command
-
- ARJ b archive name.txt
- ARJ b archive -jwOUT.NAM
- ARJ b archive SHEZ.EXE -jwSHEZ.EXE
- ARJ b archive *.exe -jwTEMP.EXE "-jqTEMP -help"
-
-
- c: Comment archive files
-
- ARJ c archive
- ARJ c archive -z
- ARJ c archive -zcomment.txt
- ARJ c archive -zNUL
- ARJ c archive file1 -jzcomment.txt
- ARJ c archive *.doc -jzNUL
-
-
- d: Delete files from archive
-
- ARJ d archive *.doc
- ARJ d archive *.* -jg
- ARJ d archive *.* -n
- ARJ d archive *.* -y
- ARJ d archive !names.lst
-
-
- e: Extract files from archive
-
- ARJ e archive *.doc
- ARJ e archive *.doc -d
- ARJ e archive -jd50000
- ARJ e archive -jo
- ARJ e archive -c
- ARJ e archive dir\ *.doc -jt
- ARJ e archive *.doc -y
- ARJ e archive -# 10 15 20-40
-
-
- f: Freshen files in archive
-
- ARJ f archive
- ARJ f archive -r
- ARJ f archive dir\ -r
- ARJ f archive dir\ *.doc -r
- ARJ f archive dir\ -r -jt2
-
-
- g: Garble files in archive
-
- ARJ g archive -gpassword
- ARJ g archive *.doc -gpassword
- ARJ g archive -g?
-
-
- i: check Integrity of ARJ.EXE
-
- ARJ i
- ARJ i c:\bin\arj.exe
-
-
- j: Join archives to archive
-
- ARJ j archive name1.arj name2.arj name3.arj
- ARJ j archive *.arj
- ARJ j archive arjsfx.exe
- ARJ j archive *.arj -o911201
- ARJ j archive *.arj -r
-
-
- k: pacK bacKup files in archive
-
- ARJ k archive *.*
- ARJ k archive *.* -y
- ARJ k archive *.doc -n
-
-
- l: List contents of archive
-
- ARJ l archive
- ARJ l archive *.doc
- ARJ l archive -o911201
- ARJ l archive -o911201 -ob911231
- ARJ l archive -n
- ARJ l archive -jg
- ARJ l archive -jp
-
-
- m: Move files to archive
-
- ARJ m archive
- ARJ m archive *.doc
- ARJ m archive dir\ *.doc
- ARJ m archive dir\ *.doc -o
- ARJ m a:archive.001 dir\ -r -vvwas -jt2
-
-
- n: reName files in archive
-
- ARJ n archive
- ARJ n archive *.doc
- ARJ n archive !names.lst
- ARJ n archive -o911201
-
-
- o: Order files in archive
-
- ARJ o archive !names.lst
- ARJ o archive *.bat *.exe *.doc
- ARJ o archive file1 file2 file3
-
-
- p: Print files to standard output
-
- ARJ p archive
- ARJ p archive -jp
- ARJ p archive *.doc
- ARJ p archive -o911201
- ARJ p archive name.txt > PRN
-
-
- r: Remove paths from filenames
-
- ARJ r archive
- ARJ r archive *.doc
- ARJ r archive -o911201 -ob911231
-
-
- s: Sample files to screen with pause
-
- ARJ s archive
- ARJ s archive *.doc -y
- ARJ s *.arj -y -r
-
-
- t: Test integrity of archive
-
- ARJ t archive
- ARJ t archive *.exe
- ARJ t archive !names.lst
- ARJ t archive -jt1
-
-
- u: Update files to archive
-
- ARJ u archive *.doc
- ARJ u archive *.doc -jo
-
-
- v: Verbosely list contents of archive
-
- ARJ v archive
- ARJ v archive *.doc
- ARJ v archive -jv
- ARJ v archive -jv1
- ARJ v archive -jp
- ARJ v archive -jg
-
-
- w: Where are text strings in archive
-
- ARJ w archive
- ARJ w archive -hw
- ARJ w archive -jp
- ARJ w *.arj -jp
- ARJ w *.arj *.doc
- ARJ w *.arj *.txt -jq+5+string
- ARJ w archive "-jq-3-to be or not"
-
-
- x: eXtract files with full pathname
-
- ARJ x archive *.doc
- ARJ x archive *.doc -d
- ARJ x archive -jd50000
- ARJ x archive -jo
- ARJ x archive -c
- ARJ x archive dir\ *.doc
- ARJ x archive -jf
- ARJ x archive *.doc -jyc
-
-
- y: copY archive with new options
-
- ARJ y archive -je
- ARJ y archive -je1
- ARJ y archive -jb
- ARJ y archive -jb1
- ARJ y archive -jb2
- ARJ y archive *.bat -jb2
-
-
- ARJ_SECURITY ENVELOPE:
-
- The ARJ-SECURITY ENVELOPE feature provides a facility similar to
- other archivers. This feature disallows any type of modification,
- even commenting, to an ARJ-SECURE sealed archive by ARJ. Moreover,
- there are additional internal checks to determine if the ARJ-SECURE
- sealed archive has been modified in any way. This EXTRA cost
- feature is intended for use by software developers who distribute
- their software in archived format and is only available for a
- special fee. However, there can be no guarantee that this
- mechanism cannot be defeated.
