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Create a Script to Automate UHA Command-Line Tool

Create a Script to Automate UHA Command-Line Tool

I need to create a script (for example bat, vbs, wsf, or js) to automate the creation of Self-Extracting (SFX) UHA archives (.uha => .exe), using the command-line tool UHARC.EXE, but I am finding a lot of difficulties because the command-line arguments are aberrantly complex and long!...
Inside a main directory=folder I have many subfolders (each one has sub-subfolders); I need to compress each subfolder (inside the main folder), preserving the sub-subfolders architecture/path (inside compressed archives).

Here is an example of what I tried at last:
{
uharc a -r+ -ed- -pr -m3 -mm+ -md+ -md4096 -b1024 "C:\Documents and Settings\ASUS_WinXPProSP2ENG\Desktop\XeroBank\000\xB-Browser\"
}

However UHARC.EXE crashes (command-line disappears) while making the compressed .uha archive; and I no SFX (.exe) is created...

Please help me!
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.

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L00M

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asgarcymed

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Your comment is correct, and so it is indispensable, however not enough...

After making a lot of attempts/trials I became sure that two problems were happening:

1)As you previewed, a long path and/or containing spaces make errors! (both things are MS-DOS invalid; but pay attention these are Win 32-bit executables (PE-EXE)!, however they have no GUI so they may be referred as Command_line/Console/Terminal/Shell/Prompt tools, but they do not run inside MS-DOS nor Windows 3.X).

2)Another crucial problem is that the path's name cannot be finished with a back-slash (\)!
So C:\UHA is correct and C:\UHA\ in wrong.

After re-reading the help.doc file, I understood that is necessary a second command in order to create the sfx file, or either, convert .uha into .exe...

Here is an example of a successfully batch file:
{
uharc a -r+ -ed- -pr -m3 -mm+ -md+ -md4096 -b1024 "C:\UHA\Test\xB-Browser"
copy /b UHARCSFX.EXE+"xB-Browser.uha" "xB-Browser.exe"
del xB-Browser.uha
}

I will not close the question yet because I want to allow more useful comments, whichever they come from you or not (but you can be calm your participation will be rewarded!).
I think I could solve the main problems, but I am still feeling that improvements are possible...
Any comments?
Thank you a lot!
Best regards.

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asgarcymed

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scrathcyboy - I tested WinRAR, and it is very user-friendly, potent and efficient! It is much better than UHA, except in what respects to the compression ratio/efficacy. I may seem "paranoid" about the importance I give to the compression ratio/efficacy, but I have a solid reason to justify it - I need to upload 8 GB of files and my upload speed (stipulated by my ISP) is very, very low! I have an ADSL solution, and my download speed is good (330 KBytes/s) but my upload speed is miserable (27 KBytes/s). Thus, each MByte that is added to the upload queue, means much more time to upload! That's the reason why I want a super-compressor...
Thanks.
Best regards.

L00M

Thanks for the points.
Post back here your final solution. I'd like to know if you can do better than RarSoft with the same reliability. :)

scrathcyboy

If you need the best compression -- try LHARC.EXE -- it is free, and is slow to compress, but beats everything for compression ratios.

asgarcymed

ASKER

Final conclusions - UHA has better compression ratio/efficacy than RAR but it is very unproductive to work with (command-line with lots and lots of arguments). WinRAR is very user-friendly, potent and efficient! If I need to compress many files in batch, maybe WinRAR will be better (more easy and quick; writing a long batch script for UHA would take a long time). If I have less files to compress, I will enjoy the UHA's strong compression.
LHArc - is almost like UHArc - superb compression ratio/efficacy but unproductive command-line...
Thanks.
Best regards.