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******* 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
archivers can perform and the e-mail
addresses of the authors.

Author  :  JEFF GILCHRIST
Internet:  jeffg@mi.net
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ADD2ZIP
Adds a specified file to ALL .ZIP / .ARJ archives in 
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 *

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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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
      dd is day of month 01-31
      hh is hour 00-23
File extension is not changed
FREEWARE From HomeWard Bound
and Ernest Nachtigall
(905) 840-0592.

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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-
database support, works with any door.sys and
dorinfo supporting bbs system, works great in
Allfix and many other programs, or
stand-alone! DOS version

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TOEXPAND: The simplest utility to expand
multiple .??_ files automatically.
Public Domain, Freely distributed.

By Antonis Kavarnos (akav@softlab.ntua.gr)

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    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

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XPACK descriptions:
A freeware EXE/COM/SYS Executable file compressor
default extension search with filename wildcards support
Makes smaller, encrypted, CRC-verified .EXE files
ability to compress overlay programs compiled by TURBO/BORLAND pascal
Makes smaller, .COM/.SYS files
author: JauMing Tseng (┤┐¼L⌐·)
email: s8203143@simon.pu.edu.tw
Optimized by http://www.xs4all.nl/~feldmann

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ZIPLOG ver 1.0  Utility to archive .LOG
files automatically based on date.
Freeware.  Includes QuickBASIC source.