                            D'Compress For Windows
                                 Version 1.01
                                Release Notes
                                June 17, 1992
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  *************************************************************************                        MAKE SURE YOU READ THIS FILE!                     
  * It covers important information not contained in the documentation.   *
  *             It may save you several hours of frustration!             *
  *************************************************************************

Archive File Utilities
----------------------
D'Compress has been changed to look for the PKZIP, PKUNZIP, PKZIPFIX, and
ZIP2EXE programs in the directory where D'Compress is located.  
In addition, the ARC-E program and the LHArc program files must also be
located in the same directory as D'Compress. The install program will set 
this up for you by default.  If you wish to use a version of these programs
other than the ones supplied with D'Compress, you must copy them into the
directory where your D'Compress files are located.


Font Selection
--------------
D'Compress supports all of the fonts available with Windows 3.0 and 3.1,
but, you may have to adjust the point size for maximum readability.
To choose a font select the defaults menu selection and pick the fonts item.

NOTE: If you want the formatting of text in the archive windows and the 
directory listbox to be correct you must use Helv in either 8 point 
regular for VGA and 800 X 600 Super VGA. For 1024 X 768 and higher 
resolutions use Helv 10 point bold. 

Windows 3.1
-----------
MS Sans Serif replaces Helv in Windows 3.1. You can use this font if you
have Windows 3.1, or copy the Helv font from Windows 3.0 to your Windows 3.1 
system directory and then add it to Windows 3.1 using the control panel
"Fonts" selection.

Pressing Cancel To 
Stop An ARJ Command
-------------------
If you press the cancel button when creating or extracting files from an
ARJ, the cancel request will be acknowledged when the current file process
is finished.  If you are extracting a single file, the cancel process will
not receive the message in time to cancel it. 

File Already Exists On Disk Error Messages
------------------------------------------
Both our UNZIP.DLL and ARJ for Windows may give you the "file already exists
on disk, Overwrite Yes/No" warning message when the file is NOT on your disk. 

-> This will occur only when there are two or more files in an archive that
   have the exact same name!  If you recieve this message and you are
   absolutely sure that the file IS NOT on your drive, check the contents      
   of your archive and remove the duplicate file. This can only happen when
   you are storing files in an archive with full pathnames.

This feature is provided for your protection by alerting you to the possibility
that you may have inadvertanly added the same file to your archive from two 
different directories.

Using The Utility Programs
Supplied With D'Compress
--------------------------
-> Please Note that any utility you want to use with D'Compress MUST <-
   BE LOCATED IN A DIRECTORY LISTED IN THE PATH STATEMENT OF YOUR
   AUTOEXEC.BAT File, this includes anti-virus programs.

In the D'Compress \UTILS subdirectory are a variety of archive utility
programs.  These programs MUST be located in a directory that is 
listed in the path statement of your autoexec.bat file. If you prefer 
you can always edit your path statement to include the 
D'Compress \UTILS directory. 

Assuming you accepted the default directory when you installed the
program, you would add this statement to the existing path statement 
in your autoexec.bat file:

C:\DCWIN\UTILS 

The line would now look something like this:

Path=C:\;C:\DOS5\;C:\DCWIN\UTILS\;C:\WINDOWS\; and so on.

Virus Detection Programs
------------------------
D'Compress includes VIRX for the PC.  This is an excellent virus detection
program which detects nearly 1000 different viruses!  It is also the
fastest running program we have ever used.  If you have a large hard drive
you will definitely appreciate its speed.

Special Note On VIRX
--------------------
If you decide to use VIRX, you will be able to scan a subdirectory
as well as your entire drive. To scan a subdirectory and any
directories below it, follow the directions below:

1.) Change to the directory you want to scan.
2.) Select Scan Entire Drive from the special menu.
3.) VIRX will then scan the directory and any directory below it.

If you want to scan your entire drive you must change to the root of the
drive you want to scan. Then select "Scan Entire Drive" from the SPECIAL
menu.

Other virus detection programs known to work well with D'Compress are:

Norton Anti Virus For Windows
McCAffee and Associates SCAN program.

