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- Drag And View for Windows 95
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- Version 1.0
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- What is Drag And View
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- Drag And View is a program that lets you view the contents
- of a file or files without having to run the program that
- created them. Drag And View can view the files created by
- popular word processors, databases, spreadsheets and
- bitmapped or vector graphic programs in their native
- format. You can also view any file in plain ASCII or
- hexadecimal format. Drag And View allows you to open
- multiple windows so you can easily compare files. You can
- search for text in any file or a hexadecimal string in the Hex
- viewer. You can also go to any cell in a spreadsheet, any
- record in a database and any address in the hexadecimal
- view of a file. Drag And View allows you to select all or
- any part of a viewed file and copy it to the Windows
- clipboard or print it. Printing of text files will be done in the
- default font of the printer and will not necessarily be
- formatted the same way as the file when displayed by its
- parent program. You can also Zoom in your view of a file
- up to 5 times the original file size.
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- Drag And View operates differently under Windows 95 and
- Windows NT. Under Window 95 the easiest way to view a
- file is to right click on the file you want to view in any
- Explorer Window and choose "Drag And View" from the
- menu that comes up. If you want to view more than one
- file, first tag the files that you want to view, then right click
- on the files and choose "Drag And View" from the menu. If
- you want to open up additional Drag And View windows,
- choose the new window button from the toolbar.
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- Under Windows NT, you first run Drag And View. When
- Drag And View is running it will appear as an icon on the
- lower left of your screen. To view files you can drag the
- selected files from the File Manager to the Drag And View
- icon or to any open Drag And View window. Or, you can
- click on the "Fmlaunch" menu item that is added to
- Windows File Manager's menu bar and choose "View files".
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- Using the view files option will not open a new window if a
- window is already open. The same is true if you drag files
- to an open Drag And View window. However, dragging
- files to the Drag And View icon will always open a new
- window with the files displayed.
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- Every Drag And View window maintains a listing of the
- files that you dragged to it in its "Filelist" menu. You can
- use the "Filelist" menu to choose a particular file in the list
- to view or you can use the "Last" and "Next" buttons to
- scroll through the list of files.
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- Drag And View includes a utility called Fileman Launcher.
- which installs itself as a File Manager accessory in the NT
- File Manager. Fileman Launcher will run Drag And View
- automatically every time you run the NT File Manager and
- it will exit Drag And View every time that you exit File
- Manager. Fileman Launcher will prevent the Drag And
- View icon from being covered when you are working in File
- Manager. And, Fileman Launcher will remember the place
- where you last left the DV icon and will place it there the
- next time you run File Manager. You can add up to 9 other
- programs to Fileman Launcher and have it manage them the
- same way as it manages Drag And View. You can access
- Fileman Laucher from the "Fmlaunch" menu item that it
- adds to the NT File Manager. To add or remove programs
- or change the way Fileman Launcher runs programs, select
- "Modify program list" from the "Fmlaunch" menu.
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- Drag And View supports multiple page Adobe Acrobat and
- spreadsheet files. If a file has more than one page, there will
- be an active "Page" menu where you can choose which
- page to view.
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- File Formats Supported by
- Drag And View
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- File formats supported in this version of Drag And View
- are:
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- ASCII
- Hex
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Word for Windows, including version 7
- Microsoft Works
- Microsoft Works for Windows, including version 3
- Windows Write
- Word Perfect
- Word Perfect for Windows, including version 6
- Ami Pro
- Q&A Write
- dBase
- FoxPro
- Clipper
- Excel, including Excel version 6
- Lotus 123
- Symphony
- Quattro, Quattro Pro
- Quattro Pro for Windows
- Windows Metafile (WMF)
- BMP
- ICO
- PCX
- GIF
- TIF
- JPEG
- TGA
- ZIP
- LZH
- TTF
- CorelDraw version 3 (CDR)
- AutoCad (DXF)
- Micrografix Designer (DRW)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT)
- Encapsulated Post Script/Adobe Illustrator (EPS/AI)
- Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL)
- Lotus (PIC)
- Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM/CTM)
- WordPerfect Graphics (WPG)
- Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
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- Installing Drag And View
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- Installation of Drag And View is very easy with the setup
- program provided. Run DVSETUP.EXE from the Win 95
- Control Panel or the Win NT program manager.
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- The DVSetup Program gives you two install and two
- uninstall options.
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- Install options
- 1. You can install Drag And View without Fileman
- Launcher. This is the only option available under Windows
- 95. Under Windows 95, you view files by right clicking on
- them in Explorer.
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- 2. You can install Drag And View with Fileman Launcher.
