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nulib2 -command[modifiers] archive [ filenames ]

nulib2 is a disk and file archiver for NuFX (ShrinkIt) files.  It can add files to and extract files from .SHK, .BXY, .SEA (as created by GS/ShrinkIt), and .BSE files.  In addition, it can extract files from .BNY and .BQY Binary II archives.

When extracting, testing, or listing the contents of an archive, you can specify "-" for the archive name.  The archive will be read from stdin. (If the archive is Binary II, you must specify the "-b" flag.)

Filenames are considered case-sensitive.

This man page contains a summary of available options.  For full documentation and the latest versions, visit http://www.nulib.com/.

-h

Get verbose help output.

-a

Add files to an archive.  If the archive does not exist, a new one will be created.  The list of files to add must be given.

-d

Delete files from an archive.  The set of files to delete must be provided.

-i

Integrity test.  If no files are listed, all files in the archive are tested.

-p

Pipe extraction.  All extracted files are written to stdout instead of a file on disk.  Normal archive progress messages are suppressed.

-t

Table of contents.  Provides a simple list of files in the archive, one per line.

-v

Verbose table of contents.  Output similar to what ShrinkIt displays is shown.

-x

Extract files from an archive.  If no files are listed, all files in the archive are extracted.

-c

Comments.  When extracting, comments will be displayed.  When adding, you will be prompted to enter a one-line comment for every file.

-e

Preserve ProDOS file types.  See the ProDOS File Type Preservation document on http://www.nulib.com/ for details on how this works.

-ee

Preserve file types, using extended names.  A file extension is appended to extracted files.  Useful on operating systems like Windows, where filename extensions are important.  When adding files, nulib2 will try to guess at correct file types by examining the filename extension.

-f

Freshen files.  When adding, files in the archive that are older than files on disk are "freshened", meaning that no new files are added, and files that are the same age or newer aren't touched.  Works similarly when extracting.

-j

Junk directory names.  Only the filename is kept; the rest of the pathname is thrown away.  Empty directories aren't stored.  Works when adding or extracting.

-k

Store files as disk images.  Files that are a multiple of 512 bytes will be added as disk images rather than normal files.  This does not override the "-e" flag.

-l

Auto-convert text files.  A reasonably smart algorithm is used to identify which files are text and which aren't during extraction.  It then converts whatever EOL indicator is being used by the text file into something appropriate for the current system.

-ll

Auto-convert all files.  All files being extracted are considered text, and will be converted.  Don't use this unless you're sure you need it.

-r

Recurse into subdirectories.  When adding, this causes nulib2 to descend into subdirectories and store all of the files found.  When extracting, testing, or deleting, this causes the files listed to match against all records whose prefix matches, allowing you to extract, test, or delete entire subdirectories from the archive.

-u

Update files.  When adding, files in the archive that are older than files on disk are updated.  Files in the archive that are the same age or newer aren't touched.  New files will be added.  Works similarly when extracting.

-b

Binary II.  Forces NuLib2 to treat the archive as Binary II.  Useful for opening NuFX-in-BNY archives (.BXY) if you want to strip the wrapper off. You must specify this for Binary II archives on stdin.

-0

Don't use compression.  Files added will be stored without compression. (Note that's dash-zero, not dash-oh.)

-z

Use "deflate" compression.  This option is only available if libz was linked against.  Archives created with this algorithm will not be usable on an Apple II.

-zz

Use "bzip2" compression.  This option is only available if libbz2 was linked against.  Archives created with this algorithm will not be usable on an Apple II.

A simple example:

nulib2 a foo.shk *

creates the archive foo.shk (assuming it doesn't exist) and stores all of the files in the current directory in it, in compressed form.

If you wanted to add all the files in the current directory, as well as all files in all subdirectories, you could use:

nulib2 ar foo.shk *

to recursively descend into the directory tree.

Using the command:

nulib2 xe foo.shk

would extract all files from foo.shk, preserving ProDOS file types.  If you then used the command:

nulib2 aer foo.shk *

you would add the files, preserving the file types of anything that was extracted with the "-e" flag set.

A handy way to look at text documents is to use:

nulib2 xeel foo.shk

to convert end-of-line terminators (e.g. CRLF to LF) as the files are being extracted.  The "-ee" flag adds ".TXT" to all files with a ProDOS file type of TXT ($04).

compress(1), tar(1), zip(1L), unzip(1L), nulib(1L)

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Copyright (C) 2007 by Andy McFadden.  All Rights Reserved.