═══ 1. ZiPMe ═══ ZiPMe is a 32-Bit multithreaded PM program, that helps you manage ZIP archives of the INFO Zip versions zip 1.9 and unzip 5.0. Newer ZIP versions will be usable if there is no change in the command-line arguments. The files zip.exe and unzip.exe must be in a directory with a path set for it in your config.sys. You can open an archive with Open in the File Menu. The contents of the archive are then put into the List Box, and on the Status Line you can see the number of files and their number of bytes. In the List Box you can select files which you then can view, delete or extract. You can get help for each menu or dialog just by clicking on help or pressing F1. ═══ 2. Multithreading ═══ Multithreading means, that there is more than one process active at the same time in one task. This has the advantage that the user doesn't have to wait if a process is active. While ZiPMe is adding, extracting or deleting files in an archive, the user can load another archive and can add, extract or view files there, but he can't delete files while another delete process is active. This is done to avoid collisions. ═══ 3. Font Selection ═══ The font of the List Box or the Status Line can be changed with the Font Palette of the WPS. You can use two different fonts in these two places if you like. Open the Font Palette in the System Setup folder. Select the new font and drag it to the List Box or Status Line. You can save the changes with Save Settings in the File Menu. ═══ 4. File Menu ═══ The File Menu contents: New Here you can type in the name of the new archive. Open Here you can open an existing archive. Close Here you can close the current archive. Save Settings Here you can save the current window position, its size, and the fonts used. ═══ 5. New ═══ In this dialog you can create a new archive. To do this you type the name of the new archive in the entry field. If the new archive should be placed in a directory other than the current one, you can type in the complete path with drive and directory. If the new filename exists, you are asked if you want to overwrite the old one. If you agree, the old file is deleted immediately. If the given path doesn't exist, you are asked if it should be created. ═══ 6. Open ═══ In this dialog you select the archive you want to use. Open filename The search pattern of the files in the files List Box is placed here. If you select a file the complete filename is placed in this field. You can also type in the name of the file you want to open. Type of file Here you can select the type of the files which are shown in the files List Box. This function isn't used yet. Drive Here you can select the drive from which you want to get the file. File Here you can select the file you want to open. If this List Box is active, you can type in the first letter of the file you want to open. The cursor then comes to rest on the first file having this letter as its first letter. Directory Here you can select the directory containing the file that you want to open. ═══ 7. Close ═══ If you select Close, the current archive is closed. The name of the archive disappears from the title of the window and the List Box becomes empty. You have to open another archive or make a new one to go on. ═══ 8. Save Settings ═══ Here you can save the current position and size of the ZiPMe window. The current fonts used in the Status Line and the List Box are also saved in the file zipme.ini. If you delete this file, ZiPMe starts with its standard values next time. ═══ 9. Edit Menu ═══ The Edit Menu contents: Add Here you select the files which you want to add to the current archive. Extract Here you select which files should be extracted from the current archive. Delete Here you can delete the marked files of the current archive. View Here you can view the marked files of the current archive. ═══ 10. Add ═══ In this dialog you select the files you want to add to the current archive and you select how they are added. This action is only active if an archive has been opened or created. While the files are being added you can go on working with the archive or you can open or create another one. The end of the action is shown by a Message Box. Files Here you can type in the files and their paths which should be added to the archive. You can use wildcards as for example *.exe or os2??.dll. There must be at least one blank between filenames. The Add button is only active if there is at least one file typed in. File Selection If you press this button, the same Dialog Box as in Open appears. Here you can comfortably select several files from several directories. The only difference from the Open Dialog is that here you can select more than one file at once in a single directory. The selected files are put in the field Files. This field is 5000 characters long, and if your list is longer an error message appears saying the list already contains as many files as it can hold. Action Here you select how files are added to the archive. If you select All, then all selected files are added. If the file already exists in the archive, it is overwritten. If you select Changed, only files are added which are already in the archive and have been changed. If you select Changed or new, all selected files are added which are not already in the archive or which have been changed. If you select Delete original after adding, the original file is deleted after it has been added into the archive. Directories If you select Add directories the files and subdirectories of the given directory are added to the archive, too. For example if you type in \os2\*, \os2\dll\* is added, too. If you select Don't add pathnames, the files are added without the directories from which they have been added. Compression Here you can use the slider to select the degree of compression. A lower value means a small compression and a short processing time; a higher value means better compression but it takes its time. ═══ 11. Extract ═══ In this dialog you select which files of the current archive you want to extract and where they should be extracted to. This action is only active if an archive has been opened or a new one has been created and if there is at least one file in it. While the files are being extracted you can go on working with the archive or you can open or create another one. The end of the action is not shown by a Message Box. Target Here you select to which drive and which directory the files are extracted. If you select To, you can type into the Entry Field the path where you want the files extracted to. If the directories don't exist, they are