Star Tape



  This program was designed to create tape  images  by  collecting  PC64  file
images into them. It does not handle relative files since I  have  never  seen
one. Star Tape is an  external  utility  of  The Star Commander  but  is  also
distributed separately.



  1. Usage

  STARTAPE <filename>|@<listname> <tapename>

  <filename>:
  Type the path and the mask of the source files here. You can  use  wildcards
to process multiple file images and you can use long filenames, too.

  <listname>:
  If you have the list of the source files in a file, then type the path,  the
name and the extension of the list file here. Note that  you  have  to  use  a
short filename and prepend the '@' symbol to it.

  <tapename>:
  Type the path and the name of the tape image here  (the  extension  of  tape
images is always '.t64'). The directory of  the  tape  image  will  have  just
enough entries to hold all the converted files. You can use long filenames.



  2. Error messages

  FILENAME.EXT not found
    The file does not exist.
  Cannot create FILENAME.EXT
    The file could not be created for some reason.
  Too many files
    You can only convert a maximum of 499 files into a tape image.
  FILENAME.EXT has an invalid header
    The usual header of file images was not found in the file.



  3. Copyright and legal issues

  This program is freeware. You can use it as long as you  wish  and  you  can
spread it as you like provided that it is in the original unmodified  archive.
Don't distribute single files only the whole package and don't ask  for  money
above the normal fee of the distribution media itself. This program may not be
included in any compilation or  sold  on  disk  or  CD-ROM  without  my  prior
permission.



  4. The author

  If you're interested in some similarly useful utilities you can contact me at
the E-mail address "sta@c64.org" or visit my homepage at "http://sta.c64.org".



  31st March, 2002                              Joe Forster/STA