WELCOME TO THE FLASHSPEED-CRUNCHER ---------------------------------- If you write a cruncher there are ever two possibilities: you develop a fast algorythmus or a slow but more effective one. (If you're a bad coder there is another possibility : slow and not effective ...) Because many people released (more or less) effective crunchers we decided to write a really fast cruncher. And it became the fastest cruncher I've ever seen ! It's certainly not as effective as for example LHARC but it's also not bad ! But you will find out that yourself... HOW TO USE ---------- After you started FSC from cli (I haven't tested it from WB but it should work.) FSC will ask you for the name of the file that you want to make a little bit shorter (whenever FSC asks you something you can exit by simply pressing return!). Then after a successful load you will be informed about size and type of your file (the located at... info is just for insider! and to fit the screen). If your file is not PC-RELATIVE you will now be asked where to decrunch your file. Then a message will appear that tells you something like : '...PRESS RETURN TO START...' it's better if you wait until your drive has finished all work (never relay on DOS !!!) before you start the crunching process. Then the screen will turn grey and everything seems to be dead but after a few seconds all will come back to life ! Now you can see if your file has become larger or shorter. (ha ha) And if you haven't been asked where to decrunch your file before you will be asked now. The next question will be how to save the crunched file : binary or executable. If you enter B for binary no decrunch header will be added And if you enter O for object-module all hunks and decrunchers will be included and saved as one nice executable file (I hope). IMPORTAND INFORMATION --------------------- Please don't crunch a file that is allready crunched ! (if you want to crunch a file twice use FSC at first) Please enter a correct decrunchadress (FSC don't checks that) or your file will be decrunched to a random adress (good luck!) DEBUG,SYMBOL and EXT hunks will be killed automatically FORCED TO CHIP hunks will be ignored. You have to force the file into chip by choosing a decrunch-adress in chipmem. IF YOUR CRUNCHED FILE DON'T RUN ------------------------------- It could be that the hunk-structure of you file is too complex for FSC (you should know that I ran out of time while coding the hunk analysator.And so it become not very perfect ...) ! If your file is not PC-RELATIVE and has more than 3 hunk's it is possible that your file crashes. You should use HUNKWIZARD then to make your file absolut (binary) ! This big bug will certainly be removed in the next version ! While we are at it ... THE NEXT VERSION ---------------- The next version of FLASHSPEED will have : - another algorythmus (more effective) - a file requester and gadgets - less bugs - a better hunk-analysator - a better doc-file ? THE RIGHTS ---------- This programm is Freeware you can copy it as often as you can ! You are allowed to use the decrunch-routiene in your own productions ! You are NOT allowed to sell the programm ! Please let all text's unchanged (except you discover any spelling mistakes - sorry for my poor english) ! SIGNED : Crash and Argon of ADEPT on 25.05.92