Archive Peek for Windows 95 User manual by Javier Thaine E-mail: jthaine@hotmail.com Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/7017/ Contents: 1. Disclaimer 2. What is Archive Peek? 3. Searching for files 4. The Options menu Disclaimer Archive Peek for Windows 95 Copyright 1998 Javier Thaine Archive Peek for Windows 95 is a freeware program. Archive Peek for Windows 95 and all of its related files may only be distributed in the original distribution form. The distribution file may not have files added to it or removed from it, and none of its contents may be modified, decompiled, or reverse engineered. You may distribute this program as part of a shareware distribution, magazine, internet book, CD ROM, etc. Please e-mail me at jthaine@hotmail.com if you do. Archive Peek for Windows 95 is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall Javier Thaine be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business profits or special damages, even if Javier Thaine has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Use this program at your own risk. What is Archive Peek? Have you ever wondered in what ZIP file you kept that song? Or in which ARJ file in the C:\Letters folder you kept that letter to dad? Archive Peek is the answer. You can search for any file you specify inside all of the archives of a floppy disk, CD-ROM, hard disk, etc. A Windows 3.1 version is also available at my home page (see above). Searching for files 1. Select the drive and folder your archives are in. 2. In the 'Files to look for' field, type in the files you want to find inside your archives. You can enter up to ten names separated by spaces and wildcards are allowed. 3. Click on 'Begin Search' or press Enter. During a search you may click on 'Stop Search' at the top of the results window. Archive Peek will finish the archive it's currently looking at and then it will stop. The number of files found and the time the operation took are displayed at the bottom of the results window. You may double click on a file to open its archive (if it's compressed) or open it directly (if it's not compressed). You may save your results in text format or in HTML format by clicking on 'Save Results As...' in the File menu in the results window. You may also print your results from the File menu. The Options menu You can customize Archive Peek's operation through the Options menu: Case Sensitive: Since Windows 95 supports lower and uppercase letters in filenames, this option allows you to specify whether the filenames you are looking for must be exactly those you typed (case sensitive) or if the case may be ignored (not case sensitive). Include Subfolders: If this options is checked, Archive Peek will also look into all subfolders of the folder you selected. Display count only: If you only want to know the number of files Archive Peek finds, this speeds up the program a lot. The number of files is displayed at the bottom of the results window. Advanced Options - You should take a look to see if any of these options can help you: Archive types to look inside: If you know what kind of archives the files you are looking for are in, choosing only them helps Archive Peek work faster. If you click on Select All, all of the formats will be selected. If you click on Select All again, all of the formats will be cleared. Selecting Non-archive files will make Archive Peek look into ordinary folders, just like using the Start Menu's find utility. The currently supported archive formats are ZIP (used by PKZIP and WinZip), RAR, LZH, ARJ, ZOO, PAK, ARC, TAR (often used on UNIX machines), SQZ, HYP, WAD (used by games created by Id software) and GRP (use by Duke Nukem 3D). Some ZIP files are not supported due to their rarity. If such a file is encountered, Archive Peek will issue a warning. Also, ARC files whose first byte is not Control-Z will not be read by Archive Peek and no warning will be issued. HTML options: If you ever save your results to HTML files, you can change their appearance here. You can choose an item from the combo box and choose which color goes with it. 'Background color' refers to the 'paper' color of the HTML document. 'Visited link color' refers to the color of links that point to files you've already opened. 'Active link color' refers to the color a link takes when you click on it. You may also change the text and normal link colors of the document. Of course, the color options for links are only valid if you check the 'Create hyperlinks' option. You may choose to turn this off to save hard disk space. Hyperlinks allow you to click on the names of files to access them. The results in HTML format are displayed in a table. If you want that table to have borders, check the option 'Display table borders'. If you check 'Launch viewer when results are saved to disk', Archive Peek will start your web browser or text editor to view the file you save. This saves you the work of having to look for and open the file yourself.