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- ZC v2.10 - ZIP Commenter
- by Jeff Garzik
-
-
- Requirements
- ------------
- PC-DOS or MS-DOS v3.0 or later
- IBM or compatible machine
- At least 95k FREE RAM at time of execution
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ----------
- The program, ZC, and its associated documentation, are hereby dedicated to
- the public domain. Anyone may use this for their own personal purposes, or
- for any reason, as long as that reason doesn't include commercial
- distribution. By issuing this statement, the author disclaims any
- liability, or warranty (expressed or implied), that could or might be
- associated with this product through any circumstances. This type of
- disclaimer is prohitibed in certain states of the US, and is void in those
- states.
-
- If you wish to distribute this product with your program, or any program,
- you are free to do so, as long as due credit is given to the author, Jeff
- M. Garzik.
-
-
- Using ZC
- --------
- [d:][path]ZC [zipfile] [commentfile]
-
- [d:][path] before ZC to specify the drive and path that contains the
- ZC.EXE command file.
-
- [zipfile] after ZC to specify which .ZIP file(s) to be processed. This
- is a standard DOS path/file name, and CAN contain wildcards. If an
- extension is not specified, then the default extension of .ZIP is
- assumed.
-
- [commentfile] after zipfile to specify which ASCII TEXT file is to be
- used as the ZIP comment. This CANNOT include wildcards, and will abort
- with an error if one is specified.
-
-
- Examples
- --------
- ZC * COMMENT.FIL
- This executes ZC, with the command to process all files with the
- extension .ZIP, and replace the existing comment (if any) with the
- comment contained in COMMENT.FIL.
-
- E:\UTILITY\ZC C:\DOWNLOAD\A*.ZIP AUTOEXEC.BAT
- This executes ZC.EXE, assuming it is on drive E: and in directory
- UTILITY, with the command to process all .ZIP files that start with A in
- their filename, replacing the existing comment (if any) with all the
- text contained in AUTOEXEC.BAT in the current directory.
-
-
- Donations
- ---------
- If you like this program, PLEASE send $5 to this address:
-
- Jeff Garzik
- 117 Harrell St.
- Greenville, NC 27858
-
-
- v2.00 Benchmarks
- ----------
- 235 files (ranging from 1k to 30k):
- ZC - 41.59 seconds
- PKBANNER - 45.96 seconds
-
- 13 files (ranging from 6k to 312k):
- ZC - 2.36 seconds
- PKBANNER - 2.80 seconds
-
-
- Update History
- --------------
- 0.00 - Beta test release.
-
- 1.00 - First public release.
- Fixed memory allocation bug.
- Included command line help.
- Included documentation.
- Added support for wildcard zipfiles on command line.
- Added default extension (.ZIP) support.
-
- 1.01 - Changed command line help.
- Improved file read routines (now faster).
- Major overhaul of documentation.
- Fixed another memory allocation bug.
- Reduced code redundancy.
-
- 1.02 - Made processing a WHOLE lot faster. It still isn't up to the
- speed of PKBANNER, but it is getting closer each time.
- What ZC did previously was repeatedly read the zip
- comment file from disk each time a ZIP file was processed.
- This was stupidity personified on my part, and I apologize.
- What it now does it read the comment file into RAM at the
- start of the program, and then process. This means that
- about 32k more RAM is required, but the speed makes up for
- that.
- Updated documentation to reflect changes.
- Fixed bug in command line when a single ZIP file was specified.
-
- 1.02a- Interim release.
- There was a major bug that messed up the comments that forced me
- to release this newer version.
- Updated the docs so users could see a unbaised comparison of the
- two programs.
-
- 2.00 - ZC IS NOW FASTER THAN PKBANNER! (See "Benchmarks" for details)
- Documentation update
-
- 2.10 - Fixed bug that did not shrink file size when adding comments
- that were smaller than the existing comment.
- Improved speed, especially on 8086- and 8088-based machines.
- Released ZC PLUS because of many requested features.
-
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