Historian 95.2                                   ©1995 Ian J. Einman
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 Historian is a tool for dating archives.  Usually, date stamp of most LZX
 and LHA archives is set to the time the archive is created, or the time a
 file was last added to the archive.  If you downloaded the archive, the
 date is set to when you downloaded it.

 Since you have probably collected hundreds of file archives, you now need
 Historian.  Historian will find the newest file in an archive, and set the
 datestamp of the archive to the date of the newest file contained within it.

 Now, when you list a directory containing your archives, the dates listed
 will actually reflect the contents of the archive.  This works very well in
 conjunction with a directory utility.  You can list the files by date, and
 easily pick out very old or very new archives.

 This is also useful when you have two archives of similar content and need
 to know which is most recent.  If you downloaded the oldest archive more
 recently than the newer archive, you might delete the newer one if you only
 looked at the date on the archive.

 Historian ignores files without a three-letter suffix.  Any file with a
 three-letter suffix will attempt to be dated with the archiver with the
 suffix name (LZX, LHA, LZH).  BE CAREFUL because Historian does not 
 currently work with every format.  DO NOT let it date a ZOO archive!

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Listing of archive 'Historian95_2.lha':
Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
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    1472    1037 29.5% 05-Jun-95 20:04:42  Historian
    2874    1326 53.8% 05-Mar-95 14:03:42  Historian.doc
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    4346    2363 45.6% 05-Jun-95 20:06:16   2 files

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 1037    1472  70.4% -lh5- 1ca3 Jun  5  1995 Historian
[generic]                 1326    2874  46.1% -lh5- a1c7 Mar  5  1995 Historian.doc
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 Total         2 files    2363    4346  54.4%            Sep 17  1995