- Fileman Launcher installs itself as a File Manager extension
- and runs Drag And View every time you run the NT File
- Manager. Fileman Launcher will also keep Drag And
- View's icon uncovered when you are working in File
- Manager.
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- Uninstall options
- Under Windows 95 you can choose to uninstall Drag And
- View by choosing Add/Remove Programs from the Control
- Panel and then choosing to remove Drag And View for Win
- 32. Under Windows NT there is an uninstall program
- provided called DVUN.EXE which you will have to run
- manually. The uninstall program will remove all the
- programs except the uninstall program itself. You will have
- to remove the uninstall program manually.
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- To remove just Fileman Launcher you choose that option
- from the FMLaunch menu in the NT File Manager.
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- Installing
- The DVSetup program will ask you which drive and
- directory you would like to install Drag And View to. If the
- destination is different from where you are installing from,
- all files will be copied over to the new path. If the files on
- the installation diskette are compressed, the DVSetup
- program will decompress them while copying them.
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- Using Drag And View
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- If you are working in Windows 95 Explorer, right click on the
- file that you want to view. If you want to view more than one
- file, first tag the files that you want to view and right click on
- them. A context menu will come up. Choose the "Drag And
- View" option from the context menu and a Drag And View
- window will open displaying the first file in the list.
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- Under Windows NT you can drag files from the File Manager to
- its icon or, you can use the "Fmlaunch" menu that Fileman
- Launcher adds to File Manager's menu bar.
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- All the files that you've dragged or right clicked on will be listed
- in the Drag And View window's "Filelist" menu and you can use
- that menu to display the other files.
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- If you want to view two or more files in the file listing
- simultaneously, you can choose the "New" button and Drag And
- View will open up a new window with the same file list. You
- can open up as many windows this way as your computer's
- memory will support. You can also drag more files to any open
- Drag And View window; they will be added to the "Filelist"
- menu and the first one in the group will be displayed. The
- "Filelist" menu will hold up to 25 files. After 25, as you drag
- new files, the older ones will be dropped off the list.
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- When Drag And View displays a file, it first tries to determine if
- it can display the file in one of its special viewers. If there is no
- special viewer for the file, it will be shown with either the ASCII
- viewer (if the file is made up chiefly of readable characters) or
- the Hex viewer.
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- Under Windows NT, the Drag And View icon will still remain at
- the bottom of your screen even after you've dragged files to it
- and opened up a viewing window. You can continue to drag
- files to the icon and each time that you do, a new window will be
- opened.
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- Any open Drag And View window can be closed, maximized or
- minimized to an icon. You can drag files to a minimized Drag
- And View window and it will be restored and display your files.
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- When you want to quit the Drag And View Program under
- Windows NT you must choose "Close" from the system menu
- of the Drag And View icon or choose "Close Drag And View"
- from the file menu of any open Drag And View window. This is
- not necessary under Windows 95 where Drag And View will
- close automatically when there are no view windows open..
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- You can also run Drag And View from the File/Run menu of any
- program manager. If you use a file name as a command line
- argument, Drag And View will run and display the file that you
- specified in a window. You can also install Drag And View as
- the viewer for other programs such as our Zip manager, Drag
- And Zip.
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- Selecting and Copying to the Clipboard
- Selecting areas of views to copy to the clipboard is very easy
- with Drag And View. Simply place the mouse pointer at the
- beginning of the area that you want to copy. Then press the left
- button and drag the mouse to the end of the area that you want
- to copy, still holding down the left button until you are finished
- selecting. You can also select the entire file by choosing "Select
- All" from the "Edit" menu. To copy a selected area to the
- clipboard, click on the copy button or press Ctl+C or Alt+C and
- the selected area will be copied. Text, spreadsheet or database
- files will be copied as text. All graphics files will be copied as
- bitmaps.
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- All viewers allow selecting and copying except the WAV file
- player and the Hex viewer.
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- Launch
- Clicking on the "Launch" button will run the program associated
- with the file that you are currently viewing. If you are viewing a
- data file or a picture, Drag And View will query Windows to
- find out the name of the program that you have associated with
- the file. If there is an associated program, Drag And View will
- run that program and pass to it the file that you are currently
- viewing as a command line argument. For example, if you are
- viewing a document from Microsoft Word for Windows, Drag
- And View will run Word for Windows and have it load up the
- document that you are currently viewing. If you don't have a
- program associated with the file, Drag And View will not be
- able to run any program but will let you browse through your
- programs to choose one. When choosing a program to launch,
- you will be given the opportunity to make the association
- permanent.
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- If the file you are viewing is a program, Drag And View will run
- it when you choose this command.
