
March - the Maple Archive Manager
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The March application provides a manager for Maple library archives.
The file maple.lib, which is in your Maple library directory, is an
example of a Maple archive file.  You can access March by double-
clicking on the Windows or OS/2 icon, or from the DOS or OS/2
command line.

You can only use one option in a single March invocation.
Its available options are:

    Add .m files to an archive:

        march -a archive_dir filename indexname

    This adds the .m file filename under the index name indexname to
    the archive in the directory archive_dir.  You can specify multiple
    pairs of file names and index names.

    Update .m files in an archive

        march -u archive_dir filename indexname

    This updates the existing entry under index name indexname in the
    archive in directory archive_dir to the new .m file filename.  You
    can specify multiple pairs of file names and index names.

    Pack the files in an archive so that they take as little room as
    possible.

        march -p archive_dir

    List the contents of an archive.

        march -l archive_dir

    Create a new library archive.

        march -c archive_dir table_size

    This creates the archive in archive_dir with the value of table_size 
    being approximately the number of files.

    Extract a file from an archive.

        march -x archive_dir indexname filename

    This creates an .m file called filename which is pulled from the
    index entry at indexname.

    Delete a file from an archive.

        march -d archive_dir indexname


For more information, see the March help page, accessible by issuing
the Maple command ?march.
