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- 4ZIP/4UNZIP USER'S GUIDE
- VERSION 1.04
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- JUNE 1990
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- XD SYSTEMS
- 1014 SHIPMAN LANE
- MCLEAN, VA 22101
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- CONTENTS
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- Limited Warranty 1
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- Background 2
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- 4ZIP Usage 2
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- 4UNZIP Usage 3
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- Regarding Registration 4
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- 4ZIP/4UNZIP Version History 5
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- 4EDIT 6
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- Software Registration Form and Order 7
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- LIMITED WARRANTY
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- XD Systems warrants the physical diskette enclosed herein
- to be free of defects in materials and workmanship for a period
- of 60 days from the date of purchase. In the event of notification
- within the warranty period of defects in material or workmanship,
- XD Systems will replace the defective diskette.
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- XD Systems specifically disclaims all other warranties,
- express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties
- of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no
- event shall XD Systems be liable for any loss of profit or any
- other commercial damage, including but not limited to special,
- incidental, consequential or other damages arising out of the use,
- the result of use, or inability to use this product.
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- This program is produced by a member of the Association of
- Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the
- shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
- shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the
- member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can
- help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does
- not provide technical support for members' products. Please write
- to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send
- a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536
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- 4DOS is a trademark of J.P. Software. PKZip and PKUnzip are
- trademarks of PKWare. 4ZIP/4UNZIP and all the files and document-
- ation distributed with it are copyright 1990 by Iram J. Weinstein.
- All rights reserved.
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- 4ZIP/4UNZIP User's Guide
- Version 1.03
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- Copyright (C) 1990
- I. J. Weinstein
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- A.BACKGROUND
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- 4DOS provides a way of attaching descriptions to files
- on your disk that is apparently seamless. The descriptions
- appear on directory displays and automatically are copied
- when you COPY or MOVE a file to another disk or directory.
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- But this seamless property fails as soon as you use other
- programs on your files. For example, if you archive the files
- with the PKware programs PKZIP or PKUNZIP, the descriptions
- stay behind. 4ZIP and 4UNZIP address this problem, providing
- an automatic method to store descriptions in ZIPFiles and to
- restore them when you extract a file.
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- 4DOS keeps a DESCRIPT.ION file in each directory. You should
- know that this is a hidden file. You will not see it in the DOS
- directory unless you change the file attribute or use the 4DOS DIR /h
- option. 4UNZIP inserts file descriptions into this hidden file or
- creates a new one if necessary.
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- You must have copies of the PKware utilities located on the
- DOS Path, or in the current directory. These shareware programs
- are not supplied with 4ZIP/4UNZIP. You can obtain them from many
- Shareware distributors, BBS's or from PKware directly at:
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- PKware Inc.
- 7545 North Port Washington Road
- Glendale, WI 53217
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- XD Systems is not affiliated with PKware in any way.
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- B. 4ZIP USAGE
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- 4ZIP Usage is:
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- 4ZIP ZIPFILE [/am?] [d:][path][filespec] [+filespec] [+..]
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- A directory display similar to that of SELECT will appear
- showing all of the files meeting any of the filespecs. This
- use of include lists is identical to the 4DOS 3.0 DIR and
- SELECT usage. Note that only the first argument in an include
- list can have a pathname; subsequent arguments default to the
- same path.
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- You can mark files to be ZIPped into ZipFile in several
- ways, similar to the 4DOS SELECT command, as follows:
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- <+> MARK file
- <-> UNMARK file
- <space> Toggle MARK
- <*> MARK all files
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- To move the selection bar around the list of files, use
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- <UP> Move up one line
- <DOWN> Move down one line
- <PgUp> Move up one full screen
- <PgDn> Move down one full screen
- <HOME> Move to top of list
- <END> Move to end of list
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- When you are finished marking files, then:
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- <ENTER> ZIP marked files into ZIPFILE
- <Esc> Quit 4ZIP without doing anything
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- 4ZIP also has two options, which can be used singly or
- together, e.g., /a /m, or /am.
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- /a ZIP all files matching filespecs without query.
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- 4ZIP Junk /a C:\SOURCE\*.Pas + *MATH*.INC
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- would ZIP into JUNK.ZIP all files from the C:\SOURCE
- directory that either had the extension PAS or the
- extension INC and MATH anywhere in the filename.
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- /m Move selected files from source directory to the ZIPFile.
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- This works by deleting the files from the source
- directory after ZIPping.
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- C. 4UNZIP USAGE
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- 4UNZIP Usage is:
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- 4UNZIP ZIPFILE [/adm?] [outpath] [d:][path][filespec] [+filespec] [+..]
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- The display is identical to the 4ZIP display, showing
- all the files in the ZipFile that meet any of the filespecs.
- Marking of the files to be extracted and cursor movement
- around the screen is identical to 4ZIP.
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- 4UNZIP has three options. The first two are similar to
- the ones provided for 4ZIP.
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- /a UNZIP all files matching filespecs without query.
- /m Move selected files from the ZIPFile to the outpath
- directory (Current directory is default).
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- /d Delete selected files from the ZIPFile without extracting.
