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ARCView User's Guide Copyright (C) 1990-95, Sergey Nazarenko, Author ARCView is a program for those who work with archive systems to economize disk space. You may work from the command line. The syntax is simply ARCView <file name> or you may use ARCView under Norton Commander (TM) versions 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 by pressing the <F3> key on a file name. Contents 1. The Main Features of ARCView 2. ARCView Installation 3. ARCView Control Keys 3.1 Cursor Control Keys 3.2 Selection and Cancel 3.3 Editing Keys 4. Setting Up the File ARCVIEW.EXT 5. Acknowledgments 1. The Main Features of ARCView ARCView: - allows you to view a content (list of files) of archived files with the extensions .ARC, .PAK, .RAR, .ZIP, .LZH, .ICE, .CHZ, .ARJ, .LIM, .HA and .EXE., doing this without having to use the original archive program, and faster than the original archiver could view it. - allows you to view a list of files which form .SFX (selfextracting) archives; this is an unattainable feature for the archiver itself. ARCView recognizes over 40 different .SFX formats. - allows you to unpack, view contents, test, and delete files from archives. - allows you to work with embedded directories (subdirectories) in archives. - automatically determines the type of archive. If ARCView determines it is not an archived file, it will activate the viewer for that type of file according to the file extension name. The viewer for these files is found in the file ARCVIEW.EXT. - automatically identifies files in an archive which have been packed using a password and marks them with the symbol "*", then requests to enter the password. - allows you to view commentaries in archives. - supports EGA command lines (using <Alt-F9> under NC) and other non-standard modes (e.g. 60 lines on the screen). - recognizes multi-volume .ARJ - archives. - offers additional convenient features. The table below lists the names of the executable archive files, which ARCView uses for unpacking, viewing contents, file testing and deletion in an archive. The search for the archive systems occurs in the current directory and then follows the PATH setting given in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. ╔═════╤═════════════════════╤═══════════╗ ║ EXT │ Unpack/View │ Deletion ║ ╟═════╪═════════════════════╪═══════════╣ ║ ARC │ PKXARC.COM │ PKARC.COM ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ PAK │ PAK.EXE │ PAK.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ ZIP │ PKUNZIP.EXE │ PKZIP.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ ICE │ LHA.EXE │ LHA.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ LZH │ LHA.EXE │ LHA.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ ARJ │ ARJ.EXE │ ARJ.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ CHZ │ CHARC.EXE │ CHARC.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ ZOO │ ZOO.EXE │ ZOO.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ LIM │ LIMIT.EXE │ LIMIT.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ HA │ HA.EXE │ HA.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ UC2 │ UC.EXE │ UC.EXE ║ ╟─────┼─────────────────────┼───────────╢ ║ RAR │ RAR.EXE │ RAR.EXE ║ ╚═════╧═════════════════════╧═══════════╝ 2. ARCView Installation Installing ARCView is very simple. Run the program ARCINST.EXE. Answer the questions the program asks you. ARCView will automa- tically find the Norton Commander and make a backup copy of it under the name NCMAIN.OLD. That way the old configuration is saved if you wish to return to it by renaming the file again. Warning: You should not try to pack NC with programs of the type LZEXE, DIET, PKLITE, EXEPack and similar programs. For example, NC 4.0 is distributed packed by the program DIET 1.2. (* This is the way NC is delivered in Russia, it may not be packed when you purchase it in Western countries). Before installing you must first unpack it with the command DIET -RA NCMAIN.EXE After the correct version, size, and other internal characteri- stics of the Norton Commander have been verified by ARCView, you will be asked to select one of two methods to install ARCView. The first