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- │ ██│ ██│ └██┌┘ ██│ ██████┐ ██┌┘└██│ Copyright (C) 1992-94 by Chris Buijs │
- │ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─────┘ └─┘ └─┘ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- AVIEW is an archive-viewer/manipulator utility for the Norton Commander,
- it views ARC, ARJ, HYP, LZH, PAK, SQZ, ZIP and ZOO archives automatically,
- it shows lots of info about the files in the archive, you can also tag
- files and unpack them, all operations also work on archive-in-archive
- (up to 16 levels deep).
-
-
- AVIEW is made for usage under the Norton Commander, however, the Norton
- Commander is NOT needed to use AVIEW, AVIEW can also be used stand-alone,
- it contains a full featured file-selector.
-
-
- This utility is here-by placed in Public Domain and can be concidered
- freeware, this utility may not be sold, hired, leased or modified, it may
- be freely copied as a complete package.
-
-
- This documentation is a quick-help to setup AVIEW, for more information
- you can study the AVIEW.CTL and WHATSNEW.nn files.
-
-
- To print this documentation, type on the DOS-Prompt:
-
- COPY AVIEW.DOC LPT1:
-
- followed by an ENTER, change 'LPT1:' to the device you want to use to
- print.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Requirements ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- AVIEW requires: - MS/PCDOS V3.3x or higher (V5.0 or higher recommended).
- - 375 KB of free conventional memory (550 KB when running
- under Norton Commander V4.0).
- - A (microsoft compatible) mouse (optional).
-
- The following programms may be needed (optional):
-
- For archive adding, extracting, updating and converting:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- ARJ.EXE from R.K. Jung.
- HYPER.EXE from P. Sawatzki & K.P. Nischke
- LHA.EXE from H. Yoshizaki.
- PAK.EXE from NoGate Consulting.
- PKUNPAK and PKPAK from PKWare.
- PKUNZIP.EXE and PKZIP.EXE from PKWare.
- SQZ.EXE from J.I. Hammerberg
- ZOO.EXE from R. Dhesi.
-
-
- For file-viewing/editing:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- WPVIEW.EXE from Symantec (Peter Norton Computing).
- NCEDIT.EXE from Symantec (Peter Norotn Computing).
-
-
- All the above programms are optional and can be replaced by others, this
- can be done by changing the parameters in the AVIEW.CTL file, see the
- sample AVIEW.CTL for more information.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Parameters ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Syntax: AVIEW [[<Drive>:][<Path>\][<Filename>]] [/?]
-
- use the /? parameter to get detailed information about parameters.
-
- When no drive/path/file parameters are given, AVIEW will startup with a
- file-selector, with this file-selector you can select a file to view.
- With the file-selector you can also switch between drives, directorys
- and files.
-
- When only a drive or path is given as parameter, aview will startup the
- file-selector in the given drive/directory.
-
- When wildcards are included in the filename, AVIEW will use them as
- filter for the file-selector.
-
- AVIEW automatically detects how many lines per screen are used at startup
- and will use the number of lines per screen detected, this can be
- overridden with one of the above parameters or with the SCREENMODE
- parameter in the AVIEW.CTL file.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Installation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- STANDALONE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL and AVIEW.HLP to a directory in your PATH,
- AVIEW.CTL and AVIEW.HLP must be located in the same directory as
- AVIEW.EXE.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work correctly on your system.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
-
-
- THE NORTON COMMANDER Versions prior to V4.0
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL, AVIEW.HLP and AVIEWNC.EXE to the directory
- where the Norton Commander is installed.
- - Run the AVIEWNC utility, this utility will update your NC.EXT file.
- - Delete AVIEWNC.EXE, only needed for installing AVIEW in the NC.EXT file.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work correctly on your.
- - Restart The Norton Commander.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
- NOTE: After installing AVIEW in The Norton Commander, you can view an
- archive by pressing ENTER or F3.
-
-
-
- THE NORTON COMMANDER V4.0
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL, AVIEW.HLP and AVIEWNC4.EXE to the directory
- where the Norton Commander is installed.
- - Run the AVIEWNC4 utility, this utility will update your NC.CFG and
- NC.EXT files.
