:userdoc. .* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- :h1 res=001 name=intro x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.About Archive Viewer :p.The Archive Viewer is a simple utility for viewing and extracting :link reftype=fn refid=fn_archive.archive files:elink. of several common types (see the table below). :nt.The Archive Viewer is deliberately unsophisticated in its functionality and user interface. In particular, it does not support selective extraction, filtering, or searching; not is it designed to create or modify archives. There are several professional products which offer these features, and the Archive Viewer is not intended to compete with them.:ent. :p.:hp5.Supported archive types:ehp5. :table cols='30 20 30'. :row. :c.TYPE :c.FILENAME EXTENSION(S) :c.REQUIRED ARCHIVE PROGRAM(S) :row. :c.7Z archives :c.*.7Z :c.7Z.EXE, 7ZA.EXE or 7ZR.EXE :row. :c.ARJ archives :c.*.ARJ :c.ARJ.EXE :row. :c.LHArc archives :c.*.LZH, *.LHA :c.LHA.EXE :row. :c.RAR archives :c.*.RAR :c.UNRAR.EXE, RAR32.EXE or RAR.EXE :row. :c.RPM packages :c.*.RPM :c.CPIO.EXE and either 7Z.EXE or RPM2CPIO.EXE :row. :c.Unix tape archives :c.*.TAR :c.TAR.EXE :row. :c.Unix tape archives compressed using BZIP2 :c.*.TAR.BZ2 :c.TAR.EXE and BZIP2.EXE :row. :c.Unix tape archives compressed using COMPRESS :c.*.TAR.Z, *.TZ :c.TAR.EXE and COMPRESS.EXE :row. :c.Unix tape archives compressed using GZIP :c.*.TAR.GZ, *.TGZ :c.TAR.EXE and GZIP.EXE :row. :c.Unix tape archives compressed using LZIP :c.*.TAR.LZ, *.TLZ :c.TAR.EXE and either LZIP.EXE or PDLZIP.EXE :row. :c.Unix tape archives compressed using XZ :c.*.TAR.XZ, *.TXZ :c.TAR.EXE and XZ.EXE :row. :c.WarpIN archives :c.*.WPI :c.WIC.EXE (part of WarpIN) :row. :c.ZIP archives :c.*.ZIP, *.EXE, *.JAR :c.UNZIP.EXE :etable. :p.In addition, single (non-archive) files which have been compressed using COMPRESS, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ or LZIP may also be decompressed using the Archive Viewer. :nt text='Important&colon.'.For the Archive Viewer to be able to handle any of the above archive types, the required archive program must be installed on your system, and available via the PATH.:ent. :p.:ul compact. :li.:link reftype=hd res=090.Known limitations:elink. :li.:link reftype=hd res=002.License:elink. :li.:link reftype=hd res=003.Acknowledgements:elink. :eul. :p. .* ............................................................................ :h2 res=002 name=license x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.License .ce GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE .ce Version 2, June 1991 :p.Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .br 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA :p.Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. :p. .ce Preamble :p.The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. 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If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General Public License instead of this License. :p. .* ............................................................................ :h2 res=003 name=credits x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.Acknowledgements :p.The Archive Viewer is written by Alex Taylor (alex@altsan.org), using :hp1.Watcom VX-REXX version 2.1d:ehp1.. :p.Special thanks go to members of the eComStation Development Group, in particular Nicky Morrow, Veit Kannegieser, and all of the various translators. :p. .* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- :h1 res=010 name=howto x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.Using the Archive Viewer :p.The Archive Viewer's user interface consists of three parts. These are, from top to bottom&colon. a menu bar, a viewing area, and a status bar. :p.The menu bar contains the :hp2.File:ehp2., :hp2.Options:ehp2. and :hp2.Help:ehp2. menus. :p.The viewing area is the main part of the interface. This is the display area where the contents of archive files are listed, as well as various informative messages. :p.The status bar displays context-dependent status messages. :p.:ul compact. :li.:link reftype=hd res=011.Opening an archive:elink. :li.:link reftype=hd res=012.Extracting an archive:elink. :li.:link reftype=hd res=015.Viewing a file within an archive:elink. :eul. :p. .* ............................................................................ :h2 res=011 name=view x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.Opening an archive :p.There are three ways to open an archive&colon. :ol. :li.By passing the archive file to the Archive Viewer as a parameter on startup (for instance, by dropping the file object onto the Archive Viewer's program icon on the desktop). :li.By using the :hp2.Open:ehp2. command from the :hp2.File:ehp2. menu. This menu item may also be accessed by pressing &osq.Ctrl+O&csq.. :li.By dragging and dropping an archive file from the Workplace Shell into the main window of the Archive Viewer. :eol. :p.When you open an archive file, the Archive Viewer attempts to read its contents. If there are no errors, the archive's contents are displayed in the viewing area. :p.In some cases, a password may be required to view the archive's contents. If this is the case, you will be :link reftype=hd refid=password_dlg.prompted:elink. to provide the appropriate password. :p.If the Archive Viewer encouters an error, a message popup will appear. If the external archive handler encounters an error, an error message should be displayed in the viewing area. :p. .* ............................................................................ :h2 res=012 name=extract x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.Extracting an archive :p.Once you have opened an archive and have its contents listed in the main display area, you may extract those contents to a location of your choice. :p.To extract all files in the current archive, either choose :hp2.File:ehp2.->.:hp2.Extract:ehp2. from the menu bar, or press &osq.Ctrl+E&csq.. This will cause the :link reftype=hd refid=extract_dlg.Extract dialog:elink. to appear. :p.Alternatively, you can extract a single file or sub-set of files from within the archive by choosing :hp2.File:ehp2.->.:hp2.Extract name:ehp2. from the menu bar, or by pressing &osq.Ctrl+N&csq.. In this case, the Extract dialog which appears will include an additional field in which you can enter a filename, or a filemask containing wildcard characters. (If any text in the viewing area is currently highlighted, it will automatically be placed into this field, up to the first line break, when the dialog appears.) Note that if the filename contains spaces or special shell characters (such as ;, <., >., |, or &.), it should be enclosed in double-quotes (""). :p.In either case, if the archive is password-protected you will be :link reftype=hd refid=password_dlg.prompted:elink. for the appropriate password. :h3 res=013 name=extract_dlg x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.The Extract dialog :p.The Extract dialog asks you to specify the directory (folder) into which files extracted from the current archive will be placed. :p.When you select 'OK', the files will be extracted into the directory specified in the entryfield at the top of the dialog. You can use the listbox underneath to select a different directory, or you can manually type in a directory name (if you do so, you must specify the fully-qualified path, including drive letter). :p.When the Extract dialog initially appears, the listbox will always show the current directory (the one in which the archive file is located). :p.The entryfield is automatically updated to reflect whatever directory the listbox is currently showing. If :hp2.Append archive name to selected path:ehp2. is checked, then the entryfield will specify a subdirectory of that directory, which has the same name as the archive file (minus the extension). Otherwise, it will specify the directory as shown in the listbox. :nt.Whatever directory you specify will be created if it does not already exist, but only as long as its parent folder exists. :p.For example, if you specify :hp2.C&colon.\DOWNLOAD\STUFF:ehp2., the :hp2.C&colon.\DOWNLOAD:ehp2. directory must exist already, but the :hp2.STUFF:ehp2. subdirectory need not.:ent. :nt.When the Archive Viewer extracts the files within an archive, :hp8.it will overwrite:ehp8. (replace) any files in the destination folder which have the same name as a file within the archive.:ent. :p. :h3 res=014 name=password_dlg x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.The Password dialog :p.The Password dialog appears if (and only if) the archive is protected by a password. It prompts you to enter the correct password for viewing and/or extracting the archive contents. :p.ZIP, 7Z, ARJ, and RAR format archives may be password-protected. In most cases, you can freely view the contents of a password-protected archive, but cannot extract them without entering the correct password. However, some 7Z and RAR archives may be encrypted so that a password is required even to view the archive contents. :p.The password will not display when typed. .* ............................................................................ :h2 res=015 name=view_file x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.Viewing a file inside an archive :p.It is possible to open a file contained within an archive for viewing without extracting the archive as a whole, using the :hp2.File:ehp2.