Short:    Pack using XPK, adaptive, recursive
Author:   wepl@whdload.org (Bert Jahn)
Uploader: wepl@whdload.org (Bert Jahn)
Version:  1.0
Type:     util/pack

this program will compress files using the XPK system.
multiple pack modes can be specified, all of them will tested and the one with
the best compression factor will be used.
xPackBest can recursively compress a directory tree, optionally only files
which match a specified pattern.

  usage:
    xPackBest Input/A,Modes/M/A,MinRatio/K/N,Pattern/K

    Input/A
	data to compress, if a file only this file will be packed, if a
	directory the whole tree will be packed recursively
    Modes/M/A
	mode to use for compression, contains of the name of the XPK sublib and
	an integer value separeted with a dot, e.g. SHRI.100
    MinRatio/K/N
	minimum of compression ratio in percent that a file will be saved,
	default	is 3% which means that the filesize must be reduced of at
	least 3%
    Pattern/K
	standard AmigaDOS pattern specifing files in recursive mode to work on

  example:
    that packs all diskimages of my whdload installed games (the intention to
    write this program ;-)
	xPackBest HD42:Games MASH.100 SQSH.100 Pattern=disk.[1-9]

  misc:
  - the program switches itself to a task priority of -1

  version 1.0 (27.04.01)
  - initial release

May the source be with you...


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    6421    2436 62.0% 17-Jan-99 15:21:50 +devices.i
    6666    2329 65.0% 29-Jun-00 00:41:16 +dosio.i
    3355    1451 56.7% 04-Jan-00 00:42:04 +error.i
    8929    2539 71.5% 25-Jun-99 00:13:32 +files.i
    9246    3195 65.4% 25-Jun-99 00:13:34 +strings.i
   11548    3323 71.2% 27-Apr-01 23:02:56 +xpackbest.asm
    2456    1665 32.2% 27-Apr-01 23:02:58  xPackBest
    1348     720 46.5% 28-Apr-01 00:21:40  xPackBest.readme
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