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- Zip Runner Version 2.1 Documentation
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- ZIP RUNNER UPDATE INFORMATION:
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- Version 2.0 was found to contain a glitch which would not let you
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- install archives of similar names such as, TEST.ZIP and TEST1.ZIP. This
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- bug has been corrected. You will notice that two additional files are
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- ZIPRUN.EXE
- ZIPRUN.DOC
- LHARUN.EXE New!
- ARJRUN.EXE New!
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- LHARUN and ARJRUN function EXACTLY the same as ZIPRUN, with the exception
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- of the fact that they work only with .lzh and .arj files respectively.
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- The new runners utilize the same command line switches, mouse and key
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- interfaces etc. In order for these two programs to work, LHA.EXE (not
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- LH.EXE or LHARC.EXE!!!) or ARJ.EXE, must be in the directory with your
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- archives, or in your path. You can rename LH or LHARC to LHA. The
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- REGISTERED version of ZIP RUNNER now contains support for all three
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- formats in one program!
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- NEW IN VERSION 2.0 & 2.1
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- These NEW versions of ZIP RUNNER have the same outward appearance but an
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- entirely new interface and several enhancements! You can now use your
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- mouse to turn pages or run the program of your choice! Please read on
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- for more information, and please REGISTER to gain the added benefit of
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- swapping ZIP RUNNER to high memory! It may also make you feel GOOD to
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- do the right thing, and support starving software authors.
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- PURPOSE:
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- The sole purpose of ZIP RUNNER is to save space on your hard drive.
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- Many of the newer programs, especially games from vendors such as
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- Apogee, consume over a megabyte of hard drive space when they are
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- in their uncompressed form. ZIP RUNNER allows a user to store
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- programs in compressed format, but run them with ease from a menu.
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- SETUP:
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- To setup ZIP RUNNER, unzip it to the same directory as your zipped files
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- and run it. Since no files have been installed on the menu at this time,
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- will see the main ZIP RUNNER menu with only two options displayed: QUIT
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- and REVISE. Press "R" and you will go directly to the ADD a file section
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- of the REVISE menu. Here you will be asked if you want ZIP RUNNER to
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- automatically find the zipped file names for you. If you don't, Press "N"
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- and you can manually enter them. Once a zip file name is entered ZIP RUNNER
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- will display the first executable file name it finds in the zip, and ask
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- you if this is the executable you would like to run when the file is
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- unzipped. If it is, press "Y" or RETURN, and your first file is now
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- installed. All future files are installed the same way. If you have more
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- than one executable file in your zip, or want to run a .COM file, you can
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- answer NO to the prompt and enter the executable or com file name manually.
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- You will be asked to confirm. When asked for the names, enter them WITH or
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- WITHOUT the ".EXE" or ".ZIP" extensions. If you make a mistake no harm will
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- be done, but your program will not run until the bogus name is replaced
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- with the correct one. Once you have entered the names, you may elect to
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- unzip to a ram disk. This speeds up the unzipping process many times and is
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- highly recommended if you have enough memory. Press "C" for change, and
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- press "D" for drive. Now enter the letter of your ram drive. ZIP RUNNER
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- will write out its information to a small text file called "ZIPRUN.LUP",
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- and no further installation is required. Once installed, ZIP RUNNER will
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- always go directly to the menu when it is run. The text file, ZIPRUN.LUP,
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- must be in the same directory as ZIPRUN.EXE. The first line is the number
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- of zips in the file, the second, is the letter of the drive you will unzip
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- to. If you plan to unzip to the current drive, an 'x' will be found in on
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- this line. After the drive letter, the lines alternate between Zip filenames
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- (all in caps) and the executable names. (lower case) There is no conceivable
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- reason for editing the look up file, as the drive and file names can be
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- ADDED, DELETED and CHANGED using the REVISE option on the main menu. DO NOT
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- use a word processor to edit the file. Up to 32 files (two pages) can be
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- entered on the menu.
