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- Drag And Zip version 2.10
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- PKZIP version 2 Support
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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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
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- 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.
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- Other New Features
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- 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.
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