Short: Historian 95.2 - Tool for dating archives . Author: i.einman@genie.geis.com (Ian J. Einman) Uploader: avdsjw xs4all nl (Siewert Westerneng) Type: util/pack Architecture: m68k-amigaos Historian 95.2 ©1995 Ian J. Einman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listing of archive 'Historian95_2.lha': Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1472 1037 29.5% 05-Jun-95 20:04:42 Historian 2874 1326 53.8% 05-Mar-95 14:03:42 Historian.doc -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 4346 2363 45.6% 05-Jun-95 20:06:16 2 files