method: ARCView replaces the viewer for Lotus1-2-3 (TM) in the program NCMAIN.EXE with ARCView. After that when you press <F3> while the cursor is placed on one of the files with one of the above listed extensions, you will be able to view the contents of the archived file. Keep in mind that ARCView can only write six extensions under NC and ARCView cannot call .CHZ and .EXE files, which is connected with the peculiarities of NC. The second method: ARCView is used as a dispatcher of various viewers contained in the module ARCVIEW.EXT analogous to the NC file NC.EXT. When ARCView is loaded it automatically loads the ARCVIEW.EXT file into memory. When ARCView is asked to view an archived file by pressing <F3> with the cursor on the desired file to be viewed, it looks for the necessary file extension to load the correct viewer. This second method has one drawback. It takes more memory. If you pressed <F3> while the cursor was on the the archived file TEST.CHI, the memory map when running ARCView might look something like this: NC.EXE ( main kernel of NC ) NCMAIN.EXE ( NC not released from memory ) ARCVIEW.EXE ( the program ARCView itself ) CHIVIEW.EXE ( the viewer for CHI-files ) However, usually even only using a PC-AT (TM) with 80286 processor with 1 MB of RAM under MS-DOS 5.0 (TM) taking advantage of High Memory, all the viewers will be well placed and leave memory in reserve. The amount of free memory is displayed in the right top corner of the screen, for example: "═══356K═══". If the capaci- ty is less than 120-100 KB, you should release memory, otherwise you will not be able to run other programs from ARCView. 3. ARCView Control Keys 3.1 <Left> <Right> Horizontal scrolling of the full file name <Up> Cursor movement one line up <Down> Cursor movement one line down <Home> Cursor movement to the beginning of the file list <End> Cursor movement to the end of the file list <PgUp> Cursor movement one full screen up <PgDn> Cursor movement one full screen down <Ctrl-PgUp> Cursor movement to the beginning of the file list <Ctrl-PgDn> Cursor movement to the end of the file list 3.2 Selection and Cancel <Ins> Select/Cancel selection of the current file <Gray-Plus> Selection of files by template <Gray-Minus> Cancel selection of files by template 3.3 Editing keys <Left arrow>, <Right arrow> Cursor movement one position left or right <Ctrl-Left>, <Ctrl-Right> Cursor movement a word left or right <Home> Cursor movement to beginning of line <End> Cursor movement to end of line <Ctrl-Home> Delete part of line from cursor position to the beginning of line <Ctrl-End> Delete part of line from cursor position to the end of the line <Esc>, <F10>, <Enter> End the session <Ctrl-Y> Delete a line <Ctrl-R> Recover (Undelete) a line <Ctrl-P> Toggle password mode (make password visible) <BackSpace> Delete one character before the cursor <Del> Delete one character under the cursor <Ins> Toggle insert/replace (overwrite) mode 3.4 Function keys <F1> Help <Sh-F1> Information on the archive and the computer. <F2> Selection of file list sorting by name, exten- sion, date, time of creation, and size. <Sh-F2> List of commentaries to the archives (if one exists). <F3> View of file contents. ARCView unpacks the file in the current directory and calls the correct viewer as determined by the file ARCVIEW.EXE. Pressing <Esc> will delete the unpacked file on disk. You may choose to unpack the file on a RAM disk by using the command SET ARCVIEW = F:\ (if you have defined F:\ as your RAM disk). While the file is being unpacked ARCView checks to see if a file with the same name is present elsewhere. <Alt-F3> The view of the file using an alternative viewer. <F4> Unpacks a file in the archive. <Sh-F4> Unpacks the file to the directory specified in the pop-up window. If the view of the full file name is switched off, (Function key <F6>), the unpacking of the file will be executed without creating a directory. <F5> Edit a file in the archive. <F6> Hide/Display (Unhide) the full PATH to the file. <F7> File search according to attributes including search by file name, extension, size etc. <Sh-F7> Repeat the last search. <Alt-F7> Hide/Show archivers output. <F8> Delete the current