_Special_Reminder_:  ARK runs ONLY  on Z80 systems.  No support is
planned for 8080 systems.

Usage:

     ARK [-bksw] <archive> <file1> . . . <filen>

     -b        retain backup of .ARK
     -k        force crunching
     -s        force no compression
     -w        supress warning messages

     <archive> = name of archive file (default type = .ARK)
     <filex>   = file to be added to archive (wildcards ok)

     ARK  presently  supports  three types  of  members:  type  2 
(uncompressed),  type  3 (ncr encoding - 'packed'),  and  type  8 
(Lempel-Ziv-Welch  encoding - 'crunched').  ARK will  choose  the 
most efficent method of compression and save the file using  that 
format.

     In  general,  the command you will use to do  most  of  your 
archiving will be:

     A>ARK d:archive e:*.*

     Note  that  ARK will either add or replace  members  of  the 
archive,  so  you do not need to specify that it  is  an  update.  
(This example makes (or adds to) D:ARCHIVE all the files on E:.)

     On  systems  supporting the BDOS T_GET  (105)  call,  (which 
includes  Z80DOS, Turbo-DOS, MP/M, and I think CP/M+),  the  time 
and date of each member in the archive is set to the current time 
and  date.  On other systems the date is defined by the bytes  at 
103h-107h as YYMMDDHHMMM.  A future version of ARK will allow for 
systems that support actual date-stamps (Z80DOS and DateStamper).

     Please  send  your  problems  or  comments  (please  include 
version number information!) to:

     Brian Moore              or GEMAIL to B.E.MOORE
     1550 High Street, #2
     Eugene, OR 97401
     (503) 687-8531 [voice]