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Drag And Zip version 2.10
You have received a copy of Drag And Zip version 2.10. Features new to
version 2 that are not mentioned in the manual are:
Explicit support for PKZIP version 2
Improved file viewer with font selection and optional word wrap.
Common dialog boxes for easy selection of directories when
Zipping and unZipping
Easy check boxes and radio buttons for selecting Zip/unZip options
Drag And Zip's Zip file viewer, Zip View, now has drag and drop
support so that files can be dragged to it for viewing. This is
particularly useful for viewing self-extracting Zip files that you
can't double click on.
PKZIP version 2 menu option
You will find a new menu option in the "Settings" menu of Zip View and
the system menu of Drag And Zip. This option says "PKZIP version 2".
There will be a check next to this option if your copy of Drag And Zip
is set up for PKZIP version 2. You can click on this option to check or
uncheck it, and turn on and off the version 2 support.
PKZIP Location menu option
If you want to change the location of PKZIP on your computer, you need
to let Drag And Zip know where it is. You can do that in Zip View by
choosing the "PKZIP Location" menu option from the "Settings menu". You
will find the same option in Drag And Zip's system menu. You need to
change it in only one program, Drag And Zip or Zip View. It is not
enough to edit your DZ.INI file to show the new location of PKZIP
because the PIF files need to be modified also.
PKZIP version 2 Support
During installation, Drag And Zip will try to determine if the copy of
PKZIP that you have is version 2. If Drag And Zip thinks that it is,
it will prompt you with a dialog box to confirm it. Then when you run
Drag And Zip, the dialog boxes presented to you when Zipping and
unZipping will show options particular to PKZIP version 2.
The current version of PKZIP is 2.04e. PKWARE has made every effort to
make it run well under Windows. However, if problems occur, they have
provided a number trouble shooting options that can be turned off or on.
These options are:
Turn off usage of DPMI
Turn off usage of 80386 instructions
Turn off usage of EMS or XMS
Turn off network detection
Use a slower method of memory copy
To make your initial use of Drag And Zip trouble free with PKZIP version
2, these options are automatically turned off when Drag And Zip is
installed.
Other New Features
I've tried very hard to make this new version very easy to use, but
still retain the flexibility of earlier versions. I've provided easy
check boxes and combo boxes for choosing common PKZIP/PKUNZIP
configurations. However, I've retained the "Command line arguments"
field in the Zip and UnZip dialogs to allow you to enter any combination
that you please. The Zip and UnZip dialogs look pretty much the same,
however, they now contain a "Browse Arguments" button next to the
"Command line arguments" field. Clicking on this button, will pop up a
second dialog box where there are Combo Boxes for choosing compression
options and Zipping to multiple disks (a PKZIP version 2 option), and
check boxes for other popular arguments. For those of you running PKZIP
version 2, there are check boxes to turn on and off all of PKZIP's
"trouble shooting" options. These options are turned off by default.
Besides the OK and Cancel buttons, there is a "Save As Default" button
that will save the options for future sessions of Drag And Zip. If you
choose OK from the "Browse Arguments" dialog, the options that you have
chosen will appear in the "Command line arguments" field in the
Zip/UnZip dialog. At any time, you can modify what's in that field.
Whatever arguments are in that field when you click on OK will be the
ones given to PKZIP and PKUNZIP.