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- │ ██│ ██│ └██┌┘ ██│ ██████┐ ██┌┘└██│ Copyright (C) 1992-95 by Chris Buijs │
- │ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─┘ └─────┘ └─┘ └─┘ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- AVIEW is an archive-viewer/manipulator utility for the Norton Commander,
- it views ARC, ARJ, HYP, LZH, PAK, RAR, SQZ, UC2, ZIP and ZOO archives
- automatically, it shows lots of info about the files in the archive, you
- can also tag files and unpack them, all operations also work on
- archive-in-archive (up to 16 levels deep).
-
-
- ***************************************************************************
- AVIEW is made for usage under the Norton Commander, however, the Norton
- Commander is NOT needed to use AVIEW, AVIEW can also be used stand-alone,
- it contains a full featured file-selector.
- ***************************************************************************
-
-
- This utility is here-by placed in Public Domain and can be concidered
- freeware, this utility may not be sold, hired, leased or modified, it may
- be freely copied as a complete package.
-
-
- This documentation is a quick-help to setup AVIEW, for more information
- you can study the AVIEW.CTL and WHATSNEW.nn files.
-
-
- To print this documentation, type on the DOS-Prompt:
-
- COPY AVIEW.DOC LPT1:
-
- followed by an ENTER, change 'LPT1:' to the device you want to use to
- print.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Requirements ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- AVIEW requires: - MS/PCDOS V3.3x or higher (V5.0 or higher recommended).
- (Non-overlayed) - 300 KB of free conventional memory.
- - Optional: 32 KB EMS or XMS memory (Maximal 2 MB).
- - Optional: A (microsoft compatible) mouse.
-
- AVIEW requires: - MS/PCDOS V3.3x or higher (V5.0 or higher recommended).
- (Overlayed) - 200 KB of free conventional memory.
- - Optional: 32 KB EMS or XMS memory (Maximal 2 MB).
- - Optional: A (microsoft compatible) mouse.
-
-
- The following programms may be needed (optional):
-
- For archive adding, extracting, updating and converting:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- ARJ.EXE from R.K. Jung.
- HYPER.EXE from P. Sawatzki & K.P. Nischke
- LHA.EXE from H. Yoshizaki.
- PAK.EXE from NoGate Consulting.
- PKUNPAK and PKPAK from PKWare.
- PKUNZIP.EXE and PKZIP.EXE from PKWare.
- RAR.EXE from E. Roshal
- SQZ.EXE from J.I. Hammerberg
- UC.EXE from AIP-NL (Also needed for viewing).
- ZOO.EXE from R. Dhesi.
-
-
- For creating self-extracting utilities:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- ZIP2EXE from PKWare.
-
-
- For file-viewing/editing:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- WPVIEW.EXE from Symantec (Peter Norton Computing).
- NCEDIT.EXE from Symantec (Peter Norton Computing).
-
-
- All the above programms are optional and can be replaced by others, this
- can be done by changing the parameters in the AVIEW.CTL file, see the
- sample AVIEW.CTL for more information.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Parameters ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Syntax: AVIEW [[<Drive>:][<Path>\][<Filename>]] [/?]
- or: AVIEWOVL [[<Drive>:][<Path>\][<Filename>]] [/?]
-
- Use the /? parameter to get detailed information about parameters.
-
- When no drive/path/file parameters are given, AVIEW will startup with a
- file-selector, with this file-selector you can select a file to view.
- With the file-selector you can also switch between drives, directorys
- and files.
-
- When only a drive or path is given as parameter, aview will startup the
- file-selector in the given drive/directory.
-
- When wildcards are included in the filename, AVIEW will use them as
- filter for the file-selector.
-
- AVIEW automatically detects how many lines per screen are used at startup
- and will use the number of lines per screen detected, this can be
- overridden with one of the above parameters or with the SCREENMODE
- parameter in the AVIEW.CTL file.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Installation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- NOTE: If you want to use the overlayed version of AVIEW, simply delete
- AVIEW.EXE and rename AVIEWOVL.EXE to AVIEW.EXE, or specify
- AVIEWOVL.EXE instead of AVIEW.EXE.
-
-
- STANDALONE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL and AVIEW.HLP to a directory in your PATH,
- AVIEW.CTL and AVIEW.HLP must be located in the same directory as
- AVIEW.EXE.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work correctly on your system.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
-
-
- THE NORTON COMMANDER Versions prior to V4.0
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL, AVIEW.HLP and AVIEWNC.EXE to the directory
- where the Norton Commander is installed.
