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 ACTEST17.ZIP   06-04-1996   18k   ******* A.C.T. - June 1996 ******* 
Archive Comparison Test 
A.C.T. is a monthly report comparing 
64 different compression programs 
(archivers) for speed and ability to 
compress files. The archivers are 
tested on TXT, EXE, 669, BMP and 
multiple files. It also includes a 
checklist of special features some 
 AD2ZIP11.ZIP   06-04-1996   29k   ADD2ZIP 
Adds a specified file to ALL .ZIP / .ARJ archives  
the current directory.  
For example you may wish to add a BBS advert file  
to all the new uploads in your upload directory.  
Servile Software 
* SHAREWARE * 
 ARCDET10.ZIP   04-24-1996   9k   ARCHIVE DETERMINATE v1.0 checks files for 
the type of Archiver used.  
[ARC, ARJ, RAR, SQZ, ZIP, ZOO, UC2, LZH] 
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Creates an environment variable so it can  
be tested in a batchfile.  
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FREE FOR ALL utility by Mark Bloss  
Copyright 1996 All rights reserved 
Mind Over Byte Software 
 ARCID120.ZIP   06-01-1996   38k   Archive Identifier 1.20 - A utility for 
identifying ARC ARJ HYP LZH PAK RAR SQZ ZIP 
ZOO GIF JPG and BMP files by SIGNATURE, not 
extension, including self-extracting 
archives! Tiny and very fast. Other files 
can be filtered based on file extensions. For 
use in customized BBS upload batch files and 
similar archive testing applications. 
Excellent for PCBTEST.BAT or SLOWDRV.BAT use. 
Includes both DOS and 32-bit OS/2 versions! 
 ARCW6M12.ZIP   05-08-1996   44k   Archivist 1.22: Compress, expand files 
from MS Word. Save your disk space! 
Manage ZIP files with point-and-click. 
Requires MS Word 6.0, PKZIP, PKUNZIP. 
 ARCXL5.ZIP   05-09-1996   134k   Archivist 1.22: Compress, expand files 
from MS Excel. Save your disk space! 
Manage ZIP files with point-and-click. 
Requires MS Excel 5.0, PKZIP, PKUNZIP. 
 ARIN116.ZIP   01-31-1996   14k   ARIN ver. 1.16 - archive unpack/ search 
This is a program for archive unpacking, 
or searching for text strings in archives 
on your hard disk or CD-ROM. For example, 
with the single command it may unpack all 
archives from all directories of a drive 
in separate sub directories, or extract 
all *.DOC files from whole disk and put 
them in a single directory. 
 FACT127.ZIP   05-23-1996   51k   FACT 1.27 - Freeware Archive Conversion Tool. 
Small and easy to use, yet is still powerful, 
thorough & user-expandable. With .PAS source. 
Copyright (c) 1996 [23 May], DDA/ Reign Ware. 
 FARKHWB1.ZIP   03-04-1996   13k   File ArkHiver 1.0 
Renames FILE.EXT to DDMMddhh.EXT 
Great for archiving .REP and .QWK 
packets or any other file. 
Input is FILENAME.EXT 
Renamed to DDMMddhh.EXT 
Where DD is SU for Sunday 
MM is JA for January 
JL for July 
 PSCN202E.ZIP   04-30-1996   286k   PalmScan v2.02 The Ultimate Archive 
Conversion Utility. Convert almost any 
archive to another format. It can check for 
viruses inside the archives while converting 
(with up to 20 virus scanners), get file 
descriptions, process embedded archives, 
remove/add files from/to archives, full 
support for GIF packing, and lots more! 
PalmScan has full FileDoor, FILES.BBS and 
Remote Access, Ezycom and Concord file- 
 TOEXPAND.ZIP   03-10-1996   10k   TOEXPAND: The simplest utility to expand 
multiple .??_ files automatically. 
Public Domain, Freely distributed. 
By Antonis Kavarnos (akav@softlab.ntua.gr) 
 UNTGZ092.ZIP   04-09-1996   102k   -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 
UNTGZ Decompression Utility v0.92 
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Directly decompresses UNIX TGZ (tar/gzip) 
archives under MS-DOS. Features automatic 
long filename conversion. Includes 32-bit 
version for Windows 95/NT & DOS 386+ EXE. 
Also includes complete C source code. GNU 
software: copyrighted but absolutely free 
 XPACK142.ZIP   06-17-1996   47k   XPACK descriptions: 
A freeware EXE/COM/SYS Executable file compressor 
default extension search with filename wildcards s 
Makes smaller, encrypted, CRC-verified .EXE files 
ability to compress overlay programs compiled by T 
Makes smaller, .COM/.SYS files 
author: JauMing Tseng (´¿¬L©ú) 
email: s8203143@simon.pu.edu.tw 
Optimized by http://www.xs4all.nl/~feldmann 

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