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┌────────────────────────┐ │ PREPZIP 1.60 │ └────────────────────────┘ A HOTware Utility from Rob Roesch Copyright 1991 HOTware. All Rights Reserved. Version 1.50, July, 1991 HOTware Rt 7 Box 566 Mocksville, NC 27028 VOICE (704) 492-2023 MODEM (704) 492-2081 (USRobotics V.32 9600) ┌──────────────┐ │ Notice │ └──────────────┘ THIS IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE and may not be sold without the author's express written permission. If you have paid a "public domain" vendor for this program, rest as- sured that not one bit of what you paid ever gets back to the author. If you use this program, YOU SHOULD REGISTER. Some of the terms used in this document and programs used in conjunction with PrepZip are trademarks of the following: PKZIP.EXE Copyright PKWARE Inc. by Phil Katz (Current Ver 1.10) PKUNZIP.EXE Copyright PKWARE Inc. by Phil Katz (Current Ver 1.10) PKUNPAK.EXE Copyright PKWARE Inc. by Phil Katz (Current Ver 3.61) PKPAK.EXE Copyright PKWARE Inc. by Phil Katz (Current Ver 3.61) PKXARC.COM Copyright PKWARE Inc. by Phil Katz (Current Ver 3.5) PKARC.COM Copyright PKWARE Inc. by Phil Katz (Current Ver 3.5) LHA.EXE Copyright Haruyasu Yoshizaki (Current Ver 2.13) PAK.EXE Copyright Nogate Consulting (Current Ver 2.51) ARJ.EXE Copyright Robert K Jung (Current Ver 2.20) ZOO.EXE Copyright Rahul Dhesi (Current Ver 2.01) SCAN.EXE Copyright McAffee Associates (Current Ver 80 ) ┌──────────────┐ │ Registration │ └──────────────┘ The non-commercial single-user registration fee for PrepZip is $10.00 US. The commercial and multi system site fee is $50.00 for PrepZip. If you would like to receive the latest version of PrepZip on diskette at the time of registration, please add $3.00 to the above stated registration amounts. Send a check or money order, of the appropriate amount to: HOTware Rt 7 Box 566 Mocksville, NC 27028 All registrations must also include a completed registration information form. The registration form will be found in the PREPZIP archive. The form is named PZREG.FRM. After registration is received you will receive the required CRC's to unlock all functions and remove all instances of "UNREGISTERED" and associated delays from the PrepZip program. ┌──────────────┐ │ Validation │ └──────────────┘ The results of running VALIDATE from McAfee Associates on PrepZip. These Results are **BEFORE** any configuration has been done on on PrepZip. Any configuration **WILL** alter these results. VALIDATE 0.3 Copyright 1988-89 by McAfee Associates. (408) 998-3832 File Name: prepzip.exe Size: 111,728 Date: 9-9-1991 File Authentication: Check Method 1 - B117 Check Method 2 - 19E5 ┌─────────────┐ │ Purpose │ └─────────────┘ PrepZip is a utility that serves the following functions for anyone that processes multiple "ARCHIVED" files on a regular basis. PrepZip will perform the following functions on any LZH,ARC,PAK,SDN,ARJ, ZOO or ZIP archive. 1. Checks all files extracted form the original "ARCHIVE" for Virus's with SCAN.EXE from McAfee associates. 2. Creates a new "ARCHIVE" from the files contained within the original "ARCHIVE". The newly created archive does not have to be the same format as the original. You can convert to ZIP, ARC,ARJ,LZH,ZOO,or PAK. 3. If converting to ZIP or ARJ format you may optionally add a personal comment to the newly created archive. (Registered Version Only) 4. Optionally update GT Power's FILES.BBS description file. PrepZip will work with any version of GT Power ie 15.00 or 16.00 version FILES.BBS format. 5. Move a file and its description to another directory. 6. Optionally remove unwanted files from Archives. ┌─────────────┐ │ Intro │ └─────────────┘ PrepZip was designed to aid primarily Sysops, or anyone else that processes multiple "archive" formats, to easily check files for virus's, recompress the files with the archiver of your choice and optionally apply a "Archive Comment" (if converting to ZIP format). PrepZip should be able to detect almost any kind of errors that could occur, short of disk errors, memory errors, or power failure. Prepzip will create a work directory on the configured "Work Disk" named PZ_WRK_1. If you already have a directory named this on your "Work Disk" all files will be deleted from it automatically, and the directory will be removed at the end of execution. Please verify that you do not have a directory by this name (if you want to keep it's contents). ┌─────────────┐ │Configuration│ └─────────────┘ The first time that PrepZip is run, or at anytime that the configuration cannot be found, PrepZip will automatically enter configuration mode. To manually put PrepZip into config mode enter PREPZIP CONFIG on the command line. PrepZip's configuration consists of a two page menu driven listing of options. Page 1 looks like the following...... ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Prepzip 1.60 ║ ║ Enter Number of Item to Change ║ ║ ║ ║ 1. Registered Name : UNREGISTERED ║ ║ 2. Registered CRC : 0000-0000 3. Work Disk: C: ║ ║ 4. FILES.BBS Style : NO UPDATE 5. Screen Writes: DIRECT ║ ║ 6. Default Options : NONE 7. Rearchive Type: .ZIP ║ ║ 8. Comment File : NONE ║ ║ 9. Error Log is : NONE ║ ║ A. Unwanted List : NONE ║ ║ ║ ║ S)ave and Exit, [ESC] to abort changes, D)OS Shell, PgDn Screen 2 ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ All configurations shown in this document represent PrepZip's DEFAULT CONFIGURATION. Now for a discussion of each of these options........ 1. Registered Name: This is the name that you will used for Registration when you Register Prepzip. Without a valid CRC this field will remain UNREGISTERED. See the Registration section of this document for Registration Instructions. 2. Registered CRC : You will receive a Registration CRC to unlock all of PrepZip's features and eliminate all those annoying delays when you send in your Registration Form. The CRC is used in conjunction with the Registered Name option. See the Registration section of this document for Registration Instructions. 3. Work Disk: This is the letter of the Drive on which you wish PrepZip to create it's work directory. PrepZip will create a directory named PZ_WRK_1 off the root directory of the selected disk. It is advised that this disk be either a Hard Disk or a Ram Disk due to slow access speeds of floppy disks. You should also select a disk with plenty of free space. DO NOT SELECT A DISK WITH A DIRECTORY NAMED 'PZ_WRK_1'. ALL FILES IN THE DIRECTORY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DELETED AND THE DIRECTORY REMOVED AFTER EVERY EXECUTION! 4. FILES.BBS Style: This option pertains to the FILES.BBS file as used by the GT Power HOST. FILES.BBS is a description file for files in a particular file download area. Since there are two styles (depending on the version of GT) of FILES.BBS listings, the style must be specified here. When this option is selected you will have the three choices from a 'mini menu'. This 'mini menu' will look like this...... Please Select your FILES.BBS Style 1. NO UPDATING 2. Single Date, Single Line Description 3. Dual Date, Multiple Line Descriptions ─ [ ] Selecting '1' will force PrepZip to NEVER update a FILES.BBS listing. If you never wish to create or update this listing then please select '1'. Selecting '2' will force PrepZip to use the GT Power Files.BBS format used in all versions prior to 15.50 whenever updating or creating is selected from the command line. This is known as Single Date/Desc. The format is as follows...... Filename Size ARC Description In K Date (One Line Max) ──────── ────── ──────── ──────────────────────────────────────────────── TEST.ZIP 2 7-07-91 Description Goes Here (1 Line Maximum) Selecting '3' will force PrepZip to use the GT Power Files.BBS format used in all versions 15.50 and above whenever updating or creating is selected from the command line. This is known as Multi Date/Desc. The format is as follows...... FileName Actual Size ARC Internal Description Date Date (Multi Line) ────────── ─────────── ───────── ───────── ─────────────────────────────── TEST.ZIP 1718 7-07-91 6-23-91 The Description Goes Here, |Multiple lines may be used for the description. 5. Screen Writes: This option will force PrepZip to use Direct screen writing (directly to video ram), or use Bios Writes. If you plan on using PrepZip remotely over a modem link you MUST have this option to BIOS. Why a choice? Direct screen writing is MUCH faster and more efficient. 