- - Run the AVIEWNC utility, this utility will update your NC.EXT file.
- - Delete AVIEWNC.EXE, only needed for installing AVIEW in the NC.EXT file.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work correctly on your.
- - Restart The Norton Commander.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
- NOTE: After installing AVIEW in The Norton Commander, you can view an
- archive by pressing ENTER or F3.
-
-
-
- THE NORTON COMMANDER V4.x
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL, AVIEW.HLP and AVIEWNC4.EXE to the directory
- where the Norton Commander is installed.
- - Run the AVIEWNC4 utility, this utility will update your NC.CFG and
- NC.EXT files.
- - Delete AVIEWNC4.EXE, only needed for installing AVIEW in the NC.CFG and
- NC.EXT files.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work correctly on your system.
- - Restart The Norton Commander.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
- NOTE: When you run AVIEW under The Norton Commander V4.0, you can only
- use AVIEW on a file by pressing F3, when you press ENTER in
- NC V4.0, the internal file-view will be activated, this CANNOT
- be changed to use AVIEW instead.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ AVIEW.CTL ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- For customizing the operations of AVIEW, you can edit the AVIEW.CTL
- control file, its a plain ascii-file, see the example AVIEW.CTL for more
- information, the following commands can be used in the control file to
- configure AVIEW:
-
-
- ALTERNATELAYOUT
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you tell AVIEW to use the alternate list-layout of the
- archive-lister, the alternate list-layout includes lesser information
- but shows the full-paths of the files in the archive.
-
-
- ASKDELETE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW to ask you if you want to delete file(s).
-
-
- ASKEXIT
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW to ask you if you really want to exit
- AVIEW.
-
-
- ASKSCAN
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW to ask you if you want to execute the
- virus-scanner after extracting files from an archive, default is to
- execute the virus-scanner always when defined.
-
-
- DATEFORMAT <DateFormat>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define the file-date-format, use MM for month,
- DD for day and YY for year, sepparation-chars can be freely used,
- default is MM/DD/YY, maximum length is 8 chars.
-
-
- EDITOR <Trigger> <Editor> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define up to 64 editors to use to edit files from
- an archive, <Trigger> is a file-spec which triggers <Editor> to edit
- a file, <Trigger> may include wildcards.
- When no editors are defined, NCEDIT is taken for all type of files.
- NOTE: You must specify file-specs for filename AND extension, not only
- the extensions as in previous versions of AVIEW.
-
-
- EXTRACTPATH <Path>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- The path to use for extracting files to, when this path isn't defined,
- AVIEW will prompt for a path before extracting any files.
-
- FSSORT <Key> [Ascending|Descending]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this parameter you define how to sort the file-list in the
- file-selector as default, there are 5 sort-keys:
-
- NAME - For sorting on file-name
- EXTENSION - For sorting on file-extension.
- SIZE - For sorting on file-size.
- DATETIME - For sorting on date and time.
- UNSORTED - For no sorting (Unsorted).
-
- Optional you can also define the sort-direction, default is ascending:
-
- ASCENDING - Sort ascending.
- DESCENDING - Sort descending.
-
- The default sorting is on filename, ascending.
-
-
- IGNORE <File-Specs>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you tell AVIEW which files not to test for what kind of
- archive-type it is, but start an external viewer for it, wildcards are
- allowed. Note that you must specify the filename and extension.
-
-
- NOCOLOR
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW in black and white mode, this can be
- handy for laptop-users with LCD-Screens.
-
-
- NOEMS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW to NOT use any EMS memory.
-
-
- NOENVTEMP
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW to ignore the TEMP environment-variable.
-
-
- NOMOUSE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- When you have a mouse, and it is detected by AVIEW, you can force AVIEW
- with this command to ignore the mouse and not use it.
-
-
- NOPATHS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- This command instructs AVIEW to NOT extract any path-information from an
- archive when extracting.
-
-
- NOSNOW
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you tell AVIEW to suppress snow on (old) CGA-Cards.
-
-
- NOXMS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW to NOT use any XMS memory.
-
- SCANNER [<Path>\]<Filename> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define the virus-scanner to use for scanning the
- file(s) unpacked with the unpack function, when no virus-scanner is
- defined, NO scan will be performed, up to 32 scanners can be defined.
