	Archive Peek for Windows 95
		User manual
		by Javier Thaine

	E-mail: jthaine@hotmail.com
	Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/7017/

Contents:
	1. Disclaimer
	2. What is Archive Peek?
	3. Searching for files
	4. The Options menu

	Disclaimer

Archive Peek for Windows 95
Copyright 1998 Javier Thaine

Archive Peek for Windows 95 is a freeware program.

Archive Peek for Windows 95 and all of its related files 
may only be distributed in the original distribution form. 
The distribution file may not have files added to it or 
removed from it, and none of its contents may be 
modified, decompiled, or reverse engineered.

You may distribute this program as part of a shareware 
distribution, magazine, internet book, CD ROM, etc. 
Please e-mail me at jthaine@hotmail.com if you do.

Archive Peek for Windows 95 is provided AS IS without 
warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including 
but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability 
and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall 
Javier Thaine be liable for any damages whatsoever 
including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss 
of business profits or special damages, even if Javier 
Thaine has been advised of the possibility of such 
damages. Use this program at your own risk.

	What is Archive Peek?

Have you ever wondered in what ZIP file you kept that 
song? Or in which ARJ file in the C:\Letters folder you 
kept that letter to dad? Archive Peek is the answer. You 
can search for any file you specify inside all of the 
archives of a floppy disk, CD-ROM, hard disk, etc. A 
Windows 3.1 version is also available at my home page
(see above).

	Searching for files

1. Select the drive and folder your archives are in.
2. In the 'Files to look for' field, type in the files you want 
to find inside your archives. You can enter up to ten 
names separated by spaces and wildcards are allowed.
3. Click on 'Begin Search' or press Enter.

During a search you may click on 'Stop Search' at the 
top of the results window. Archive Peek will finish the 
archive it's currently looking at and then it will stop. 

The number of files found and the time the operation 
took are displayed at the bottom of the results window. 
You may double click on a file to open its archive (if it's 
compressed) or open it directly (if it's not compressed).

You may save your results in text format or in HTML 
format by clicking on 'Save Results As...' in the File 
menu in the results window. You may also print your 
results from the File menu.

	The Options menu

You can customize Archive Peek's operation through 
the Options menu:

Case Sensitive: Since Windows 95 supports lower and 
uppercase letters in filenames, this option allows you to 
specify whether the filenames you are looking for must 
be exactly those you typed (case sensitive) or if the case 
may be ignored (not case sensitive).

Include Subfolders: If this options is checked, Archive 
Peek will also look into all subfolders of the folder you 
selected.

Display count only: If you only want to know the number 
of files Archive Peek finds, this speeds up the program a 
lot. The number of files is displayed at the bottom of the 
results window.

Advanced Options - You should take a look to see if any 
of these options can help you:

Archive types to look inside:

If you know what kind of archives the files you are 
looking for are in, choosing only them helps Archive 
Peek work faster. If you click on Select All, all of the 
formats will be selected. If you click on Select All again, 
all of the formats will be cleared. Selecting Non-archive 
files will make Archive Peek look into ordinary folders, 
just like using the Start Menu's find utility.

The currently supported archive formats are ZIP (used 
by PKZIP and WinZip), RAR, LZH, ARJ, ZOO, PAK, 
ARC, TAR (often used on UNIX machines), SQZ, HYP, 
WAD (used by games created by Id software), GRP 
(use by Duke Nukem 3D) and CAB. Some ZIP files are not 
supported due to their rarity. If such a file is encountered, 
Archive Peek will issue a warning. ARC files whose 
first byte is not Control-Z will not be read by Archive 
Peek and no warning will be issued. Also, Archive Peek
won't find folders in CAB archives, only files.

HTML options:

If you ever save your results to HTML files, you can 
change their appearance here. You can choose an item 
from the combo box and choose which color goes with 
it. 'Background color' refers to the 'paper' color of the 
HTML document. 'Visited link color' refers to the color of 
links that point to files you've already opened. 'Active 
link color' refers to the color a link takes when you click 
on it. You may also change the text and normal link 
colors of the document.

Of course, the color options for links are only valid if you 
check the 'Create hyperlinks' option. You may choose to 
turn this off to save hard disk space. Hyperlinks allow 
you to click on the names of files to access them.

The results in HTML format are displayed in a table. If 
you want that table to have borders, check the option 
'Display table borders'.

If you check 'Launch viewer when results are saved to 
disk', Archive Peek will start your web browser or text 
editor to view the file you save. This saves you the work 
of having to look for and open the file yourself.