Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!evax!cs4344af From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: D-arcing cmds Message-ID: <1991Feb13.025011.24080@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Date: 13 Feb 91 02:50:11 GMT References: <1991Feb10.165846.2497@desire.wright.edu> <91041.201122UD129471@NDSUVM1.BITNET> <39169@cup.portal.com> Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 43 I believe the ARC dissolve command is as follows: arc/x d:filename [pattern] The 'd:' is the driver specifier for the source archive '.arc' file. Note that the file must have the name '.arc' at the end, or ARC won't find it. Valid drive letters are 'a:' for drive 8, 'c:' for drive 9, and only if you have a nifty dual drive will you even think about using drives 'b:' or 'd:'. Drives A and C are what most people have. The 'filename' is the name of the '.arc' file to dissolve. The files that come out of the archive will be put on the 'default' drive. This is normally drive 8, but you can change it to another device by typing 'a: [RETURN]' or 'c: [RETURN]' (I mean press the RETURN key, ya know?) before you type the 'arc/x' command. You shouldn't specify the optional '[pattern]' argument unless you only want to pull some of the files out of the archive. To dissolve the entire archive, just use 'arc/x d:filename' by itself. To make an archive, use this command: arc/a d:filename d:files... The filename (with '.arc' added) will be created on the drive you specify. For 'files', specify the filenames to archive. Wildcards like '*' are your best bet. Note that filenames are separated by spaces, so you can't archive a file that has a space in its name, unless you use a wildcard like '*' or something with '?' in it. For instance, to archive the files "hello there" and "big data", I would need to do this: arc/a a:archive c:hello?there c:big?data Note that if these files are the only files on the disk, the command 'arc/a a:archive c:*' would have worked much more easily. -- begin 644 .signature H5&AI