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Zip Front End
------------> !ZipFrend Version 1.00
By Nige Jones 1995
What *is* this program?!?!
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It's a front end to the Info-Zip port of the Zip/Unzip suite of programs.
It makes the whole process of compressing/decompressing files a lot easier...
no need to use the stuuupid commandline.
So what's *not* included?
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Errr.... Ok, the actual Zip/UnZip suite isn't included (at least not until I
arrange it with the authors :)). You'll have to get it from somewhere, eg.
from the massivo HENSA FTP site (micros.hensa.ac.uk) or it's mirrors
(ftp.demon.co.uk, ftp.uni-stuttgart.de).
How the HELL do I use it? Eh?
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Well, the program will be more than happy to help if you simply doubleclick
on the !ZipFrend icon in the filer window. Then drag a file to the program's
icon on the iconbar.
If the file you dragged is a Zip file (or at least looks like one), then you
will be given the option whether to
a) Zip the file again (pretty pointless, but there you go)
b) UnZip the file
c) Show info on the Zip file
d) Have a cup of tea and a slice of cake
**NOTE** : The 'cup of tea and a slice of cake' option only applies if you
have access to said items and can be bothered to boil a kettle.
If the file is not a Zip file, then you will only be given the option to Zip
it. The others would obviously not work and are removed for your own good.
Be grateful.
a) Zipping the file
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A window will appear, so don't be suprised when this happens.
You are given several options:
Compression Level (0-9) : This is determined by how much priority you give
to the final Zip file being dead small, and how much time you want your
computer to be locked up for (not in a jail cell though). A value of 0
causes no compression (REAL useful), 9 is max compression.
Scan Image Files : Is the file an archive? Do you want the files in that
archive to be taken out of the archive and re-compressed invididually? If
the answers to the above questions are 'Yes, Paul' then set this option.
Recurse : Only available if the file is a directory of application.
Generally set this on.
Force MS-DOS Filenames : If you are compressing to a DOS disk, then set this
to 'on'. Otherwise avoid it like old cottage cheese.
The following items determine where the temporary file Zip uses is to be
kept. Leave it on 'Use Scrap' if you have a machine with a Hard Disk,
otherwise you may wish to set the directory name in the writable oblong.
Click 'OK' when everything's hunky-dory. You are then presented by a Save
Box. Don't be scared, just alter the filename and drag the icon to a
directory viewer. The file(s) will then be dele.. err.. Zipped, and before
long (historically speaking) the Save Box will disappear and a nice new
Zipfile will exist. Bless.
b) UnZip the file
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Again, a window sneakily pops up, and has within it some chooseables:
Extract all files : It does what it says. The most preffered option (9 out
of 10 Info-Zippers agreed)
Test archive : Don't extract anything, just make sure the Zip file is OK.
If 'Extract all files' is selected, then the following options are quite
useful. If not, then I'm sorry but the program doesn't give a pair of fetid
dingo's kidneys what these are set to.
Ignore directories : If there's a directory in the Zip file, don't create
it, and stick all files in that directory in the same place as all the
others.
The other three concern files that might already exist. The default is
probably the safest (but don't quote me on that)
Click OK and another Save Box might appear. If it does, then drag the
directory icon to a directory viewer and things will happen. Otherwise,
things might still happen but they won't be anything to do with me.
c) Show Info on the Zip file
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All the options contained in this really predictably-opened window are dead
obvious and nothing to write to Bill Gates about.
d) Have a cup of tea and a slice of cake
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This is the default option for all you Archimedes-owners who have a
tea-making machine and a cake-cutting machine connected through the serial
port (I know there are many of us out there, we've been ignored by
software-writers in the past, but not now!!!! The revolution is near!!!
(manic laughter))
Are you mad?
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Probably, but that doesn't mean I can't write fairly useful software does
it? No. It just means I can write fairly long and annoying text files like
this one.
Can I do anything else?
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Sure. Just press the Menu button (the middle one) over the iconbar, and you
can save the state of all those little boxes, and quit, which you'll NEVER
want to do will you?!?!
Where do I send the letterbomb?
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Here!: Or Here!:
Nige Jones Nige Jones
21 St. Georges Drive 10 Denham Street
Deganwy Chorlton-on-Medlock
Conwy Victoria Park
Gwynedd Manchester
LL31 9PP M13 0PQ
(forever!) (Until June 1996)
Or Here!:
mccx4npj@fs2.ee.umist.ac.uk (until July 1997ish)
*WWW* : http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~hynesm/niges.html : *WWW*
Write if you have any queries, bug reports, money or pictures of me that you
want money for.
(Please!)
This program is PD. That means it's not good enough or useful enough to earn
me any money. Damn.
Oh yeah, be sure to get my !ID program when it finally appears, it's dead
good (really) and you'll want it. Honest. I also wrote Watch_MEMC, a not very
useful utility for making some programs work with my A3010.
Thanks to RiscMan for Info-Zip, Dick Alstein for TemplEd, Mike Harrison for
his BASIC cruncher, and Worthington's for beer.
Right then. The cabbages are waiting!
Nige Jones 13/9/95.
PS No, I didn't write the Info-Zip documentation, and yes I'm a Gemini, how
did you know?!?!