-
- When accessing an ARJ-SECURED archive, ARJ will display a message
- indicating that ARJ is verifying the security envelope. If the
- envelope is damaged, a message will be displayed indicating so. If
- the envelope is intact, then the ARJ-SECURITY signature of the user
- "sealing" the archive will be displayed.
-
- If the security envelope has been tampered with or the archive has
- suffered data corruption, ARJ will display a message stating that
- the security envelope has been damaged. In addition, ARJ will
- abort processing the archive. The ARJ "-he" option and the ARJSFX
- "-s" option will skip the envelope verification. The most likely
- causes of an invalid envelope are that the file was corrupted in
- transmission or that the archive was tampered with.
-
-
- KNOWN ARJ ISSUES/PROBLEMS:
-
- Apparently ARJ.EXE and LHA.EXE (possibly other archivers) will
- NOT function properly in a WINDOWS DOS box while the REMOVEIT 2
- Smart Custodian (July 7, 1995, Vertisoft) is running.
-
- Under MS-DOS 4.01, ARJ may not extract LARGE (greater than 32MB)
- files from multiple volume archives properly. The "dir" reported
- size may be incorrect. A simple "CHKDSK /f" will correct the size.
- This problem is due to a BUG in MS-DOS 4.01. Microsoft Corp. has
- fixes available for several DOS 4.01 bugs including this one.
-
- Due to the inner workings of the compiler Turbo C++, ARJ may run
- out of memory if your computer is configured with thousands of
- bytes of environment variables.
-
- The "-vs" option of ARJ may not function properly when ARJ is
- trying to archive several thousands of files. This is due to a
- lack of free memory to execute any external commands. The use of
- the "-hm" option will free up memory.
-
- When using a working directory, ARJ does not check for disk space
- before overwriting the original archive. Be sure you have enough
- space before updating an archive using the "-w" switch.
-
- Because of a bug with extended archive header processing, you
- should convert to ARJ 2.10 and above as soon as practical. This
- bug is NOT a current problem because no version of ARJ supports the
- use of the extended header.
-
- If you have garbled (-g) ARJ archives that were created by ARJ 2.21
- and the garbled files were stored (-m0) by ARJ, you may need to
- refer to ARJ 2.30 to extract those files without getting a CRC
- error.
-
- TSRs that activate via HOT KEYS may be inhibited by ARJ during
- user keyboard input. This is a "feature" of the Turbo C++ getc()
- function. A partial workaround is to use the ARJ "-jyry" option
- to go to single key query mode.
-
- A similar problem occurs with HYPERDISK and staged writes.
- HYPERDISK's timer delay appears to be inhibited during ARJ user
- keyboard input such as during "Ok to ... volume/diskette?". This
- causes an error when you swap to the next diskette. The workaround
- is to use the ARJ "-jyry" option to go to single key query mode.
-
- There is a reported problem using ARJ and floppy disk drives when
- using the disk cache program SUPER PCKWIK 3.30 with advanced
- diskette support (/D+). The system may occasionally hang when ARJ
- attempts to read/write the diskette. You may also get CRC or
- Bad file data errors. Disabling the SUPER PCKWIK option with /D-
- appears to remove this problem. Other programs have similar
- problems with this feature of SUPER PCKWIK.
-
-
- ARJ ERROR MESSAGES:
-
- See the document ERRORS.DOC.
-
-
- COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
-
- 1) I have forgotten my password to an important garbled ARJ
- archive. Is there an easy way to recover my lost files?
-
- Answer: Sorry. Generally speaking, there is no easy way. There is
- brute force trial and error.
-
- 2) During extraction, ARJ aborts with a "Bad header" or "Bad file
- data" error message. How do I recover my files?
