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Drag And View for Windows 95
Version 1.0
What is Drag And View
Drag And View is a program that lets you view the contents
of a file or files without having to run the program that
created them. Drag And View can view the files created by
popular word processors, databases, spreadsheets and
bitmapped or vector graphic programs in their native
format. You can also view any file in plain ASCII or
hexadecimal format. Drag And View allows you to open
multiple windows so you can easily compare files. You can
search for text in any file or a hexadecimal string in the Hex
viewer. You can also go to any cell in a spreadsheet, any
record in a database and any address in the hexadecimal
view of a file. Drag And View allows you to select all or
any part of a viewed file and copy it to the Windows
clipboard or print it. Printing of text files will be done in the
default font of the printer and will not necessarily be
formatted the same way as the file when displayed by its
parent program. You can also Zoom in your view of a file
up to 5 times the original file size.
Drag And View operates differently under Windows 95 and
Windows NT. Under Window 95 the easiest way to view a
file is to right click on the file you want to view in any
Explorer Window and choose "Drag And View" from the
menu that comes up. If you want to view more than one
file, first tag the files that you want to view, then right click
on the files and choose "Drag And View" from the menu. If
you want to open up additional Drag And View windows,
choose the new window button from the toolbar.
Under Windows NT, you first run Drag And View. When
Drag And View is running it will appear as an icon on the
lower left of your screen. To view files you can drag the
selected files from the File Manager to the Drag And View
icon or to any open Drag And View window. Or, you can
click on the "Fmlaunch" menu item that is added to
Windows File Manager's menu bar and choose "View files".
Using the view files option will not open a new window if a
window is already open. The same is true if you drag files
to an open Drag And View window. However, dragging
files to the Drag And View icon will always open a new
window with the files displayed.
Every Drag And View window maintains a listing of the
files that you dragged to it in its "Filelist" menu. You can
use the "Filelist" menu to choose a particular file in the list
to view or you can use the "Last" and "Next" buttons to
scroll through the list of files.
Drag And View includes a utility called Fileman Launcher.
which installs itself as a File Manager accessory in the NT
File Manager. Fileman Launcher will run Drag And View
automatically every time you run the NT File Manager and
it will exit Drag And View every time that you exit File
Manager. Fileman Launcher will prevent the Drag And
View icon from being covered when you are working in File
Manager. And, Fileman Launcher will remember the place
where you last left the DV icon and will place it there the
next time you run File Manager. You can add up to 9 other
programs to Fileman Launcher and have it manage them the
same way as it manages Drag And View. You can access
Fileman Laucher from the "Fmlaunch" menu item that it
adds to the NT File Manager. To add or remove programs
or change the way Fileman Launcher runs programs, select
"Modify program list" from the "Fmlaunch" menu.
Drag And View supports multiple page Adobe Acrobat and
spreadsheet files. If a file has more than one page, there will
be an active "Page" menu where you can choose which
page to view.
File Formats Supported by
Drag And View
File formats supported in this version of Drag And View
are:
ASCII
Hex
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word for Windows, including version 7
Microsoft Works
Microsoft Works for Windows, including version 3
Windows Write
Word Perfect
Word Perfect for Windows, including version 6
Ami Pro
Q&A Write
dBase
FoxPro
Clipper
Excel, including Excel version 6
Lotus 123
Symphony
Quattro, Quattro Pro
Quattro Pro for Windows
Windows Metafile (WMF)
BMP
ICO
PCX
GIF
TIF
JPEG
TGA
ZIP
LZH
TTF
CorelDraw version 3 (CDR)
AutoCad (DXF)
Micrografix Designer (DRW)
Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT)
Encapsulated Post Script/Adobe Illustrator (EPS/AI)
Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL)
Lotus (PIC)
Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM/CTM)
WordPerfect Graphics (WPG)
Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
Installing Drag And View
Installation of Drag And View is very easy with the setup
program provided. Run DVSETUP.EXE from the Win 95
Control Panel or the Win NT program manager.
The DVSetup Program gives you two install and two
uninstall options.
Install options
1. You can install Drag And View without Fileman
Launcher. This is the only option available under Windows
95. Under Windows 95, you view files by right clicking on
them in Explorer.
2. You can install Drag And View with Fileman Launcher.
Fileman Launcher installs itself as a File Manager extension
and runs Drag And View every time you run the NT File
Manager. Fileman Launcher will also keep Drag And
View's icon uncovered when you are working in File
Manager.
Uninstall options
Under Windows 95 you can choose to uninstall Drag And
View by choosing Add/Remove Programs from the Control
Panel and then choosing to remove Drag And View for Win
32. Under Windows NT there is an uninstall program
provided called DVUN.EXE which you will have to run
manually. The uninstall program will remove all the
programs except the uninstall program itself. You will have
to remove the uninstall program manually.
To remove just Fileman Launcher you choose that option
from the FMLaunch menu in the NT File Manager.
Installing
The DVSetup program will ask you which drive and
directory you would like to install Drag And View to. If the
destination is different from where you are installing from,
all files will be copied over to the new path. If the files on
the installation diskette are compressed, the DVSetup
program will decompress them while copying them.
Using Drag And View
If you are working in Windows 95 Explorer, right click on the
file that you want to view. If you want to view more than one
file, first tag the files that you want to view and right click on
them. A context menu will come up. Choose the "Drag And
View" option from the context menu and a Drag And View
window will open displaying the first file in the list.
Under Windows NT you can drag files from the File Manager to
its icon or, you can use the "Fmlaunch" menu that Fileman
Launcher adds to File Manager's menu bar.
All the files that you've dragged or right clicked on will be listed
in the Drag And View window's "Filelist" menu and you can use
that menu to display the other files.
If you want to view two or more files in the file listing
simultaneously, you can choose the "New" button and Drag And
View will open up a new window with the same file list. You
can open up as many windows this way as your computer's
memory will support. You can also drag more files to any open
Drag And View window; they will be added to the "Filelist"
menu and the first one in the group will be displayed. The
"Filelist" menu will hold up to 25 files. After 25, as you drag
new files, the older ones will be dropped off the list.
When Drag And View displays a file, it first tries to determine if
it can display the file in one of its special viewers. If there is no
special viewer for the file, it will be shown with either the ASCII
viewer (if the file is made up chiefly of readable characters) or
the Hex viewer.
Under Windows NT, the Drag And View icon will still remain at
the bottom of your screen even after you've dragged files to it
and opened up a viewing window. You can continue to drag
files to the icon and each time that you do, a new window will be
opened.
Any open D