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LHCon
Version 1.00
by: Steve Robbins & Bill Huff
What is LHCon?
LHCon is a program designed to convert Arc and Zoo files over to
LHArc format. LHCon also has the capability of doing this to entire
directories at one time. LHCon will also preserve the comment entry for
the file.
LHCon is copyrighted and is distributed as freely distributable. You
may upload it to any BBS that you wish, it may be distributed on disk as
long as the charge for such a disk does not exceed reasonable cost for the
magnetic media and shipping/handling charges. All distributions must be in
original form. No warranties are implied or expressed with regard to the
total fitness or useability of LHCon for any particular purpose. All risks
are that of the user.
Enough of the messy stuff and on to the program. LHCon is designed so
that an individual can convert Arc or Zoo programs into LHArc programs
without going through the hassle of typing out all of the command strings
and cleaning up the extra files afterwards. In addition LHCon has the
ability to do entire directories in one command. This comes in handy in
two instances, one is for the user who saves archives to disk and wants to
optimize his capacity by converting all files to LHArc, the other instance
is for the BBS sysop who wants to create more room on his hard drive for
more uploads. One of the features of LHCon is that it will create a log
file of it's activity and save it to ram: as "LHCon.Log". This enables the
user to convert a directory and review his results after it is done
without having to sit through the whole process. If you convert another
directory immediately after the first this log file will be appended to
with the second directories information.
SYNTAX:
LHCon [switches] [path/filename]
Switches:
-d/-D Convert a directory
-h/-H/? Help listing
for example if you want to convert a single file you would type:
LHCon ram:filename
The full pathname is a must
or if you want to convert an entire directory you would type:
LHCon -d ram:junkdir
BBS Sysops: Special care must be taken not to lose the descriptions of the
files involved. I cannot predict the outcome due to the many different
methods of saving file descriptions used by BBS programs. If your BBS uses
the comment to save the file description then you should have no problems
as LHCon will preserve the comment. One BBS program that I have tested
LHCon with is Skyline BBS. To do a conversion first run LHCon on a
directory. When it is completed run dbupkeep and do a search for "arc",
files that come up and were modified with LHCon you can change the .arc to
.lzh. Run this same search for .zoo and you will be all set.
**************************** Workbench 2.0 ********************************
Tests were run on a 3000 with LHCon and it was found that LHCon works fine
under 1.3 but under 2.0 it gurus as the program exits. The files and
directories that we ran LHCon on converted properly and the comments were
intact but it appears that the program is not exiting properly under 2.0.
We will look into this and hopefully have a fix soon.
Required in your C: directory: Arc, Zoo, LHArc, List, Delete, Copy and
Makedir
LHArc is copyrighted by Paolo Zibetti 1990
Arc is copyrighted by Raymond Brand 1987
Zoo is copyrighted by J. Brian Waters 1989
Versions tested with LHCon are:
LHArc 1.30
Arc 0.23
Zoo 2.01