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- Copy
- The copy button will be available only if part of the view has
- been selected. You can select areas to copy by dragging the
- mouse over them or by choosing "Select All" from the "Edit"
- menu. Clicking on the Copy button will copy the selected area
- to the Windows Clipboard. All text, spreadsheet and database
- files will be copied as text. All graphic files will be copied as
- bitmaps.
- New Window
- When you click on the "New Window" button, Drag And View
- will open up a new window with the same file list as the current
- window. Choose this command when you want to view the
- same files in two or more windows at the same time. You can
- then arrange these windows to view different parts of the same
- file side by side or choose another file from the file list and
- compare the two files. You can open up as many new windows
- as you want, up to available memory on your computer.
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- Goto
- This button will only be active when viewing a database or
- spreadsheet, or in the Hex viewer.
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- For database viewing, this button will open up a dialog box
- where you can enter a specific record to go to and view.
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- For spreadsheet viewing, this button will open up a dialog box
- where you can enter a specific cell to go to.
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- In the Hex viewer, this button will open up a dialog box where
- you can enter a specific hexadecimal offset into the file that the
- viewer will show.
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- Find
- This button is active in all the viewers except the graphic and
- WAV viewers. Use this button to search for specific text in a
- file. In all viewers except the Hex viewer you can specify that
- your search be case sensitive. In the Hex viewer you can search
- in ASCII as well as hexadecimal.
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- Choosing this command will open up a dialog box where you
- can enter your search information. Choosing OK will find the
- first match in the file. Choosing OK each time will find each
- subsequent match.
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- Last, Next
- The "Last" and "Next" buttons allow you to scroll through the
- files in the Filelist. These buttons won't be active unless the
- Filelist menu has more that one file in it
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- Print
- Clicking on the "Print" button will bring up a dialog box from
- which you can print a file. If part of the file is selected, you will
- be able to print just the selection or the entire file. Spreadsheet,
- text and database files will be printed in the printers default font.
- Graphic files will be printed the way they are displayed. The
- WAV file player and the Hex viewer do not allow printing.
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- Play
- The play button will only appear when you have opened a Wav
- file in Drag And View. A Wav file is a Windows sound file and
- it has a "WAV" extension. When you open a Wav file in Drag
- And View, DV will try to play the Wav file if you have a sound
- driver installed. If you want to hear the Wav file again, click on
- the Play button.
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- Open Command (File Menu)
- Use this command to add a new file to the current window.
- Choosing this command will open a dialog box from which you
- can choose a new file to view. If there is a special file viewer for
- the file, it will be shown in its native format. Otherwise, it will
- be shown with either the ASCII viewer (if the file is made up
- chiefly of readable characters), or the Hex viewer.
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- When you open a file in this manner, the file will be displayed in
- the current window and its name will be added to the top of the
- "Filelist" menu.
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- Word Wrap Command (File Menu)
- This command is only available in Drag And View's ASCII
- viewer. Use this command to turn word wrap on or off when
- viewing ASCII text files. When word wrap is on, Drag And
- View will wrap each line at the current window width. As you
- expand the width of the window, Drag And View will expand
- the length of the lines. When word wrap is active, there will be a
- check mark before this command. When you turn word wrap
- off, the check mark will disappear.
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- Save As Command (File Menu)
- All the graphics windows will have a save as option on the file
- menu. With this option you can save the file currently being
- displayed in 6 different bitmap formats.
- BMP
- PCX
- TIF
- GIF
- JPG
- TGA
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- Exit Command (File Menu)
- Use this command to close the current window.
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- Close Drag And View (File Menu)
- Under Windows NT, closing all the Drag And View windows
- will not close the Drag And View icon. You can use this menu
- option to close all the windows and the DV icon.
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- Select All Command (Edit Menu)
- Use the "Select All" command to select all of the viewed file to
- print or copy to the clipboard. Selected areas of text files,
- spreadsheets and databases will appear in reverse video.
- Selected areas of graphics files will have a rectangle around
- them.
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- Copy Command (Edit Menu)
- Choose this menu item to copy selected areas of files to the
- Windows Clipboard. Text files, databases and spreadsheets will
- be copied as text. Graphics files will be copied as bitmaps.
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- ASCII Command (View Menu)
- Use this command to view a file in Windows ASCII format.
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- Hex Command (View Menu)
- Use this command to view a file in hexadecimal format. The
- Hex viewer displays a file as a series of hexadecimal (base 16)
- numbers and ASCII characters.
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- Viewer Command (View Menu)
- Use this command to view a file with one of Drag And View's
- viewers that views the file in its native format. This will be the
- default if a file format is supported by Drag And View. The only
- reason you will need to select this command is if you changed to
- the ASCII or Hex viewer and now want to change back.
