MKUnpack

Short:    Automated File Unpacker for .lha, .lzh archives.
Author:   cs9h3kmk@swansea.ac.uk (Mark Kiddell)
Uploader: cs9h3kmk swansea ac uk (Mark Kiddell)
Type:     util/arc

Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Unpack 1.0 by Mark Kiddell - 7th December 1995
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INTRODUCTION

There are plenty of utilities on the Aminet for extracting lha and lzh
archives, however none of them did quite what I wanted. So I wrote Unpack.


THE PROBLEM

Say you have a list of files in a directory, e.g.

Directory of "Downloads:Utils/Disk-Utils" on Today     01:44
 -----rwxd   Oct 26 95 15:19   14   6,278 FmsDisk.lha
 -----rwxd   Oct 26 95 15:19   69  34,474 NoErrors.lha
 -----rwxd   Oct 26 95 15:19  100  50,256 OKTAGON.LHA
 -----rwxd   Oct 26 95 15:19   57  28,436 PCDisk.lha
 -----rwxd   Oct 26 95 15:19  446 227,728 PFS.lha
 -----rwxd   Oct 26 95 15:19   20   9,404 PsuedoHD.lha
6 files - 0 dirs - 0 links - 706 blocks - 356576 bytes
Used 52600320 bytes  -  Free 56294912 bytes (12% free)

Now say that you want to unpack each of these.
Sometimes when unpacking, lha archives create their own directory and place
all of their files in it. However, some archives put all of there files in
the current directory, which can get messy.
If you were decompressing all of the above lha files at the same time, you
you could become quite confused which file belongs to each archive. (I do!)


THE SOLUTION

Enter the directory shown above and type MK:Unpack


WHAT IT DOES

For the above example, Unpack will create directories called FmsDisk,
NoErrors, OKTAGON, PCDisk, PFS, and PsuedoHD. Into each of these
directories, the relevant archive will be decompressed.
Once an archive has been decompressed, the .lha or .lzh file is moved
into the Unarchived directory (Created automatically).

The result is:

Directory of "Downloads:Utils/Disk-Utils" on Today     01:55
 d----rwxd     Today   01:54    2   (dir) FmsDisk
 d----rwxd     Today   01:54    2   (dir) NoErrors
 d----rwxd     Today   01:54    2   (dir) OKTAGON
 d----rwxd     Today   01:54    2   (dir) PCDisk
 d----rwxd     Today   01:54    2   (dir) PFS
 d----rwxd     Today   01:55    2   (dir) PsuedoHD
 d----rwxd     Today   01:55    2   (dir) Unarchived