     AUTOZIP HELP (Copyright) 1994 by, Brian Bratcher.
        
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DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE
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        Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try 
software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and 
continue using it, you are expected to register. Individual 
programs differ on details -- some request registration while 
others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With
registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue
using the software to an updated program with printed manual.

        Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial 
software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a 
few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are 
accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the 
programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are 
good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of
distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy
and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a
specific group. For example, some authors require written
permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their
Shareware.

        Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. 
You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook,
whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes
fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy.
And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware
has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the
product, you don't pay for it.


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DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT
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        Users of AUTOZIP must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
"AUTOZIP is supplied as is.  Brian Bratcher disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
Brian Bratcher assumes no liability for damages, direct or conse-
quential, which may result from the use of AUTOZIP."

        AUTOZIP is a "shareware program" and is provided at no 
charge to the user for evaluation.  Feel free to share it with your
friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of
another system.  The essence of "user-supported" software is to
provide personal computer users with quality software without
high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to
continue to develop new products.  If you find this program
useful and find that you are using AUTOZIP and continue to use
AUTOZIP after a reasonable trial period, you must make a reg-
istration payment of $22.00 to Brian Bratcher.  The $22.00
registration fee will license one copy for use on any one
computer at any one time.  You must treat this software just like
a book.  An example: This software may be used by any
number of people and may be freely moved from one computer
location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it
being used at one location while it's being used at another.
Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the
same time.

        Commercial users of AUTOZIP must register and pay for their
copies of AUTOZIP within 30 days of first use or their license
is withdrawn.  Site-License arrangements may be made by con-
tacting Brian Bratcher.

        Anyone distributing AUTOZIP for any kind of remuneration must
first contact Brian Bratcher at the address below for authorization.
This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors
recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for
shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering
AUTOZIP immediately (However Brian Bratcher must still be advised so
that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest
version of AUTOZIP.).

                Brian Bratcher 
                4535 Brookville RD.
                INDPLS., IN., 46201
                
        You are encouraged to pass a copy of AUTOZIP along to your
friends for evaluation.  Please encourage them to register their
copy if they find that they can use it.  All registered users
will receive a copy of the latest version of the AUTOZIP
system.
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        Now that all of the above is out of the way,
welcome to AUTOZIP, one of the finest zip shells you
will get for the money.  All help needed will be located here
under the "Help Selection" from the FILE MENU.  AUTOZIP is 
designed to work with your favorite communications 
software and zip files created with PKZIP (c), and
PKUNZIP (C) from PKWARE (TM) INC.



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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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        AUTOZIP should work on any 286 or higher PC compatible with 
a COLOR monitor. You should have MS-DOS 5.0 or higher and 350k of free 
memory. It is required that you have at least the shareware version of 
PKWARE'S PKZ204G or higher to use the ZIP and UNZIP functions.
It is also required that PKZIP.EXE & PUNZIP.EXE is in the DOS 
search path. See the AUTOEXEC.BAT file later in this section.


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WHAT ARE ZIP FILES.
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        Files with a three letter extension ".ZIP", are one or
more files COMPRESSED into one single file. Most of the
time file(s) contained in a zip file are reduced in size
by 60 percent or more, thus saving you twice the disk space. This
also makes modem file transfers much faster.

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WHAT IS AUTOZIP.
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        AUTOZIP (c)  Makes working with ZIP files and 
communication software a breeze. PKZIP and PKUNZIP are 
command line utilities with so many switches it is often very confusing 
to try and remember which switch does what. If you use a modem and PKWARE'S 
utilities then you should be able to relate to this. Virtually all files 
downloaded from your favorite BBS come in this format. They also come
this way on CD'S.

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BASIC OPERATION
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        Most all selections in AUTOZIP are done using the
up arrow, down arrow, enter and tab keys. Most of the time, you can 
press the ESC key to abort operations. If you are familiar with
EDIT which comes with MS-DOS 5.0 or higher using AUTOZIPS -- FILE 
PAGE & DIRECTORY PAGE should be very easy for you. As both were
designed to work similar to EDIT'S file selection method. 
To make a selection from AUTOZIP'S main menu, press the key corresponding 
to the letter HIGHLIGHTED on the button you want to select. 
Example: While the main menu is displayed, press the "F" key
(for FILE), this will pop up a menu box. Use the arrow keys to move the 
HIGHLIGHT CURSOR up and down within the menu box. After you have the 
CURSOR on the selection you want, press the enter key to proceed. In turn,
this possibly will pop up more menu boxes depending on which selection
was made. An example of this would be selecting "ALL FILES" from the ZIP
MENU. If this particular selection is made, another menu box would be
displayed with two more options from which to choose. NOTE: Not all 
selections from the various menus lead to more menu boxes.

