DoArc is a tool for extracting, creating, viewing or converting all types
of archives. It acts as a frontend for all your archivers (LhA, Lzx, Zip
etc) and once it is configured you only need to use one command when
working with archives.

You can pass arguments to DoArc on the commandline or it can be driven
entirely through requesters. And you can mix and match - requesters will
pop up and ask for any arguments not supplied on the commandline.

DoArc has support for the XAD unarchiving system. You can use XAD as a
master unpacker/viewer and override it for specific archive formats (Say,
if you want to use a ppc unpacker for lzx archives).
The XAD support is fully automatic - you don't have to specify if it is a
file or a diskarchive and tar and dms unpacking is handled automatically.

As a archive converter DoArc (Unlike the typical lha to lzx converters)
can be configured to convert to and from any archive format you like.
Examples: gz to zip, tgz to lha, dms to lha (!) and of course lha to lzx.
You can also repack archives (Eg: lzx standard compression to lzx maximum
compression), DoArc detects this and renames the original archive.

When specifying which archive files to process you can use standard c:List
syntax. This means you can use wildcards and the ALL, PAT, etc options. 
Eg: "DoArc CONVERT file:downloads ALL PAT #?.zip LHA" will convert all zip
archives in file:downloads (And subdirectories!) to lha archives.

More features:

* You don't have to worry about archive names with spaces (Or dots) in the
  path. DoArc uses a few tricks to circumvent such problems, without
  changing the original files of course. This also applies when creating
  archives - ie: You can create archives with any silly name you like :-)

* A lot of work has been put into making DoArc exit as cleanly as possible
  if an error occurs or you send it a CTRL-C.

* DoArc displays the filenote of an archive if it has any and...

* When converting archives DoArc automatically copies any filenote from
  the original archive to the new.


1.0 - First release
      Note: DoArc is the succesor of arc2arc. Basically DoArc does all
      that arc2arc did (Converting archives) + lots lots more :-)

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[generic]                 7331   26121  28.1% -lh5- e836 Jan 24  2001 doarc/DoArc
[generic]                 6216   18173  34.2% -lh5- 1f91 Jan 26  2001 doarc/DoArc.guide
[generic]                  466     935  49.8% -lh5- 69a3 Jan 24  2001 doarc/DoArc.prefs
[generic]                  166     272  61.0% -lh5- eac5 Sep  8  2000 doarc/dos/dms2dir
[generic]                  164     226  72.6% -lh5- 49b5 Jan 26  2001 doarc/dos/dms2dir.readme
[generic]                  232     412  56.3% -lh5- 0678 Jan 26  2001 doarc/dos/tgz
[generic]                  202     302  66.9% -lh5- ab48 Jan 26  2001 doarc/dos/tgz.readme
[generic]                  426     842  50.6% -lh5- 20e0 Jan 14  2001 doarc/locale/dansk.ct
[generic]                  400     696  57.5% -lh5- 14b4 Jan 14  2001 doarc/locale/dansk/DoArc.catalog
[generic]                  477     978  48.8% -lh5- ae20 Jan 14  2001 doarc/locale/DoArc.cd
[generic]                  648    1337  48.5% -lh5- c0ba Jan 23  2001 doarc/locale/español.ct
[generic]                  446     792  56.3% -lh5- b02b Jan 23  2001 doarc/locale/español/DoArc.catalog
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