                                                                    03-01-95


                            Zip Clean! v1.0
                             ZIPCLN10.ZIP
                   Copyright (c) 1995 Thomas J. Smith



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   This program is distributed as Freeware. Meaning that you may keep it   
and use it for as long as you wish without having to pay any fees or       
registration. You may distibute this program to others as long as all files
are intact and unmodified including all text files. You are encouraged to  
pass this program around and upload it to every BBS you call!              
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 CONTENTS                                                                  
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  What is Zip Clean?......................................................1
  How it Works............................................................2
  Files Included..........................................................3
  Using Zip Clean.........................................................4
  Contacting The Author...................................................5
  Disclaimer (legal stuff <G>)............................................6



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 What is Zip Clean?                                                      1 
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    Zip Clean is a useful program if you keep .ZIP files around anywhere, be
 it on your hard drive or on floppys. Zip Clean uses a text file (included)
 that contains a list of file names of files that you do not want in your
 .ZIP files. There are many SysOps and others alike, who cannot resist the
 urge to put their own little ad into every .ZIP file they come across, and
 there are those of us who do not care to read or execute these files, as
 they are basically, totally useless and sometimes space consuming! A high
 number of these files use file names that contain high ASCII characters,
 $ô S ôs These type of files can only be erased by either leaving
 them as the only files left in a directory and then deleting the directory,
 or holding down the ALT key, looking up the ASCII character in your DOS
 manual, and typing in the numbers that represent each character, one at a
 time! Or by using the sometimes frightening DEL *.* command! This can be
 very tedious, and it is no fun at all! So here it is, the program you've
 been waiting for (only you just did'nt know it <G>)! Zip Clean will erase
 these files from your .ZIP files, and will do it quite fast too.



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 How it Works                                                            2 
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    I have included a file called UNWANTED.LST, which contains some popular
 file names of unwanted files contained in .ZIP files. You may edit this file
 to reflect whatever files you want removed from your .ZIP files. It contains
 only one file name per line, and can be as long as you can make it! When
 you execute Zip Clean, it reads the UNWANTED.LST file, and searches the .ZIP
 file(s) you chose on the command line for these files, and if they exist in
 the specified .ZIP file(s), then they will be erased from the .ZIP file(s).
 It can be used on one file at a time, or all .ZIP files in a directory in
 one shot by using the *.* wildcard (at this time, this is the only wildcard
 supported by Zip Clean).



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 Files Included                                                          3 
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    Included with your copy of ZIPCLN10.ZIP, should be the following files,

 ZIPCLEAN.EXE > Main Program.

 UNWANTED.LST > Text file containing names of popular unwanted files. Used
                   by ZIPCLEAN.EXE every time it is run.

 ZIPCLEAN.TXT > The documentation you are reading now.

 README.1ST   > Text file you should have read first.

 WHATSNEW.TXT > Text file describing recent changes & additions.

 FILE_ID.DIZ  > Description file for BBS's.



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 Using Zip Clean                                                         4 
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    First of all, have a look at the UNWANTED.LST file, and edit it to your
 likings if you wish. This is a plain ASCII text file listing all of the
 files that you want erased from your .ZIP files. Load it in any text editor
 such as DOS's EDIT, and look it over.

    Next, move the two files, ZIPCLEAN.EXE and UNWANTED.LST to a directory
 that is in your path. This can be any directory that is stated in your
 AUTOEXEC.BAT file after the statement, PATH=. This way, you can call Zip
 Clean from any directory. This is how the program was written to work.

    Having done that, you can now start using the program. Change to a
 directory containing .ZIP files that you would like to "clean" and type,
 ZIPCLEAN FILENAME.ZIP to clean one particular .ZIP file (the .ZIP extension
 may be omitted if you desire), or ZIPCLEAN *.* to clean all .ZIP files in
 the current directory. If you use the *.* command, it does'nt matter if
 there are any other files with different file name extensions in your
 current directory, Zip Clean will ignore them and work only with the .ZIP
 files in that directory.

    When cleaning a .ZIP file that has been converted to an .EXE file using
 ZIP2EXE.EXE, then you must specify the .EXE extension on the command line
 when giving the file name in order for Zip Clean to recognize it. For
 example, to clean a self extracting .ZIP file named GAMEPACK.EXE, type,
 ZIPCLEAN GAMEPACK.EXE

    You may also specify an alternate file list to use, instead of the
 default UNWANTED.LST, by specifying the file name as the second command line
 parameter. For example, to have Zip Clean read a file named FILES.TXT in
 the current directory, and clean all .ZIP files using this list, type,
 ZIPCLEAN *.* files.txt  You can use the first parameter just like you
 normally would, then follow it with the name of the list file you want Zip
 Clean to read instead of the UNWANTED.LST file. If this alternate file list
 is located in a directory other than the current directory, then you will
 need to specify the full path and file name. Like so,
 ZIPCLEAN *.* c:\text\files.txt



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 Contacting The Author                                                   5 
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    At the time, the only way you can contact me is by calling The Evil
 Crypt BBS at (313) 538-3762, since my BBS, The Last Call BBS! is currently
 offline.
    If you find any "bugs" or other problems, have a question, comment,
 suggestion, or just need help, then by all means, call The Evil Crypt and
 leave E-Mail to Tom Smith of The Last Call BBS!, or if you have Internet
 access, E-Mail me at Thomas.Smith%eos@ack.mi.org  I will be glad to help,
 and would like to hear of any problems anyone has with this program so that
 I may know what to fix and/or improve on.  If you really wish, you can
 contact me by snail mail and I will respond promptly. The address is,

 The Last Call BBS!
 26910 Beverly
 Taylor, MI 48180



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 Disclaimer (legal stuff <G>)                                            6 
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    This program may be freely distributed. You are encouraged to share this
 program with others. You may keep This program for as long as you like and
 not have to pay a penny. You may pass it out to others, upload it to BBS's,
 and make it available for download on your BBS (where applicable).

    There are no warranties of any kind implied with this program. Use of
 this program is the sole responsibility of the user. The author of this
 program claims no responsibility whatsoever for damages of any kind related
 to the use of this program. You use it at your own risk.



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