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BASIC OPERATION -- THE FILE PAGE
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        Description: The FILE PAGE is used in selecting a specific disk
drive, and a single file from one of the many directories contained in
in the selected drive. The FILE PAGE also displays information about the
disk space available for the selected drive. Furthermore, all selection in
AUTOZIP involving a single file and selected disk drives use the FILE PAGE.

        
        The FILE PAGE is divided into 3 sections or parts. (For clarity
they will be referred to as "Sections".) Section 1 displays a blue screen 
that looks similar to Fig. 1.









 


Fig. 1 Example of beginning a FILE PAGE "Section 1":
 _|Title|_______________________________________________________
| A: B: C: D:                                                   |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|                                                               |
|                                                               |
|                                                               |
|                                                               |
|                                                               |
|                                                               |
|                                                               |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|          Various messages will be displayed here.             |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|_______________________________________________________________|

Available drives for your particular computer system that may be selected
for use are displayed under the location "Title" (shown in Fig. 1).
AUTOZIP can use drive A to Z. The total number of drives displayed
depends on how many "logical"  drives are available for your system.
This also includes hard disk partitions. At this point, you must press the
letter corresponding to the disk drive to use. AUTOZIP will then
HIGHLIGHT the selected drive (shown under "Title" in Fig.1) with the
foreground color GREEN and background color BLACK. At this point,
AUTOZIP displays sections 2 and 3, shown in Fig. 2. as "Section 2" and "
Section 3". Both are red boxes listing all files and subdirectories for 
the currently selected drive and directory. NOTE: Distinguishing the 
FILE PAGE from the DIRECTORY PAGE is accomplished by a title in the 
upper left corner of "Section 2" (shown in Fig. 2). Respectively, 
"Section 2" will be referred to as the FILE LIST BOX and "Section 3" 
will be referred to as the DIRECTORY BOX. When AUTOZIP first displays 
the FILE LIST BOX and DIRECTORY BOX, (both are displayed at the same 
time) the first file in the FILE LIST BOX is highlighted with a 
yellow foreground color and a black background color respectively
referred to as the SELECTION CURSOR. Normally, files displayed
in the FILE LIST BOX or DIRECTORY BOX that ARE NOT SELECTED are
displayed in yellow text (foreground color for the FILE LIST BOX) or
blue text (foreground color for the DIRECTORY BOX) with a red background
(i.e. the same color as the boxes themselves). At this point, you press
the ENTER or RETURN key (I consider both keys to be the same). The file
highlighted by the SELECTION CURSOR is the selected file.

Fig. 2 Example of a FILE PAGE:

 _|Title|_______________________________________________________
| A: B: C: D:                                                   |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|   _|File page|_____________________    _________________      |
|  | File list dir                   |  |      DIRS       |     |
|  |---------------------------------|  |-----------------|     |
|  |  "Section 2"                    |  |   "Section 3"   |     |
|  |                                 |  |                 |     |
|  |                                 |  |                 |     |
|  |                                 |  |                 |     |
|  |_________________________________|  |_________________|     |
|                                                               |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|          Various messages will be displayed here.             |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|_______________________________________________________________|

You can use the UP-DOWN arrow keys to scroll the SELECTION CURSOR
through the files displayed in the FILE LIST BOX. 
At this point, you may press the tab key. This will switch the
SELECTION CURSOR from the FILE LIST BOX to the DIRECTORY BOX.
Pressing the tab key again switches the SELECTION CURSOR back to
the FILE LIST BOX. Scrolling and selecting while in the DIRECTORY
BOX is the same as in the FILE LIST BOX, except pressing the 
ENTER or RETURN key causes AUTOZIP to change the current directory
to the directory highlighted by the SELECTION CURSOR.
Upon changing directories, AUTOZIP will transfer the SELECTION
CURSOR from the DIRECTORY BOX back to the FILE LIST BOX.
Reset the page number to 1, update the files displayed in the FILE LIST
BOX with files from the newly selected directory and set the
SELECTION CURSOR to the first file displayed. 

        Some important information that deserves mentioning is:
    
    1.  The DIRECTORY BOX will only display 12 directories at any one
time. If more than 12 directories are present a yellow plus ("+") sign
is displayed at the bottom of the DIRECTORY BOX.

    2.  AUTOZIP only displays 48 files per page in the FILE LIST 
BOX. If more files are present, you must scroll the SELECTION CURSOR
to the last file in the current page with the down arrow key. Upon 
reaching the last file, if more files do exist, AUTOZIP will automatically
advance the page, then update the page number (displayed at the top of the
FILE LIST BOX) and files accordingly. The up arrow key reverses this
process.

    3.  AUTOZIP can handle a maximum of 500 files. Respectively,
the number of directories AUTOZIP can handle is 300.
    
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BASIC OPERATION -- THE DIRECTORY PAGE
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        Description: The DIRECTORY PAGE is used by AUTOZIP for selecting
specific disk drives and one single directory from the many directories
that may be contained by a disk drive. All directory selection
in AUTOZIP is done via the DIRECTORY PAGE.

