NAME

       ear - Ecere Archiver

SYNOPSIS

       ear command[command-options] archive required-parameters

   Extraction Commands:
       v (View)         archive [archive-paths...]
       x (Extract All)  archive [output-directory]
       e (Extract)      archive archive-paths...
       ew(Extract Where)archive archive-paths... output-directory

   Archiving/Cleanup Commands:
       a (Add)          archive input-paths...
       r (Refresh)      archive input-paths...
       u (Update)       archive input-paths...
        Add w (e.g. aw) for specifying an archive-dest-path at the end
        Add f (e.g. af) for packing the contents of folders input-paths at the root of the archive
       m (Move)         archive archive-src-paths... archive-dest-path
       n (Rename)       archive archive-path new-name
       d (Delete)       archive archive-paths...
       c (Clear)        archive
       s (Self Extract) archive self-extractable
          Create a self-extractable archive out of an existing archive
       sa(Self-Ext/Add) archive input-paths...
          Create a new self-extractable archive and add files

DESCRIPTION

       ear is an archiving tool for manipulating Ecere Archives.

       Compression  is  currently  provided by ZLib. We hope to add support for other compression algorithms and
       archive formats (e.g. .zip, .7z, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2) in the future to both the Ecere runtime  library  and
       ear.

       ear  can  pack  files  at  the  end  of  existing files (e.g. binaries), which is the basis for the Ecere
       resources functionality.  The Ecere runtime library supports accessing such resources from the executable
       as well as imported modules (shared libraries).

       The Ecere File manipulation API (which is used by all APIs taking in a file path)  understands  resources
       paths with the general format: "<archive>path/to/file".

       Resources from imported modules can be accessed as: "<:module-name>path/to/file".

       Resources  embedded  within  the  application  itself  can  be  accessed  as: "<:>path/to/file" or simply
       ":path/to/file"

       Resources can be emdedded inside applications and modules from the Project View's Resources node  in  the
       Ecere IDE.

OPTIONS

   Compression Options (Add, Refresh and Update)
       0  No Compression
       1 ... 9  Fastest Compression ... Best Compression (default = 9)

   Miscellaneous Options
       q  Quiet mode (Add, Refresh, Update, Extract and Extract All)

ear                                                August 2012                                            EAR(1)