xDMS  is  a public domain portable program to unpack DMS files.  It is
written  in  ANSI C and can be compiled in most platforms.  It will be
more  useful for users of Amiga emulators, but is also useful for real
Amiga users too.  This archive comes with the source code and binaries
for Amiga, MS-DOS and Linux/PC.



xDMS Features:

  Supports  decompression  of  files  compressed  using  all known DMS
compression modes, including old and obsolete ones, and also encrypted
files, for 100% compatibility.
  Can  test  DMS  files  integrity,  view  file  informations and show
attached Banners and FILEID.DIZ .
  Can  generate standard disk images and compressed disk images, using
gzip, if you want to store your files in ADF or ADZ formats.
  Can  extract  the  files  contained  inside the DMS archives, if the
compressed  disk  is  an  AmigaDOS  disk, using readdisk made by Bernd
Schmidt.
  Can  process multiple files in batch with a single command, and also
use stdin and stdout for input and output of data.


 PPC binaries have the ".elf" extension and are useable from Shell
 when being used with ppc.library V46+

 See "Readme.powerup" for changes and/or version history.

 --
 ARK, 04/Oct/98


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 Note:

  Due to previous events, this note seems to be necessary.

  While I've nothing against ports to other kernels, in my opinion it would
  be quite unfair to remove all references to my own efforts and contributions
  and simply replacing those with others, while also removing all references
  to PPC-Lib/ELF and replacing those with other references and maybe some flames
  or even offenses against the competing kernel and porter - without actually
  rewriting the readme text itself in a major way (for example, if I describe what
  *I* specifically did for the port - and what someone else wouldn't have to do a
  *second* time, of course - and if then that one does not even remove/change *those*
  notes and/or give me credit).

  You know - since even developing free software costs some money (especially
  phonecosts), at least give some fame and credits back... ;-)

  This leads to the strange situation, that I hereby have to copyright this
  .readme text, to claim its authorship and forbid changes which aren't
  clearly marked as being changes to the original: While quotes may have
  been derived from other parts of the distribution, the whole .readme as
  such now is (C)opyrighted by Andreas R. Kleinert in 1998.

  Copyrights to the other files remain as such. Nevertheless I'd ask anyone
  to give me credit for the changes which I did myself and which of
  course have been labeled/marked/documented as such. Even free software
  lives from respecting the intellectual work and property of others. Thank you.

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 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                17092   37793  45.2% -lh5- 076c Oct  4  1998 PPCxDMS/Amiga-bin/readdisk.elf
[generic]                38689   96684  40.0% -lh5- f74a Oct  4  1998 PPCxDMS/Amiga-bin/xDMS.elf
[generic]                 2469    2469 100.0% -lh0- 8eee Oct  4  1998 PPCxDMS/rd_src.lha
[generic]                  180     268  67.2% -lh5- 82a1 Oct  4  1998 PPCxDMS/Readme.powerup
[generic]                17439   17439 100.0% -lh0- 5131 Oct  4  1998 PPCxDMS/source.lha
[generic]                 5841   14738  39.6% -lh5- de74 Oct  4  1998 PPCxDMS/xdms.txt
[generic]                 1553    3300  47.1% -lh5- fe49 Oct  4  1998 PPCxDMS/PPCxDMS.readme
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         7 files   83263  172691  48.2%            Oct  6  1998