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What is Drag And View Gold?
Drag And View Gold 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 Gold 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 Gold 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 Gold 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.
You can view files with Drag And View Gold in two different
ways. You can drag the selected files from any file manager
that supports drag and drop to the Drag And View Gold icon or
to any open Drag And View Gold 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 Gold window. However, dragging files to
the Drag And View Gold icon will always open a new window with
the files displayed.
Every Drag And View Gold 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.
Also, part of the Drag And View Gold utilities is Fileman
Launcher. Fileman Launcher installs itself as a file manager
accessory. Fileman Launcher will run Drag And View Gold
automatically everytime you run Windows File Manager and it
will exit Drag And View Gold everytime that you exit File
Manager. Fileman Launcher will prevend the Drag And View Gold
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 Gold. You can access Fileman Laucher from the
"Fmlaunch" menu item that it adds to Windows File Manager. To
add or remove programs or change the way Fileman Launcher runs
programs, select "Modify program list" from the ôFmlaunchö menu.
Drag And View Gold supports multiple page DCX\DCF and
spreadsheet files. If a file has more than one page, there
will be an active ôPageö menu where you can choose which page
to view.
File Formats Supported by Drag And View Gold
File formats supported in version 1.0 Drag And View Gold are:
ASCII
Hex
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word for Windows, including version 6
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
Q&A Write for Windows
dBase
FoxPro
Clipper
Paradox
Paradox for Windows
Excel, including Excel version 5
Lotus 123
Symphony
Quattro, Quattro Pro
Quattro Pro for Windows
Windows Metafile (WMF)
BMP
ICO
PCX
GIF
TIF
JPEG
DCX\DCF
ZIP
LZH
The following file formats are only in the registered version
of Drag And View Gold
CorelDraw version 3 (CDR)
AutoCad (DXF)
Micrografix Designer (DRW)
Harvard Graphics 3 (CH3/ST3)
Encapulated Post Script/Adobe Illustrator (EPS/AI)
Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL)
Lotus (PIC)
Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM/CTM)
WordPerfect Graphics (WPG)
Installing Drag And View Gold
Installation of Drag And View Gold is very easy with the setup
program provided. From Program Manager, choose "File" from the
menu bar and then choose "Run" from the pull down menu. In the
dialog box type the full path where the files are, and the
program name DVSETUP.EXE. For example, if you were installing
from drive A:, you would enter "A:\DVSETUP.EXE". If you were
installing from the "DV" directory of drive C:, you would enter
"C:\DV\DVSETUP.EXE".
The DVSetup Program gives you two install and two uninstall
options.
Install options
1. You can install Drag And View Gold with
Fileman Launcher. Fileman Launcher installs itself as a file
manager extension and runs Drag And View Gold every time you
run File Manager. Fileman Launcher will also keep Drag And
View Gold's icon uncovered when you are working in File Manager.
2. You can install Drag And View Gold without Fileman
Launcher. Without Fileman Launcher, you will have to run Drag
And View Gold manually when you want to use it.
Uninstall options 1. You can remove Fileman Launcher. This
option will remove the line from your WINFILE.INI that runs
Fileman Launcher whenever you run File Manager.
2. You can completely remove the Drag And View Gold
installation from your computer. Do not use this option to
remove a previous installation of Drag And View Gold. It can
only be used to remove a copy of Drag And View Gold that was
installed with this installation program. Windows will not let
you delete a program while it is running. Therefore the
DVSetup program will not be deleted during uninstallaion. You
will have to delete DVSETUP.EXE and the Drag And View Gold
directory manually.
Installing The DVSetup program will ask you which drive and
directory you would like to install Drag And View Gold 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. The DVSetup
program will then create a program group called Drag And View
Gold and put the Drag And View Gold and Drag And View Gold
Setup icons in it. DVSetup will also install Fileman
Launcher. Fileman Launcher is a File Manager accessory that
will run Drag And View Gold everytime that you run File Manager
and exit Drag And View Gold everytime that you exit File
Manager. Using Drag And View Gold
You can use Drag And View Gold two different ways. You can
drag files from the file manager to its icon or, if you're
running Windows 3.1 File Manager, you can use the ôFmlaunchö
menu that Fileman Launcher adds to File Manager's menu bar.
When you run Drag And View Gold it will load and show its icon
at the bottom left of your screen. If you want to drag files to
Drag And View Gold's icon, Drag And View Gold must be running.
It will not work if you try to drag files to its icon in
Program Manager. If you run Drag And View Gold from Fileman
Launcher, Fileman Launcher will keep the Drag And View Gold
icon from being covered when File Manager is the active
program. If you are not running Drag And View Gold from
Fileman Launcher and you want to keep its icon from being
covered, you can do so by choosing "Icon always visible" from
the Drag And View Gold settings dialog. First click on the
Drag And View Gold icon and bring up the System menu. Click on
the menu selection that says "Settings". In the resulting
dialog box, see that ôIcon always visibleö is checked. That
will cause the Drag And View Gold icon to show through anything
that is trying to cover it. The state of the Always Visible
option will be saved when you exit Drag And View Gold and will
become active the next time you run it.
Fileman Launcher will remember the last position of the Drag
And View Gold icon and put it there the next time you run File
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