xPack V1.0 - English Manual


NAME
	C:xPack 

SYNOPSIS
	xPack FILE/M,METHOD/K,MINSIZE/N/K,PASSWORD/K,ALL/S,FORCE/S

DESCRIPTION
	xPack is a command line interface to the XPK compression library.
	It was made to enable you to pack (or pack) many files quickly
	and comfortably, exspecially for use with the XFH-handler.

	Main features:
	- supports patterns
	- can scan complete directory trees
	- protection flags, filenote and date of the files are NOT changed
	- packed files won't be repacked by default

	For more details about XPK read the documentation supplied.

ARGUMENTS
	FILE:		You can supply as many files, directories or patterns
			as you want.

	METHOD:		the compression algorithm to be used

	MINSIZE:	All files which are smaller than this value (in bytes)
			won't be crunched (default 512 bytes).

	PASSWORD:	optional Password for encryption (or decryption)

	ALL:		scan through directory trees

	FORCE:		Files will be packed even if they're already XPK
			packed and/or their size increases.

	Examples:

	 xPack SYS:MetaFont METHOD NUKE ALL

	or

	 xPack Docs/#?.doc METHOD IMPL.40 MINSIZE 1024

	or

	 xPack Geheim.txt Noch-Geheimer.TXT METHOD ENCO PASSWORD Joshua

	or (Decrunch)

	 xPack Archive/#?.xpk

PROBLEMS
	If xPack is made "resident" with WShell WShell will report that
	xPack isn't "resident". That's not true, but because WShell will
	not stop this messages don't make xPack "resident".

COPYRIGHT
	xPack is free to be spread on public-domain and shareware disks
	- exspecially on one of Fred Fish's Amiga Lib Disks - as long as they
	are sold for a reasonable charge that is less than $6. For use in
	commercial products the permission of the author is required.

AUTHOR
	Matthias Scheler
	Schützenstraße 18
	D-4799 Borchen

	INTERNET: tron@uni-paderborn.de