- - Delete AVIEWNC4.EXE, only needed for installing AVIEW in the NC.CFG and
- NC.EXT files.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work correctly on your system.
- - Restart The Norton Commander.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
- NOTE: When you run AVIEW under The Norton Commander V4.0, you can only
- use AVIEW on a file by pressing F3, when you press ENTER in
- NC V4.0, the internal file-view will be activated, this CANNOT
- be changed to use AVIEW instead.
-
- NOTE 2: I discovered that when you use F3 under the Norton Commander V4.0
- that NC V4.0 doesn't swap itself out of memory, this can give
- problems/errors executing some external utilitys, Symantec is
- currently working on a fix for this.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ AVIEW.CTL ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- For customizing the operations of AVIEW, you can edit the AVIEW.CTL
- control file, its a plain ascii-file, see the example AVIEW.CTL for more
- information, the following commands can be used in the control file to
- configure AVIEW:
-
-
- ALTERNATELAYOUT
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you tell AVIEW to use the alternate list-layout of the
- archive-lister, the alternate list-layout includes lesser information
- but shows the full-paths of the files in the archive.
-
-
- DATEFORMAT <DateFormat>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define the file-date-format, use MM for month,
- DD for day and YY for year, sepparation-chars can be freely used,
- default is MM/DD/YY, maximum length is 8 chars.
-
-
- FSSORT <Key> [Ascending|Descending]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this parameter you define how to sort the file-list in the
- file-selector as default, there are 5 sort-keys:
-
- NAME - For sorting on file-name
- EXTENSION - For sorting on file-extension.
- SIZE - For sorting on file-size.
- DATETIME - For sorting on date and time.
- UNSORTED - For no sorting (Unsorted).
-
- Optional you can also define the sort-direction, default is ascending:
-
- ASCENDING - Sort ascending.
- DESCENDING - Sort descending.
-
- The default sorting is on filename, ascending.
-
-
- NOCOLOR
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW in black and white mode, this can be
- handy for laptop-users with LCD-Screens.
-
-
- NOEMS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- This command instructs AVIEW to NOT use any expanded memory (EMS) when
- swapping before executing an external utility.
-
-
- NOMOUSE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- When you have a mouse, and it is detected by AVIEW, you can force AVIEW
- with this command to ignore the mouse and not use it.
-
-
- NOPATHS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- This command instructs AVIEW to NOT extract any path-information from an
- archive when extracting.
-
- NOUMB
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- This command instructs AVIEW to NOT use any upper memory blocks (UMB) when
- swapping before executing an external utility.
-
-
- NOXMS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- This command instructs AVIEW to NOT use any extended memory (XMS) when
- swapping before executing an external utility.
-
-
- VIEWER <Trigger> <Viewer> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define up to 20 viewers to use to view files from
- an archive, <Trigger> is a file-extension which triggers <Viewer> to view
- a file, <Trigger> must not be more then 3 chars and may include wildcards,
- DON'T include the period (.) in the trigger-extension. When no viewers are
- defined, WPVIEW is taken for all type of files.
-
-
- EDITOR <Trigger> <Editor> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define up to 20 editors to use to edit files from
- an archive, <Trigger> is a file-extension which triggers <Editor> to edit
- a file, <Trigger> must not be more then 3 chars and may include wildcards,
- DON'T include the period (.) in the trigger-extension. When no editors are
- defined, NCEDIT is taken for all type of files.
-
-
- EXTRACTPATH <Path>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- The path to use for extracting files to, when this path isn't defined,
- AVIEW will prompt for a path before extracting any files.
-
-
- SCREENMODE <Lines>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this statement you can define how many lines per screen AVIEW must
- use, valid numbers are 25, 35, 40, 43 and 50, note that you will need an
- EGA or VGA adaptor when you use numbers greater than 25.
-
- SORT <Key> [Ascending|Descending]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this parameter you define how to sort the file-list as default, there
- are 8 sort-keys:
-
- NAME - For sorting on file-name
- EXTENSION - For sorting on file-extension.
- ORGSIZE - For sorting on original (uncompressed) file-size.
