#Unarcing big files
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In the amigaarts forum under digitized animations I downloaded PROBE.ARC which
is around 456000 bytes. I cannot unarc when this big file is on the disk
becuse the volume will be filled up before all the files can be extracted. How
can I unarc from one disk to another or any other possible solution? Thanks in
advance.
Happy New Year
Hi Dave. If you have alot of memory, at least 2Megs, copy the PROBE.ARC and
the unarc file to ram: Change (CD) to RAM: and unarc it! Also, check the
description of the ARC file (usually is after the name in the lib) from where
you got it. That file might need WARP! a program which can unarc a file to
different disks (ALSO IN THE LIBS).
Good luck & Have a great New Year!
Jose
Put the disk with probe.arc in df1:, the disk you want the unarced files on in
df0: then type:
cd df0: arc x df1:probe.arc
If you don't have two drives, try copying probe.arc to ram:, then try:
cd df0: arc x ram:probe.arc
If you haven't enough ram, then try:
cd "Destination disk name:" arc x "Original disk name:probe.arc
and be prepared to do a lot of disk swapping.
In each case, this assumes that arc is in your current path. The best place
for it is in the C directory on your boot disk. If arc isn't in your current
path, you will have to include a complete path to it:
"The disk with arc on it:arc directory/arc" x "Original disk name:probe.arc"
David,
what you do is to 'cd' to the destination you want the file to go before
you issue the command, and the unarced files will go there. I suppose an
example is in order since that'll make it clearer.
Let's say that I've got Probe.arc on my floppy named "Downloads" and I
want to de-arc the file to a floppy called "Probe". I'd issue the following
commands:
cd Probe: this points us toward the destination
arc -x Downloads:Probe.arc This preforms it.
Or you could use device names (df0: and df1:) instead. If Probe.arc was
on a floppy in df0: and the disk you want to put it on is in df1: then the
commands are:
cd df1:
arc -x df0:Probe.arc
Pretty straightfoward, and I apoligize in advance if I oversimplified
anything. Hope this helps.
Brian J. Bartlett
David,
If you will CD to the disk on which you want the unarced files put, ARC will
put them there. For instance,
makedir df1:PROBE
CD DF1:PROBE
ARC X DF0:PROBE.ARC
this will work. If you have different drive numbers, you will have to
substitute.
Betty
There are two possible ways. If you have 1 Meg of RAM, you can copy the
PROBE.ARC file to RAM:, then put in a blank disk, CD to it, and:
arc x RAM:probe.arc
Likewise, if you have a second disk drive, you can do something similar, only
with the drive name instead of RAM:. And lastly, if you have neither a second
disk drive or 1 Meg of RAM, you *can* still unarchive the file by putting it on
another disk with a name (not "Empty") and specifying that name instead of
RAM:. This should work, but you're likely to go crazy swapping disks…
–>Steve Bennett