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ZiPMe Version 1.3
This is ZiPMe, a 32-bit multithreaded zip shell for the Presentation Manager
of OS/2 2.x or OS/2 Warp V3 that helps you to manage zip archives of the
INFO-Zip versions Zip 2.0 and Unzip 5.1. Newer ZIP versions can be used, if
there is no change in the command line arguments. If you want to add files
with spaces in their names, you have to use Zip 2.1. The files zip.exe and
unzip.exe must be in the same directory as ZiPMe or in a directory specified
in the PATH statement of your config.sys file. You will find more detailed
infomation about the installation process in ZiPMe's help file, if you press
F1 after starting ZiPMe.
To create the objects for ZiPMe on your desktop, run the file install.cmd after
extracting the English or German version of ZiPMe.
ZiPMe is compiled by the emx gcc version 0.9a. Put emx.dll (copyright by
Eberhardt Mattes), the runtime library of the emx gcc, in a directory specified
in the LIBPATH statement in your config.sys. If you have an older version of
emx.dll, you should replace it with this one that comes with ZiPMe.
ZiPMe is postcard ware. This means, that if you like ZiPMe, please send me a
postcard with a photo of your city (address at the end of this file).
I hope you like my program. If you find some bugs please send me a mail.
Here is a list of the files and an explanation:
read.me a general readme file
emx.dll the runtime library or the emx compiler; put it in a
directory specified in your LIBPATH
german\install.cmd the German install script
german\zipme.exe the German version of ZiPMe
german\zipme.hlp the German ZiPMe help file
german\ZIP file.ZIP the German zip file template
german\Liesmich the German readme file
english\install.cmd the English install script
english\zipme.exe the English version of ZiPMe
english\zipme.hlp the English ZiPMe help file
english\ZIP file.ZIP the English zip file template
english\Readme this file
These files are made by ZiPMe:
zipme.ini ZiPMe's settings are saved in this file
zipme.1 ... zipme.999 ZiPMe's temporary files, which are usually deleted
when ZiPMe is ended. If you see any of these files
after ZiPMe has been ended, perhaps because ZiPMe
crashed, you can delete them
Changes and bugfixes in Version 1.3
-----------------------------------
- ZiPMe now works together with Unzip 5.2 and Zip 2.1.
- ZiPMe now uses the container control to show an archive's files instead
of the list box which was used in older versions. With the container, ZiPMe's
integration into the WPS becomes better and there are some new options to
change the view and the sort type of the container.
- To configure the container a new page has been added to the settings notebook
of the settings dialog.
- ZiPMe can now handle archives and files with spaces in their names. To add
files with spaces in their names to an archive, you must use Zip 2.1.
- An install script has been added to create the desktop objects for ZiPMe.
- A zip file template has been created for a better integration into the WPS.
- A new commandline parameter -i has been integrated. If you run ZiPMe with -i
as the first commandline parameter, the second parameter will be interpreted
as the directory where ZiPMe places its ini file. The command
"zipme -i D:\myInis test.zip"
runs ZiPMe with the archive test.zip and tells ZiPMe to place the file
zipme.ini in the directory D:\myInis.
- A bug which caused ZiPMe to block the PM, if an attempt was made to edit
certain comments, has been fixed.
- In the settings dialog no pages are clipped any more at a display resolution
of 800x600 pixels.
- The problem, that no file selection box appeared if a root directory was
given as a standard directory in the settings dialog has been solved.
- In the view windows, the focus is now given to the text window after every
file selection, so you can scroll with the cursor keys without clicking into
the text window.
- Several small bugs have been fixed, which I don't want to list here.
Thanks a lot to all who have sent me postcards, calenders, letters and so on
from all over the world. Up to now I have gotten nearly 100 postcards and 300
emails. I tried to say thank you to everybody who gave me his or her email
address but sometimes I couldn't read it completely so my mail didn't arrive
where it should.
Thanks again to Peter Landstreet, of York University in Toronto, who again
corrected the English help file and this Readme.
And thanks to all who sent me comments and suggestions about ZiPMe.
Because this was my first PM program (I just did it to learn how to make a PM
program) and the first and up to now only program I distributed via the
Internet, I didn't expect such a feedback. I am happy that you like my program
so much.
About me: I am 25 years old and I am studying computer scienc at the University
of Paderborn. My special subject is computer networks. Now I am writing my
final scientific work about "parallel simulation of computer networks" and at
the beginning of the next year I am looking for a job. So, if a ZiPMe user
needs a computer scientist with knowledge about OS/2 and computer networks,
please keep me in mind.
These are the reasons why I do not have so much time to work on ZiPMe and why
you have to wait so long for new versions.
Peter Eggert
An Schormanns Busch 20
32107 Bad Salzuflen
Germany
eMail: eggert@uni-paderborn.de
History
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Changes and bugfixes in Version 1.21
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- The bug, who crashed ZiPMe if it has been started with a zip file as commandline
argument, has been fixed. The bug appeared if ZiPMe has been started by drag &
drop a zip file onto the program object of ZiPMe or if it has been started by
double clicking onto a zip file after an association in the WPS has been made.
- A bug in saving the font of the view windows has been fixed.
- In the extract dialog the part Target has been changed. The option "Create
directory with name of archive" in now a check box. The directory is now
created in the directory which is given as the target in the entry field
above it.
Changes in Version 1.2
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- ZiPMe now needs zip.exe 2.0 and unzip.exe 5.1 or later.
- The files zip.exe and unzip.exe don't need a PATH statement in the config.sys
if they are in the same directory as ZiPMe.
- ZiPMe has now two sizable View windows in which you can compare two files
of two different archives.
- Drag & drop is now supported for extracting files.
- The progress of adding, extracting and deleting files is now shown in
progress indicator dialog boxes.
- You can now view and edit the comments of zip files.
- The settings dialog is now a notebook and you can set more options of ZiPMe.
- The otions -l and -ll of Zip are now supported for eol conversion.
- The button bar got new icons (I think they can be seen better and are better
understandable, I hope you like them).
- ZiPMe has been nearly complete redisigned to implement the progress indicator,
this guided to a smaller executable with more features.
Changes and bug fixes in Version 1.1
------------------------------------
- ZiPMe has been compiled with emx 0.8h. This means that you must use the
emx.dll which comes with ZiPMe 1.1 and not the one of version 1.0 or 1.01 of
ZiPMe.
- ZiPMe now supports Drag & Drop to open archives and to add files to an
archive.
Just drag a zipfile object onto the List Box of ZiPMe and it will
be opened.
Just drag one or more file objects while holding the Ctrl button onto the
Listbox and they will be added to the