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- UnARJ Shell 1.0 for Windows
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- Copyright 1992 by Rupert Spencer
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- ARJ copyright 1990,91 by Robert K. Jung
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- Disclaimer
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- I hereby disclaim all warranties relating to this product, whether express
- or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of
- merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. I cannot and will not
- be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar
- damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even if I have been
- advised of the possibility of such damages. The user of this program
- bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software.
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- What is UnARJ Shell?
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- UnARJ Shell is a windows program for extracting and listing the contents
- of archives created with ARJ.
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- System Requirements
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- Microsoft Windows 3.0 or 3.1
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- ARJ.EXE - ARJ program - must be in a directory that is in your DOS
- Path - available on most BBS's
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- VBRUN200.DLL - Visual Basic 2.0 Runtime for Windows - must be in the
- Windows\System directory - available on most BBS's
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- THREED.VBX - Visual Basic Custom Control - must be in the Windows\System
- directory - included in this archive
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- Installing UnARJ Shell
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- 1) VBRUN200.DLL must be in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. VBRUN200.DLL
- is not included in this archive. It is available on most BBS's. If
- you do not have it, download it and copy it to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM
- directory.
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- 2) Copy the file THREED.VBX to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
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- 3) Copy the file UNARJSW.EXE to you WINDOWS directory, or wherever you
- want to install it to.
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- 4) ARJ.EXE must be located in a directory that is in your DOS path
- statement. ARJ.EXE is not included in this archive. It is available
- on most BBS's.
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- 5) Run Windows and open the Program Manager group that you wish to
- install UnARJ Shell to. Select the File pull down menu, then select
- New. Select new Program Item. Type in where you installed UNARJSW.EXE,
- and click on OK. You should see the UnARJ Shell icon. UnARJ Shell
- is now installed and ready for use.
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- Using UnARJ Shell
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- After the Shareware notice screen, you will be in the main UnARJ Shell
- control panel. From here you select the ARJ file that you want to work
- with and the action you want to perform on it.
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- Selecting an ARJ File
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- Type in the name and path of the ARJ file that you want to work with in
- the ARJ File Name text box. If you don't know the name, select the Browse
- button to the right of the ARJ File Name text box. This will bring up the
- UnARJ Shell Browser. From the Browser, you select the ARJ file using the
- file selector box. Select the disk and directory the ARJ file is in, then
- select the ARJ filename. The filename is printed in the File Selected box
- after you have selected it. The Browser is set to only show ARJ files in
- the file selector box, but you can change it to other files by clicking in
- the Pattern box and entering the new file criteria, such as *.*, and
- pressing the Enter Key. Once you have selected the ARJ filename, click on
- the OK button to return to the UnARJ Shell control panel. Upon returning
- to the control panel, the filename and path you selected will be displayed
- in the ARJ File Name text box. If you are going to Extract the ARJ file,
- you will also need to select a Destination Path. If you are going to List
- an ARJ file, a Destination Path is not required. Note that if you select
- Browse, and then you select Cancel from the Browser, any filename displayed
- in the ARJ File Name box in the UnARJ Shell contol panel, will be erased,
- and you will have to select it again, or select another ARJ filename and
- path.
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- Selecting a Destination Path
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- Type in the path where you want to extract the ARJ file in the Destination
- Path text box, or use the UnARJ Shell Browser to select a path. The Browser
- works the same as in selecting an ARJ file, except that you don't select a
- file, just the disk and/or directory to extract to.
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- Extracting ARJ Files
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- Once you have selected the ARJ File Name and Destination Path, you are
- ready to extract the ARJ file. Click on the OK button to begin extracting.
- UnARJ Shell will go to DOS, and extract the files using the ARJ.EXE program
- with the extraction options you have selected. Once the files are extracted,
- press any key to return to Windows and UnARJ Shell.
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- Extraction Options
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- Full Pathnames - extracts the ARJ file using full pathnames. This option
- is on by default. Full Pathnames means that if the ARJ
- file was created with directories, the same directory
- structure will be recreated. For example, if the ARJ
- file had the files UTILITY\ARJ.EXE and UTILITY\ARJ.DOC,
- UnARJ Shell would recreate the same directory structure
- on the selected Destination path if Full Pathnames was
- selected in the UnARJ Shell control panel. If Full
- Pathnames was not selected, UnARJ Shell would extract
- the files ARJ.EXE and ARJ.DOC to the Destination Path,
- instead of extracting the files and directories
- UTILITY\ARJ.EXE and UTILITY\ARJ.DOC.
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- DOS Volume Labels - extracts the ARJ file using DOS Volume labels if the
- ARJ file was created with them included in it. For
- example, the Microsoft Windows 3.1 disk #1 has the DOS
- volume label WIN31DISK1. If you archived that disk for
- backup purposes using ARJ and included the volume name
- when you archived it, UnARJ Shell would recreate the
- same volume name on the Destination disk if DOS Volume
- Labels was selected in the UnARJ Shell control panel.
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- Multiple Volumes - extacts multiple ARJ volumes. This method is only used
- to extract disks from floppies to a hard drive. Multiple
- ARJ volumes are used when a file is too big to fit on a
- floppy disk, or you are using ARJ for a hard drive
- backup. ARJ splits the file into 2 or more disks when it
- is created. The filename extender will be incremented
- when multiple volumes have been created using ARJ. The
- first volume will have the extender ARJ, the second A01,
- the third A02, etc. If Multiple Volumes have been
- selected in the UnARJ Shell control panel, the disks
- will be extracted in order. ARJ will prompt you when to
- insert the next disk.
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- Listing ARJ Files
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- You have two options to select from when Listing files. You can do a
- regular list or a verbose list. Type in the name of the ARJ file to list
- in the ARJ File Name text box in the UnARJ Shell control panel, or use the
- Browser. You will not be able to select a Destination Path when listing ARJ
- files. Once you have selected an ARJ file, click on OK to list the file.
- UnARJ Shell will go to DOS and list the ARJ file with the option you
- selected. ARJ will pause after each full screen of text while listing.
- Press Enter to go to the next screen of text. After the listing is complete
- press any key to return to Windows and UnARJ Shell.
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- Notes on UnARJ Shell
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- UnARJ Shell will create a file called ~UNRJTMP.BAT in your TEMP directory
- if you have one, otherwise it will be created your Windows directory. This
- file is NOT erased when you exit UnARJ Shell. You can delete it manually,
- or leave it alone. It will be overwritten the next time UnARJ Shell is used.
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