We have had reports that certain anti-virus programs have problems working
with Windows in general. Please test you anti-virus program on Windows itself 
before using it with D'Compress.

 
Using The Drag and Drop Correctly
---------------------------------
Please take the time to read the documentation covering the Drag and Drop
features of D'Compress. We want you to be able to take full advantage of
this feature, and to use it correctly.

Running A Program From An Archive
---------------------------------
The purpose of D'Compress is to allow you to work with archived files easily.  
In keeping with this basic design philosophy, D'Compress allows you to run 
a program directly from an archive simply by double clicking on it.  This way, 
you can inspect a program in an archive and decide if it is worth extracting it
on a permanent basis.
 
                     !!!  IMPORTANT NOTES  !!!

You MUST terminate the program extracted from the archive BEFORE you     
close your current D'Compress session.  A file that is extracted
from an archive by DOUBLE CLICKING on it, is extracted ONLY on a
temporary basis.  This allows you to examine text files, view bitmaps, run
programs, etc... without having to formally extract the archive.
However, when you exit D'Compress these temporarily extracted files are deleted.

If you exit D'Compress with a temporary application running, the file will be 
deleted from your hard drive as part of the exit procedure. The result would 
be a "hung" system as soon as the program you left running tried to access the 
disk. As long as you keep this in mind when running a file from an archive you won't 
have any problems!

Deleting Comments In Archives
-----------------------------
To Delete a comment in an archive:

1. Highlight the file that has the comment you want to delete.
2. Choose Edit, then Comment from the edit menu.
3. When ARJ or ZIP prompts you for the comment, backspace the old
   off, then press the space bar.  This will delete the comment from
   the archive.

Creating A Self Extracting Archive
---------------------------------
In order to create a self-extracting archive (filename.EXE), you must FIRST 
create the archive, THEN create the self-extracting archive. 

We have found that the fastest compression method switch does not work with 
the ARJ self-extracting program and will cause an error message.  For ARJ 
self-extracting archives, please use a slower compression rate.


The Default Work Directory
--------------------------
The program creates its own work directory called \DCWINWRK.  It uses this
directory for all of its temporary file extraction work.  
PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THIS DIRECTORY.  The program automatically deletes all 
of the files in this directory when you exit D'Compress.

The Borland BWCC.DLL
--------------------
D'Compress uses the Borland, Inc. Custom Control Library.   Our version
of the BWCC.DLL contains Buttons that are not contained in the original 
DLL as shipped by Borland. If you load a program before D'Compress that 
also uses this DLL some of the bitmap buttons will appear as normal buttons 
in D'Compress. If you prefer our buttons over the Borland buttons you can
do the following to ensure that you will always see our buttons in 
applications that use this DLL.

1. Copy the BWCC.DLL in the D'Compress Directory to BWCC.EXE using the DOS
   copy command. You would type: "copy BWCC.DLL BWCC.EXE" without the
   quotes.
2. Open the WIN.INI file located in your Windows directory using you
   favorite text editor, or the Windows Notepad Program.
3. Locate the [Windows] section, it should be the very first line of the
   file. In the load= line add this statement:
   X:\DCWIN\BWCC.EXE
   The X equals the drive letter where D'Compress is installed and DCWIN
   represents the directory where you installed D'Compress.
4. Save your WIN.INI file and then restart Windows
5. You won't visibly notice that anything was loaded, but our bitmap
   set will now be the default for any application the uses the BWCC.DLL

Many thanks to Borland for allowing this DLL to be shipped with applications.

--------------------------------
Corrections To The Documentation
--------------------------------

The File Viewer
---------------
Where the documentation refers to the available graphics viewers the
formats should read. .BMP, .PCX, and .GIF. This version of D'Compress does
not include a viewer for TIF files as stated in the documentation.

The documentation states that you can access the file viewer by
double clicking on an item in either the directory listbox or an archive
window, this is incorrect!

