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- │ ██│ ██│ └██┌┘ ██│ ██████┐ ██┌┘└██│ Copyright (C) 1992-93 by Chris Buijs │
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- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- AVIEW is a simple archive-viewer utility for the Norton Commander, it
- views ARC, ARJ, LZH, PAK, ZIP and ZOO archives automatically, it shows
- lots of info's about the files in the archive, you can also tag files and
- unpack them, all operations also work on archive-in-archive!
-
-
- AVIEW is made for usage under the Norton Commander, however, the Norton
- Commander is NOT needed to use AVIEW, AVIEW can also be used stand-alone.
-
-
- This utility is here-by placed in Public Domain and can be concidered
- freeware, this utility may not be sold, hired, leased or modified, it may
- be freely copied as a complete package.
-
-
- This documentation is a quick-help to setup AVIEW, for more information
- you can study the AVIEW.CTL and WHATSNEW.31 files.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Requirements ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- AVIEW requires: MS/PCDOS V3.3x or higher
- 290 KB of free conventional memory.
- A mouse (optional).
-
- The following programms may be needed (optional);
-
- For extracting, updating, converting and viewing archives-in-archives:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- ARJ.EXE from Robert K. Jung.
- LHA.EXE from Haruyasu Yoshizaki.
- PAK.EXE from NoGate Consulting.
- PKUNPAK and PKPAK from PKWare.
- PKUNZIP.EXE and PKZIP.EXE from PKWare.
- ZOO.EXE from Rahul Dhesi.
-
-
- For file-viewing/editing:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- WPVIEW.EXE from Symantec (Peter Norton Computing).
- NCEDIT.EXE from Symantec (Peter Norotn Computing).
-
-
- All the above programms are optional and can be replaced by others, this
- can be done by changing the parameters in the AVIEW.CTL file.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Parameters ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Syntax: AVIEW [[<Drive>:][<Path>\][<Filename>]] [/?] [/M] [/25] [/35]
- [/40] [/43] [/50]
-
- <Drive>: - Drive where archive is on.
-
- <Path>\ - Path where archive is stored.
-
- <Filename> - Archive-file.
-
- /? - Gives a help-screen about the parameters.
-
- /M - Starts up AVIEW in monochrome mode.
-
- /25 - Starts up AVIEW in 25 lines per screen mode.
-
- /35 - Starts up AVIEW in 35 lines per screen mode (EGA).
-
- /40 - Starts up AVIEW in 40 lines per screen mode (EGA)
-
- /43 - Starts up AVIEW in 43 lines per screen mode (VGA)
-
- /50 - Starts up AVIEW in 50 lines per screen mode (VGA)
-
-
- When no drive/path/file parameters are given, AVIEW will startup with a
- file-selector, with this file-selector you can select a file to view,
- with the file-selector you can also switch between drives, directorys
- and files.
-
- When only a drive or path is given as parameter, aview will startup the
- file-selector in the given drive/directory.
-
- AVIEW automatically detects how many lines per screen are used at startup
- and will use the number of lines per screen detected, this can be
- overridden with the above parameters or with the SCREENMODE parameter in
- the AVIEW.CTL file.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Installation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- STANDALONE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE and AVIEW.CTL to a directory in your PATH, AVIEW.CTL must
- be located in the same directory as AVIEW.EXE.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work on your system correctly.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
-
- THE NORTON COMMANDER Versions prior to V4.0
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL and AVIEWNC.EXE to the directory where
- the Norton Commander is installed.
- - Run the AVIEWNC utility, this utility will update your NC.EXT file.
- - Delete AVIEWNC.EXE, only needed for installing AVIEW in the NC.EXT file.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work on your system correctly.
- - Restart The Norton Commander.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
- NOTE: After installing AVIEW in The Norton Commander, you can view an
- archive by pressing ENTER or F3.
-
-
- THE NORTON COMMANDER V4.0
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- - Copy AVIEW.EXE, AVIEW.CTL and AVIEWNC4.EXE to the directory where
- the Norton Commander is installed.
- - Run the AVIEWNC4 utility, this utility will update your NC.CFG and
- NC.EXT files.
