xPack V1.5 - English Manual


NAME
	C:xPack 

SYNOPSIS
	xPack FILE/M/A,METHOD/K,MINSIZE/N/K,SUFFIX/K,PASSWORD/K,
              ALL/S,FORCE/S,PROGRAM/S,XSCAN/S,LOSSY/S,QUIET/S

DESCRIPTION
	xPack is a command line interface to the XPK compression library.
	It was made to enable you to pack (or unpack) many files quickly
	and comfortably, exspecially for use with the "XFH-Handler".
	xPack needs OS 2.04 or newer.

	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).

	SUFFIX:		add/remove supplied suffix if packing/unpacking

	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.

	PROGRAM:	pack only executables (e.g. for xLoadSeg)

	XSCAN:		create filenotes for fast directory access with XFH
			(like "xScan")

	LOSSY:		permit lossy packing

	QUIET:		No progress report is printed while packing.

	Examples:

	 xPack SYS:MetaFont METHOD NUKE ALL

	or

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

	or

	 xPack Secret.txt METHOD ENCO PASSWORD Joshua

	or (Decrunch)

	 xPack Archive/#?.xpk Archive/#?.pp QUIET

HISTORY
	XPKSmart 1.0
	- first internal Release

	xSmart 1.0
	- program renamed on a request by Urban "XPK" Müller
	- progress display fits better in the CLI window now
	- check for increase of size by packing with XPK implemented

	xPack 1.0
	- program renamed again on a request by Urban "XPK" Müller
	- "FORCE", "PASSWORD" and "SUFFIX" argument implemented
	- file handling changed, slower but more secure
	- removed Enforcer hit

	xPack 1.1
	- no problems with WShell anymore
	- if xPack is started with OS 1.3 a message is printed instead of
	  displaying a recoverable Alert

	xPack 1.2
	- added "PROGRAM" parameter
	- suffixes may be removed while unpacking

	xPack 1.3
	- wasted my time with a special function for handling ILBM-files
	- added "QUIET" parameter
	- "FORCE" is switched on automatically if a password is supplied.

	xPack 1.4
	- changed "FILE/M" to "FILE/M/A" in template
	- added "XSCAN" and "LOSSY" parameter

	xPack 1.5
	- "LOSSY" always active in 1.4

COPYRIGHT
	xPack is free to be spread on public-domain and shareware disks as
	long as they are sold for a reasonable charge that is less than $6.
	This applies not to Fred Fish, he and ONLY he can take more money.
	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
	FidoNet:  Matthias Scheler@2:247/600.10