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PKAZIP (tm) FAST! PKAmigaZIP Utility Version 01.00 1-01-90 Copyright 1989, 1990 PKWARE Inc. All Rights Reserved. <<<<< Please Support ShareWare! >>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< BUTTONS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All - Selects all filenames and directories in the current directory or ZIP file that satisfy the INCLUDE and EXCLUDE patterns. CLEAR - De-selects all filenames and directories in the current directory or ZIP file. COPY - Copies all selected files from the current directory to the destination specified in the DESTINATION window. Dates, protection attributes and comments are also copied. If the file already exists in the DESTINATION directory and has the same date and time, it is skipped. There is one exception to this: if the DESTINATION is the same as the SRC directory, then you have the opportunity to provide a new name for the destination file. Copy is fully recursive and will copy all files and subdirectories from a selected directory. Any files in subdirectories will be copied only if they pass the filters. DELETE - Deletes all selected files (or directories) in the current directory or ZIP file. This function will prompt for confirmation before proceeding. WARNING: Delete is fully recursive and will delete all files and subdirectories found in any selected directory. Delete will request a second confirmation before proceeding. Files in subdirectories will be deleted only if they pass the filters. INFO - Activates the File Attribute Editor. This allows you to rename files, edit AmigaDOS and ZIP file comments and change the file attributes (HSPA RWED) using buttons. Once changes are made, use the mouse to select the SAVE button to store the changes and return to the file list window. Select the ABORT button to return to the file list window without altering the current selection. ABORT also cancels any pending file selections. Select the QUIT button to return to the file list window without altering the current selection. Info also displays the Compressed Size, Compression Method and the Compression Ratio if the selected file is inside a ZIP file. You may change the filename, comment or attributes for any file inside a ZIP file. If the selected file is a ZIP file, additional information will be presented. This information includes the total uncompressed size, the total compressed size and the ratio of compression as well as the number of files in the ZIP. You may add a ZIP Comment to the ZIP file. This comment may be up to 255 characters lone. DISPLAY - Displays all selected files in the current directory or ZIP file. Each file is displayed in the order it is listed in the files window. Pressing the right mouse button or clicking in the Display Window close-box will advance to the next selected file in the list. Click the mouse in the top half of the display screen to scroll towards the beginning of the file. Click the mouse in the bottom half of screen to scroll towards the end of the file. (Or use the Arrow buttons or slider to scroll.) PRINT - Prints all selected files in the current directory or ZIP file to the selected printer device (PRT: PAR: or SER:). If no files are selected and PRINTER ECHO is off, PRINT prints the file list to the printer. This is a handy way to get a hardcopy of the file list or the ZIP catalog. INCLUDE - Presents a tool that allows you to insert up to three masks which will be used to determine which files ARE displayed in the files window. This is a handy way to reduce clutter while viewing files or ZIP listings. PALETTE - Presents a tool which allows you to change the colors of the screen. Click on each color button and use the color sliders to change that color. Pressing the OK button will enable PKAZIP to use the current selections. Pressing the CANCEL button aborts any color pending color changes and exits the Palette tool. Pressing the RESET button returns the colors to the settings which were active on entry to the Palette tool but does not exit the Palette tool. ABORT - Abort the current operation. UNZIP - Extracts (decompresses) all selected ZIP files to the destination directory specified in the DESTINATION window. Decompression rules are specified using the EXTRACT pull-down menu. ZIP - Compresses selected files and adds them to the ZIP file specified in the DESTINATION window. Compression rules are specified using the COMPRESS pull-down menu. TEST - Tests all selected ZIP files by recalculating the 32-bit CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) for each file. SEARCH - Search offers two very POWERFUL and UNIQUE modes: SEARCH BY COMMENT: If the COMMENT button is set to display AmigaDOS filenotes, then SEARCH will examine all AmigaDOS filenotes. In addition, SEARCH will examine all file comments stored with each file in a ZIP catalog! SEARCH BY FILENAME: If the COMMENT button is set to display AmigaDOS filenames, dates, times, and protection bits, then SEARCH will examine all AmigaDOS filenames. In addition, SEARCH will examine each filename in a ZIP catalog! Both search modes offer anchored pattern match (refer to