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- ZipLabel v1.4 - 5/7/97
- (c) 1997
- Earle F. Philhower, III
- earle@geocities.com
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- Introduction
-
- ZipLabel is a small utility for the creation of labels to be placed
- in Zip disk cases. It can generate many different kinds of labels,
- containing directory information and more.
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- Disclaimer
-
- ZipLabel is shareware, (c) 1997 by Earle F. Philhower, III.
- I make no warranties as to it's correctness or functionality. Use
- it at your own risk.
-
- Finally, I would like to make it clear that I am not affiliated with
- Iomega Corp. All names are copyright of their respective owners.
- Iomega and Zip Drive are copyright of Iomega Corp.
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- Shareware
-
- ZipLabel is shareware, the best in "try before you buy." If ZipLabel
- is of use to you, a $5.00 registration fee is requested. Send a check
- made out to:
- Earle F. Philhower, III
- P.O. Box 6573
- Laguna Niguel, CA 92607
-
- Please note that if you've already registered for one version, you're
- registered for all newer versions, too. I'm not Microsoft! ;) Registered
- users get the latest stable version of ZipLabel via email, and thanks!
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- Requirements
-
- * Windows 95 or 3.1(Win32s)
- * 800x600 display recommended
- * Printer (laser or inkjet recommended)
- * Zip Disks
- * Colored Paper (optional)
- * Scissors
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- Installation
-
- ZipLabel needs no installation, simply copy the executable file to
- any convenient directory.
-
- Ziplabel will create a file called "ziplabel.ini" in your Windows
- directory. Also, under Windows 3.1 you NEED to have Win32s installed,
- if you don't already have it check out www.shareware.com or a
- Windows archive site to get it.
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- Popup Menus
-
- ZipLabel brings up a window containing a menubar and a WYSIWYG label
- display. There are also popup menus available inside the label
- display by clicking your right mouse button in the window. If you
- right-click within the body of a label the body menu will appear,
- and if you right-click in the spine on a label the spine menu
- will pop up. These are basically the same menus you see in the
- menubar, but require less mouse-travel to use.
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- Working on Individual Labels
-
- There are two ways to select a label to work on. Either click on the
- label in the window, or press the corresponding number. All items in
- the "Body" and "Spine" menus only work on the currently selected
- label.
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- Menu Items
-
- FILE
- Select Zip Drive
- Brings up a dialog for you to select the drive letter to catalog.
- THIS DOES NOT READ IN A DISK! See "Read Zip Disk" below.
-
- Number of Labels
- Select either 1 or 4 labels to print.
-
- Clear All Labels
- Clears text from ALL LABELS, saves formatting
-
- Load Template
- Save Template
- Load/Save formatting for ALL LABELS to a file
-
- Read Subdirectories
- Determines whether or not to scan(and display) sub-directories
- on your Zip disk. If this item is checked you can individually
- choose which subdirectories to display using
- "Choose Subdirectories" in the Body menu. If this item is not
- checked, ZipLabel will not scan directories.
-
- Print
- Presents a printer dialog then prints the labels being edited
-
- About ZipLabel
- Information about program and author
-
- Exit
- Leaves ZipLabel
-
- BODY
- Columns
- Select either 1,2,3,4 or 0(unlined) columns of files
-
- Display File Sizes
- Show or hide the file sizes for current label
-
- Body Font
- Body Color
- Chooses the font and it's color for displaying files
-
- Sorting
- Sort by Name, Extension, or File Size
-
- Choose Subdirectories
- Brings up a dialog allowing you to select which directories you
- want expanded on the label.
-
- Edit Contents
- Brings up a dialog for editing the label entries and comment
- line at the bottom of the label. Each line in the edit box
- corresponds to one line on the label. The format is as follows:
- FILENAME,SIZE
- You can use any characters for the filename or size, but only the
- first 60 characters of the filename, and 6 characters of the size
- will be displayed. There is no need for the size field to be a
- number. You can add or delete as many lines as you want.
- WARNING: If you edit the contents of a disk with subdirectories,
- ZipLabel will lose the subdirectory information.
-
- Clear Extensions
- Removes all extensions from the filenames present
-
- Clear Contents
- Clears all text in THIS LABEL ONLY. Preserves formatting.
-
- Read Zip Contents
- Reads the disk directory into the label. This can also be
- accomplished by double-clicking on the body of a label.
-
- Duplicate Style
- Copies FORMATTING ONLY, to ALL LABELS.
-
- Zoom
- Zooms in or out of an individual label, when in x4 mode. To
- switch between labels while zoomed in, use the number or arrow
- keys.
-
- SPINE
- Edit Spine Text
- Change the text printed on the label spine
-
- Spine Font
- Spine Color
- Chooses the font and it's color for displaying files
-
- Color ZIP Logo
- Colors the box containing "100" in red.
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- Using the Printed Labels
-
- Cut out the labels, it should be pretty obvious where to cut and where
- to fold. Remove the boring blue cardboard Zip case insert and place your
- shiny new ZipLabel label into your case. Replace the blue label (it's
- normally of much heavier stock than your printer paper, and makes the
- label stay put better. Admire just how cool it looks, and then go make
- some more!
-
- Try using some colored heavy-bond copier paper. Packs of 5 colors can
- be bought at any office supply store, and really make it easy to classify
- your disks (i.e. RED=backups, GREEN=games, etc.)!
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- Special Thanks
-
- I'd like to thank Michel Lefort for the new program icon. It's
- just a tad better than the ugly "ZL" that was there before. ;>
-
- I'd also like to thank Jim Resinger who actually sent me a Zip Disk!
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- Future Directions
-
- Importing bitmaps, and a double-length label format are in the future.
-
- -Earle F. Philhower, III
- earle@geocities.com
- http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6552
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