xrsrip (XRS file RIPper) by Tormod Tjaberg & Hans Peter Verne

email: tjaberg@online.no
www  : http://home.online.no/~tjaberg

Copyright (C) 2000-03 Tormod Tjaberg & Hans Peter Verne

xrsrip is free software, distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License. It comes with no warranty at all.

note:
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This program will only work with the files on the original
"Doonesbury Flashbacks" CD. Do not email me asking for copies of
these XRS files or CD. All such requests will be silently ignored.

description
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The Doonesbury Flashbacks CD contains a large catalog of
Doonesbury strips by Garry Trudeau. Regretfully this CD 
only works on Windoze 9X & NT. So if you have moved onto
a better system you can't access the files anymore. Xrsrip
extracts all the images from the large XRS files on the CD
and stores them with the correct date on your hard disk in
JPEG format. This makes the strips viewable with nearly
every graphics viewer program on a multitude of platforms.

usage
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The WIN32 executable supplied should work under Win9X/NT/Win2K.

The source code is included so you may compile it yourself on your
favourite platform. I've compiled and tested it on a Sun Ultra 5 
running Solaris.

. Make sure you have a lot of disk space typically 550Mb
  if you want to extract all the images.

. Make a directory

. Copy the executable to this directory

. Issue the following commands to get all images 
  
. xrsrip g:\da\zda_st7x.xrs
  xrsrip g:\da\zda_st8x.xrs
  xrsrip g:\da\zda_st9x.xrs
  
  [where "g:" is replaced by your drive letter or mount point]

Open up your favourite viewer and browse the files.

compiling
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Compile in large model under real mode DOS :)

To compile under gcc use:

gcc -o xrsrip xrsrip.c

credits
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. Garry Trudeau, for creating such a cool strip
. Hans Peter Verne for verifying all dates
. Robert Schmidt for the initial idea
. Annette for being what she is...
