Hamarsoft (R) Hap & Pah 3.00, November 15, 1992, 0700 GMT. = Re-Release of March 21st 1996 12:00 GMT = You will need an Intel 80286, NEC V20 or higher to run these programs. DISCLAIMER : You are using this software at your own risk ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harald Feldmann will in no way be liable for any damages, loss of business profits, business interruption or loss of business-, private-, public- or other information, arising out of the use or inability to use the Hap and/or Pah programs or data processed by the Hap and/or Pah programs, whether direct or consequential, regardless of the fact that Harald Feldmann may have been advised of the possibilities of such damages. =========================================================================== This software is provided to you under the terms of the Hamarsoft License Agreement. By using the software you agree to be bound by those terms. You are assumed to have taken knowledge of those terms prior to using the software. Hamarsoft (R) is a registered trademark and a registered servicemark owned by Harald Feldmann. Hap TM and Pah TM are trademarks of Harald Feldmann. Other mentioned products' trademarks and registered trademarks are acknowledged. These programs were completely designed and written by Harald Feldmann throughout 1992. Send all mail to: Hamarsoft Harald Feldmann P.O. Box 451 6400 AL Heerlen The Netherlands. WHY HAP ? HAP is a datacompression program that generally outperforms many other datacompression programs. It is very small and easy to use. The latest release, available to registered HAP 3.00 users only, gives much improved compression speed; typically two to five times as fast as 3.00. SPEED This demo release of HAP is not very fast. It is being distributed to allow you to test HAP's compression abilities. If you like the compression performance (level of size reduction) you can register this version in order to get the full and much faster version 4.0x. Hap was designed for Intel 80286, NEC V20 and higher CPUs. BUGS ! This demo version was released for tactical reasons. So it still contains a few known 'bugs' related to screen-output and aborted files. Note that this demo version has a file handling bug which prevents you from deleting files which differ only in the last character of the file extension (thus the filenames must be identical) Example: HAPTESTA.BAK and HAPTESTA.BAT These two will be processed simultaneously during a 'd' or 'e' command. So both will be deleted or extracted when specifying either one. The registered version does not have this bug. The compression system in de demo version is fully operable and allows you to test the compression performance sufficiently to decide whether you want the full version with more functions and even better compression and speed. CONTACTING THE AUTHOR: Internet: feldmann@xs4all.nl or feldmann@pi.net WWW: http://www.xs4all.nl/~feldmann Hamarsoft *always* monitors the Internet Newsgroup comp.compression. Mail : Hamarsoft Harald Feldmann P.O. Box 451 6400 AL Heerlen The Netherlands MEMORY: You should be able to run Hap and Pah with 376 Kb free memory. Hap and Pah should accept files of any size. MONEY ? This is a demo. The full version is sent only to those who register the demo. The full version (HAP 4.0x) has more functions, is more than twice as fast than this demo version and compresses significantly better on 24-bit TGA and BMP files and several popular audio file formats like WAV, 669 and SMP. SMP files are sample dumps of professional sampling instruments like the AKAI and Roland samplers. You can get the registered, full, version by filling out the form in the newdeal.frm file and following the payment instructions in the hap4info.doc and 2pay4hap.doc files. Note that in addition to greater speed, HAP 4.0x provides new features such as incremental backup support and a move command. HAP 4.0x detects and uses advanced features of 80386 and higher processors. PAH 4.0x supports full drive and path redirection. HAP and PAH 4.0x also support archive seals which use double 32-bit CRCs and date filtering on all commands. A very fast test command is also implemented. HAP and PAH are optimized for the Pentium Processor. HAP and PAH do not use the Pentium FDIV instruction or any variant thereof in their compression / decompression routines. Just for the record: all previous discount offers have expired. Bank transfers should be made to: Account number 614498422 ABN AMRO Bank Promenade 297 6411 JJ Heerlen The Netherlands The account is owned by: H.E. Feldmann Postbus 451 6400 AL Heerlen SYNTAX ADDING FILES TO AN ARCHIVE [additional filespecs] do not type the <> or []. [drive:][\path\] [filespec2 filespec3 ..] adds the files on drive:\path\filespec to haparch. You may specify any filename for haparch even with extensions. Hap will cut off the extension, if any, and add .HAP itself. Hap 3.00 does not store subdirectories and does not search any within another. Note that the , AND MUST be supplied. Meaning 'add all files in the current directory to HAPPY.HAP' is done by: HAP a HAPPY *.* Aborting compression leaving the already compressed files intact in the archive is done by pressing ESC or CTRL-C. EXTRACTING FILES FROM AN ARCHIVE [filespec2 filespec3 ...] extracts filespec and additional filespecs from haparch to the current directory. Note that filespec MUST be supplied, meaning 'recall all files in HAPPY.HAP' is done by: PAH e HAPPY *.* In order to get your files extracted to a specific directory, move to that directory,(make that directory your current directory) and run the Pah program from there.Your files will always be extracted to your current directory. ..................................................................... Example: PAH is in C:\UTIL\PAH.EXE HAPARCH is in D:\HEY\MORE\ME\HAPARCH.HAP you want your *.exe and *.com files to be extracted to E:\NEXT\MORE\ you would: move to E:\NEXT\MORE then type: C:\UTIL\PAH e D:\HEY\MORE\ME\HAPARCH *.exe *.com in either upper or lower case. ..................................................................... To date, PAH extracts to the current 'working' directory. The registered version, PAH 4.0x, incorporates full drive and path redirection. LISTING FILES IN AN ARCHIVE or [filespec2 filespec3 ...] Lists filespec and additional filespecs within haparch. Use the 'Pause' key or CTRL-S on the AT keyboard to pause the scrolling. DELETING FILES IN AN ARCHIVE or [filespec2 filespec3 ...] WARNING ! Deletes filespec and additional filespecs from haparch without a ! second chance. Be sure to know what you're doing, Hap and pah do NOT ! create a second copy of your original archive ! So PCTOOLS et al ! won't work to get anything back... Make BACKUPS !