WILDCARDS below in MISCELLANEOUS NOTES) to the pattern entered in the SEARCH string box: PATTERN: MEANING: ? matches any single character * matches one or more characters Any other character must match exactly! All patterns are case insensitive (uppercase = lowercase). NOTE: SEARCH is fully recursive and extends into all subdirectories contained in the current directory. Both search modes examine the information stored inside ZIP files. Now, you will not have to extract files to locate what you are looking for! PARENT - Moves to the directory above the current directory. Movement is toward the root of the disk. For example, if the current directory is DF0:TEST/MANY then pressing PARENT will change the current directory to DF0:TEST. If the contents of a ZIP file are being displayed, the PARENT button will exit the ZIP file and display the normal DOS directory listing. If the current directory does not end in a ':' character there will be a / entry in the file listing. Double clicking this entry will also move up one directory level. Note that this entry can not be selected. COMMENT - Toggles the file list display between file or ZIP comments and file displays using size, date and time attributes. An example of the file list display with comments is: adds buffers to the specified drive AddBuffers allows script files to get input ask allows reassignment of ffs: as dh0: assigndev An example of the file list display with size, date and time attributes: 876 ---arwed 10/27/88 18:24:45 AddBuffers 556 ---arwed 03/14/88 18:40:29 ask 6784 ---arwed 09/20/87 19:44:28 assigndev HELP - Displays the help file. EXCLUDE - Presents a tool that allows you to insert up to three masks which will be used to determine which files are NOT displayed in the files window. This is a handy way to reduce clutter while viewing directory listings. LICENSE - This button displays the license agreement. EXIT - Quits PKAZIP. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< CURSOR CLUSTER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> UP - This button scrolls the file listing up if there are enough files in the list to allow scrolling. DOWN - This button scrolls the file listing down if there are enough files in the list to allow scrolling. LEFT - If the DESTINATION box contains an entry, this button transfers the contents of the DESTINATION box to the CURRENT DIRECTORY box. RIGHT - If the CURRENT DIRECTORY contains an entry, this button transfers the contents of the CURRENT DIRECTORY box to the DESTINATION directory box.. S - This button swaps the contents of the SOURCE and DESTINATION boxes if both the SOURCE and DESTINATION boxes have characters in them. If either box is empty, this operation is skipped. H - HOME moves to the beginning of the list or file. U - PAGEUP moves the list or file backward by one page. D - PAGEDOWN moves the list or file forward by one page. E - END moves to the end of the list or file. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< MENUS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> EXTRACT - This menu contains those options used during file de-compression: UNCONDITIONAL - All selected files are extracted to the destination directory. NEWER FILES ONLY - Only files which have newer dates than the destination files are extracted. ASK IF EXISTS - If a file already exists in the destination directory, prompt the user for permission to over-write it. USE PATHNAMES - Extract files using the full pathname and filename. If the pathname does not exist, this operation will ask you if you want to create it. If you answer YES, the destination directory will be created and the files will be extracted to it. If you answer NO, the file will be skipped. USE FILENOTES - Writes any filenote assigned to a compressed file to the Amiga DOS filenote for that file. NOTE: Only USE PATHNAMES and USE FILENOTES are saved using PREFERENCES. COMPRESS - This menu contains those options used during file compression: UNCONDITIONAL - All selected files are compressed and added to the destination ZIP file. UPDATE - Any selected file which does not exist in the ZIP catalog will be compressed and added to the ZIP file. Any selected file which exists in the catalog but has a newer date/time stamp will be re-compressed and added to the ZIP file. FRESHEN - Only selected files which are already in the ZIP catalog and which have newer date/time stamps are re-compressed and stored in the ZIP file. CHANGE - Compresses selected files that are not in the ZIP catalog and which DO NOT have their Archive bit set. Once the file is compressed and placed in the ZIP file, the Archive bit will be set on the file in the file list. FORCE SHRINKING - Forces all files to be compressed using Shrinking. This is significantly faster than Imploding. MOVE - Delete files after they are compressed and added to the ZIP file. This option may be used in conjunction with the previous compression menu selections. ENCRYPT - As files are compressed and added to the ZIP file, they are encoded so they can not be extracted without the proper password. This function is not active in the intial release. LONG PATHNAMES - Store filenames