Make sure you read the Read_1st.txt file before using setup.exe, unless you don't care losing
the file association of your .ARK file types.

				    DEARK-TI v. 1.3
				    ===============

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. 				  	

Version 1.3 (28.January.2002) has been develop to solve compatibility problems found by Windows NT, 
2000 and XP with the previous version of the program (v 1.1), which could not handle Long Filenames 
properly.

The problem was due to the different way the above Operating Systems handle the filenames passed as 
an argument from the one found with Windows 95, 98 and Me. The latter convert Long Filenames to 
Short (8.3) before assigning them as an argument, while Windows NT, 2000 and XP do not. 
 
 
    THE BELOW SECTION OF THIS FILE IS SHOWN AND HAS A MEANING ONLY AFTER SETUP.EXE HAS BEEN EXECUTED 
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
                                          USAGE
					  =====

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

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

     A shortcut has been created on the \Windows\SendTo directory, named "Catalog TI ARK File",
     so that you'll be able to catalog TI ark 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 file with a right mouse click of your Windows Explorer.

     A shortcut has been 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 is not used by SETUP.EXE.
     
     Jim Uzzell ("juzzell" <juzzell@surfsouth.com>) suggested to replace Windows NOTEPAD
     with ZAP-IT and wrote the following on ti99-4a@yahoogroups.com: 
     "Those of you that want to replace notepad with a free hex editor can go to
     www.elmerproductions.com, select Old Projects and download Zap-it. "
     Thanks Jim!
     
     

Author:
======

Paolo Bagnaresi
e-mail: paolo_bagnaresi@libero.it

Snail-mail address: 
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Other programs for Cataloging TI ARK files on a PC
==================================================
Unark.com, developed by Dave Phillips, is also capable of cataloging TI ark files in PC DOS. 
Additionally, Unark.com will also extract to DOS all the contained files, something that 
DeArk-TI will not do. 

UNARK.COM, if set with the below command line in a .BAT file, can effectively be used instead of 
DeArk-TI.bat even on a Windows environment with a mouse click:  
  unark v "%1" | more %2 %3

Thanks to "don_oneil" <don@whtech.com>, Unark.com can be found at ftp://ftp.whtech.com/ 
on a separate directory at the top level called "PC Utilities".
Possible drawbacks of Unark.com are that it will not work with Windows NT, 2000 and XP if 
Long Filenames are involved and that it does not have a dedicated SETUP.EXE for 
Windows which takes care of all the needed automated linkings in a Windows environment. 