- CMPSIZE - For sorting on compressed file-size.
- RATIO - For sorting on ratio.
- DATETIME - For sorting on date and time.
- METHOD - For sorting on compression-method.
- UNSORTED - For no sorting (Unsorted).
-
- Optional you can also define the sort-direction, default is ascending:
-
- ASCENDING - Sort ascending.
- DESCENDING - Sort descending.
-
- The default sorting is on filename, ascending.
-
-
- SWAPPATH <Path>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you define the path AVIEW must use for writting it's
- swapfiles in.
-
-
- TEMPPATH <Path>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you define the path AVIEW must use as work-directory,
- this can be a ram-drive which will speed-up AVIEW dramatically, in this
- directory AVIEW will creates its own tempory directorys, these tempory
- directorys will be deleted when AVIEW doesn't need them anymore, note
- that the directory specified with TEMPPATH is NOT deleted, nor the
- files that exist in it, this has been changed since V3.0.
-
- SCANNER [<Path>\]<Filename> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define the virus-scanner to use for scanning the
- file(s) unpacked with the unpack function, when no virus-scanner is
- defined, NO scan will be performed.
-
-
- ZOOMSPEED <Milliseconds>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define the zoom-speed of the popup-windows that
- build up onto the screen, 0 will give an immidiate popup, the default
- zoomspeed is 10.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ With the following commands you can define the parameters used by AVIEW │
- │ for using the external archive-utilitys. │
- │ For normal operation of AVIEW, you don't need to change this, all the │
- │ following commands are optional, the sample commands in the sample │
- │ AVIEW.CTL file reflects the standard default configuration of AVIEW. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- xxxADD <Command-line>
- xxxDELETE <Command-Line>
- xxxEXTRACT <Command-Line>
- xxxUNPACK <Command-Line>
- xxxUPDATE <Command-Line>
- xxxRESPONSE <Response-char>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With these commands you can configure the interface between AVIEW and the
- external archive-utilitys, the xxx can be ARC, ARJ, HYP, LHA, PAK, SQZ,
- ZIP or ZOO.
-
- xxxADD - Defines which parameters to use for adding a file to
- an archive, this is used for the ADD function (F7), and for
- creating new archives with the CONVERT function (F5).
- xxxDELETE - Defines which parameters to use for deleting a file or files
- from an archive, this is used for the DELETE function
- (F8 or DEL).
- xxxEXTRACT - Defines which parameters to use for extracting a file or files
- from an archive, this is used for the extract-function.
- xxxUNPACK - Defines which parameters to use for extracting ONE file from
- an archive WITHOUT path, this is used internally in AVIEW.
- xxxUPDATE - Defines which parameters to use for updating a file in an
- archive, this is used after you edited a file from an archive.
- xxxRESPONSE - Defines which charachter to use before a file name to tell
- the archiver that it is a response file, AVIEW defines
- automatically when to use this or not.
-
- NOTE: There are two variables, %A and %F, these two must ALWAYS exist in
- the above parameters (except xxxRESPONSE), %A will be replaced by
- AVIEW with the name of the archive processed, and %F with a filename
- for adding/deleting/updating, note that AVIEW will automatically add
- the response-file-char before the filename when needed.
- The variables %A and %F are NOT optional!
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Operation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- SWAPPING:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- When executing an external utility, AVIEW will first try to swap itself out
- of memory, AVIEW will firstly try to swap to expanded memory (EMS), when
- not succesfull, AVIEW will try to swap to extendend memory (XMS), and when
- that's not succesfull, AVIEW will try to swap itself to disk.
- AVIEW will need 375 KB free EMS, XMS or DISK-Space to swap, when not, AVIEW
- will NOT execute the external utility and aborts with an error.
-
-
-
- MOUSE:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- AVIEW has mouse-support, when a mouse is detected it will be used
- automatically, the mouse is used in file-lists, menu's and the
- file-selector.
-
- Click once on an entry to highlight it, click it twice for selecting it.
-
- Clicking at the top or bottom of a menu, or at the top or bottom of a
- file-list will scroll the cursor-bar.