-
-
- SCREENMODE <Lines>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this statement you can define how many lines per screen AVIEW must
- use, valid numbers are 25, 35, 40, 43 and 50, note that you will need an
- EGA or VGA adaptor when you use numbers greater than 25.
-
-
- SHOWSPECIAL
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this statement you force AVIEW to use special 'hidden' files as normal
- files, as default AVIEW ignores the files, at this moment only the
- UC2 U$~*.* files are concidered special 'hidden' files.
-
-
- SORT <Key> [Ascending|Descending]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this parameter you define how to sort the file-list as default, there
- are 8 sort-keys:
-
- NAME - For sorting on file-name
- EXTENSION - For sorting on file-extension.
- ORGSIZE - For sorting on original (uncompressed) file-size.
- CMPSIZE - For sorting on compressed file-size.
- RATIO - For sorting on ratio.
- DATETIME - For sorting on date and time.
- METHOD - For sorting on compression-method.
- UNSORTED - For no sorting (Unsorted).
-
- Optional you can also define the sort-direction, default is ascending:
-
- ASCENDING - Sort ascending.
- DESCENDING - Sort descending.
-
- The default sorting is on filename, ascending.
-
- SWAPMode <Mode>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define how AVIEW must swap before an external
- utility is executed, mode can be: 0 - Swap to EMS/Disk.
- 1 - Swap to EMS/XMS/Disk.
- 2 - Swap to XMS/Disk.
- 3 - Swap to XMS/EMS/Disk.
- 4 - Swap to Disk.
-
-
- SWAPPATH <Path>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you define the directory AVIEW must use for writting it's
- swapfiles in.
-
-
- TEMPPATH <Path>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you define the path AVIEW must use as work-directory,
- this can be a ram-drive which will speed-up AVIEW dramatically, in this
- directory AVIEW will creates its own tempory directorys, these tempory
- directorys will be deleted when AVIEW doesn't need them anymore, note
- that the directory specified with TEMPPATH is NOT deleted, nor the
- files that exist in it, this has been changed since V3.0. (See the
- explaination for the TEMPREMOVE command for more information).
-
-
- TEMPREMOVE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW to remove the TEMPPATH directory and it's
- contents when AVIEW is finished. As default AVIEW only removes it's tempory
- directories and files.
-
-
- VIEWER <Trigger> <Viewer> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define up to 64 viewers to use to view files from
- an archive, <Trigger> is a file-spec which triggers <Viewer> to view
- a file, <Trigger> may include wildcards.
- When no viewers are defined, WPVIEW is taken for all type of files.
- NOTE: You must specify file-specs for filename AND extension, not only
- the extensions as in previous versions of AVIEW.
-
-
- WAIT
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW to wait for a keypress after each
- external utility executed.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ With the following commands you can define the parameters used by AVIEW │
- │ for using the external archive-utilitys. │
- │ For normal operation of AVIEW, you don't need to change this, all the │
- │ following commands are optional, the sample commands in the sample │
- │ AVIEW.CTL file reflects the standard default configuration of AVIEW. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- xxxADD <Command-line>
- xxxDELETE <Command-Line>
- xxxEXTRACT <Command-Line>
- NOxxx
- xxxPASSWORD <Parameters>
- xxxSFX <Type> <Parameters|Command-Line>
- xxxTEST <Command-Line>
- xxxUNPACK <Command-Line>
- xxxUPDATE <Command-Line>
- xxxRESPONSE <Response-char>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With these commands you can configure the interface between AVIEW and the
- external archive-utilitys, the xxx can be ARC, ARJ, HYP, LHA, PAK, RAR,
- SQZ, UC2, ZIP or ZOO.
-
- xxxADD - Defines which parameters to use for adding a file to
- an archive, this is used for the ADD function (F7), and for
- creating new archives with the CONVERT function (F5).
- xxxDELETE - Defines which parameters to use for deleting a file or files
- from an archive, this is used for the DELETE function
- (F8 or DEL).
- xxxEXTRACT - Defines which parameters to use for extracting a file or files
- from an archive, this is used for the extract-function.
- NOxxx - Disable archiver.
- xxxPASSWORD - Defines which parameters to use to supply a password when
- needed, use the variable %P for the place of the password.
- xxxRESPONSE - Defines which charachter to use before a file name to tell
- the archiver that it is a response file, AVIEW defines
- automatically when to use this or not.
