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- DIZVIEW
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- Written & Published
- by
- Lincoln Beach Software
-
- Copyright (C) 1995
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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- LIABILITY WAIVER
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- DIZVIEW IS LICENSED "AS-IS." LINCOLN BEACH SOFTWARE MAKES NO
- WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THIS PROGRAM,
- ITS QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. IN PARTICULAR, IT IS NOT GUARANTEED TO PREVENT OR DETECT DAMAGE
- TO YOUR DATA OR PROGRAMS. IN NO EVENT SHALL LINCOLN BEACH SOFTWARE BE
- LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIMS FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY DAMAGE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
- LIMITED TO, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGE. SOME
- STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR
- CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY
- TO YOU. IN NO CASE SHALL LINCOLN BEACH SOFTWARE'S LIABILITY EXCEED THE
- LICENSE FEES PAID FOR THE RIGHT TO USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE. THE LICENSE
- AGREEMENT AND WARRANTY SHALL BE CONSTRUED, INTERPRETED, AND GOVERNED BY
- THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI.
-
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- COPYRIGHT & SHAREWARE STATEMENT
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- DIZVIEW is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to
- the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but
- please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The
- essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer
- users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide
- incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you
- find this program useful and find that you are using DIZVIEW and
- continue to use DIZVIEW after a trial period not to exceed 30 days, you
- must make a registration payment of $15 to LINCOLN BEACH SOFTWARE.
- The $15 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one
- computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book.
- An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and
- may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as
- there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's
- being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different
- persons at the same time.
-
- Corporate users of DIZVIEW must register and pay for their copies
- by departments and site-License arrangements may be made by contacting
- LINCOLN BEACH SOFTWARE.
-
- You are encouraged to pass a copy of DIZVIEW along to your friends
- for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they
- find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy
- of the latest version of the DIZVIEW system.
-
- This software and documentation is protected under the United States
- Copyright Laws and International Treaty Provisions. Your support of
- Shareware is appreciated.
-
-
- SUPPORT STATEMENT
-
- If you have questions or comments about DIZVIEW, you may call us
- at:
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- 314-861-1500
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- If no one is there to answer your call, please leave a message and we
- will get back to you as soon as possible.
-
- Or you may write to us at:
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- Lincoln Beach Software
- PO Box 1554
- Ballwin MO 63022-1554
-
- You may contact us on the CompuServe Information Service by directing
- your E-mail to:
-
- Harold Holmes, CompuServe ID: 70700,630
-
- OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT
-
- DIZVIEW is produced by Lincoln Beach Software, a member of the
- Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). The ASP wants to make sure
- the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
- shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member
- directly, the ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you
- resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide
- technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP
- Ombudsman at: 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a CompuServe
- message via CompuServe Mail to: ASP Ombudsman, 70007,3536.
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- Have you ever wondered just what all those compressed files were in your
- download directory?? What is more frustrating, not knowing what those
- zip files are or having to unzip the DIZ file from each one just to find
- out it was not the file you were looking for? Well now you won't have
- to wonder, you have DIZVIEW!
-
- This dynamic program will read each file_id.diz file from each ZIP file
- in the directory of your choice. You can choose the wildcarding so you
- only see the files you wish. If you find the file that you were looking
- for you can unzip the file from within DIZVIEW to the directory of your
- choice.
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- Only a couple of things are required to use DIZVIEW, they are:
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- 1. A copy of PKUNZIP.EXE that resides somewhere in your path.
- 2. At least a FILES = 20 statement in your CONFIG.SYS file.
- 3. A TEMP variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. This is optional if you
- will only be running DIZVIEW in directories where you have write
- access but if you wish to view the zip files on a CD-ROM you will
- need to have this set. If you do not have a TEMP setting you can
- add one to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file by inserting the following line
- near the beginning:
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- SET TEMP=C:\DOS
-
- The directory you specify must already exist.
-
-
- OPTIONAL
-
- 1. You can use your mouse if it is installed. No actual pointer will
- appear but by moving it up and down or side to side you will see
- the cursor move on the screen.
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- USING DIZVIEW
-
- To use DIZVIEW it is best to install it in a directory that resides
- in your PATH so you can execute it from anywhere. When you execute
- DIZVIEW it will search the directory that you are in for any files
- matching *.ZIP.
-
- Select VIEW to view the listing of files in the directory that match the
- filespec. If you select the CHANGE button you can change the filespec
- and directory to search.
-
- When entering the filespec to change the search, DO NOT add the .ZIP
- extension. But don't worry, if you do we will remove it anyway<g>.
-
- You will notice that you have the choice of selecting .ZIP or .ARJ as
- an extension, well not really though. When you register DIZVIEW you
- will be able to search .ARJ files and print out all the descriptions in
- your listing. We had to have something to entice you to register!
-
- The print button will only work in the registered version.
-
- Pressing the EXIT button or hitting ESCAPE will let you leave DIZVIEW.
-
- When you are in DIZVIEW the right mouse button acts like the ESCAPE
- key and will take you back one level from where you are in the system.
-
- The F1 key is the help key.
-
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- HINTS/TIPS
-
- Naturally since DIZVIEW is shelling out to DOS to open all of the DIZes
- and loading them in, it takes a little time to do lots of files in one
- directory. In a test of a CD-ROM that had 174 ZIP files on it we ran
- two tests. The first using a TEMP of C:\DOS and it took 4 minutes and
- 40 seconds on a 386-33mHz machine with a double speed CD drive to search
- all the zips for their respective DIZes. On the same machine using a
- TEMP setting of D:\ where the D: drive was a RAM disk it took only
- 3 minutes and 20 seconds. So if you plan to use DIZVIEW a lot you may
- want to set it up that way. You just have to remember though that other
- programs use the TEMP directory to create temporary files and it may run
- out of space for them.
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- If there are many files in your directory you may want to change the
- file selection criteria to abc* to view only files that start with
- ABC*.ZIP or ?B?????? to select all files that have the second character
- of 'B'. Doing this will greatly speed up your search lookups.