- - Delete AVIEWNC4.EXE, only needed for installing AVIEW in the NC.CFG and
- NC.EXT files.
- - Edit the AVIEW.CTL file with a plain ascii-editor and change the
- parameters so that AVIEW will work on your system correctly.
- - Restart The Norton Commander.
- - Your now ready to run AVIEW.
-
- NOTE: When you run AVIEW under The Norton Commander V4.0, you can only
- use AVIEW on a file by pressing F3, when you press ENTER in
- NC V4.0, the internal file-view will be activated, this CANNOT
- be changed to use AVIEW instead.
-
- NOTE 2: I discovered that when you use F3 under the
- Norton Commander V4.0 that NC doesn't swap itself out of memory,
- this leaves not enough memory for AVIEW to view archives from
- the root-directory of diskettes (viewing from a directory of a
- diskette gives no problem), i'm working on this to fix.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ AVIEW.CTL ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- You can edit the AVIEW.CTL file, its a plain ascii-file, see the example
- AVIEW.CTL for more information, the following commands can be used to
- configure AVIEW:
-
-
- BACKUP <Extension>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you tell AVIEW the extension of a backup-file created by
- your editor (if any), AVIEW will delete this file after an edited file is
- updated in an archive.
-
-
- NOCOLOR
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you force AVIEW in black and white mode, this can be
- handy for laptop-users with LCD-Screens.
-
-
- NOMOUSE
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- When you have a mouse, and it is detected by AVIEW, you can force AVIEW
- with this command to ignore the mouse and not use it.
-
-
- VIEWER <Trigger> <Viewer> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define up to 16 viewers to use to view files from
- an archive, <Trigger> is a file-extension which triggers <Viewer> when a
- file is viewed, <Trigger> must not be more then 3 chars and may include
- wildcards, DON'T include the period (.) in the trigger-extension.
- When no viewers are defined, WPVIEW is taken for all type of files.
-
-
- EDITOR <Editor> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- For defining the editor to use with the edit-function, when no editor is
- defined, NCEDIT is taken as the default.
- NOTE: Use only a editor which doesn't create any backup-files!
-
-
- EXTRACTPATH <Path>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- The path to use for extracting files to, when this path isn't defined,
- AVIEW will prompt for a path before extracting any files.
-
-
- SCREENMODE <Lines>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this statement you can define how many lines per screen AVIEW must
- use, valid numbers are 25, 35, 40, 43 and 50, note that you will need an
- EGA or VGA adaptor when you use numbers greater than 25.
-
- SORT <Key> [Ascending|Descending]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this parameter you define how to sort the file-list as default, there
- are 6 sort-keys:
-
- NAME - For sorting on file-name
- EXTENSION - For sorting on file-extension.
- ORGSIZE - For sorting on original (uncompressed) file-size.
- CMPSIZE - For sorting on compressed file-size.
- DATETIME - For sorting on date and time.
- METHOD - For sorting on compression-method.
-
- Optional you can also define the sort-direction, two keywords are
- availble:
-
- ASCENDING - Sort ascending.
- DESCENDING - Sort descending.
-
- The default is sorting on filename, ascending.
-
-
- TEMPPATH <Path>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you define the path AVIEW must use as work-directory,
- this can be a ram-drive which will speed-up AVIEW dramatically, in this
- directory AVIEW will creates its own tempory directorys, these tempory
- directorys will be deleted when AVIEW doesn't need them anymore, note
- that the directory specified with TEMPPATH is NOT deleted, nor the
- files that exist in it, this has been changed since V3.0.
-
-
- SCANNER [<Path>\]<Filename> [<Parameters>]
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With this command you can define the virus-scanner to use for scanning the
- file unpacked with the unpack function, when no virus-scanner is defined,
- NO scan will be performed.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ With the following commands you can define the parameters used by AVIEW │
- │ for using the external archive-utilitys. │
- │ For normal operation of AVIEW, you don't need to change this, all the │
- │ following commands are optional, the sample commands in the sample │
- │ AVIEW.CTL file reflects the standard default configuration of AVIEW. │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- xxxADD <Command-line>
- xxxDELETE <Command-Line>
- xxxEXTRACT <Command-Line>
- xxxUNPACK <Command-Line>
- xxxUPDATE <Command-Line>
- xxxRESPONSE <Response-char>
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- With these commands you can configure the interface between AVIEW and the
- external archive-utilitys, the xxx can be ARC, ARJ, LHA, PAK, ZIP or ZOO.