- xxxSFX - Defines which parameters or utility to use to create a
- selec-extracting (SFX) archive, for type you can define
- EXEC for executing an external utility or PARAM to define
- the parameter(s) to use with the parameters of the xxxADD
- command.
- xxxTEST - Defines which parameters to use for testing an archive.
- xxxUNPACK - Defines which parameters to use for extracting ONE file from
- an archive WITHOUT path, this is used internally in AVIEW.
- xxxUPDATE - Defines which parameters to use for updating a file in an
- archive, this is used after you edited a file from an archive.
- xxx_to_xxx - (The underscores MUST be included!), Defines which external
- utility to use to convert from one archive-type to another,
- when this command is NOT used, AVIEW will use it's own
- build-in converter.
-
- NOTE: There are two variables, %A and %F, these two must ALWAYS exist in
- the above parameters (except NOxxx and xxxRESPONSE, xxxSFX and
- xxx_TO_xxx only needs %A), %A will be replaced by AVIEW with the
- name of the archive processed, and %F with a filename for adding,
- deleting and updating, note that AVIEW will automatically add the
- response-file-char before the filename when needed. The variables
- %A and %F are NOT optional!
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Operation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- AVIEW checks for two environment-variables, the variable AVIEW and TEMP.
-
- The variable AVIEW is to specify some extra parameters to AVIEW, when
- the variable is used, AVIEW will also process the variables passed with
- it.
-
- The variable TEMP is to specify the TEMPPATH, when the variable exists,
- the TEMPPATH command in AVIEW.CTL is ignored and the path passed with the
- variable is used instead.
-
-
-
- SWAPPING:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- When executing an external utility, AVIEW will first try to swap itself out
- of memory, AVIEW can use EMS, XMS or Disk for swapping out.
- AVIEW will need about 400 KB free EMS, XMS or DISK-Space to swap, when
- not, AVIEW will NOT execute the external utility and aborts with an error.
-
-
-
- MOUSE:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- AVIEW has mouse-support, when a mouse is detected it will be used
- automatically, the mouse is used in file-lists, menu's and the
- file-selector.
-
- Click once on an entry to highlight it, click it twice for selecting it.
-
- Clicking at the top or bottom of a menu, or at the top or bottom of a
- file-list will scroll the cursor-bar.
-
- The function-keys at the bottom of the screen can offcourse also be clicked.
-
- The (most) right mouse-button will act as an (de)selection key, point to
- a file and click with the (most) right mouse-button to (de)select it.
-
- Archive-Viewing Keys:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Press F1 in the archive-viewer to get help on which keys you can use for
- which operations.
-
-
- File-Selector Keys:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Press F1 in the file-selector to get help on which keys you can use for
- which operations.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Thanks ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Thanks to all my alpha/beta testers for supporting/testing AVIEW, you all
- know who you are so i don't go into naming you all.
-
- Special thanks to Jonas I. Hammerberg for a registered copy of Squeeze-It.
-
- Special thanks to Michael Cookson for making AVIEW availble on InterNet.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Contact/Support ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- BBS
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Name : Action Board Zaandam
- Fido : 2:280/407.16
- Tel : +31-(0)75-704890 (Also FAX number!)
- Speeds: 1200 -> 28800 Baud, HST, V32, V32Bis, V42, V42Bis, VFC and V34.
-
- The BBS is located in The Netherlands and is 24 Hours a day reachable.
-
- Login with user-id LONGWORD and password SOFTWARE for FREE access!
-
- Just try to yell the sysop or write a message to me.
-
-
- INTERNET
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- EMAIL: cbuijs@xs4all.nl
- FTP : ftp.iaccess.za:/pub/bbsing/aview
- WWW : http://www.xs4all.nl/~cbuijs
-
-
- COMPUSERVE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- CMAIL: 100117,3242
-
- COMPUSERVE can also be called for the latest version of AVIEW, it can
- be found in the IBMSYS forum in library 6 (File Utilitys) or in the
- NORUTL (SYMUTL) forum in library 7 (Norton Commander/Editor).
-
-
-
-
- If you like AVIEW, and you are using it on a regular basis, you can send
- me a postcard saying so, my address is:
-
- Chris Buijs
- De Spil 22
- 1507 CX Zaandam
- The Netherlands
-
-
- Have Fun,
- Chris Buijs
-