-
- Answer: Using the -jr option of ARJ, you should be able to recover
- the uncorrupted files in the archive. The corrupted files are
- unrecoverable.
-
- 3) How do I backup a directory and its subdirectories and files to
- multiple diskettes?
-
- Answer: You should use a command as follows:
- ARJ a a:archive c:\dir\*.* -va -r -a1
- The -va option assumes that you are using formatted blank
- diskettes. The -r option sets ARJ to recurse subdirectories. The
- -a1 option sets ARJ to store empty directories.
-
- 4) Do I have to register ARJ if I use it at home for my personal
- computer activities (BBSing, backup, sharing files)?
-
- Answer: No, you do not have to register ARJ for such activities.
- Instead, please share ARJ with a friend as a way of showing your
- appreciation.
-
- 5) Can I distribute ARJ self-extracting archives or ARJ.EXE without
- a license?
-
- Answer: You may share these files with others for personal use.
- However, you cannot distribute self-extracting files publicly
- without a license. You cannot distribute ARJ.EXE to install
- software without a license. The UNARJ.EXE program is freely
- available to install software.
-
- 6) Can I distribute ARJ archives freely?
-
- Answer: Any ARJ archives (not self-extracting) can be distributed
- freely.
-
- 7) ARJ displayed an error message indicating it ran out of memory
- backing up my disk with 20,000 files on it. How can I proceed?
-
- Answer: You should specify the -hm option to set ARJ to use disk
- space to handle all of the filenames.
-
- 8) I am trying to extract a multiple volume archive. How do I get
- ARJ to prompt for the second diskette?
-
- Answer: You need to specify the -v option to set ARJ to prompt for
- subsequent diskettes.
-
- 9) How do I extract an ARJ archive recovering the original
- pathnames?
-
- Answer: Use the "x" command as in "ARJ x archive".
-
- 10) How do I create a self-extracting archive?
-
- Answer: Use the -je or -je1 options as in "ARJ a archive *.* -je".
-
- 11) How do a save empty directories in an archive?
-
- Answer: Use the -a1 option.
-
-
- ARJ TECHNICAL SUPPORT:
-
- I have received many useful suggestions from users all over the
- world. Many of those suggestions are in this version or will be
- incorporated in later versions of ARJ.
-
- I will try to resolve software problems with ARJ as they are made
- known to me. Please notify me of any ARJ problems by mail, email,
- fax, or via the ARJ support BBSes mentioned below. I will strive
- to keep ARJ a robust, stable and useful product.
-
- I will try to support unregistered users during their evaluation
- period, but please read the ARJ documentation first. Registered
- users will be eligible to receive technical support by mail,
- telephone, fax, or electronic mail.
-
- ***************************************************************
- DO NOT ASK FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN THE CASE OF LOST PASSWORDS!
- ***************************************************************
-
-
- ARJ AVAILABILITY:
-
- The latest version of ARJ can be obtained from the following
- sources:
-
- ARJ SUPPORT BBSes: See ARJ_BBS.DOC
-
- ARJ is available from a number of other BBSes, but I can only vouch
- for the integrity of the archive if the ARJ###.EXE verifies its
- ARJ-SECURITY envelope as valid. If no security envelope exists,
- then the data has been re-archived and there is no assurance of
- data integrity.
-
- If none of the above sources are suitable, you may order a copy of
- the latest version of ARJ directly from the author. Send a check
- or money order for five dollars (US) to cover the costs of shipping
- and handling. Please specify diskette size (3.5 or 5.25 inch);
- otherwise, a 3.5 inch diskette will be shipped. Please allow a few
- weeks for delivery, longer for foreign deliveries.
-
- Our address is at the end of this document.
-
-
- ARJ INTERNET MAILING LIST
-
- New information announcements about ARJ is now available via an
- Internet mailing list. You can subscribe (and unsubscribe) by
- sending an email message to:
-
- majordomo@Dunkel.de
-
- and writing in THE BODY of the message (not in the subject):
-
- subscribe arj-info
-
- You'll be sent a message stating that you were included in the
- mailing list together with information, how to unsubscribe. If you
- just state "help" (without the quotes) in the message, you'll get
- more information on the available commands.
-
-
- ARJ WEB SUPPORT
-
- ARJ on WWW! You can reach ARJ support information at:
-
- http://www.Dunkel.de/ARJ (German and English)
-
- http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~fta/arj.html (French and English)
-
- These are ARJ Web sites set up by authorized ARJ agents.
