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Zip CommentMaster 1.2
Copyright 1992
All Rights Reserved
New-Ware Shareware Products
8050 Camino Kiosco
San Diego, CA 92122
(619) 455-6225
Contents
1 Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2 What is ZIP CommentMaster? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3 Programs Needed to Operate ZCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
4 About Shareware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5 How To Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6 The New-Ware BBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8 Distribution Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8.1 Version History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8.2 Running ZCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9 The User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9.1 Primary Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9.2 Mouse Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9.3 On-line Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10 Configuring ZCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.1 Check Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.1.1 [X] Sort The Dir Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.1.2 [X] Split File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.1.3 [X] Use Beeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.1.4 [X] Rename PKFIXED.ZIP . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.1.5 [X] Mouse 1st Click . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.1.6 [X] Clear On 1st Char . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.2 Text Edit Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.2.1 Temp Dir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10.2.2 Log Dir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.2.3 Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.2.4 Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10.3 Dialong Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
11 System Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
11.1 Changing Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
11.2 Changing Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
11.3 The New-Ware Tree Catalog Strategy . . . . . . . . 11
12 Editing ZIP Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
12.1 The ZIP File Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
12.2 Comment Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
12.2.1 Individual File Editing . . . . . . . . . . . 12
12.2.2 Main File Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12.3 Saving All Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
13 Searching ZIP Files For Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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14 ZIP Main Comment Batch Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
15 Editing The Default Main Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
16 List To File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
17 Editing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
18 Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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1 Disclaimer
New-Ware hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this product,
whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied
warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. New-Ware
cannot and will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential,
indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even if
New-Ware or an authorized New-Ware agent has been advised of the possibility
of such damages. In no event shall the liability for any damages ever
exceed the price paid for the license to use software, regardless of the
form and/or extent of the claim. The user of this program bears all risk as
to the quality and performance of the software.
2 What is ZIP CommentMaster?
The PKWare ZIP file compression system is the most widely used of all
available systems. One of the features that the ZIP system supports is user
addition and modification of a 60 character comment for each file residing
in a ZIP file library. ZIP also supports a user specified comment that is
applicable to the entire ZIP file.
As nice as having comments for ZIP compressed files is, the manner in
which these comments are added or modified is quite clumsy. So clumsy, in
fact, as to mitigate against using comments at all. That's where the ZIP
CommentMaster (known hereafter as ZCM) comes in.
ZCM is slick utility that permits a ZIP system user to rapidly and
easily manipulate comments. A full-featured string editor is provided to
edit and store individual comment strings and a full-featured text editor is
provided to manipulate a main ZIP file comment. In addition, ZCM allows
using a file browser such as Vernon Buerg's famous LIST to view the contents
of compressed ZIP files and to execute PKware's PKZIPFIX utility on any ZIP
or SFX (self-extracting) EXE file.
ZCM has been thoroughly tested using version 1.10 of the PKWare ZIP
system. ZCM works with normal ZIP files, encrypted ZIP files, and ZIP files
containing files created with the PKWare Authenticity Verification envelope
(AV).
3 Programs Needed to Operate ZCM
You will need to acquire either the Shareware distribution version or
the registered version of PKWare's ZIP compression system. As of this
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writing, the current version is 1.10 and is usually distributed in a file
name PKZ110.EXE (or ZIP). You can contact PKWare at the address below:
PKWARE Inc.
7545 North Port Washington Road
Suite 205
Glendale, WI 53217-3422
You can also find this marvelous system on just about any computer
bulletin board system (BBS) or commercial on-line access system such as
Compuserve Information Service (CIS) or Genie. PKZ110.EXE may be accessed
from the New-Ware BBS. Please see the chapter on the New-Ware BBS in this
document.
The files in this package that may be called by ZCM are PKZIPFIX.EXE,
ZIP2EXE.EXE, and PKUNZIP.EXE. PKZIPFIX is used in those rare cases where a
ZIP file has a problem, ZIP2EXE is used to convert a ZIP file to a self-
extracting EXE file, and PKUNZIP is used to decompress files for viewing.
ZCM does not require any of the ZIP system files for manipulation and
listing of ZIP files comments.
New-Ware strongly recommends Vernon Buerg's famous LIST file browser
for use with ZCM. Contact:
Vernon D. Buerg
139 White Oak Circle
Petaluma, CA 94952
4 About Shareware
ZCM is Shareware. PKZIP and LIST are also Shareware. Shareware is NOT
free. It is computer software offered for sale at a set price and the only
real difference between Shareware and other commercial software products is
the method of distribution and the important "try before you buy" feature.
With Shareware you are normally licensed by the owner/author of the program
to operate the Shareware distribution copy on a trial basis. Then if you
like it and make regular use of it,