6. Default Options: This option will allow you to select those command line options that you ALWAYS use on the command line. This option will allow you to avoid some typing on the command line each time you wish to run PrepZip. PrepZip will not recognize all of it's possible parameters from this option however. The available options for the default are /Q /R /U /C. See the Command Line Option section for more details on these options. 7. Rearchive Type : What kind of Archive do you want to convert to? You have 6 options. You may create a ZIP,LZH,ARC,ARJ ZOO,or PAK archive. These archiver pathnames are configured under page 2 of the configuration. For details see below..... 8. Comment File: This is a plain ASCII file limited to 80 characters in width. This file can contain information about your BBS or anything you would like to put into it. This option will only work if you are creating a ZIP or ARJ archive. PKZIP or ARJ are the only archivers that will comment with this method. Anytime anyone UNZIPS or UNARJs the file you create, this comment will be displayed to them. As an example, here is the Comment file that is attached to all zip files processed here...... ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓╔═══════════════════════════════╗▓▓▓▓▓▓▓╔══════════════════════════╗▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓║ The HOTware BBS ║▓▓▓▓▓▓▓║ Rob Roesch GT 064/003 ║▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓║ 160 Meg, 24 hrs. ║▓▓▓▓▓▓▓║ Phone: (704) 492-2081 ║▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓║ Mocksville, NC's FIRST BBS !! ║▓▓▓▓▓▓▓║ Modem 1200/2400/9600 N81 ║▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓╚═══════════════════════════════╝▓▓▓▓▓▓▓╚══════════════════════════╝▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓╔══════════════════════════════════════════════╗▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓║ USRobotics 14.4K V.32bis Dual Standard ║▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓╚══════════════════════════════════════════════╝▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓║ This File Passed SCAN.EXE checks and was Zipped with PKZIP 1.10 ║▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓║ Using the NEW PrepZip Utility from HOTware ║▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ You are more than welcome to modify this comment file to suit your needs. If you do not wish to add a comment to your files, simply enter NONE into the configuration of your Comment File. 9. Error Log: Just what it says. The full path and name of the file you want prepzip to log errors to. If you want a file called PREPZIP.ERR in the root directory of C: just enter C:\PREPZIP.ERR. Once again if you do not want ot have a Error Log simply enter NONE into the configuration of your Error Log. A. Unwanted List: This is a new option. You can now create a text file that contains a listing of filenames that you would like removed from Archives. Following is an example... C:\>TYPE DEL_LIST.TXT READ-ME.TXT BBD-ADD.TXT CALL_US.NOW README.* COME_C.US C:\> Notice that each file is on a separate line and STARTS IN COLUMN ONE. This is very important! Also notice the filename README.*, yes PrepZip WILL delete all occurrences of README with ANY extension. Please be careful with this file. If you place *.* on a line by itself, PrepZip will delete EVERY file out of the archive, no questions asked. You have the capability of deleting any files that you want, but at the same time you have the capability of deleting files that you DON'T want deleted. Use with caution. S)ave and Exit: This one is easy. If you hit 'S' PrepZip saves your changes and exits immediately. [ESC] to abort changes: If you decide not to save your changes hit ESC D)OS Shell: Forget the name of something? Shell out of you configuration and find what you need. Typing EXIT from the DOS prompt will return you to PrepZip. PgDn Screen 2: As stated previously PrepZip has a two page configuration. Pressing the PAGE DOWN key takes you to configuration page 2. Now for that discussion. Page 2 looks like the following...... ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Prepzip 1.60 ║ ║ Archiver Name and Path Configuration ║ ║ ║ ║ 1. .ZIP Archiver : PKZIP.EXE ║ ║ 2. .ZIP UNArchiver : PKUNZIP.EXE ║ ║ 3. .ARC Archiver : PKPAK.EXE ║ ║ 4. .ARC UNArchiver : PKUNPAK.EXE ║ ║ 5. .LZH Arc/Unarchiver : LHA.EXE ║ ║ 6. .ARJ Arc/Unarchiver : ARJ.EXE ║ ║ 7. .ZOO Arc/Unarchiver : ZOO.EXE ║ ║ 8. .PAK Arc/Unarchiver : PAK.EXE ║ ║ ║ ║ PgUp Scrn 1, PgDn Scrn 3, S)ave/Exit, D)OS Shell, [ESC] Abort Changes ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ 1. .ZIP Archiver : The name of the Archiving program to ZIP .ZIP archives. If this program is not in the DOS Path you must enter the full pathname into the configuration. 2. .ZIP UNArchiver : The name of the Archiving program to UNZIP .ZIP archives. If this program is not in the DOS Path you must enter the full pathname into the configuration. 3. .ARC Archiver : The name of the Archiving program to ARC .ARC archives. If this program is not in the DOS Path you must enter the full pathname into the configuration. 4. .ARC UNArchiver : The name of the Archiving program to UNARC .ARC archives. If this program is not in the DOS Path you must enter the full pathname into the configuration. 5. .LZH Arc/UNArciver : The name of the Archiving program to process .LZH archives. If this program is not in the DOS Path you must enter the full pathname into the configuration. 6. .ARJ Arc/UNArciver : The name of the Archiving program to process .ARJ archives. If this program is not in the DOS Path you must enter the full pathname into the configuration. 7. .ZOO Arc/UNArciver : The name of the Archiving program to process .ZOO archives. If this program is not in the DOS Path you must enter the full pathname into the configuration. 8. .PAK Arc/UNArciver : The name of the Archiving program to process .PAK archives. If this program is not in the DOS Path you must enter the full pathname into the configuration. PgUp Scrn 1 As stated previously PrepZip has a three page configuration. Pressing the PAGE UP key takes you to configuration page 1. PgDn Scrn 3 Continue on to configuration Page 3. Now for that discussion...... ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ Prepzip 1.60 ║ ║ Virus Scanner Configuration ║ ║ ║ ║ 1. Virus Scanner : SCAN.EXE ║ ║ 2. Initial Run Options : /A ║ ║ 3. Sequential Run Opts : /NOMEM /A ║ ║ ║ ║ Virus Scanner ErrorLevels ║ ║ ║ ║ 4. Normal Exit: 0 5.Virus Detected: 1 6.Abnormal Exit: 2 ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ PgUp Screen 2, S)ave and Exit, D)OS Shell, [ESC] Abort Changes ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ The third and final screen of PrepZip's configuration allows for complete configuration of your Virus Scanner/Locator. You can now configure PrepZip to use most ANY virus scanner, rather than just using SCAN.EXE from McAfee Associates. SCAN.EXE is still the default however. Now lets discuss the options you have, and the defaults provided. 1. Virus Scanner: This is simply the full path and name of your virus scanner. Full Pathnames are not necessary if it is in your DOS Path. The default is SCAN.EXE (McAfee). 2. Initial Run Opts: These are the command line parameters to pass to your Virus Scanner on the FIRST execution. These options will be passed ONLY on the first execution. The default settings tell SCAN.EXE to scan ALL FILES AND DO A MEMORY CHECK. The Memory Scan may be removed by placing a /NOMEM here. 3. Sequential Opts: These are the command line parameters to pass to your Virus Scanner on SEQUENTIAL executions. These options will be passed on every execution EXCEPT the first one. The default settings tell SCAN.EXE to scan ALL FILES WITH NO MEMORY CHECK. The memory scan may be added by removing the /NOMEM here. Virus Scanner Errorlevels are errorlevels that your virus scanner returns under three different situations. The default is SCAN.EXE errorlevel exits. Please consult your Virus Scanner Documentation for more info on errorlevel exits. 4. Normal Exit: This is the errorlevel that your virus scanner exits with if NO VIRUS is found and nothing abnormal occurs. SCAN.EXE exits Errorlevel 0 if everything is OK. 5. Virus Detected: This is most likely the MOST IMPORTANT errorlevel of all. This is what your virus scanner exits with if a VIRUS IS DETECTED! SCAN.EXE will exit Errorlevel 1 anytime a virus is detected. 