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Da Rossa · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 361

Hi ahk masters.

I have a little AHK project in mind and part of it includes the compressing (rar.exe) function of WINRAR. Since this is not mainly about ahk I decided to post it here.

About the rar command there is one inconvenience: When I use this command-line entry...

haichen · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:52 pm Post subject:

Da Rossa · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 361

There is no helpfile! Sad

I searched around the web and found very little documentation about the command line functions. My main help is the command list that shows up when I simple type "rar" at the command prompt.

Thanks! This removed the full tree above the files.

What is the switch/parameter I use to include all subfolders, with no exception or depth limit, in the archive?

Thanks in advance haichen.
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Tuncay · Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1886 Location: Germany

Here http://www.scribd.com/doc/15681481/Rar I found a full documentation. It can be downloaded in plain text and in pdf formats, BUT only after registration. Rolling Eyes

for reading it online, no registration is needed.
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Da Rossa · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 361

Thanks! I am already registered, so I got the pdf. Nice.

There I could see the list of switches, and the closest to what I want is the -r. So the command got like:

haichen · Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject:

If you install winrar there is a helpfile winrar.chm in the program dir.
You can also get access to it in winrar->Help->help topics

And if you want to maintain directories there are two ways:

Da Rossa · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 361

Thanks a lot man!
And I'm sorry for late feedback.

I was successful at RAR'ing the current directory with all subdirs included with the following command:

haichen · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 1:32 am Post subject:

Open a DOS-box and type set. You get all environmentvariables. One of them is path.
Path is used to specify the location where MS-DOS looks when using a command. So you don't have to use the full adress in a DOS-script, like c:\windows\notepad.exe. You can start the program with it's name.
Type notepad in the dos box and you see what i mean.
Open Control Panel-Performance and Maintenance-System (or right-click on My Computer and choose "Properties"). In the box that opens, click the "Advanced" tab to obtain the dialog box shown below.
Next, click the button "Environment Variables". Here you can change the path variable.
For Winrar you add ;c:\program files\winrar (or whereever you installed it) to the end.
From now you can use the command rar.exe from every directory without preceding c:\program files\winrar\

Another Way to change the path var can be done in the bat file.
Write path = %PATH%;c:\program files\winrar in your .bat file. This changes the Path only for this script.

Nice link: http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm

Da Rossa · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 361

Thanks a lot bro!
And sorry for the long waiting.
Now I understand why some programs can be called directly while others need absolute path.

Just one question: what if I add hundreds of programs to the path, will I experience a performance loss?
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haichen · Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 10:22 am Post subject:

I don't think there is the needing to set a pathvar for hundreds of files.
You only need to set a path for programs you want to start from DOS-boxes,
and only when you want to start this program from a Dir that is not the programs Dir.
And some Systemdirectories are already in the PATH.

Da Rossa · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 361

Thanks a lot. Smile

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