->.:hp2.View file:ehp2. menu command (or by pressing &osq.Ctrl+V&csq.). A dialog will appear prompting you to enter the name of a file to view. :p.If the filename contains spaces or special shell characters (such as ;, <., >., |, or &.), you should enclose the filename in double-quotes (""). You should not include wildcard characters (*, ?) in the filename. :p.If any text in the viewing area is highlighted at the time you select this option, it is automatically entered into the prompt dialog (up to the first line break), and you can confirm or alter it as needed before proceeding. You can therefore quickly view a particular file by highlighting its name in the viewing area (for example, by double-clicking on the filename text with the mouse), then pressing &osq.Ctrl+V&csq. and selecting &osq.OK&csq.. :p.The file will be extracted into your system temporary-files directory, and then opened with the default desktop viewer for that file type (for unknown file types, the default viewer is normally the system text editor). .* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- :h1 res=020 name=custom x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.Customizing the Archive Viewer :p.The following aspects of the Archive Viewer may be customized by the user&colon. :ul compact. :li.The language used in the user interface and online help. :li.The font used in the viewing area. :li.The font used in the status bar. :li.The background and text colours used in the viewing area. :li.The window size and position. :li.Whether the viewing area wraps the display of long lines. :eul. :p.To change the fonts, you may use the :hp2.Font:ehp2. selections under the :hp2.Options:ehp2. menu. You may also change them by dragging and dropping fonts from the operating system's Font Palette. :p.To change the background and foreground colours, you may drag and drop any colour onto the viewing area from the operating system's Solid Color Palette or Mixed Color Palette. (Dragging normally will change the background colour; dragging with the &osq.Ctrl&csq. key depressed will change the foreground colour.) :p.The Archive Viewer's window size and position may be changed as with any other window&colon. by resizing the window frame or dragging the window titlebar. :p.To change the program language, drag a locale object from the operating system's Locale (Country) palette. If the language defined by the dropped locale object is supported by the Archive Viewer, the language will change automatically. If the language is not supported, the Archive Viewer will revert to English (locale :hp2.en_US:ehp2.). :p.Customization changes are automatically saved in the configuration file :hp2.ARCVIEW.INI:ehp2. when you exit the program. This file is located in the same directory as the operating system's user INI file, and will be created automatically if it does not exist. :p. .* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- :h1 res=090 name=bugs x=left y=bottom width=100% height=100%.Limitations :p.The Archive Viewer has the following limitations&colon. :ul. :li.Files with the same name that already exist in the destination path are overwritten. A warning dialog will pop up whenever you choose to extract an archive to an existing directory. :li.The programs used to handle archives (UNZIP.EXE, ARJ.EXE, etc.) and their parameters are hard-coded into the Archive Viewer. Consequently, if a new version of one of these programs were to change its command-line syntax, the Archive Viewer might no longer work properly. This also means that the Archive Viewer must be explicitly modified in order to add support for new archive types. :li.Some versions of BZIP2.EXE are incompatible with the Archive Viewer because they do not properly support pipes. Specifically, versions which are statically linked with the EMX libraries appear to exhibit this problem. Versions which are dynamically linked against EMX should be fine, as are those compiled with the IBM compiler(s). However, this should not be a problem with recent versions of BZIP2.EXE. :li.When extracting password-protected ARJ archives, if you enter an incorrect password, there will be a long delay during which nothing appears to happen. This is caused by ARJ.EXE attempting to decrypt every file in the archive with the incorrect password before it returns an error. :eul. .* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- :fn id=fn_archive. :p.An :hp2.archive file:ehp2. is a special kind of file which acts as a container for other files, and includes a table of contents describing the files it contains. :p.The files contained within the archive may or may not be compressed, depending on the archive type. :efn. :euserdoc.