6. Abnormal Exit: This is an errorlevel that is passed if something abnormal happens, ie. Disk Errors, Memory Errors, etc. This errorlevel should not indicate a virus, just a problem. SCAN.EXE will exit Errorlevel 2 under problem circumstances. ┌─────────────┐ │ Options │ └─────────────┘ Prepzip currently recognized the following command line options: CONFIG - See Configuration section section of this document. /Q - Quiet Mode, If an error occurs, the error display and accompanying 10 second timer will not be displayed. The Error Log will be updated with the error. This option is useful for batch file usage. /R - Rearchive Only. When this option is specified PrepZIp will work as a Rearchiver ONLY and WILL NOT scan for virus. /O - Override the DEFAULT COMMAND LINE configuration. This option will effectively cause PrepZip to ignore the settings in the configuration for DEFAULT OPTIONS. /C - Update/Create FILES.BBS in the same directory as the files currently being processed. The /C Parameter will create the Files.BBS listing if it does not currently exist. Otherwise the listing will simply be updated. All updates will be in the style specified under FILES.BBS Style in the configuration. See the configuration section for further discussions on the different styles. /U - Update FILES.BBS in the same directory as the file currently being processed. The /U Parameter will update this file in the style configured for FILES.BBS style. See the configuration section for further discussions on these styles. /U WILL NOT create a FILES.BBS listing if it does not already exist. See /C for creation of FILES.BBS. /D - Force DIRECT screen writing, no matter what is configured. See the discussion concerning Direct and Bios screen writing under the configuration section. /B - Force BIOS screen writing, no matter what is configured. See the discussion concerning Direct and Bios screen writing under the configuration section. /I - Ignore The Remove List. When this option is specified PrepZip will NOT delete the files specified in the "Remove List". /T:<dir> - Transfer Archive to Another Directory. The Transfer option will move the archive to any directory specified by <DIR>. This option will not attempt to update the FILES.BBS no matter what is in the configuration. Used for moving ONLY. ie PREPZIP /T:C:\NEWFILES /M:<dir> - Update FILES.BBS then Move the Archive AND Description to the directory specified by <DIR>. If the Files.BBS style is set to NO UPDATE the /M: will work exactly like the /T: option. If Descriptions are moved, the description from the original FILES.BBS will be removed and the FILES.BBS in the new directory will have the description line appended to it. ┌─────────────┐ │ Errorlevels │ └─────────────┘ Prepzip will exit with the following errorlevels if something happens during execution. These could be useful for batch file operation: Errorlevel 0: Everything seems to have worked perfectly. All the archives were successfully Opened Scanned, Rezipped, and commented (if you configured a comment file). Errorlevel 1: Some sort of a virus was found. The archive(s) containing virus's have been renamed to VIRUS1,VIRUS2,VIRUS3, etc. respectively. See the ERROR LOG for more details on original filenames etc..... Errorlevel 2: Some of the Archives were unsuccessfully processed. Several instances can cause this errorlevel to be set. Duplicate file names, archiver or dearchiver not in the DOS path, Password Encrypted archive, etc. See the ERROR LOG for more details on errorlevel 2. Errorlevel 3: Insufficient parameters were given on the command line. You must enter a filename to process or CONFIG. Errorlevel 4: Unable to create Word Directory. Most likely cause is a full disk. ┌─────────────┐ │ Support │ └─────────────┘ Although Unregistered Users support will be somewhat limited, I do not want to leave them out in the cold. If you find any problems with PrepZip, would like to get registration information, or version information, I can be reached at the following.... HOTware Rob Roesch Rt 7 Box 566 Mocksville, NC 27028 VOICE (704) 492-2023 MODEM (704) 492-2081 (USRobotics V.32 9600) ┌────────────────┐ │Acknowledgements│ └────────────────┘ I would like to thank the following list of BETA testers for their support and patience. Each of these folks have had a special part of bringing about this release of PrepZip. Jim Knight Vincent Benoit Ken Kirkland Ken Opdycke Rick Schradin Dennis Ivy Dan Mancuso I would also like to give a special thank you to everyone that has registered this program. Without them version 1.60 probably would not be available today.