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Archive Peek for Windows 95
User manual
by Javier Thaine
E-mail: jthaine@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/7017/
Contents:
1. Disclaimer
2. What is Archive Peek?
3. Searching for files
4. The Options menu
Disclaimer
Archive Peek for Windows 95
Copyright 1998 Javier Thaine
Archive Peek for Windows 95 is a freeware program.
Archive Peek for Windows 95 and all of its related files
may only be distributed in the original distribution form.
The distribution file may not have files added to it or
removed from it, and none of its contents may be
modified, decompiled, or reverse engineered.
You may distribute this program as part of a shareware
distribution, magazine, internet book, CD ROM, etc.
Please e-mail me at jthaine@hotmail.com if you do.
Archive Peek for Windows 95 is provided AS IS without
warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including
but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability
and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall
Javier Thaine be liable for any damages whatsoever
including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss
of business profits or special damages, even if Javier
Thaine has been advised of the possibility of such
damages. Use this program at your own risk.
What is Archive Peek?
Have you ever wondered in what ZIP file you kept that
song? Or in which ARJ file in the C:\Letters folder you
kept that letter to dad? Archive Peek is the answer. You
can search for any file you specify inside all of the
archives of a floppy disk, CD-ROM, hard disk, etc. A
Windows 3.1 version is also available at my home page
(see above).
Searching for files
1. Select the drive and folder your archives are in.
2. In the 'Files to look for' field, type in the files you want
to find inside your archives. You can enter up to ten
names separated by spaces and wildcards are allowed.
3. Click on 'Begin Search' or press Enter.
During a search you may click on 'Stop Search' at the
top of the results window. Archive Peek will finish the
archive it's currently looking at and then it will stop.
The number of files found and the time the operation
took are displayed at the bottom of the results window.
You may double click on a file to open its archive (if it's
compressed) or open it directly (if it's not compressed).
You may save your results in text format or in HTML
format by clicking on 'Save Results As...' in the File
menu in the results window. You may also print your
results from the File menu.
The Options menu
You can customize Archive Peek's operation through
the Options menu:
Case Sensitive: Since Windows 95 supports lower and
uppercase letters in filenames, this option allows you to
specify whether the filenames you are looking for must
be exactly those you typed (case sensitive) or if the case
may be ignored (not case sensitive).
Include Subfolders: If this options is checked, Archive
Peek will also look into all subfolders of the folder you
selected.
Display count only: If you only want to know the number
of files Archive Peek finds, this speeds up the program a
lot. The number of files is displayed at the bottom of the
results window.
Advanced Options - You should take a look to see if any
of these options can help you:
Archive types to look inside:
If you know what kind of archives the files you are
looking for are in, choosing only them helps Archive
Peek work faster. If you click on Select All, all of the
formats will be selected. If you click on Select All again,
all of the formats will be cleared. Selecting Non-archive
files will make Archive Peek look into ordinary folders,
just like using the Start Menu's find utility.
The currently supported archive formats are ZIP (used
by PKZIP and WinZip), RAR, LZH, ARJ, ZOO, PAK,
ARC, TAR (often used on UNIX machines), SQZ, HYP,
WAD (used by games created by Id software) and GRP
(use by Duke Nukem 3D). Some ZIP files are not
supported due to their rarity. If such a file is encountered,
Archive Peek will issue a warning. Also, ARC files whose
first byte is not Control-Z will not be read by Archive
Peek and no warning will be issued.
HTML options:
If you ever save your results to HTML files, you can
change their appearance here. You can choose an item
from the combo box and choose which color goes with
it. 'Background color' refers to the 'paper' color of the
HTML document. 'Visited link color' refers to the color of
links that point to files you've already opened. 'Active
link color' refers to the color a link takes when you click
on it. You may also change the text and normal link
colors of the document.
Of course, the color options for links are only valid if you
check the 'Create hyperlinks' option. You may choose to
turn this off to save hard disk space. Hyperlinks allow
you to click on the names of files to access them.
The results in HTML format are displayed in a table. If
you want that table to have borders, check the option
'Display table borders'.
If you check 'Launch viewer when results are saved to
disk', Archive Peek will start your web browser or text
editor to view the file you save. This saves you the work
of having to look for and open the file yourself.