-
- The function-keys at the bottom of the screen can offcourse also be clicked.
-
- The (most) right mouse-button will act as an (de)selection key, point to
- a file and click with the (most) right mouse-button to (de)select it.
-
- Archive-Viewing Keys:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- F1 - Help, some info which keys you can use.
-
- F2 - Unpack, extracts file under selection-bar or all tagged
- files from archive.
-
- F3 or ENTER - View file, also for archive-in-archive (up to 16 levels
- deep).
-
- F4 - Edit file, after editing AVIEW will update the archive,
- AVIEW will only update when the edited file has been changed.
-
- F5 - Convert, you can convert the archive you are viewing to
- another archive-format.
-
- F6 or ALT-S - Sort, sort file list.
-
- F7 - Add, add files to archive, when on the input-field, press
- F2 to activate the file-selector.
-
- F8 or DEL - Delete, Delete file under selection-bar or all tagged files
- from archive.
-
- F9 or ALT-J - jump to DOS.
-
- F10 or ESC - Step back one archive when nested-viewing is used, or exit.
-
- SHIFT-F2 - Same as F2 only now you can enter an extraction-path.
-
- SHIFT-F7 - Create a new file and add it to the archive, can be handy
- for (example) creating FILE_ID.DIZ files.
-
- SHIFT-F9 - Print file under cursor-bar.
-
- CTRL-F1 - Toggle between Ascending/Descending sorting.
-
- CTRL-F2 - Same as F2 only now the current directory is taken as
- extraction path.
-
- CTRL-F3 - Sort list on filename.
-
- CTRL-F4 - Sort list on extension.
-
- CTRL-F5 - Sort list on original size.
-
- CTRL-F6 - Sort list on compressed size.
-
- CTRL-F7 - Sort list on ratio.
-
- CTRL-F8 - Sort list on date/time.
-
- CTRL-F9 - Sort list on method.
-
- CTRL-F10 - Do not sort list (Unsorted).
-
- ALT-F2 - Unpack, extracts file under selection-bar or all tagged
- files from archive without path-information.
-
- ALT-F3 - View file, same as F3, only now you can select a viewer to
- use from the viewers list.
-
- ALT-F4 - Edit file, same as F4, only now you can select a editor to
- use from the editors list.
-
- ALT-F9 - Switch between EGA/VGA line mode (43 or 50) and 25 line mode.
-
- ALT-L - Toggle between standard and alternate file-list-layout.
-
- INS or SPACE - Tag/Untag files.
-
- Gray + - Wildcard selection.
-
- Gray - - Wildcard de-selection.
-
- Gray * - Revert selection.
-
- File-Selector Keys:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- F1 - Help, some info which keys you can use.
-
- F2 - Change drive/directory.
-
- F3 or ENTER - Select a drive/directory or file to view.
-
- F4 - Filter.
-
- F6 - Rename directory/file.
-
- F7 - Create directory.
-
- F8 or DEL - Delete directorys/files.
-
- F9 or ALT-J - jump to DOS.
-
- F10 or ESC - Quit.
-
- INS or SPACE - Tag/Untag files.
-
- Gray + - Wildcard selection.
-
- Gray - - Wildcard de-selection.
-
- Gray * - Revert selection.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Contact/Support ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- For bug-reports, suggestions and other things concerning AVIEW you can
- contact me at the following BBS:
-
- Action Board Zaandam
- +31-(0)75-704890
- 1200, 2400 and 9600 HST V42/V42Bis.
- Located in The Netherlands
- 24 Hours a day reachable.
-
- Just try to yell the sysop or write a message to me.
-
- I can also can be reached on COMPUSERVE under 100117,3242 (Chris Buijs).
- COMPUSERVE can also be called for the latest version of AVIEW, it can
- be found in the IBMSYS forum in library 6 (File Utilitys).
-
- My fidonet (point) address is: 2:280/407.16
-
- If you like AVIEW, and you are using it on a regular basis, you can send
- me a postcard saying so, my address is:
-
- Chris Buijs
- De Spil 22
- 1507 CX Zaandam
- The Netherlands
-
-
- Have Fun,
- Chris Buijs
-