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- Fonts Command (Options Menu)
- This command will bring up a dialog box where you can choose
- which font you want Drag And View viewers to use. The font
- that you choose will be active in all the viewers that display text
- except the Hex viewer.
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- Settings Command (Options Menu)
- Choosing this command will bring up a dialog box where you
- can modify Drag And View's settings
- The settings options are:
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- "View Highlighted File Automatically": This option will only
- work when you are running Drag And View from Fileman
- Launcher or running Drag And View with Canyon Software's
- file manager Drag And File. If this option is turned on, Drag
- And View will display each file as it is highlighted in the File
- Manager. It will not open a Drag And View window if one is
- not already running. For that you need the next option.
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- "Open View Window if Necessary": This option works in
- conjunction with the previous one. This will open a Drag And
- View window to view files if one isn't already open.
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- "Bring View Window To Top": This option is also designed
- to work in conjunction with the option "View Highlighted File
- Automatically". When this option is checked, the view window
- will always come to the top when a new file is highlighted and
- consequently displayed. If it is not checked, the view window
- will stay where it currently is.
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- "Hide Icon": The Drag And View Icon will normally be
- showing on the screen when it is running. Some users have
- requested that the icon be hidden and that they only use the
- FMLaunch menu to view files. With this option you can make
- Drag And View's icon not show when it is running. After
- checking this option you will have to quit Drag And View and
- run it again to have it activated.
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- "Icon Caption": Many users have requested that they be able to
- modify the caption of Drag And View icon. In this field you can
- fill in whatever caption you want it to have. If you leave it
- blank, Windows will put a blank line in reverse video under the
- icon.
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- Zoom Command (Main Menu)
- Use this option to quickly zoom in the view of your file. This
- command will be available with all files except WAV files and
- the Hex display.
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- Drag And View DWG allows you to zoom AutoCAD views
- from 1/4 to 16 times. Additionally you can mark any rectangle
- by holding down the left mouse button and moving the mouse
- accross the screen. A rectangle will be drawn from the starting
- point of the mouse to where you take your finger off of the left
- mouse button. You can then and zoom that rectangle to fill the
- view window.
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- Flip Top to Bottom (Rotate Menu)
- This option allows you to rotate a bitmap 180 degrees.
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- Reverse Left to Right (Rotate Menu)
- This option allows you to reverse a bitmap left to right.
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- Rotate 90 Degrees (Rotate Menu)
- This option allows you to rotate a bitmap 90 degrees.
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- Filelist Command (Main Menu)
- The "Filelist" menu displays the names of all the files that have
- been dragged to the open window or opened from the file menu.
- The file that is currently displayed has a check before the name.
- Highlighting another file and pressing Enter or clicking on
- another file name with the mouse will display that file.
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- Page Command (Main Menu)
- This command will not be available unless you are viewing a
- graphic or spreadsheet with multiple pages. You can use it to
- view the additional pages of the file. Drag And View currently
- supports multiple pages in PDF, Quattro Pro for Windows
- (WB1) and Excel files.
- Close All Windows Command
- (Drag And View icon System Menu)
- Use this command to close all the currently open Drag And
- View windows. Drag And View will still be running and its icon
- will still be displayed.
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- Close Command
- (Drag And View icon System Menu)
- Use this command to exit the Drag And View program. All
- open Drag And View windows will be closed at this time.
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- Running Drag And View from The Windows NT File
- Manager with Fileman Launcher
- When you install Drag And View under Windows NT, it will
- install Fileman Launcher as a File Manager accessory. Every
- time File Manager is run, Fileman Launcher will also be run and
- will run Drag And View. Every time File Manager is closed,
- Fileman Launcher will close and will close Drag And View.
- Fileman Launcher has its own menu in File Manager called
- "Fmlaunch". You can use the "Fmlaunch" menu to view files
- without having to drag them to the DV icon. Inorder to do this,
- Drag And View must be running. Just click on the "View files"
- option in the "Fmlaunch" menu and Drag And View will view
- the files that you currently have selected in File Manager. There
- is also a "Zip files" menu option in Fileman Launcher. This
- option that will work with Drag And Zip another program from
- Canyon Software that works as Zip file manager.
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- When you choose "View files", Drag And View will place the
- selected files into one of its open windows. If no Drag And
- View windows are open, Drag And View will open one and
- display the files.
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- Getting Help
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- Canyon Software is committed to producing software that is
- useful and productive. To help users make full use of Drag And
- File, Canyon Software maintains a technical help line for
- registered users from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Pacific Time.
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- Phone (415) 453-9779
- Fax (415) 453-6195
- BBS (415) 453-4289
- CompuServe 74774,554
- America On Line DanBCan
- Internet support@canyonsw.com
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- What is Drag And View
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- Using Drag And View
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- Getting Help
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