The Lazy Man's Way To Convert
                            .ARC, .ZOO and .ZIP Files
                            To LHARC (.LZH) Archives

Supplied are three scripts which work quite well. To use them as they are,
you need to have LOTS of memory. If you don't have a good 2 megs free, then
assign T: to someplace BESIDES RAM:T as most startup-sequences do these
days.

Also, only use with LHARC v1.00 or higher.

To use
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Make a directory in RAM: called simply LH, as in RAM:LH...

ASSIGN DEST: to the place you want the new .LZH files to go, such as
DH1:BBS/NEWFILES or some such thing...

Make sure T: is assigned to someplace...

For convenience, assign your own name like XYZ: to where the files you want
to convert are located, like ASSIGN XYZ: DH1:BBS/FILES... This will make
it easier for you and the script...

You MUST have the ARP 1.3 command RENAME in your path and called RENAM (no E)
as it allows wildcards to be used in the renaming process while the AmigaDOS
command doesn't. I don't generally care to use ARP commands, so I only have
two, one called KOPY (not used here - it's the ARP COPY command with a little
different spelling) and RENAM (already explained).

ZIPtoLZH uses the non-PKware UNZIP which has been available for some time.
You may not have it, in which case you are on your own for converting any
ZIP files you may already have.

For convenience, place ARCtoLZH, ZOOtoLZH and ZIPtoLZH in your S: and set the
script bit so they'll act just like object file commands.


TO INVOKE:

Assuming all is set up, it's easy:

ZOOtoLZH XYZ:#?ZOO

or

ARCtoLZH XYZ:#?ARC

or

ZIPtoLZH XYZ:#?ZIP

Each of these works identically... For instance, ZOOtoLZH will find all files
in XYZ: ending in ZOO and, one at a time, unZoo them to RAM:LH with complete
path building as stored in the ZOO archive, then LHARC up all of those files
(with the same complete path information) under the same name as the archive
had previously and deposit the new .LZH archive into DEST: - it takes quite
awhile to do this work, so plan accordingly. Make sure there's plenty of
room on DEST: to hold the new archives, too.

As presented, there aren't any bugs. If an archive is already bad, the
program will convert what it can... So a corrupt file will remain a corrupt
file.

I've used these on 300 or so files with no known failures, and the space
savings is tremendous. I have to recommend LHARC over ARC, ZOO (and at this
point) ZIP... I plan to convert all new uploads to my board as they come
in to maintain the space savings, too!

	Steve Lewis
	Amiga City BBS
	Fido node 1:114/52
	602/788-7144