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This file contains three sections: ZanySoft programs, ZDir notes, and ZDir
release history.
Zanysoft programs:
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ZDir, a powerful directory utility with coloring by extension, sorting,
easy configuration, full wildcards, and more.
Current version: 2.0
ZD86 (ZanySoft Debugger), a powerful symbolic debugger with pull down
and pop up menus, multiple resizable overlapping windows, and
of course, it is fully configurable.
Current version: 1.01
ZDir notes:
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ZanySoft Dir (ZDir) is an easy to use and very powerful directory lister. The
main purpose of ZDir is to replace the generic DIR command with a fast, easily
readable display with more functionality. It can organize the file listing
with many sorting options, color files based upon their extension, choose how
many columns to use in the display, find files, draw a tree of the directory
structure, use full-scale wildcards, and much more. Besides being powerful and
easy to use, ZDir is also easy to configure with the included configuration
program ZDircfg. It is very easy for a novice computer user to learn how to
use ZDir, but has many features that expand upon the basic directory listing
capability.
The complete ZDir package consists of ZDir.com, ZDir.doc, ZDircfg.exe, and
Readme.doc (this file). If you do not have all of these files, then you do not
have the complete ZDir package version 2.0. If you want to jump right in to
using ZDir, pause for a second and read section 3 of ZDir.doc, the Quick-start.
It should give you a brief overview of what ZDir is all about in only a couple
of minutes.
ZDir is Shareware, and if you choose to use it after a short trial period then
you are obligated to pay for it. For a more thorough discussion of Shareware,
see section 2 of the manual (ZDir.doc). Typing ZDir /R from the DOS prompt
will display a registration form, which you can print out, fill out, and send
in.
ZDir release history:
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2.0 Enhancements:
Full-scale wildcards are now accepted. Full wildcards are much
more flexible than normal DOS wildcards: *'s and ?'s can be
put anywhere, such as ZDir *z??d*8*6?.?o* . Since this
replaces string searching, string searching has been removed.
For the same function, just surround the string with *, like
this: ZDir *string* .
The configuration option as well as many other options have
been removed from ZDir and placed into a separate configuration
program called ZDircfg. This should make the configuration
and upgrading of ZDir painless. ZDircfg is a menu driven
program that allows you to set all colors, defaults, and
extensions, and save and load configuration information
from ZDir. Because of this, most configuration options have
been removed from ZDir for ease of use, so only non-configurable
commands (/F, /?, and /R for example) are left. Changing
the number of columns and primary sort are still available
on the command line of ZDir for one-time runs, which you
do not want to make defaults.
New feature /T added to make a directory tree from the
specified directory on down, giving the number of files
and total size of each directory, adding up only files which
match the filespec.
Option added in ZDircfg to have directories appear clumped
together at the beginning or end of the file list, or sorted
with other files like in the past.
Configured extensions may now have wild cards in them! Lower
number extensions have priority, so that the more general the
extension specification (w or w/o wildcards) the earlier in
the extension list it should be put (C should be earlier than
C??, otherwise the C?? color would be found before the C color).
A new command line option, /U, makes ZDir only list files
that match "user extensions", which are set in ZDircfg.
When prompted to press any key, the Enter key prints one line
and then waits for another key. Any key except for the Enter
key prints another full screen of data.
ZDir works with size text screen, including 132 column text
modes of many super VGA cards.
Setting sorting by attribute on the command line removed,
and writing ANSI color codes to the file specified by /L,
which used to by /M, is now /A
Disks with a serial number now optionally have the serial
number printed next to the volume label.
In alternate output files, interecting or corner lines are
now represented by +, not *.
Sorting by attribute eliminated--it's useless.
2.0 Bug fixes:
File sizes of over 100,000 were often reported slightly
lower than the actual size. *Fixed*
All previous versions of ZDir sometimes would give incorrect
listings or even lock up in directories with 254 or 255
files. *Fixed*
ZDir 1.3 and 1.4 did not display the top two lines on
8088/8086 system. *Fixed*
ZDir 1.4 would lock up on CGA systems--sorry about that!
*Fixed*
When doing a Full path search, the final report would give
an incorrect number of directories searched (in version 1.4
only). *Fixed*
The alternate output would not get the first line of the
display (in version 1.4 only). *Fixed*
Now, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-break will actually quit ZDir at almost
any time.
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1.4 Bug fixes:
A slight glitch in the attribute changing mechanism sometimes
would cause a divide overflow. *Fixed*
ZDir would sometimes not scroll up the screen at the end,
and so the bottom line of information would be overwritten.
*Fixed*
If a directory had the same extension (or lack thereof) as
one of the 30 specified on the configuration screen, the
directory name was shown in the extension color, not the
directory color. *Fixed*
If run in graphics mode ZDir did not switch into text mode
and display a listing. *Fixed*
File entries with a year or 2101 or larger would make the
display be misaligned. *Fixed*
1.4 Enhancements:
The current time and date as reported by DOS are now printed
on the top line of the display. The second line has the path
and volume label.
Certain long paths will not fit on the same line as the
volume label. If a path will not fit, the minimum number
of directories needed to make the path fit are removed
from the display, replaced by a \...\. For example, running
ZDir c:\dos\util\sharewar.e\dir\awesome\colorful\best\zdir.com
ZDir may need to replace the path spec with
c:\...\dir\awesome\colorfu