created. Don't forget that the directories in the archive are created, too, if you don't select Don't use Pathnames. If you leave the Entry Field empty the files are extracted to the current work directory. If you select Create directory with name of archive, a directory with the name of the archive is created in the current work directory and the files are extracted into it. Files Here you select which files are extracted. If you select All, then all files in the archive are extracted. Marked is only active if you have marked files in the List Box. If you select Marked, only the marked files are extracted. If you select Files you can type in files or wildcards such as *.exe or os2??.dll which are then extracted. You have to put at least one blank between the filenames or wildcards. If you select Changed or Changed or new, the only files extracted are those which are new in the given directory or which have been changed. Overwrite Here you can select with Always or Never to determine whether existing files can be overwritten or not. If you select Never it is nonsense to select Changed because the changed files can't be overwritten. ═══ 12. Delete ═══ Here you can delete all marked files in the current archive. Before the files are deleted, you are asked, if you are really sure that you want to delete them. This action is only active if an archive has been opened or a new one has been created, and if there is at least one file marked. While the files are being deleted you can go on working with the archive but you can't delete other files. The end of the action is shown by a Message Box. ═══ 13. View ═══ Here you can view the top marked file in the current archive. If there is more than one file marked the button Next file is active, and you can view the next file by pressing this button. In the text window you can mark text with the mouse or the cursor keys and copy it into the clipboard by pressing the Clipboard button. You end this dialog by pressing the OK button. ═══ 14. Mark Menu ═══ The Mark Menu contents: Mark all Here you can mark all files in the archive. Mark choice Here you can mark all files with the given string in their List Box entry. Unmark all Here you can unmark all marked files in the archive. Unmark choice Here you can unmark all marked files with the given string in their List Box entry. ═══ 15. Mark all ═══ Here you can mark all files in the archive. This action is only active if an archive has been opened or a new one has been created and if there is at least one file in it. ═══ 16. Mark choice ═══ In this dialog you can type in a string. If you press OK, all files with this string in their List Box entry are marked. It can be a string of the filename, the date, etc. The search is not case sensitive; for example if you type in "mytext", "MyText" is marked, too. This Action is only active if an archive has been opened or a new one has been created with at least one file in it. ═══ 17. Unmark all ═══ Here you can unmark all marked files in the archive. This action is only active if an archive has been opened or a new one has been created and if there is at least one file in it. ═══ 18. Unmark choice ═══ In this dialog you can type in a string. If you press OK, all marked files with this string in their List Box entry are unmarked. It can be a string of the filename, the date, etc. The search is not case sensitive; for example if you type in "mytext", "MyText" is unmarked, too. This action is only active if an archive has been opened or a new one has been created with at least one file in it. ═══ 19. Help Menu ═══ The Help Menu contents: Help index Shows a list of the help topics. General Help Shows the main help for ZiPMe. Keys Help Shows how the keys are set in ZiPMe. Using Help Shows how to use the help facility. Product information Shows the ZiPMe icon and information about the author. ═══ 20. Help index ═══ Here you get a list of all helptopics for ZiPMe. They are listed in alphabetical order; you can get the help text you want by clicking twice on the topic. ═══ 21. General Help ═══ General Help shows you summary information about ZiPMe. Here you can see what you can do with the program and how you can do it. There are also links to other topics. ═══ 22. Keys Help ═══ Here you can see how the function keys are assigned in ZiPMe. They are "hot keys" for functions you need often and where it is faster to press a key than to go through the menus. If you are experienced with ZiPMe you can work faster by just using these keys. ═══ 23. Using Help ═══ Here you get a help text from the operating system explaining how to use the help facility itself. Here you can see how to get help about a special topic, and how to search for special expressions, and so on. This help comes from OS/2, not from ZiPMe. ═══ 24. Product information ═══ Here you get information about ZiPMe. The icon, the current version number and the address of the author are shown. You should send questions, information about any errors found, and wishes for the next version of ZiPMe to this address. ═══ 25. Button Bar ═══ Here you see which buttons of the button bar are equivalent to which menu items The same as menu item New. The same as menu item Open. The same as menu item Close. The same as menu item Add. The same as menu item Extract. The same as menu item Delete. The same as menu item View. The same as menu item Mark all. The same as menu item Mark choice. The same as menu item Unmark all. The same as menu item Unmark choice. ═══ 26. Function keys in ZiPMe ═══ ZiPMe assigns the following functions to the function keys: F1 Context sensitive help for the current menu or dialog. F2 The same as menu item Close. F3 The same as menu item Open. F4 The same as menu item New. F5 The same as menu item Add. F6 The same as menu item Extract. F7 The same as menu item Delete. F8 The same as menu item View. Alt-F4 Ends the Program. Alt-F5 This makes the normal ZiPMe window from the minimized icon. It is only active if the window has been minimized. Alt-F7 After pressing these buttons you can change the position of the ZiPMe window with the cursor keys or the mouse, and fix it by pressing ENTER or the left mouse button. Alt-F8 After pressing these buttons you can change the size of the ZiPMe window with the cursor keys or the mouse, and fix it by pressing ENTER or the left mouse button. Alt-F9 Here you minimize the ZiPMe window to its icon. You find it in the folder Minimized Window Viewer. Alt-F10 Here you make the ZiPMe window as big as your screen. Cntl-Esc Here you call up OS/2 Window List. In this list you can change from ZiPMe to another program.