It should read:

When you double click on an item in the directory listbox or an archive
window it will load that item into the text editor you defined when setting
the D'Compress defaults. Double clicking on an item will always start and 
load the editor.

You access the file viewer in the following manner.

1. Select a file in the directory listbox, or an archive window.
2. Either press the ToolBar File Viewer button, or select the View File
   option from the Special menu.

Repairing a Damaged ARJ File
----------------------------
The documentation incorrectly describes the process of repairing a damaged
ARJ file.  ARJ doesn't attempt to rebuild a damaged archive like other archive 
programs. Instead, ARJ extracts the files from a damaged ARJ and you must 
re-archive them.  This helps ensure that your files are no longer contained 
in a corrupted archive.


To recover files from a damaged ARJ file, follow the steps outlined below.

1. Copy the ARJ file in question to an empty directory or a ram drive.
2. Highlight the file in the directory listbox but DO NOT open it. Recovery
   is only possible when the archive is not displayed in a window.
3. Select Repair/Recover from the Special Menu, and choose ARJ File.
4. ARJ will attempt to extract all of the undamaged files from the archive
   but IT WILL NOT re-archive them.
5. After you have verified that the extracted files are intact you must
   create a new archive and place the recovered files in it.
6. This process ensures that your new archive contains only valid data
   files.

Copy and Move Files 
-------------------
The Copy and Move file commands will create a new directory for you if you
enter a target directory that doesn't exist.  It won't warn you that it is
creating the new directory. Be careful when entering data in this field to 
avoid a typo or you may end up with a directory you didn't intend to create.

Rename 
------
The Rename function will rename files AND directories.


--------------------
Additional Features
--------------------

The Change Directory and Double Dot Buttons
-------------------------------------------
Located below the directory listbox are two buttons. They are the Change 
Directory and Double Dot buttons. The Change Directory button displays the
change directory dialog box.  It allows you to quickly change to a new
directory. 

The Double Dot button allows you to move quickly up one directory from the
current one. 

Compressed Vs Original File Size Information
--------------------------------------------
When you have an archive window open the status bar at the bottom of the
window displays the following information:

1. Total number of files in the archive.
2. Size of the files after compression.
3. Original size of the files before compression.
4. The amount the files were compressed expressed as a percentage.

Support For DOS or Windows Based
Virus Detection Programs
-------------------------------
When configuring D'Compress you now have the option of specifying whether
the virus detection program you are using is DOS or Windows based.

ARJ for DOS
-----------
D'Compress includes the ARJ compression program for DOS. We wanted to
provide you with complete support for ARJ and there may be times when you
need to compress files from DOS. Please refer to the ARJWREF.DOC file
for complete information on the command line operation of the DOS version.

PKZIP,PKUNZIP,PKZIPFIX, and ZIP2EXE
-----------------------------------
D'Compress includes fully licensed copies of these utilities from PKWare.


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Additional Programs Supplied 
With D'Compress
----------------------------
For your convenience we have supplied a number of shareware or freeware
archive utility programs with D'Compress. These files are provided for the
sole purpose of giving you the option of converting other compression
formats to ARJ format only.  If you use any of these programs on a regular 
basis you should contact the author and register the program with them.  
Shareware is an excellent means of distributing software, but its success 
relies solely on your good faith to pay the author for their hard work if 
you use their program regularly.  Please remember that shareware is not
free software.

A Freeware program is one that has been donated to the public domain by the
author.

ARC-E.COM
---------
D'Compress uses this program to convert .ARC format files to ARJ
format. This is a Freeware Program

LHARC.EXE 
---------
D'Compress uses this program to convert .LZH format files to ARJ
format. This is a Freeware Program.

PAK.EXE
-------
D'Compress uses this program to convert .PAK format files to ARJ
format. This is a Shareware program, remember to register it if you
use it more than once or twice.

ZOO.EXE
-------
D'Compress uses this program to convert .ZOO format files to ARJ
format. The is a Freeware program.

The documentation for these programs if available is located in the DOCS
directory which the install program created for you in your D'Compress
directory.  The programs are located in the UTILS directory.


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