with the full pathname, less the source drive designation. Example: test is the current directory full path: dh0:cfiles/test/program.c "cfiles/test/program.c" would be used as the filename. SHORT PATHNAMES - Store filenames with pathname relative to the current directory. Example: test is the current directory full path: dh0:cfiles/test/program.c "program.c" would be used as the filename. USE FILENOTES - Amiga DOS filenotes for each compressed file are saved in the ZIP file. NOTE: Only LONG or SHORT PATHNAMES and USE FILENOTES are saved using PREFERENCES. PRINT - This menu contains options used during printing: PRT: - Use the preferences printer PAR: - Use the "RAW" parallel printer SER: - Use the serial port ECHO: - Echo operation results to the printer device. AUTO FF: - Issue a form feed between printouts PREFERENCES - This menu provides selections to change the default operation of PKAZIP: SORT FILE LIST BY NAME - Sorts the file list alphabetically ASCENDING from A to Z. Directories are placed at the beginning of the list. BY NAME - Sorts the file list alphabetically DESCENDING from Z to A. Directories are placed at the beginning of the list. BY DATE/TIME - Sorts the file list with the newest NEWEST FIRST files first. Directories are placed at the beginning of the list. BY DATE/TIME - Sorts the file list with the oldest OLDEST FIRST files first. Directories are placed at the beginning of the list. NONE - Display files using natural order. ENABLE FILTERS - Display filenames which pass the Include and Exclude filters. ENABLE SIZING - Displays the total size of the selected files and directories to make it easy to determine if the selected files and directories fit on the destination drive. Filters are active during this command. DISPLAY This menu offers two options to show or hide information displayed in the files listing window. This choice may be saved using the SAVE CHOICES option. PATHNAMES - If checked, file pathnames are displayed while viewing the contents of ZIP files. Otherwise, filenames are displayed with without pathnames. If pathnames are being suppressed, the filename will be preceded by a "/" character as a reminder. ATTRIBUTES - If checked, file attributes are displayed. Otherwise, file attributes which include time, date, size, comment, etc. are suppressed. SAVE CHOICES - Saves choices from the EXTRACT, COMPRESS, PRINT and PREFERENCE menus. The contents of the INCLUDE and EXCLUDE filters, PALETTE choices and state of the COMMENT button are also saved. LOAD CHOICES - Loads the saved preferences into PKAZIP. RESET CHOICES - Reset preferences back to the factory state. ABORT - Aborts operations like COPY, DELETE, DISPLAY, PRINT, COMPRESS, EXTRACT and TEST. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< KEYBOARD >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> HELP - Display this help file. UP - Move the list or file display toward the beginning. DOWN - Move the list or file display toward the end. HOME - Move to the beginning of the list or file. END - Moves to the end of the list or file. PAGEUP - Move the list or file backward by one page. PAGEDOWN - Move the list or file forward by one page. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< MISCELLANEOUS NOTES >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Assigning PKTEMP: to an alternate drive creates a temporary ZIP file at the specified alternate location. This temporary file is used only in the creation of the ZIP file, and will be automatically deleted when the process is complete. If you do not assign PKTEMP:, the temporary file will be created in the T: directory. Double clicking on a directory name will change the current directory to that directory. This will display those files found in the new CURRENT DIRECTORY. Double clicking on a ZIP file will display the list of files that are contained inside the ZIP file. Pressing PARENT will return to the normal AmigaDOS file list. Double clicking on a filename will display that file just as if you had selected it and pressed the DISPLAY button. Pressing the right mouse button will return the display to the file list. Files are NOT deselected after copying to facilitate moving files from the Source Directory to the Destination Directory. Once the files are copied, they can be deleted from the source directory because they are still marked. If you do not want to delete them, simply select the CLEAR button to deselect them. Preferences are loaded every time PKAZIP is run. The mouse may also be used to scroll a file in the DISPLAY mode. Clicking and holding the left mouse button in the top half of the display will scroll the file downward while clicking and holding the left mouse button in the bottom half of the screen will scroll the file upward. The mouse can also be used to control the slider and arrow buttons in the file display mode. WILDCARDS: Wildcards are compatible with MS-DOS and UNIX. The '*' references any character and '?' indicates any single character. Examples: ??.c any two letter file with a .c extension ??now*.c would match xynowben.c *.zip any filename with a .zip extension *.?? any filename with a two letter extension