- xxxADD - Defines which parameters to use for adding a file to
- an archive, this is used for the ADD function (F7).
- xxxDELETE - Defines which parameters to use for deleting a file or files
- from an archive, this is used for the DELETE function
- (F8 or DEL).
- xxxEXTRACT - Defines which parameters to use for extracting a file or files
- from an archive, this is used for the extract-function.
- xxxUNPACK - Defines which parameters to use for extracting ONE file from
- an archive WITHOUT path, this is used internally in AVIEW.
- xxxUPDATE - Defines which parameters to use for updating a file in an
- archive, this is used after you edited a file from an archive.
- xxxRESPONSE - Defines which charachter to use before a file name to tell
- the archiver that it is a response file, AVIEW defines
- automatically when to use this or not.
-
- NOTE: There are two variables, %A and %F, thes two must ALWAYS exist in one
- of the above parameters (except xxxRESPONSE), %A will be replaced by
- AVIEW with the name of the archive processed, and %F with a filename
- for adding/deleting/updating, note that AVIEW will automatically add
- the response-file-char before the filename when needed.
- The variables %A and %F are NOT optional!
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Operation ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- MOUSE:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- AVIEW has mouse-support, when a mouse is detected it will be used
- automatically, the mouse is used in file-lists, menu's and the
- file-selector.
-
- Click once on an entry to highlight it, click it twice for selecting it.
-
- Clicking at the top of bottom of a menu, or at the top of bottom of a
- file-list screen of will scroll the cursor-bar.
-
- The function-keys at the bottom of the screen can offcourse also be clicked.
-
- The right mouse-button will act as the ESC key.
-
-
- Archive-Viewing Keys:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- F1 - Help, some info which keys you can use.
-
- F2 - Unpack, extracts file under selection-bar or all tagged
- files from archive.
-
- Shift-F2 - Same as F2 only now you can enter an extraction-path.
-
- F3 or ENTER - View file, also for archive-in-archive.
-
- F4 - Edit file, after editing AVIEW will ask if you want to update
- the archive with the edited file.
-
- F5 - Convert, you can convert the archive you are viewing to
- another archive-format, this works only if AVIEW isn't
- nested for viewing archives within archives.
-
- F6 or ALT-S - Sort, sort file list.
-
- F7 - Add, add files to archive, when on the input-field, press
- F2 to activate the file-selector.
-
- F8 or DEL - Delete, Delete file under selection-bar or all tagged files
- from archive.
-
- F9 or ALT-J - jump to DOS.
-
- F10 or ESC - Step back one archive when nested-viewing is used, or exit.
-
- INS or SPACE - Tag/Untag files.
-
- Gray + - Wildcard selection.
-
- Gray - - Wildcard de-selection.
-
- Gray * - Revert selection.
-
-
- File-Selector Keys:
- ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- F1 - Help, some info which keys you can use.
-
- F2 - Change drive/directory.
-
- F3 or ENTER - Select a drive/directory or file to view.
-
- F6 - Rename directory/file.
-
- F7 - Create directory.
-
- F8 or DEL - Delete directorys/files.
-
- F9 or ALT-J - jump to DOS.
-
- F10 or ESC - Quit.
-
- INS or SPACE - Tag/Untag files.
-
- Gray + - Wildcard selection.
-
- Gray - - Wildcard de-selection.
-
- Gray * - Revert selection.
-
- ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ ▒▒▒▒ Contact/Support ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ │
- └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- For bug-reports, suggestions and other things concerning AVIEW you can
- contact me at the following BBS:
-
- Action Board Zaandam
- +31-(0)75-704890
- 1200, 2400 and 9600 HST V42/V42Bis.
- Located in The Netherlands
- 24 Hours a day reachable.
-
- Just try to yell the sysop or write a message to me.
-
- I can also can be reached on COMPUSERVE under 100117, 3242 (Chris Buijs).
-
-
- Have Fun,
- Chris Buijs
-