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Drag And Zip version 1.6
Zip Utilities for Windows 3.1 File Manager
What is Drag And Zip.
Drag And Zip is a set or utilities that make Windows 3.1 file manager
into a complete shell for Zipping and unZipping files.
Drag And Zip makes is very easy to run PKZIP and compress groups
of files from any Windows file manager that supports "Drag and Drop".
To make a Zip file with Drag And Zip you merely "drag" files from the
file manager and "drop" them on the Drag And Zip icon, fill out a dialog
box with the Zip filename and destination directory, and Drag And Zip
will run PKZIP on them automatically.
Viewing the contents of a Zip file is as easy as double clicking on the
file listing in file manager. The Drag And Zip Zip file viewer, Zip View
will automatically be loaded and will you show you the contents of the
Zip file. You can tag any group of files in Zip View for extraction or
deletion. You can view any file with Zip View's built in file viewer or
the file viewer or your choice and you can temporarily extract any file
from the Zip file and run it if it is a program or run the program
associated with it. If you make modifications to the extracted file, you
will also have the opportunity to replace the older file currently in the
Zip file with the modified one.
Also part of the Drag And Zip utilities is Fileman Launcher. You can
use this program to run File Manager and Drag And Zip together.
When you exit File Manager, Drag And Zip will automatically be closed
at the same time. If you have other utilities that you like to run with
File Manager you can also add them to Fileman Launcher and they will
be run also. When you exit File Manager, Fileman Launcher will
attempt to close those programs too.
New to version 1.6 is the option to have the Drag And Zip ICON visible
at all times so you never have it covered by other applications.
Along with Drag And Zip you need to be running Windows 3.1 or better
and have your own copies of PKZIP and PKUNZIP. The Drag And Zip
Zip viewer can be used to show you the contents of a Zip file but if you
want to extract any files you will need your own copy of PKUNZIP.
File Listing
A complete copy of the Drag And Zip utilities should include the
following files:
DRAGNZIP.EXE - The Drag And Zip program
ZIPVIEW.EXE - The Zip file viewing Program
FMLAUNCH.EXE - The Fileman Launcher program
DZSETUP.EXE - Setup program for Drag And Zip
DRAGNZIP.WRI - Documentation for Drag And Zip in Windows
Write format
DRAGNZIP.TXT - Documentation for Drag And Zip in ASCII
format
REGFORM.WRI - Registration form for Drag And Zip in
Windows Write format.
REGFORM.TXT - Registration form for Drag And Zip in ASCII
format
DZ$.BAT - Batch file to run PKZIP and PKUNZIP
DZ.PIF - PIF file for PKZIP
ZV$.BAT - Batch file for running PKUNZIP in the
background
ZV.PIF - PIF file for unzipping files in the background
ZV1.PIF - PIF for unzipping files in a window
DZ.INI - INI file for Drag And Zip
FMLAUNCH.INI - INI file for Fileman Launcher
Installing Drag And Zip
Installation of Drag And Zip and Zip View is very easy with the setup
program provided. From Program Manager, choose "File" from the
menu bar and then choose "Run" from the pull down menu. In the
dialog box type the full path where the files are and the program name
DZSETUP.EXE. For example if I were installing from drive A:, I would
enter "A:\DZSETUP.EXE". If I were installing from the "DZ" directory
of drive C:, I would enter "C:\DZ\DZSETUP.EXE".
The setup program will ask you what drive and directory you are
installing Drag And Zip from and what drive and directory you would
like to install them to. If the source path is different from the
destination path, all files will be copied over to the new path. If they
are the same, the installation program will assume that you just want
to modify the installation. The setup program will then ask you where
your copies of PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE are. Setup will then
ask you for permission to add a line to the "extensions" section of your
"WIN.INI" file so Windows file manager will know to run Zip View when
you double click on a Zip file.
If you choose not to have "WIN.INI" modified, you can still run Zip View
from its Icon in Program Manager and use Zip View's "File" menu to
load Zip files.
The DZSetup program will then create a program group called Drag
And Zip and put the Drag And Zip, Zip View and Fileman Launcher
icons in it. DZSetup will then give you the opportunity to have Drag
And Zip load automatically when you start Windows. That way its icon
will always be at the bottom of your screen when you need it. If you
don't choose this option you can use Fileman Launcher to run File
Manager and Drag And Zip together. When you exit File Manager,
Drag And Zip will exit too. You can also choose to run Drag And Zip
from its icon in Program Manager.
