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- Version 1.1 of ZiPMe
-
- This is ZiPMe, a 32-bit multithreaded zip shell for the Presentation Manager
- of OS/2 2.x that helps you to manage zip archives of the INFO-zip versions
- zip.exe 1.9 and unzip.exe 5.0. Newer ZIP versions can be used, if there is no
- change in the command line arguments. The files zip.exe and unzip.exe must be
- in a directory with a path set on it in the config.sys.
-
- ZiPMe is compiled by the emx gcc version 0.8h. Put emx.dll (copyright by
- Eberhardt Mattes), the runtime library of the emx gcc, in a directory with a
- libpath set on it in the config.sys. If you have an older version of emx.dll,
- you should replace it by this one that comes with ZiPMe.
-
- I would like to pick up a nice idea from Maurizio Sartori Masar, the author
- of TWCP.
- If you like ZiPMe, please send me a postcard with a photo of your city
- (address at the end of this file).
-
- I hope some of 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 this file
- emx.dll the runtime library or the emx compiler; put it in a
- directory with a libpath on it
- german\zipme.exe the german version of zipme
- german\zipme.hlp the german help file of zipme
- english\zipme.exe the english version of zipme
- english\zipme.hlp the english help file of zipme
-
- These files are made of zipme:
- zipme.ini in this file the settings of ZiPMe are saved
- zipme.1 ... zipme.999 temporary files of zipme which are usually deleted
- when zipme is ended. If you see some of these files
- after zipme has been ended, perhaps because zipme
- crashed, you can delete them
-
-
- 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 actual archive.
-
- - You can now change and save the standard settings of the Add and Extract
- dialogs in a new dialog from the menu item Save Settings.
-
- - The font of the text window of the view dialog is now saved, if you save
- settings.
-
- - ZiPMe now supports pathnames and zipfilenames which contain blanks.
- But ZiPMe DOESN'T support zipped files with blanks in their pathname
- or filename, because Zip and Unzip have a LOT of problems with these
- files. So please don't use ZiPMe with zipfiles which have such files
- in it and don't add such files with ZiPMe to an archive !!!
-
- - The -k option is now supported in the Add dialog. This means that you now
- can create zipfiles that can be read and extracted by PKZIP.
-
- - The size of the actual zipfile is now shown in the status line.
-
- - some small bugs have been fixed
-
-
- Changes and bug fixes in Version 1.01
- -------------------------------------
-
- - the zipme.ini and the temporary files now are placed in the directory
- from which zipme.exe has been loaded and not in the current work directory
- ( many thanks to Kai Uwe Rommel from MÃ…nchen, who showed me how to get the
- directory from which ZiPMe has been loaded )
-
- - the english help file has been corrected
- ( many thanks to Peter Landstreet from Toronto, who corrected the help file )
-
- - problems with long pathnames have been solved
-
- - problems with repainting the statusline have been solved
-
- - behavior of extracting files has been changed:
- if no path has been given of the option "Create directory with name of
- archive" has been activated the extracted files and directories now are
- placed in the actual work directory and not in the root as they have been
- in Version 1.0
-
- - directory handling for extracting files has been optimized
- ( My question to the programmers of unzip.exe:
- Why didn't you have added the options to pass the files you want to extract
- in a filelist file as you can do for zip.exe and to give a target directory
- where to extract the files as you can do for pkunzip.exe. This would make
- a lot of things much easier. )
-
-
- Thanks to all who sent me comments and suggestions about ZiPMe. Because this
- is my first PM program (I just did it to learn how to make a PM program) and
- the first program I uploaded to the Internet, I didn't expect such a feedback.
- I am happy that you like my program so much.
-
-
- Peter Eggert
- An Schormanns Busch 20
- 32107 Bad Salzuflen
- Germany
-
- eMail: eggert@uni-paderborn.de