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- Version 1.01 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 0.8g. 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.
-
- ZiPMe is a bit like PMZip. I needed a zip shell for zip and unzip and not for
- pkzip and pkunzip and so i wrote ZiPMe. I think it is a little bit more
- modern because it has a button bar and it is multithreaded that means you
- can extract some large archives and at the same time you can create a new
- one and view files in another one.
-
- 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
- hlp2inf.cmd a rexx script that makes an inf file of a hlp file
- you can make a zipme.inf of the zipme.hlp file with it
- 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 fonts and window size and positon
- is 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 to Version 1.0
-
- - 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 München, 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