WarpZip - Other WarpZip Functions
Here are a few of WarpZips' functions that we may have missed.
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You can:
- Drag a zip file to the WarpZip icon to start WarpZip and view it or
- Drop zip files on the archive viewing window to view them or
- Drop a zip file on a directory in the directory container to unzip it there.
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If you click in the "target directory" box WarpZip assumes you want to create a new directory. A dialog will popup to accept a new directory name to create.
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When dropping a file on the archive viewing window while it is empty, WarpZip will prompt you for a name to give the new zip file it will create. This can just be a filename or a fully qualified filename to another directory.
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WarpZip will find OS/2 "Packed" files too. "Packed" file searches take longer than zip file searches so be forwarned. (This has been speeded up a bit but it's still slower than a zip file search). BTW: "Packed" files will not show any file information other than their filenames.
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The Search dialog has a button to retrieve subdirectory information. This is to allow you see how many files would be involved in a "Search" for zips or unpacks in the subdirectories as well as the current directory. On this machine, in a "Zip" file search, a thousand files are searched in about a second compared to almost 19 seconds for an OS/2 "Packed" file search so if you have 20,000 files on a drive like I have on some of mine you may not want to search the whole thing for "Packed" files. (I guess that's only about 6 minutes but it seems longer when you're waiting...)
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The thin horizontal line (we call it the PillarShift) under the viewing and directory containers will adjust their (the containers) sizes to your liking. Just click on it in a few spots and you'll see how it works.
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The "Run" button will create a directory under your base directory (set your base directory under "Options" - "Set base directory") with the same name as the root name of the archives filename, for example:
- My base directory is set as "C:\bin\download"
- I'm going to test a file named "Test2000.zip"
- I press the "Run" button and WarpZip creates a directory called "C:\bin\download\Test2000"
- The archive is unzipped into "C:\bin\download\Test2000"
- The "C:\bin\download\Test2000" folder is opened
- The "Clean up" button appears on the toolbar.
Now I can run the program, install it from there or just peruse a couple of files from it. If I want to keep the program on my hard drive after testing or running it, I'll do nothing, just continue searching or viewing archives. If I wanted to delete it, then I would click on the "Clean up" button and WarpZip will take care of the cleanup, it will delete the directory and thus the folder. Don't worry to much if the folder doesn't dissappear right away, OS/2 will do it in it's own time frame. Just close the folder normally if it is distracting.
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WarpZip's seamless handling of downloaded "Zip" files is not to be matched anywhere. More info.
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