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- RUNNING THE PROGRAM:
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- In order for ZIP RUNNER to do its job, PKUNZIP.EXE and PKZIP.EXE MUST BE
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- EITHER IN YOUR PATH, OR IN THE DIRECTORY WHICH CONTAINS YOUR ZIPPED FILES.
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- ZIP RUNNER will now display a menu of zipped files to choose from. Simply
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- press the letter key next to the filename you want to run, and ZIP RUNNER
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- goes to work. If you have installed more than 16 zips, a second page will
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- be available on the menu. Press the "T" key toggle the pages, or use the
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- page up/down keys. For those of you who don't like the tweeting noise, press
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- the "S" key, which will toggle the sound on and off. The ESCAPE key will
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- either quit the revise menu or quit the program from the main menu. Use it
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- instead of "B"ack or "Q"uit if this is easier to remember. The "Z" key
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- toggles the REZIP option and the status of REZIP will be displayed at the
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- top of the main menu. Since rezipping takes quite a bit of time, the default
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- status is "OFF", which means that the files will NOT be rezipped and saved
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- after program completion. If you have a game or other program which could
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- possibly save a file for later use, you should toggle the REZIP option to
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- "ON", BEFORE you run the program. REZIP can be set to ON automatically by
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- starting the program with the "r" switch, i.e. type "ZIPRUN R" or
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- "ziprun r" at the DOS command prompt. Likewise, the sound can be switched
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- off with the "s" switch. "ziprun r s" would start ZIP RUNNER with ths
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- sound off and the REZIP feature turned on. The "r" and "s" switches need
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- not be in this order.
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- USING THE MOUSE:
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- Once ZIP RUNNER is installed, those of you who have a mouse attached to
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- your computer system can run programs by clicking on them with the left
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- mouse button, or (if you have more than 16 zips on your menu) change pages
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- by clicking the right mouse button.
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- WHAT IT DOES:
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- First and foremost, ZIP RUNNER creates a new directory, "\__zr__", to which
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- the files will be unzipped, BEFORE it does anything else. When you make your
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- choice, the files are unzipped to either the current drive or the ram drive
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- if you have selected one. ZIP RUNNER then passes the executable file name
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- (which you entered for that zip file) to the command line, and the program
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- runs. When you terminate the program you selected, you will once again be
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- greeted with the ZIP RUNNER menu. By this time, the sub directory CREATED
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- by ZIP RUNNER, and all files contained therein, will have been deleted, and
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- ZIP RUNNER will be waiting to run another program. The last option on the
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- menu, "Revise" lets you ADD, CHANGE, or DELETE files on the menu. Just
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- follow the prompts and all should be well. You will be asked to confirm
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- adds, deletes, or changes, and at this time you may answer NO to the prompt
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- and be returned to the main revise prompt. Also shown with the revise prompt
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- are the free disk space of your chosen unzip drive, and the amount of
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- available conventional memory. If you change drives, the free disk space of
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- the new drive will be displayed. Press the "B"ack or ESC keys while in the
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- Revise menu, and you will be returned to the main menu. When you decide to
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- quit ZIP RUNNER, you will find yourself in the directory in which you
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- started when ZIP RUNNER terminates.
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- MEMORY CONSIDERATIONS:
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- At present, the unregistered version of ZIP RUNNER uses about 38K of
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- conventional memory. The registered version swaps ZIP RUNNER into high
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- memory while the daughter program is running, and uses only 2.5K of
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- conventional memory.
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- HOW MUCH DISK SPACE WILL THIS SAVE?
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- Consider this; one Apogee game, #1WOLF3D requires 1,318,256 bytes of
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- hard drive space in uncompressed form. In zipped format the same file
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- resides in only 708,200 bytes, a savings of over 610,000 bytes!
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- RAM DISKS SAVE TIME?
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- Files unzip and run on my ram disk in about 25% of the time it takes to
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- do the same job on my IDE 105 MEG hard drive, and file deletion is MUCH
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- quicker!
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- POSSIBLE PROBLEMS:
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- Many programs, especially some of the newer games, require an installation
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- of their own before they can be run. These programs should be installed
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- in the proper directory (or on ram disk) then rezipped, before they are
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- added to the ZIP RUNNER menu. Take this opportunity to lose excess baggage
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- such as BBS messages, unnecessary DOC files etceteras, before rezipping.