Using Drag And Zip
When you run Drag And Zip, it will load and show its zipper icon at the
bottom left of your screen. Drag And Zip must be running for you to
use it. It will not work if you try to drag files to its icon in Program
Manager. If you are constantly covering the Drag And Zip icon with
other applications and then can't find it when you need it, you can
choose to make the Drag And Zip icon visible all the time. To do this,
first load Drag And Zip. Then, click on its icon and bring up the menu.
Click on the last selection in the menu, "Always Visible". That will
cause the Drag And Zip Icon to show through anything that is trying to
cover it. You can turn that option off the same way. Click on the Drag
And Zip icon and bring up the menu. You will notice that there is now
a check before the choice "Always Visible". Click again on "Always
Visible" and Drag And Zip will stop peeking through applications that
are covering it. The state of the Always Visible option will be saved
when you exit Drag And Zip and will become active the next time you
run Drag And Zip.
When you want to create a Zip file, run File Manager or any file
manager that supports Drag and Drop and tag the files that you want
to Zip. Than hold the mouse down on one of the tagged files. The
mouse cursor will become a white rectangle with a "+" on it. Move the
mouse without taking your finger off the left button to the Drag And Zip
icon. While you are moving the mouse, the cursor will become a circle
with a slash through it. When the cursor is over the Drag And Zip icon,
it will once more become a white rectangle with a "+" on it.
Let go of the mouse button. The Drag And Zip dialog box will pop up
asking you for a name for the Zip file that you want to create. You will
also have the opportunity to add additional command line arguments
and specify a directory where you want the Zip file to be created.
When you choose "OK", Drag And Zip will run PKZIP and create the
Zip file. If you are running Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode, PKZIP will
be run in a window. If you are running in standard mode, PKZIP will
be run as a DOS application in full screen. To simply compress the
files with PKZIP, you will not have to enter anything on the Arguments
line. If you do want to specify special command line arguments, you
can click on the "Args" button to pop up a dialog box with a listing of
arguments.
The window that PKZIP is running in will stay open until you press a
key so you will be able to see any messages output by PKZIP.
If you are creating a Zip file in the same directory as the files you
dragged, File Manager will not automatically update the screen to
show it. You will have to click on a different directory and then click on
the original directory to get File Manager to update its display.
Using Zip View the Drag And Zip Zip file viewer
The easiest way to use Zip View is to double click on a ZIP file in
Windows 3.1 File Manager or any file manager that supports Drag and
Drop. If you've let the setup program put an association line in your
WIN.INI or if you've put one in yourself, Zip View will be run and will
show a file listing of the contents of the Zip File in a window. The
listing will have the file name, the size in bytes, the date and time of
the file, the compression method used and if there is a stored directory
name, Zip View will show that also. You don't have to close the Zip
View window to view another Zip file. Just double click on another Zip
file and Zip view will show it.
There are five buttons across the top of the screen. You can click the
mouse on them or use the Alt key and the underlined letter on the
button. Clicking on a file will move the highlight bar to that file. You
can tag any in one of three ways.
1. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the file with the left mouse
button.
2. Click on the file with the right mouse button.
3. First, highlight the file and then press the space bar.
4. First, highlight the file and press the left arrow key.
You can untag the file by doing the same procedure on a tagged file.
A tagged file will have a red arrow at the front of its listing. Like File
Manager, Zip View lets you tag a group of files by holding down the
Shift key and clicking on a file. You can also tag and untag files with
the Right and Left Arrow keys respectively. Use the Ctrl key with the
arrow keys to tag and untag all the files. Double clicking on a file will
extract it and run it if it is a "COM", or "EXE" file or run the program
that you have associated with the file if it is a data file. For example if
you clicked on CHESS.BMP, Zip View would extract CHESS.BMP
from the parent Zip file and then check what program you have
associated with it. Most likely, you have Windows Paintbrush as the
association file. Zip View will run the associated program and load up
CHESS.BMP. as an argument. When you close the associated
program or if the file was a program, exit the program, Zip View will
delete the file. Before deleting the file, Zip View will check if it has
been modified. If it has been modified, you can have Zip View replace
the older version of the file in the Zip file with the newer modified one.
