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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 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 Plus is the same program as
- Drag And View but has the addition of the Halcyon Vector Import Library and
- allows viewing of many vector file formats.
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- You can view files with Drag And View in two different ways. You can drag
- the selected files from any file manager that supports drag and drop to the
- Drag And View icon or to any open Drag And View window. Or, you can click
- on the "Fml" 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. 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 the "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 files.
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- Also part of the Drag And View utilities is Fileman Launcher. Fileman
- Launcher installs itself as a file manager accessory. Fileman Launcher will
- run Drag And View automatically everytime you run Windows File Manager and
- it will exit Drag And View everytime that you exit File Manager. Fileman
- Launcher will keep the DV icon from being covered when you are working in
- File Manager. And, Fileman Launcher will memember 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 "Fml" menu item that it adds to Windows File Manager. To add
- or remove programs or change the way Fileman Launcher runs programs select
- "Modify program list" from the "Fml" menu.
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- File Formats Supported by Drag And View and Drag And View Plus
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- File formats supported in version 2.0 of Drag And View and Drag And View
- Plus include:
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- ASCII
- Hex
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Word for Windows
- Microsoft Works
- MicrosoftWorks for Windows
- Windows Write
- Word Perfect
- Word Perfect for Windows
- Ami Pro
- Q&A Write
- Q&A Write for Windows
- dBase
- FoxPro
- Clipper
- Paradox
- Paradox for Windows
- Excel
- Lotus 123
- Symphony
- Quattro, Quattro Pro
- Quattro Pro for Windows
- Windows Metafile (WMF)
- BMP
- ICO
- PCX
- GIF
- TIF
- ZIP
- LZH
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- Drag And View Plus also supports the following vector graphic formats:
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- AutoCad (DXF)
- Micrografix Designer (DRW)
- Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL)
- Lotus (PIC)
- Micrografix Draw (PIC)
- Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
- WordPerfect Graphics (WPG)
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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.
- From Program Manager, choose "File" from the menu bar and then choose "Run"
- from the pull down menu. In the dialog box type the full path where the
- files are, and the program name DVSETUP.EXE. For example, if you were
- installing from drive A:, you would enter "A:\DVSETUP.EXE". If you were
- installing from the "DV" directory of drive C:, you would enter
- "C:\DV\DVSETUP.EXE".
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- The DVSetup program will ask you which drive and directory you are
- installing Drag And View from, and which drive and directory you would like
- to install them to. If the source path is different from the destination
- path, all files will be copied over to the new path. If the files on the
- installation diskette are compressed, the DVSetup program will uncompress
- them while copying them. The DVSetup program will then create a program
- group called Drag And View and put the Drag And View icon in it. DVSetup
- will also install Fileman Launcher. Fileman Launcher is a File Manager
- accessory that will run Drag And View everytime that you run File Manager
- and exit Drag And View everytime that you exit File Manager.
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- Using Drag And View
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- You can use Drag And View two different ways. You can drag files from the
- file manager to its icon or, if you're running Windows 3.1 File Manager, you
- can use the "Fml" menu that Fileman Launcher adds to File Manager's menu
- bar.
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- When you run Drag And View it will load and show its icon at the bottom left
- of your screen. If you want to drag files to Drag and View's icon, Drag And
- View must be running. It will not work if you try to drag files to its icon
- in Program Manager. If you run Drag And View from Fileman Launcher, Fileman
- Launcher will keep the Drag And View icon from being covered when File
- Manager is the active program. If you are not running Drag And View from
- Fileman Launcher and you want to keep it's icon form being covered, you can
- do so by choosing "Always visible" from the Drag And View icon System menu.
- First click on the Drag And View icon and bring up the System menu. Click
- on the menu selection that says "Always visible". That will cause the Drag
- And View icon to show through anything that is trying to cover it. You can
- turn that option off the same way. Click on the Drag And View icon and
- bring up the menu. You will notice that there is now a check before the
- choice "Always Visible". Click again on "Always Visible" and Drag And View
- will stop peeking through applications that are covering it. The state of
- the Always Visible option will be saved when you exit Drag And View and will
- become active the next time you run it.
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- Fileman Launcher will remember the last position of the Drag And View icon
- and put it there the next time you run File Manager. If you choose not to
- run Drag And View from Fileman Launcher, you can also have Drag And View
- save it's icon position from the icon menu.
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- To view files with Drag And View, you drag files from any file manager that
- supports drag and drop to the Drag And View icon and Drag and View will open
- a window displaying those files. The first file in the group that you
- dragged will be the one that is displayed. All the files will be listed in
- the window's "Filelist" menu and you can use that menu to display the other
- files. Additionally if you're running Windows' File Manager, you can choose
- "Fml" from the menu bar and then choose "View files" from the pull down
- menu.
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- If you want to view two or more files in the file listing simultaneously,
- you can choose the "New Window" 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 20 files. After 20, 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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- 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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- To exit the Drag And View program, you must choose "Close" from the system
- menu of the Drag And View icon. You activate the system menu by clicking
- your mouse on the icon. When Drag And View exits, all the open windows will
- be closed. You can choose to just close all the open Drag And View windows
- and not exit Drag And View by choosing "Close All Windows" from the Drag And
- View icon system menu.
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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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