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ARiD version 0.06 [09.08.2006]
Copyright [c] 2006, Veacheslav Patkov. aLL rights reserved.
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Content:

1. About program
2. Archivers search
3. Technical information
4. Thanks & credits

1. About program
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Archives identifier, now detects 179 types of archives and 22 types of self-extracing
(SFX) archives, also there are some useful functions, such as context menu extension
and search archiver in internet.

2. Archivers search
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After detect archive, you can try with "Google" button search archiver in internet
with Google search system. If you don't find archiver, see here too:

http://www.sac.sk/files.php?d=7
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/

http://www.compression.ru/arctest/links.htm
http://www.compression.ru
http://www.compression-link.info

http://www.maximumcompression.com

ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/
ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/msdos/archiver/
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/
ftp://ftp.kiae.su/pub/msdos/arcers/

some universal archivers:

WinRAR: http://www.rarlab.com
WinACE: http://www.winace.com
7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org
PowerArchiver: http://www.powerarchiver.com
IZArc: http://www.izarc.org

3. Technical information
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The program was writed in assembler using masm32. Program detect archive with search
signatures in file, no using file extension, filename, etc.

4. Thanks & Credits :)
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   Hutch, Iczelion    -  masm32 and good win32asm help
   Oleg Kalashnikov   -  good tuturials of assembler
   Juergen Peters     -  IDArc source code
   Max Romanovsky     -  bugreports, improvements, ideas
   Davidkov Dmitriy   -  some new archives
   Kirill Voloshin    -  sites arctest and compression.ru
   bart               -  FSG (good packer)
   all from List.txt  -  archivers

5. Contacts
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   Author:    Veacheslav Patkov
   E-mail:    patkov-mail@mail.ru
   Web-site:  http://patkov-site.narod.ru/eng/

   Please, excuse my english. It's so bad ;)

   ...ideas, improvements, bug reports, new archives are welcomed :)