Simply click on OK when Zip View asks you if you want to put the
modified file back into the Zip file.
View
The first button is "View". Clicking on this or pressing "Alt-V" will have
Zip View extract the file from the Zip File and load up a file viewer so
you can see the contents of the file. Unlike previous versions of Zip
View. This version has its own built in file viewer which can accept
files of unlimited length. If you would rather use another viewer, add
the statement
"viewer=<path and viewer program name>" under the zipvu
heading in the DZ.INI file found in your Drag And Zip directory. When
you close the viewer the file you are viewing will be deleted. If you
want the file extracted permanently, you must choose the extract
button from the button bar.
Delete
You can delete any file or group of tagged files from the Zip file by
clicking on the "Delete" button or pressing "Alt-D". Zip View
accomplishes this by running PKZIP with the "-d" option.
Run
Clicking on "Run" or pressing "Alt-R" will extract any "EXE" or "COM"
file from the Zip file and run it.
Path/CRC"
You can toggle the display to show either the path or the CRC number
for each files in the Zip file by clicking on the "Path/CRC button.
Extract
To extract (unzip) files from a Zip file, choose the "Extract" button
from the button bar. A dialog box will pop up in which you can enter
the Zip filename, any special command line arguments and a specific
output directory. In the Extract Dialog box there are three radio
buttons that give you the choice of extracting all the files, just the
tagged files, or just the highlighted file. To simply extract files with
PKUNZIP, you will not have to enter anything on the Arguments line.
If you do want to specify special command line arguments, you can
click on the "Args" button to pop up a dialog box with a listing of
arguments.
The window that PKUNZIP is running in will stay open until you press
a key so you will be able to see any messages output by PKZIP.
Change Fonts
Clicking on Fonts will bring up a standard Win 3.1 font dialog box from
which you can change the default font in Zip View.
Using Zip View Without File Manager
Zip View can also be run alone instead of from Windows File Manager.
You can use the "File\Load" menu option to choose a Zip file to view.
Using Fileman Launcher
You can have Drag And Zip run automatically when you run File
Manager by running them both with Fileman Launcher. Double
clicking on the Fileman Launcher icon will run File Manager and then
run Drag And Zip. When you exit File Manager, you will automatically
exit Drag And Zip also. Fileman Launcher comes with its own
configuration file called FMLAUNCH.INI. In it you can specify other
programs to be run with File Manager. In FMLAUNCH.INI the first
entry you will see is prog0=c:\dz\dragnzip.exe except the path for Drag
And Zip will be the one you specified when you ran DZSETUP. You
can add up to nine additional programs for Fileman Launcher to run by
listing them on separate line in FMLAUNCH.INI. The second program
will be listed as
"prog1=<path and program name>", the third as prog2= up unto prog9.
When you exit Fileman, Fileman Launcher will try to exit all of the
programs you specified. Whether Fileman Launcher can successfully
close the program depends on the way the program responds to
Fileman Launcher's exit request.
Installing Drag And Zip and Zip View Without the DZSetup
Program
I've tried to make the setup program easy to use and to make as little
changes to your Windows system files as necessary. The files install
in their own directory and have their own "INI" files. I have to make
one change to the "WIN.INI" file so File Manager will know what
program to run when you double click on a Zip file.
If, however, you'd rather manually install the programs yourself, here's
how:
1. Copy all the files to a directory on your hard disk.
2. One of these files is called "DZ.INI". The first line of DZ.INI says
"[DragAndZip]". The second line says "zippath=" and then has a path
name with an ending backslash. Change that line to have the path
where your copies of PKZIP and PKUNZIP are and make sure you put
the closing backslash on the path.
3. If you want to be able to run Zip View from Window's File Manager,
you have to add a line to WIN.INI under the "[extensions]" heading.
You can find WIN.INI in your Windows directory. The line you need to
add is "zip=C:\DZ\zipview.exe ^.ZIP". Instead of the path "C:\DZ"
substitute the path that you have put your copy of Zip View in.
Getting Help
If you have questions or problems with Drag And Zip, Zip View or
Fileman Launcher, help is free for all registered users. I can be reached
at (415) 453-9779 on CompuServe my ID is 71320,1277 or you can
write to me:
Dan Baumbach
Canyon Software
1527 Fourth St., Suite 131
San Rafael, CA 94901