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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
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│ ██┌─██┐ ██│ ██│ ██│ ██┌───┘ ██│ ██│ AVIEW V3.0 │
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│ ██│ ██│ └██┌┘ ██│ ██████┐ ██┌┘└██│ Copyright (C) 1992-93 by Chris Buijs │
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└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
AVIEW is a simple archive-viewer utility for the Norton Commander, it
views ARC, ARJ, LZH, PAK, ZIP and ZOO archives automatically, it shows
lots of info's about the files in the archive, you can also tag files and
unpack them, all operations also work on archive-in-archive!
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.
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.30 files.
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│ ▒▒▒▒ Requirements ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The following programms may be needed (optional),
For extracting, updating, converting and viewing archives-in-archives:
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ARJ.EXE from Robert K. Jung
LHA.EXE from Haruyasu Yoshizaki
PAK.EXE from NoGate Consulting
PKUNZIP.EXE and PKZIP.EXE from PKWare
ZOO.EXE from Rahul Dhesi
For file-viewing/editing:
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WPVIEW.EXE from Symantec (Peter Norton Computing).
NCEDIT.EXE from Symantec (Peter Norotn Computing).
The programms needed for file-viewing/editing can be changed in AVIEW.CTL.
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│ ▒▒▒▒ Parameters ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Syntax: AVIEW [[<Drive>:][<Path>\][<Filename>]]
<Drive>: - Drive where archive is on (Optional).
<Path>\ - Path where archive is stored (Optional).
<Filename> - Archive-file (Mandatory).
When no parameters are given, AVIEW will startup with a file-selector,
with this file-selector you can select a file to view, with file-selector
you can 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.
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│ ▒▒▒▒ Installation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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STANDALONE
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- Copy AVIEW.EXE and AVIEW.CTL to a directory in your PATH, AVIEW.CTL 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 on your system correctly.
- Your now ready to run AVIEW.
THE NORTON COMMANDER Versions prior to V4.0
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- Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL 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 on your system correctly.
- 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
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- Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL 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 on your system correctly.
- 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.
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│ ▒▒▒▒ AVIEW.CTL ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
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You can edit the AVIEW.CTL file, its a plain ascii-file, see the example
AVIEW.CTL for more information, the following commands can be used to
configure AVIEW:
NOCOLOR
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With this command you force AVIEW in black and white mode, this can be
handy for laptop-users with LCD-Screens.
NOMOUSE
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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.
VIEWER <Trigger> <Viewer> [<Parameters>]
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With this command you can define up to 16 viewers to use to view files from
an archive, <Trigger> is a file-extension which triggers <Viewer> when a
file is viewed, <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 <Editor> [<Parameters>]
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For defining the editor to use with the edit-function, when no editor is
defined, NCEDIT is taken as the default.
NOTE: Use only a editor which doesn't create any backup-files!
EXTRACTPATH <Path>
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The path to use for extracting files to, when this path isn't defined,
AVIEW will prompt for a path before extracting any files.
SORT <Key> [Ascending|Descending]
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With this parameter you define how to sort the file-list as default, there
are 6 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.
DATETIME - For sorting on date and time.
METHOD - For sorting on compression-method.
Optional you can also define the sort-direction, two keywords are
availble:
ASCENDING - Sort ascending.
DESCENDING - Sort descending.
The default is sorting on filename, ascending.
TEMPPATH <Path>
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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>]
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With this command you can define the virus-scanner to use for scanning the
file unpacked with the unpack function, when no virus-scanner is defined,
NO scan will be performed.
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└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
MOUSE:
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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 of bottom of a menu, or at the top of bottom of a
file-list screen of will scroll the cursor-bar.
The function-keys at the bottom of the screen can offcourse also be clicked.
The right mouse-button will act as the ESC key.
KEYS:
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The following keys are availble in AVIEW:
F1 - Help, some info which keys you can use.
F2 - Unpack, extracts file under selection-bar or all tagged
files from archive.
Shift-F2 - Same as F2 only now you can enter an extraction-path.
F3 or ENTER - View file, also for archive-in-archive.
F4 - Edit file, after editing AVIEW will ask if you want to update
the archive with the edited file.
F5 - Convert, you can convert the archive you are viewing to
another archive-format, this works only if AVIEW isn't
nested for viewing archives within archives.
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.
INS or SPACE - Tag/Untag files.
Gray + - Wildcard selection.
Gray - - Wildcard de-selection.
Gray * - Revert selection.
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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).
Have Fun,
Chris Buijs