-
-
- SDN EXTENSION FILES
-
- SDN International(sm) is a FidoNet hobby organization which makes
- available for distribution author-direct shareware files to FidoNet
- capable bulletin board systems world wide. ARJ has been chosen by
- SDN sysops' consensus as its official compression utility.
-
- Program files distributed via SDN have a copyright ".SDN"
- extension. Files distributed by SDN after February 1993 can be
- decompressed by ARJ. Files dated earlier can be decompressed if
- the compression utility SDN previously used is on PATH.
-
- SDN files are security sealed with their own exclusive security
- seal, FSecure, created by Pacesoft. This security may be verified
- using the FileTest utility available at the SDN Project AuthorLine
- BBS 203-634-0370 or at most SDN participating BBS sites.
-
- Shareware authors wishing to distribute shareware by release
- through SDN may contact the same SDN Project AuthorLine BBS.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTORS:
-
- A list of authorized ARJ agent/distributors are found in the
- file AGENTS.DOC. They provide local registration and technical
- support for ARJ. Other distributors only provide the evaluation
- version of ARJ.
-
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
-
- LHARC is the name of an archiver by Haruyasu Yoshizaki.
- PKZIP and ZIP are trademarks of PKWare, Inc.
- PAK is the trademark of NoGate Consulting.
-
- I wish to express my gratitude to Haruyasu Yoshizaki (Yoshi) for
- developing LHARC and distributing its source code. LHARC gave me
- the impetus to start studying data compression. I also wish to
- thank Haruhiko Okumura for providing additional ideas. His AR001
- and AR002 program provided the basic design for the early versions
- of ARJ.
-
- I also wish to thank Fabrice BELLARD for LZEXE which is used to
- squish the ARJ SFX modules.
-
- And my thanks also go to Paul Kocher who contributed the design of
- the new ARJ SECURITY envelope mechanism.
-
- I wish to thank those who have contributed significantly to the
- development of ARJ. Those include:
-
- Soeren Pingel Dalsgaard
- Axel Dunkel
- Jonathan Forbes
- Ron Freimuth
- Brian Godette
- Robb Hufalt
- Arkady Kleyner
- Michael Lawler
- Ken Levitt
- Eberhard Mattes
- Mike McCombs
- Alexander Pruss
- Joseph Teller
-
- And to the many others who have helped, provided messages of
- support, or provided financial support, THANKS!!! Because of
- you, I am able to provide FULL-TIME support to ARJ!
-
- I wish to thank my wife, Susan, and my son, Timothy, for putting
- up with this ARJ obsession. Their encouragement and support have
- been invaluable.
-
- But my greatest thanks goes to Almighty God for His inspiration
- and great salvation. For apart from Him, ARJ could not have been
- done. John 15:5
-
- It is our prayer that this product not be used in any way to
- infringe or attack our freedom to worship.
-
-
- USAGE AND DISTRIBUTION POLICY:
-
- See LICENSE.DOC file for license policy.
-
-
- BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR OF ARJ:
-
- Robert Jung grew up in Catonsville and Baltimore, Maryland. He
- graduated from the University of Maryland in 1970. After a short
- stint in the U.S. Army, he taught chemistry for six years. From
- teaching he entered the computer programming profession where he
- was employed as a programmer analyst, a network analyst, and a
- software engineer. In late 1990, he developed the ARJ archive
- format and program to meet a personal need in archiving. In
- February of 1991, he released ARJ 1.00 as a shareware product.
- The author currently supports ARJ full-time and resides in Norwood,
- Massachusetts with his wife Susan, and son Timothy.
-
-
- FINAL COMMENTS:
-
- I do hope that you find this program as useful as I have. I would
- appreciate any suggestions to improve this archiver.
-
- You can reach me at:
-
- Internet address: robjung@world.std.com
-
- CompuServe userid: 72077,445
-
- Robert Jung at Channel One BBS 617-354-8873
- Join the mailbox conference with "j mailbox" to send email to me.
-
- Robert Jung at FIDONET address: 1:16/390.7
-
- Robert Jung in the ARJ echo conference available from the Fidonet
- echo backbone.
-
- Robert Jung in the RIME/RELAYNET ARJ conference. The national
- number of the ARJ conference is 275.
-
- ARJ users are encouraged to use the above echoes to submit
- questions, problems, and new features requests.
-
- ***** UPDATED MAILING ADDRESS *****
-
- Robert and Susan Jung
- ARJ Software
- P.O. Box 249
- Norwood MA 02062
- USA
-
- Fax number: 617-769-4893
-
- ***********************************
-
-
- End of document
-
-