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- KC Consultants Announces BIMPZIP 2.0 !!!!
-
- If you are like me, you are constantly running out of disk space.
- The other day I noticed that I had over 29 megabytes of bitmaps for
- Windows wallpaper. The BMP format is very wasteful of space. So I
- wrote this little program in Visual Basic 3.0 to solve the problem.
-
- BIMPZIP uses PKZIP and PKUNZIP. You must have those 2 programs on
- your path for it to work. The first time you run BIMPZIP it will
- compress all your bitmaps (*.BMP) into a zip file called BMPS.ZIP. It
- keeps this in your windows directory. It then creates a list file
- called BMPS.LST that is a listing of the all the file names in the zip
- file.
-
- Then each time you run BIMPZIP it will find the next bitmap in the
- file and unzips it. It also deletes the existing bitmap (remember, its
- already in the zip file.) The next time you start windows the new
- bitmap will be in place. The program also makes a guess as to whether
- or not the bitmap should be tiled. (BMPS smaller than 55k get tiled.)
-
- BIMPZIP is FREE!!! All I ask is that you don't sell it or
- incorporate it in to another product without first contacting me. I can
- be reached on Channel1 (Kurt Levitan), Compuserve (72570,2747), and on
- the Internet as kurt@tfn.com. I have also included the source code so
- you can make any interesting changes for yourself. If you add any neat
- features, please let me know about them.
-
- INSTALLATION: Unzip everything in to a directory of your choice. You
- only need BIMPZIP.EXE to run the program. The other files are Visual
- Basic source code. You also need VBRUN300.DLL (not included). This
- needs to be in your windows\system directory. If you don't have this
- file, you can find it on almost any BBS.
-
- Now add BIMPZIP to a group. I like to have it in my Startup group so
- that it runs every time I start Windows. Remember, the first time
- you run the program it will take a while to create the BMPS.ZIP file.
-
- If you get moe bitmaps and want to add them to your collection, just
- delete BMPS.LST. The program will update the BMPS.ZIP file the next
- time it is run.
-
- LEGAL mumbo-jumbo
- Please note that I have not done any extensive testing of this
- program, other than on my own PC (HP Vectra U 486/33). KC
- Consultants and Kurt Levitan take no responsibility for any harm that
- might occur from using this software.
-
- ENJOY!!
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