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                        (r)aVen's (a)rchive (co)nverter
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                               (c) 2000 by raVen

This simple program is written based on the Roshalovsky rcvt converter from the winrar package. The Roshalov converter is a cool thing, but nevertheless it lacks a couple of settings that I need. When asked to add them, Evgeniy Roshal remained silent, and I did not insist. At first there was an idea to make an rcvt launcher with adding my own settings, but I thought that why don't we need extra brakes, and I wrote this.

Specifically, I was missing this feature: there are two archives with the same name qqq.zip and qqq.rar. in one directory. I want qqq.zip newer than qqq.rar and accordingly I want to repack it. rcvt responds to such matters by saying that the source archive already exists and I won't work, but with raco this matter is controlled by the KillExist parameter. if it is installed, then qqq.rar will be replaced by the already repackaged qqq.zip. if it is not installed, then qqq.zip will disappear without a trace, but qqq.rar will remain. It's for the sake of this feature that all the fuss is going on.

This fenka is quite configurable and contains two configuration files.
one is standard raco.ctl, and the second is set in raco.ctl, by default it is archiver.ini. I don't see the point in describing these files here, since I described them quite well in them. so the only thing I can advise is to look at the configuration files raco.ctl and archiver.ini, you will learn a lot of interesting and useful things.

os/2 and win32 versions should work without restrictions, but dos versions may not have enough memory if there are a lot of nested archives and the "convert nested archives" option is enabled.

If you have any questions/suggestions/wishes, then welcome to the soap, 2:5010/148.28. and if you want to swear at me, then swear in /dev/nul, there they will appreciate it better than I do. I tested the program - it seems to work. if it doesn't work, then the source code is there - edit it, no one is forbidding it, I will be all for it (no one will bother me in vain).

Thanks: Evgeniy Roshal for rar and far, Igor Russians for colorer, without whom I can't imagine life, Vitaly Miryanov for vp2, who put it all together, and Victoria for being there...

                                                                  raVen,
                                                                  04/23/00,
                                                                  12:21:28
																  
																  
history:

   0.3
     05/15/00  at the root after repacking the first vis file. it doesn't hang now.

   0.4
     12/22/00  does not bother directories with spaces in the name ;)
               the Windows version shows names with national characters in normal encoding;