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- Installation, Update and
- Uninstall Instructions for
- FlashPoint Windows UnZIP95
- ---------------------------------
- SHAREWARE/EVALUATION COPY ONLY
- PRE-RELEASE 2.04.00.00
- December, 1995
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-
-
-
- This is the latest version of FlashPoint UnZIP95 (tm) -- the only
- Completely Simple (tm) solution for managing zipped files under
- Microsoft Windows95.
-
-
- ===============================================================
- The file UNZIP95S.EXE is a self extracting Windows archive file
- which must be expanded to a temporary directory on your hard
- drive before FPSETUP.EXE can be run.
- ===============================================================
-
- To install this product on your system, do the following:
-
- 1. Make a backup copy of your REG.DAT and any existing FPZIP.INI
- files -- BEFORE RUNNING FPSETUP.EXE.
-
- 2. Close any running Windows95 Explorer windows. The setup program
- installs a new Explorer Shell Extension (UNZIP95.DLL), and if
- you are already running an old version of this DLL it should be
- replaced with the new version. If the new file is copied over a
- copy currently in use by Explorer, your system will become
- unstable and you may experience some Protection or other errors;
- this problem is cured, if it occurs, by simply exiting and then
- restarting Windows95. If Windows95 refuses to let you overwrite
- the UNZIP95.DLL or any other file, exit to DOS and manually copy
- same from the tempory directory to the applicable target
- directory (see, FP_NEWS!.WRI or the Windows95 Help file for a
- description of where each file is installed).
-
- 3. Run UNZIP95S.EXE (e.g., by double-clicking on the file's name
- in Explorer or File Manager, or using the "Run" command available
- in the Start Menu, File Menu of Windows' Program or File Manager,
- or other shell utility). This will expand all installation files
- to a user specified temporary directory. If you're reading this
- message, you've already completed this step.
-
- 4. Run FPSETUP.EXE (e.g., by double-clicking on the file's name
- in Explorer or File Manager, or using the "Run" command available
- in the Start Menu, File Menu of Windows' Program or File Manager,
- or other shell utility). This will start the FlashPoint Windows
- ZIP Setup program. This application is loaded automatically, in
- normal installations, if you ran UNZIP95S.EXE as stated in Step 3,
- above.
-
- 5. Answer the prompts that display on your screen as FPSETUP runs.
-
- 6. Add the FlashPoint UnZIP95 application directory path to the
- "PATH=" statement in your DOS AUTOEXEC.BAT file, if the
- applications were not installed in an existing directory
- referenced in your AUTOEXEC.BAT "PATH=" statement.
-
- 7. Exit to DOS, reboot your computer and then reload Windows95, so
- that the new settings will take effect.
-
- 8. Delete all files in the temporary directory from which you
- installed this product.
-
- 9. If you click on the "UnZIP95 Help" icon in Explorer, My Computer,
- or other folder, window or menu item, and get a error message that
- Windows95 cannot find the UNZIP95.HLP file, you will need to
- revise the current target path name. Generally, the target path
- can be corrected via a "Properties" Setup panel. Simply open the
- properties dialog and delete the incorrect path, leaving only the
- filename "UNZIP95.HLP" -- this file is located in the Windows95
- system directory which Windows95 automatically searches (so you
- need not enter the actual target directory).
- right
- click on the icon
-
- Quick Start for Working with Existing Zip Archives
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- When UnZIP95 is correctly installed, a simple click of the right mouse
- button, on a file with a ZIP extension, in an Explorer window will display
- the new Explorer context menu. You can then select a new menu item, such
- as Unzip, Check Integrity, Display Comment or Properties, to begin using
- UnZIP95.
-
- By default, the FlashPoint UnZIP95 Setup program, if used to install
- UnZIP95, recognizes all files having a "ZIP" file extension as FlashPoint
- Zip archive files, and assigns a new custom ZIP archive icon to each file.
-
- To optimize UnZIP95's features on your system, refer to the applicable
- shell or file manager application's user manual, or to the Microsoft
- Windows95 User Guide, for information on how to associate files and use
- the new Windows95 Registration Database.
-
-
- Uninstalling UnZIP95 Files
- --------------------------
-
- To remove the UnZIP95 files and configurations from a user's system,
- simply reverse the manual installation steps, by removing the appropriate
- settings from the WINFILE.INI and REG.DAT files and deleting the specified
- UNZIP95 files from the user's disk.
-
- UnZIP95 may be manually uninstalled, by following these steps:
-
- 1. Delete the application files (those ending with the file
- extension "EXE") and the help files (those ending with the
- file extension "HLP"), from the user's system. These files
- include the following filenames:
-
- fpzxx32.exe
- unzip95.exe
- unzip95.hlp
-
- These files may be located in the Windows95 directory, the
- Windows95 System directory or a directory that is accessible
- through the DOS PATH setting. Their exact location depends
- on how the product was originally installed.
-
- 2. Delete the dynamic link libraries and resource files (those
- ending with the file extension "DLL"), from the user's system.
- These files include the following filenames:
-
- unzip95.dll
-
- These files may be located in the Windows95 directory, the
- Windows95 System directory or a directory that is accessible
- through the DOS PATH setting. Their exact location depends
- on how the product was originally installed.
-
- 3. Also delete the UnZIP95 files from the user designated
- UnZIP95 directory (specified by the user when FPSETUP.EXE was
- run). These files may include the following:
-
- readme.txt
- fp_news!.wri
- compusrv.txt
- cis.ico
- discount.txt
-
- 4. If you made a backup copy of the REG.DAT file, you can simply
- recopy the old backup copy over the new version (provided,
- you have not made any additional modifications to your system
- since installing UnZIP95). Otherwise, you will have to
- manually edit same as indicated below.
-
- Experienced users may modify applicable sections of the
- REG.DAT file, removing all references to "UnZIP95." In
- Windows95, you must edit the REG.DAT file, using the
- Registration Info Editor (REGEDIT.EXE) program. See, the
- Microsoft Windows95 User's Guide, for instructions on the
- Registration Database.
-
- The UNZIP95.REG files contains references to all lines
- added to the Windows95 REG.DAT file. These lines may
- be deleted by experienced users using the REGEDIT
- applications, search and delete capabilities. Note,
- however, that other third-party and FlashPoint Windows
- applications and utilities, including FlashPoint Zip
- Navigator ("ZipNAV"), also rely on these REG.DAT entries;
- thus, deleting these lines can also disable other utilities
- (and even Windows95 itself).
-
-