file or group of selected files from the archive. Warning: Be careful about deleting files. Unde- leting deleted files is absolutely impossible. <F9> Test of the current (or tagged) file(s). If you see the message "CRC OK", it means the test was successful. <Sh-F9> Record of the current configuration is written into the file ARCVIEW.INI. <Alt-F9> Sets the ARJ Security Envelope to ARJ-archive. It is a non-documented feature of ARJ that the modification of archive files including additi- ons, deletions, and the editing of commenta- ries is not allowed. It is only possible to extract files from the archive. <F10> Exit from program. <Sh-F10> ARCView configuration. The following window appears on the screen: ╔═════════════════════ Setup ═════════════════════╗ ║ Packer : PKZIP.EXE ║ ║ Unpacker : PKUNZIP.EXE ║ ║ View comline : -O ║ ║ Unpack comline : -D -O ║ ║ Delete comline : -D ║ ║ Test comline : -T ║ ║ Add comline : -mex ║ ║ Alt Viewer : wpview.exe ║ ║ Temp path : E:\ ║ ║ Ok ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Packer - a program to delete files from an archive Unpacker - a program to unpack files Alt viewer - the alternate viewer loaded by pressing <Alt-F3> Temp path - the PATH which the unpacking files will follow when <F3> and <Alt-F3> are pressed. If you forget to set the environment variable, then ARCView will search for the variable TEMP, but if it does not find it, then it uses the value from the initialization file ARCVIEW.INI. View comline - defines which parameters to use for extracting one file from an archive without path by pressing <F3> Unpack comline - defines which parameters to use for extracting a file or files from an archive, this is used for the extract function by pressing <F4> or <Shift-f4>. Delete comline - defines which parameters to use for deleting a file or files from an archive, this is used for the delete function by pressing <F8>; Test comline - defines which parameters to use for testing a file or files from an archive, this is used for the test function by pressing <F9>. Add comline - defines which parameters to use for adding a file to an archive, this is used for the Edit function <F5>. 4. The Setup file ARCVIEW.EXT While viewing the contents of a file in an archive <F3>, ARC- View uses the extension file ARCVIEW.EXT. This file may con- tain up to 40 lines: and its structure is completely analogous to the file structure of NC.EXT. The format of the ARCVIEW.EXT file: !.! File name with extension txt: edit !\!.! !: Disk drive letter followed by a colon ^^^ └───┬────┘ !\ Path name │ └── DOS command !! ! └── File extension ! File name without extension The main difference between the file ARCVIEW.EXT and NC.EXT consists in the fact that the latter must have either ! or !.! after DOS commands and ARCView doesn't need this. If ARCView does not see the line !.! or a similar line, it generates a command line completely compatible to the one which NCMAIN passes on to its viewers. Besides the file name the command line consists of about 15 parameters. Here is an example of the way ARCVIEW.EXT might look: arj: arcview.exe au?: arcview.exe al?: arcview.exe lzh: arcview.exe ice: arcview.exe zip: arcview.exe arc: arcview.exe msg: msgview.exe !\!.! chz: arcview.exe exe: hiew.exe !\!.! com: hiew.exe !\!.! ovl: hiew.exe !\!.! chi: chiview.exe !\!.! pcx: pcxview.exe fli: aaplay.exe !\!.! db: paraview.exe 123: 123view.exe dbf: dbview.exe gif: command.com /c av.bat ???: wpview.exe 5. Acknowledgments The author expresses special thanks to his colleagues: - Vladimir Serkov (VVS Computers) - Yuri Kuznetsov (OutRager) - Nikolai Baranov (SysOp ICC Data Bank BBS) - Jevgenij Krivosheev (SysOp S Half-Private BBS) - Nikolai Shamarin (textual concept) Specially thanks : [\/]an|-|anter (Mentally damaged member from UGI) for medical support & information about "Åü#1 ¿¼Ñ¡¿ Å.ê.è"; ~T~he )\(ight ]3reaker for some bug info and testing under OS/2 2.0 Steel R/┤t for new warez and HA testing. Copyrights Norton Commander is a trademark of Symantek Inc. Lotus1-2-3 is a trademark of Lotus Development Corp. IBM PC-AT is a trademark of International Business Machines, Corp. MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.