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Soft Ventures Compress Version 2.1

Introduction

Operation

Distribution


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Shareware Registration

Compress is a utility included with Svinstal. It is not to be distributed except as part of the Svinstal shareware package.

Soft Ventures retains all rights to Svinstal/Compress. Svinstal/Compress is being marketed as shareware, NOT free software. The shareware concept is simple: try before you buy. If you like Svinstal and wish to continue using it, you are required to register with Soft Ventures. Upon receipt of your $39.95 registration fee, Soft Ventures will send you the latest copy of the Svinstal and a printed user's guide. You will also be eligible for telephone support and product update notices. A site licence is available that allows a business to run an unlimited number of copies of Svinstal.

Single copy	Svinstal	$39.95 US + $2.00 shipping

Site Licence	Svinstal	$69.95 US + $2.00 shipping

(cheque, money order or company purchase order)

Svinstal/Compress is an evolving product the next planned release will include file compression. To be kept up to date on enhancements to Svinstal, and also to be eligible for upgrade discount rates, please send your product registration form in now.

Soft Ventures

Box 22183, Bankers Hall

Calgary, Alberta

Canada  T2P 4J5

(403) 278-1681

CompuServe 71441,734


Introduction

Compress is part of Svinstal. It allows you to select a file and compress it before including it on your distribution. The compression ratio is typically 60-70%. Compress also allows you to de-compress a file previously compressed with this utility.

The extention of the compressed file will be modified such that the last character will be a tild "~".

ie: MYFILE.TXT becomes MYFILE.TX~

Svinstal will detect the compressed file and de-compress it as it is installed. You are free to use Compress on your own files as a general purpose file compression utility to conserve disk space.

Rob Stevens

Soft Ventures

(403) 278-1681


Operation

Select the file to be compressed/de-compressed:

From the "File" menu, choose select. You will be shown a typical windows file selection window from which you can select the drive, directory and filename to be compressed.  Double click on the file you want to compress/de-compress or select the file and click on the "OK" button.

Compress:

The default action is compress, with no overwrite of existing files. To overwrite a previously compressed version of the file, click the "Overwite existing output files" checkbox. Click on "GO" when you are ready to begin the file compress or click on "Cancel" to abort.

De-Compress:

Click on the "De-Compress" radio button to choose de-compress. Click on "GO" when you are ready to begin the file de-compress or click on "Cancel" to abort.

Progress information:

The program will pop-up a small window showing you the the current progress of the compress or de-compress.


Distribution

(from Svinstal)

You are allowed to include the program SVINSTAL.EXE, with your software, at no charge. You can rename SVINSTAL.EXE to INSTALL.EXE if you want, but the data file included with your program files MUST be named SVINSTAL.SVI (in order for SVINSTAL.to find and use it).

The program INST_BLD.EXE is NOT to be included on your distribution disks.

The program COMPRESS.EXE is NOT to be included on your distribution disks.

ONLY SVINSTAL.EXE and SVINSTAL.SVI are to be distributed with your programs.

Note: the file SVIHELP.HLP is the help file for INST_BLD.EXE and is not required for your customer. The help text for Svinstal is included in SVINSTAL.EXE.