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                           D.A.B.B & UN D.A.B.B

                              BY CATH OF LSD

                           IDEA BY PAZZA OF LSD

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What the hell is D.A.B.B ? I hear you say, well it is similar to DMS track, 
warp and zoom type disk archivers with one major exception, DABB does blocks
rather than whole tracks. So you can make an archive of only 516 bytes which
is one block plus a 4 byte data table. So you can now release updates of
demos,utilities which only have a few blocks changed.

How to use it.

	To use DABB is simplicity itself, just type 

	DABB FileName <Return>

	Then you are asked for a list of blocks to put in the archive you
now type a list of blocks seperated by <Return>'s. End the list by typing
-1 <Return>, It doesnt matter what order you type the block list in, but
if you do them all over the place it will cause excessive disk head move-
ments,. So to make an archive called RAM:Archive containg blocks 0,1 and
880 do this

DABB RAM:Archive
0
1
880
-1

A file called Archive will be created in the RAM: directory, currently DABB
only uses DF0: so all archives will be read/written from/to DF0:.

UnArchiving is done wiht UnDABB which only takes one argument (the name of
the archive file). so to unarchive the above example type

UnDABB RAM:Archive

And the archive will be put onto the current disk in DF0:

A good way of making large archives is to make a list of the blocks you want
in the archive in a seperate file, making sure you put a -1 at the end of
the file, then redirect the input to DABB as such

DABB ArchiveName <BlockList.File

where BlockList.File is the list of block, which will be something like

1
2
880
-1


Future enhancments

Soon to come.

More flexibility, Self extracting archives, checksums etc.


Bug Reports,680x0,80x86 or C coders ( No Illegal Stuff Please )

Cath, 281 Moor Road,Chorley, Lancs. 0257 270441

Sorry about the simplicity of this but I will update it soon, and by the
way DeluxeEditor (my disk editor) contains all the features of this,
and the archives are compatible with both DE and DABB...

     And I hate writing DOCS for one reason I'm pretty useless at it.