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- Dave's View 2.0
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- Disk-wide Archive Lister
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- Dave's view is a disk-wide archive lister that allows viewing
- contents of any compressed files anywhere on your disk. There are
- several archive shells available, but to see contents of several
- compressed files in several directories, you must manually change to
- the upper directory, search for the directory containing the next
- compressed file, change to that one, view it, move the upper directory,
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- Dave's View is oriented towards people who have LOTS of compressed
- files, all over their hard disk, and would like the opportunity to quickly
- view the contents of those files without all the directory changing.
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- Basically, Dave's View searches your hard disk (or another disk)
- for a certain filespec, creates a quick scrollable menu of those files,
- and allows you to view their contents.
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- For example, I have many "path" management files, all of which
- I zipped up using PKZIP. So now I have PATHM.ZIP, PATHTOOL.ZIP, PATHED.ZIP,
- and about 20 more. Since most are in different directories (my \download
- directory, my \path directory, my \pcplus directory, etc), I use Dave's
- View to quickly view their contents whenever I get confused about which
- util is in which directory, and in which file.
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- Dave's View can also be used as a general shell for other programs.
- If you want a scrollable list of all the .DOC files on your hard drive,
- you can specify this ALSO in Dave's View. So that, instead of searching
- your drive for something, you can easily create your list, and view
- .DOC file contents without the directory changing.
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- ===================== Dave's View 2.0 =========================
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- USAGE: DAVU [filespec] [options]
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- whereas options are:
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- /1 Use Vernon Buerg's FV.COM to list compressed files
- /2 Use RV.COM to list compressed files
- /COM=[file] Use another file to view compressed files
- /EXT=[extension] Use another extension to your file
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- When viewing files, Dave's View uses the original compressor
- by default. So if you said: DAVU *.ZIP then Dave's View
- would use PKZIP -v as the default lister.
- However, you can change the lister. To use FV.COM as the
- lister, you would say: DAVU *.ZIP /1, which would then make
- Vernon Buerg's FV.COM the file lister.
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- To use another lister (let's assume you want to use VIEW.COM
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- DAVU *.ZIP /COM=VIEW.COM
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- Then Dave's View would use VIEW.COM on the compressed files.
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- To specify a different extension for VIEW.COM, we would add:
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- /EXT=[new extension]
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- This is useful if you want VIEW.COM to stop at every page,
- or if you want view.com to do other things. For instance,
- as a default, Dave's View uses /P (stop at every page)
- when using FV.COM. This is so that the compressed file listing
- will not scroll off the page faster than you can read it.
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- Dave's View can be used for other things! For instance, if you
- want to use LIST.COM on all the .DOC files on your hard drive,
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- DAVU *.DOC /COM=LIST.COM
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- This would cause Dave's View to find all the doc files, then
- allow you to choose which one to list. This might be useful
- if you want to find a .DOC file that contains some specific
- information, yet do not want to spend years hunting them
- all down.
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- Dave's View is freeware, and may be distributed wherever or
- however you want. See the enclosed CATALOG.EXE for some
- exciting utilities, though!
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