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WELCOME TO ZIPMAGIC 2000 EVALUATION VERSION 3.0
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. INTRODUCTION TO ZIPMAGIC 2000
2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
3. INSTALLING ZIPMAGIC 2000
4. UNINSTALLING ZIPMAGIC 2000
5. TECHNICAL SUPPORT
6. ZIPTOOLS
7. KNOWN PROBLEMS/ISSUES
1. INTRODUCTION TO ZIPMAGIC 2000
Welcome to ZipMagic 2000! You have purchased the most innovative, powerful and
easy-to-use file compression program around. This coordinated set of Zip utilities
incorporates features that make file compression and uncompression a breeze.
ZipMagic allows you to display zipped files as Windows folders, PLUS it provides an
interface for you to zip files in a more conventional way.
This is a summary of some of the newest features:
Support for Anti-Virus Software
As Zip files may contain viruses, ZipMagic 2000 can be configured to work with current
versions of Ontrack Fix-It Utilities 99, as well as other anti-virus programs, by scanning
zipped files for viruses.
New Help for Internet Downloading
The new DownloadMagicÖ feature makes downloading easier by creating a separate
pop-up window when a download activates. In this download window, users can restart
crashed downloads, start and stop downloads or simply queue multiple downloads to
occur one after the other.
New Features for Zip Power Users
Many of ZipMagicÆs features are now available via a Windows command line version,
accessible from a DOS box in Windows. The command line allows users to create Zip
files and self-extracting Zip files, span Zip files over multiple diskettes, specify input text
files (response files) containing the names of files to be zipped, password protect and
update the contents of Zip files.
ZipMagic 2000 also has a stand-alone DOS command line option, which features basic
zipping and unzipping and is useful for creating batch files or manipulating files in DOS
without Windows running.
Along with these, ZipMagic 2000 has a fully integrated interface with new wizards and
an easy-to-use file viewer. There are special disk spanning capabilities and self-
extracting executable features as well.
2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Windows 95, 98, NT 4.x, or 2000
8 MB RAM (16 MB for NT)
11 Megabytes free hard drive space
3. INSTALLING ZIPMAGIC 2000
1. Insert the ZipMagic 2000 CD into the CD ROM drive.
2. The InstallShield program will start automatically. If it does not (if you have a
previous version of ZipMagic, it may not start automatically), click the Start menu
and select Run. In the text box, type E:\setup.exe (where E: is your CD-ROM drive
letter) and click OK.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen to install ZipMagic 2000.
4. UNINSTALLING ZIPMAGIC 2000
To uninstall ZipMagic 2000, do the following:
1. Select Settings?Control Panel from your Windows Start menu.
2. In the Control Panel, double-click on Add/Remove Programs.
3. Select ZipMagic 2000 from the scroll-down list.
4. You will see a dialog asking you if you really want to remove ZipMagic.
5. Click on Yes, remove ZipMagic.
5. TECHNICAL SUPPORT
If you should encounter any difficulties using ZipMagic 2000, please contact us:
Mijenix/Ontrack Corporation
3030 Sterling Circle
Boulder, CO 80301 USA
Tel : (303) 245-8000
Fax : (303) 245-8111
Email : support@mijenix.com
Web : www.mijenix.com
6. ZIPTOOLS; A NOTE
Former users of ZipMagic: If you have installed and used either ZipMagic 1.0 or
ZipMagic 98, you may have used the ZipTools feature. The new ZipMagic 2000
interface is replacing ZipTools in this and future versions of ZipMagic.
However, ZipTools is still automatically installed from your ZipMagic 2000 CD if you are
running Windows 95 or 98. ZipTools is currently not compatible with pre-release
versions of Windows 2000, and will not be automatically installed on Windows 2000
systems.
The ZipTools user guide will be available in PDF format from the Mijenix/Ontrack web
site.
You can access ZipTools by navigating to the ZipMagic installation directory and
running the program ziptools.exe.
Any Windows 2000 updates to original products are normally available via EasyUpdate.
You can download a standalone ZipTools guide in PDF format from the Mijenix web site
at http://www.mijenix.com.
7. KNOWN PROBLEMS/ISSUES
EZSetup: Sometimes this feature freezes if the Outlook email program is running. If
this happens, just close Outlook and EZSetup will continue running normally.
Windows 2000 compatibility: ZipMagic does not support certain advanced Windows
2000 features such as extremely long file names and Intellimirror.
AV Scanner: If you are using Fix-It Utilities 99 as your command-line anti-virus
scanner, you must use the ô/sö option, which causes it to scan into sub-folders.
GENERAL WARNINGS
Heeding these warnings may prevent problems using ZipMagic 98:
1. Do not attempt to compress your \Windows folder, or any of its subfolders!
Compressed folders can not be accessed until after ZipMagic is loaded. Because
Windows loads before ZipMagic, it must remain unzipped otherwise Windows will not
boot.
2. In general, it is better not to rename a folder that contains a complex application
(which happens when you compress a folder). When the programs are installed, path
information is often stored in the registry, .ini files, and so on. That being so, renaming
an program folder behind the registry's back, so to speak, will render the path
information invalid which may prevent the application from running.
3. ZipMagic does not incorporate file locking, so we suggest that you do not use
ZipMagic on database files that can be accessed by multiple users at the same time.
4. When ZipMagic encounters an encrypted Zip file, it asks for the password, and
caches or "remembers" it for that session of Windows so that you donÆt have to re-enter
it every time you access the folder. If this poses a security risk, you can set a hotkey to
force ZipMagic to forget the password.
5. There may be incompatibilities with device drivers written by other companies.
We apologize in advance for any such problems and would very much like to hear
about the problems you encounter, if any.
6. There is a major design problem in the Windows 95 Novell client for NetWare.
This client does not currently incorporate a network redirector and therefore all device
drivers are left blind with respect to file activities on the servers to which the client is
attached. This has very serious consequences as, for example, anti-virus device drivers
completely fail to prevent access to infected data on the NetWare servers. ZipMagic too
is affected, as it cannot present Zip archives as folders on network drives when using
the Novell Windows 95 NetWare client.
The workaround to this Novell client problem is to use Microsoft's client for
NetWare which ships with Windows 95. The Microsoft client incorporates a network
redirector and device drivers and anti-virus drivers will work fine with it.
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