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- Some programs may require more memory than is available with unregistered
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- version of ZIP RUNNER running in the background. To solve this problem you
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- can register ZIP RUNNER!
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- There may not be enough free disk space on your hard drive or ram disk.
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- To check this or your current free memory, press the "R"evise key and check
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- the display above the menu. To solve this problem, zip up more of your files
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- and install multiple copies of ZIP RUNNER.
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- While testing the program, I ran across a zipped file, #1COSMO, which had a
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- bogus .EXE string in the zip. This string was displayed by ZIP RUNNER as
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- the executable file name... In this case I had to manually enter the
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- correct file name before the program would execute. There may be a few
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- more zipped files like this out there, so be aware and ready to enter the
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- right name. To correct this problem, unzip the file and check the executable
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- name. Compare it to the executable name in the ZIPRUN.LUP file. If there
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- is a difference, change the name in the LUP file to match that of the one
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- in the zip. You can do this from ZIP RUNNER by choosing "[C]hange" and
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- "[F]ile" from the REVISE menu.
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- IS IT FREE?
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- NO!
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- ARE THERE ADVANTAGES TO REGISTERING?
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- YES!
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- The registered version of ZIP RUNNER swaps itself into high memory while
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- other programs are running, thus giving nearly all free conventional memory
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- to the daughter program!
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- Registered users can feel free to make suggestions, bug reports or what have
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- you. (No one else can AFFORD to squwak!)
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- HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
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- The registration fee is $15.00 American.
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- WHERE DO I SEND IT?
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- Bob Sherburne
- 1213 Sattes St.
- Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
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- THANKS!
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- Many thanks to my Beta Testers, John Martin, Cindy Mitchell, and Chuck Hunt.
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- I think beta testers isn't quite appropriate because all these people also
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- provided many good ideas and lots of useful input. But, if there are any
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- problems with the program, Now you know who to blame! <G>
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- Thanks also to John Wagner, author of IMPROCES, for providing some great
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- ideas, many useful programming hints.
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- This is my first commercial program written in Turbo C, and it has been a
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- learning experience!
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- Last but not least, THANKS to my wife, Kathi...
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- ZIP RUNNER(C). Copyright Bob Sherburne 1992. All rights reserved.
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- DISCLAIMER AND LEGAL NOTICES:
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- I, Bob Sherburne retain ALL rights to distribute and collect fees for this
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- software. This software IS NOT RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. IT IS NOT
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- FREE. It is OWNED by me and only me. As a user, you have the right to
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- possess and distribute this software. You MAY NOT COLLECT ANY FEE, real or
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- otherwise for the transfer of this of this software without prior written
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- consent. All files included in this package must be distributed together
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- and may not be modified in ANY WAY by anyone other than myself. I reserve
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- the right to refuse anyone the right to distribute this software with a
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- DISCLAIMER NOTICE:
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- This program was written by Bob Sherburne. I, Bob Sherburne accept NO
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- RESPONSIBILITY for ANY damages, real or otherwise that this program
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- may cause. I make no guarantees that this program will work as described
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- in this document. This software is provided "AS IS" with NO GUARANTEE,
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- expressed or implied.
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- USER LICENSE
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- REGISTERED USERS:
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- Users who have registered ZIP RUNNER may use the program, or multiple
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- copies of the program, on a single computer. The registered version of the
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- program may be placed on more than one computer, provided it is not
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- possible to use more than one copy at a time.
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- UNREGISTERED USERS:
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- Users who have not registered their copy of ZIP RUNNER, are hereby granted
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- permission to evaluate ZIP RUNNER for a period of one month before they must
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- discontinue using the program or register a copy. This one month period
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
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- PKZIP and PKUNZIP are Copyrighted (C) property of PKWare.
- ARJ is Copyrighted (C) property of Robert K Jung.
- LHA, LH, and LHARC are Copyrighted (C) property of Haruyasy Yoshizaki.
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