				 	DEARK-TI
				  	========

Deark-TI is an MS-DOS program which will catalog your TI ARK files, whether they are compressed 
by Barry Boone Archiver III program or not. 				  	

WARNING
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Be warned that in case you use SETUP.EXE you will also destroy the Windows Explorer file association 
that may be present between the .ARK extension of your files and some of your program(s). 


				  	
				  	MANUAL SETUP
				  	============
 

You can install Deark-TI by simply manually copying Deark-TI.com to any directory you want. 
Then you can use it in a DOS session to catalog TI ARK files by using the following syntax: 

Deark-TI   TI_file   /s

or, you can decompress the entire file with the following syntax:

Deark-TI   TI_Source_file  Output_Uncompressed_file



				AUTOMATIC SETUP = SETUP.EXE
				===========================
By using SETUP.EXE you will get the following benefits directly in Windows: 

- 1) Catalog a TI .ARK file directly with simple mouse double click of your Windows Explorer.

     .ARK filename extensions will be associated with Deark-TI in such a way that you will be able
     to catalog a TI .ARK file from a simple mouse double click of your Windows Explorer.
     A TI icon will be associated with .ARK files as well. 
     
- 2) Catalog a TI ark type file, with any extension, with right mouse click of your Windows Explorer.

     A shortcut will be created on the \Windows\SendTo directory, named "Catalog TI ARK File",
     so that you'll be able to catalog TI ark type files that do not have an .ARK extension. 
     After a right mouse click of your Windows Explorer on the chosen TI ark file you can 
     select the "Send To" option, and then the "Catalog TI ARK File" shortcut. 
     
- 3) Uncompressed and view a TI ark type file with a right mouse click of your Windows Explorer.

     A shortcut will be created on the \Windows\SendTo directory, named 
     "View Fully Uncompressed TI ARK File" 
     After a right mouse click of your Windows Explorer on the chosen TI ark file you can 
     select the "Send To" option, and then the "View Fully Uncompressed TI ARK File" shortcut.
     Windows Notepad will be used to view the uncompressed file. The file is uncompressed  
     as an uncompressed Archive III file, whether it was compressed, not compressed, or just
     a simple TIFILES file. No further action will be taken on the output file, i.e., it will
     not be possible to extract single files from it. Another program, TI99-PC, will take care 
     of that. 
     
     
     In case you don't like Windows Notepad
     ======================================
     Windows Notepad is not an ideal file viewer, because it is not capable of showing a file 
     in HEX format, which is very handy with non text files. I personally use UltraEdit 32, a 
     much more powerful file editor. 
     You can replace Notepad with the file viewer of your choice by simply editing the 
     "notepad c:\Windows\Temp\~tmp.dat" line of "View.bat" file. Replace "notepad" with the 
     full path of your favorite file viewer. 
     Please edit the "View.bat" file in your destination install directory, and not the one you
     find in your source install directory, which, oddly enough, is not used by SETUP.EXE.
     
     

Author:
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Paolo Bagnaresi
e-mail: paolo_bagnaresi@libero.it

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