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- This provides a convenient tool for ZipFile management,
- allowing you to select files to be removed using any
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- combination of filespecs with wild cards and the SELECT screen.
- The combination /ad will delete all the specified files
- without presenting the SELECT screen. The combination /md
- is interpreted the same as /m alone.
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- Outpath, if supplied, determines the directory in which the
- extracted files are to be placed. So for example
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- 4UNZIP C:\SOURCE\JUNK A:\ /am *.doc
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- would extract all of the files with extension doc from the
- file C:\SOURCE\JUNK.ZIP and place them in the root directory
- of the A: drive. Then it would delete all of these files
- from JUNK.ZIP.
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- C. REGARDING REGISTRATION
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- 4ZIP/4UNZIP is ShareWare. The law requires that if you use
- this program, you must register and obtain a license for it. The
- registration fee is $15. A registration form is included at the
- end of this manual.
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- Registered users will be notified of upgrades to 4ZIP/4UNZIP as
- they are released, and will receive the latest version of the
- program. Online help is available through CompuServe, by
- EasyPlex. Help is also available by mail. I will try to answer
- all letters within 48 hours. Non-registered users must include
- a SASE for a reply. The degree of help available to non-registered
- users is purely discretionary. Registrations and inquiries should
- be sent to:
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- Iram J. Weinstein
- XD Systems
- 1014 Shipman Lane
- McLean, VA 22101
- Voice (703) 821-3215
- CIS 70741,3711
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- Commercial use of 4ZIP/4UNZIP without payment of the reg-
- istration fee is prohibited. Site licenses are available for users
- with multiple machines. Please contact me for information.
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- The program and its associated documentation are the
- copyrighted property of the author. Non-commercial users
- are granted the right to use copy and share 4ZIP/4UNZIP with the
- following conditions:
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- Shareware distributors and Users Groups may charge a
- nominal fee for copying and distributing this program
- and Bulletin Board Systems may likewise carry it. Any
- distribution of 4ZIP/4UNZIP must include without alteration
- only the files listed: 4ZIP.EXE, 4UNZIP.EXE and 4ZIP.TXT, unchanged.
- Permission is also given for electronic distribution of
- archived versions of these files on electronic bulletin boards.
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- D. 4ZIP/4UNZIP VERSION HISTORY
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- Ver 0.90 (Beta Test) 12/01/89
- This is the original release. It used batch files to drive
- 4ZIP and 4UNZIP and could only run under 4DOS.
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- Ver 0.91 (Beta Test) 12/20/89
- 4ZIP and 4UNZIP now stand alone, and can be run under DOS. 4UNZIP
- accesses the ZipFile Directory itself without using PKZIP -v. This is
- much faster.
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- Ver 0.92 (Beta Test) 1/21/90
- Improved exception handling for DOS errors.
- Added /d and /m options to 4UNZIP
- Allow specification of destination path for the extracted files in 4UNZIP
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- Ver 0.93 (Beta Test) 2/04/90
- 1. Changed mark/unmark in 4ZIP and 4UNZIP to be more like the latest
- SELECT. Space bar toggles mark and * marks all.
- 2. 4ZIP lost descriptions on some files in big directories. Now
- fixed.
- 3. Ver 0.92 of 4ZIP tried to correct command line parser so that
- C: ==> C:*.* and ABC ==> ABC\*.* if ABC is a directory but
- ABC.* otherwise. Got it right this time!
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- Version 1.0 3/11/90
- First public release
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- Version 1.01 3/21/90
- 1. Corrected error (shame on me) in 4UNZIP that included marker
- in filename.
- 2. Corrected 4UNZIP error when destination path is not source path.
- 3. Minor changes in documentation.
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- Version 1.02 3/23/90
- 1. Corrected error in 4ZIP and 4UNZIP - not properly recognizing
- include lists.
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- Version 1.03 4/01/90
- Changed file access to run on networks reliably.
- Added name and serial number on registered copies.
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- Version 1.04 6/10/90
- Modified to correct for 4DOS 3.0 quirk. Entries in DESCRIPT.ION
- are sometimes delimited by LF instead of CRLF. Earlier versions of
- 4ZIP/4UNZIP misread these lines.
- Corrected 4ZIP/4UNZIP to properly access ZIPfiles smaller than
- 150 bytes.
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- E. 4EDIT
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- Also take a look at 4EDIT, a full-screen editor for dir-
- ectory comments (or, in 4DOS terms, Descriptions). I think you
- will find it very useful. Its good practice to comment your
- files, and often its handy to see the descriptions attached to
- other files, while you are writing a new one.
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- The 4EDIT package is shareware, available on Bulletin Boards
- and from shareware distributors. Registration is $15. See the order
- form at the end of this manual.
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- SOFTWARE REGISTRATION FORM AND ORDER
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- Check all that apply:
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- [ ] 4ZIP/4UNZIP registration _____ @ $15.00
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- [ ] 4EDIT registration _____ @ $15.00
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- TOTAL ENCLOSED: $______
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- If you already have copies of the programs you are
- ordering , where were they obtained?
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- Send your registration form and payment to:
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