Drag And Zip is a set of utilities that makes Windows 3.1 file manager
into a file manager for creating and managing ZIP, LZH and GZ files.
With its built in routines to zip and unzip files, Drag And Zip makes it
very easy to compress files into Zip files and to extract files from Zip
files from any Windows file manager that supports "Drag and Drop". Drag
And Zip also supports use of your copies of PKZIP, LHA and GUNZIP, to
manage compressed files.
To compress a file with Drag And Zip you merely "drag" files from the file
manager and "drop" them on the Drag And Zip icon, fill out a dialog box
with the filename and destination directory, and Drag And Zip will make a
Zip file out of the selected files.
Viewing the contents of a ZIP, LZH or GZ file is as easy as double
clicking on its listing in file manager or dragging it to the Drag And
Zip icon. Drag And Zip's ZIP file viewer, Zip View, will automatically
be loaded and will show you the contents of the compressed file. You can
tag any group of files in Zip View for extraction or deletion. You can
view any file with Zip View's built-in file viewer or the file viewer of
your choice. You can temporarily extract any file from the compressed file
and run it if it is a program, or run the program associated with it if it
is a data file. If you make modifications to the extracted file, you
will also have the opportunity to replace the older file currently in the
compressed file with the modified one. You can also make self-extracting
archives.
Drag And Zip has a built-in virus scanner which you can use to scan the
files in the compressed file for possible viruses.
In addition, there is also a check out feature where you can temporarily
extract the files from a zip file and give them their own program group to
"check them out".
Also part of the Drag And Zip utilities is Fileman Launcher. Fileman
Launcher installs as a file manager extension and runs Drag And Zip every
time you run Windows File Manager or any file manager that supports file
manager extensions. When you exit File Manager, Drag And Zip will exit
automatically at the same time. Fileman Launcher adds its own menu to
File Manager. You can use this menu to zip files instead of dragging them
to the Drag And Zip icon. You can also add other programs to be run with
File Manager through the Fileman Launcher menu.
To use Drag And Zip you need to be running Windows 3.1 or better. You
will also need a copy of ZIP2EXE.EXE if you want to make self-extracting
ZIP files.
This version of Drag And Zip is designed to be compatible with PKZIP version 2.04 as well as version 1.1. Any other versions of PKZIP may not work properly. To use Drag And Zip to build and extract LZH files, you must have a copy of LHA.EXE. Drag and Zip will not work with LHARC.EXE. You will need a copy of GUNZIP if you want to work with GZ files in Drag And Zip.
Drag And Zip is specially designed to link in with your Internet browser and allow you to easily manage zip files from within Mosaic, Netscape and other popular browsing programs
File Listing
A complete copy of the Drag And Zip utilities should include the following
files:
DRAGNZIP.EXE - The Drag And Zip program
ZIPVIEW.EXE - The ZIP file viewing program
FML.DLL- Fileman Launcher DLL
ZVZIP.DLL - Module for running PKUNZIP
ZVLZH.DLL - Module for running LHA
ZVGZ.DLL - Module for running GUNZIP
DZSETUP.EXE - Setup program for Drag And Zip
DOSBOX.DLL - Module for running PKZIP in a DOS window
IMS.EXE - Virus Scanning module.
DZ.PIF - PIF file for running DOS programs
DUNZIP.DLL - Routines for extracting Zip files.
DZIP.DLL - Routines for making Zip files
DFCTL.DLL - Our custom look resource
DZV.DLL - ASCII file viewer
Installing Drag And Zip
Installation of Drag And Zip and Zip View is very easy with the setup
program provided. From Program Manager, choose "File" from the menu bar
and then choose "Run" from the pull down menu. In the Run dialog box,
type the full path where the files are, and the program name DZSETUP.EXE.
For example, if you were installing from drive A:, you would enter
"A:\DZSETUP.EXE". If you were installing from the "DZ" directory of drive
C:, you would enter "C:\DZ\DZSETUP.EXE".
The DZSetup program gives you two install and two uninstall options.
Install options
1. You can install Drag And Zip with Fileman Launcher.
Fileman Launcher installs as a file manager extension and runs Drag And
Zip every time you run File Manager. Fileman Launcher will also keep Drag
And Zip's icon uncovered when you are working in File Manager. Some
desktop programs like Norton Desktop load file manager extensions every
time they load, so if you are using Fileman Launcher with Norton Desktop,
Drag And Zip will run every time NDW runs.
2. You can install Drag And Zip without Fileman Launcher. Without
Fileman Launcher, you will have to run Drag And Zip manually when you want
to use it. Uninstall options 1. You can remove Fileman Launcher. This
option will remove the line from your WINFILE.INI that runs Fileman
Launcher whenever you run File Manager.
2. You can completely remove the Drag And Zip installation from your
computer. Do not use this option to remove a previous installation of
Drag And Zip. It can only be used to remove a copy of Drag And Zip that
was installed with this installation program. Installing When you use the
DZSetup program to install Drag And Zip it will first ask you which drive
and directory you would like to install Drag And Zip to. If the path that
you enter is different from the path you are installing Drag And Zip from,
all files will be copied over to the new path. If they are the same, the
installation program will assume that you only want to make modifications
to a currently installed version of Drag And Zip, and not try to copy over
the files.
DZSetup will then ask you for permission to add lines to the "extensions"
section of your "WIN.INI" file so Windows file manager will know to run
Zip View when you double click on a ZIP file a GZ file or an LZH file.
If you choose not to have "WIN.INI" modified, you can still run Zip View
from its icon in Program Manager and drag files to it or use Zip View's
"File" menu to load ZIP files.
The DZSetup program will then create a program group called Drag And Zip
and put the Drag And Zip, Zip View and DZSetup icons in it.
Because Drag And Zip has built-in zipping, unzipping and virus scanning,
you can use it immediately without having to enter the paths of external
zip and scanning programs. In addition, Drag And Zip will search your
path to find a copy of LHA and GZIP if you wish to use these programs. If
you want to enter the name of your World Wide Web browsing program or
specifically enter the paths of the other programs, you can have DZSetup
present you with a dialog box to enter this information. You can also
modify this information from within Drag And Zip itself by going choosing
the ôSettingsö menu.
Using Drag And Zip
Creating a Zip File When you run Drag And Zip it will appear as an icon at
the lower lefthand corner of your computer screen. You can move the icon
to a convenient place and it will remember its position. When you want to
create a Zip or LZH file, run File Manager or any file manager that
supports Drag and Drop, and tag the files that you want to zip. Then hold
the mouse down on one of the tagged files. The mouse cursor will become a
white rectangle with a "+" on it. Move the mouse without taking your
finger off the left button to the Drag And Zip icon. While you are moving
the mouse, the cursor will become a circle with a slash through it. When
the cursor is over the Drag And Zip icon, it will once more become a white
rectangle with a "+" on it.
Let go of the mouse button and the Drag And Zip dialog box will pop up.
Zip View
The easiest way to use Zip View is to double click on a ZIP, LZH or GZ
file in your file manager. If you've let the setup program put an
association line in your WIN.INI, Zip View will run and will show a file
listing of the contents of the zip file in a window. The listing will
have the file name, the size in bytes, the date and time of the file, the
compression method used; and if there is a stored directory name, Zip
View will show that also. On the bottom left the number of files in the
ZIP file will be displayed, as well as their collective size. You can
also drag zip files to the Drag And Zip icon or the Zip View icon to view