       NOTE: The DIRECTORY PAGE looks and works closely
the same as the FILE PAGE, except for a few differences. When
using a DIRECTORY PAGE, DO NOT press the ENTER or RETURN key until you
are sure your final selection is correct. Use the TAB key or UP-DOWN 
arrow keys.

       Similarities of the DIRECTORY PAGE and the FILE PAGE:

1.  Both the FILE PAGE and DIRECTORY PAGE have 3 sections or parts,
(for clarity they will be referred to as "Sections") all of which have 
the same color, shape, and size.

2.  Selections made using a DIRECTORY PAGE also use the same keys, such
as the UP-DOWN ARROW keys, the ENTER or RETURN key, and the TAB key.

3.  Both FILE PAGE and DIRECTORY PAGE have a SELECTION CURSOR.

       
       Differences between the DIRECTORY PAGE and the FILE PAGE:

1.  A FILE PAGE "Section 2" (as shown in Fig. 2) is referred to as a
FILE LIST BOX. A DIRECTORY PAGE "Section 2" is referred to as
the DIRECTORY DISPLAY BOX.

2.  The DIRECTORY PAGE does not display the file names for the current
disk drive and directory. Only a count of the total files is displayed.

3.  With a FILE PAGE, the SELECTION CURSOR can be switched from the
FILE LIST BOX to the DIRECTORY BOX. In a DIRECTORY PAGE the 
SELECTION CURSOR never leaves the DIRECTORY BOX. (Both FILE
PAGE and DIRECTORY PAGE have a DIRECTORY BOX.)

4.  Since a DIRECTORY PAGE is used for selecting directories and not
files, a new method of displaying the selection is introduced. This is
accomplished by highlighting the selected directory at the top 
of the DIRECTORY DISPLAY BOX with yellow text (foreground color)
and a BLACK background.

5.  THIS IS IMPORTANT. When using a DIRECTORY PAGE, pressing the ENTER or
RETURN key makes your selection final. By this I mean -- the final 
directory selected "is the directory highlighted at the TOP of the
DIRECTORY DISPLAY BOX", not the directories highlighted by the SELECTION 
CURSOR in the DIRECTORY BOX. Keep in mind, the SELECTION CURSOR never leaves
the DIRECTORY BOX, and furthermore, the SELECTION CURSOR is the only
object within the DIRECTORY PAGE that can be directly manipulated with the
UP-DOWN arrow keys.

6.  The DIRECTORY PAGE displays various different messages in the DIRECTORY
DISPLAY BOX.

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            CHANGING DIRECTORIES USING THE DIRECTORY PAGE
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        To change from one directory to another, use the UP-DOWN arrow
keys to move the SELECTION CURSOR position to the desired directory, 
then press the TAB key. Upon pressing the TAB key, the directory highlighted
in the DIRECTORY DISPLAY BOX will be changed to the newly selected
directory. DO NOT PRESS THE ENTER or RETURN key in an attempt to change
directories. Press the ENTER or RETURN key only when the desired directory
is highlighted in the DIRECTORY DISPLAY BOX. Prematurely pressing the
ENTER or RETURN key can unzip hundreds of files to the wrong directory.



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THE AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE
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        If the reader of this particular section of AUTOZIP HELP 
is familiar with MS-DOS 5.0 and the various commands that can be 
used from the DOS environment, you may skip Section 1. If you already
Know how to change the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, you may skip this entire  
section. If not, read on.

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AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE SECTION 1
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                  Definition of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
        
        The AUTOEXEC.BAT file in part controls how your computer
is setup to run. This can vary greatly from one computer to another.
The AUTOEXEC.BAT file also controls the DOS PATH statement, which
is user definable. The AUTOEXEC.BAT file is not really any different
from any other BATCH files except that it is run every time you start
your computer.
                  
                 How the AUTOEXEC.BAT file works.

        Every time you turn your computer on, several things happen
before you actually can begin using it.  The first thing the computer
does is look in the boot-drive for a file named "CONFIG.SYS".
After the CONFIG.SYS file is found, the computer precedes to search 
for the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  The CONFIG.SYS file works similar to 
the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, except the CONFIG.SYS file is much more important. 
Both files CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT,  loads various TSR (Terminate and 
stay resident) programs that are integral to the operation of your 
computer.
               
               The AUTOEXEC.BAT file and the DOS search PATH.

        The DOS search PATH is a variable list of directories
that DOS uses to find executable files. This is a handy way of telling
DOS to find a file instead of having to manually change the disk drive
and directory to start an executable program.  The AUTOEXEC.BAT file
automatically adds specified directories to the DOS search PATH. 
An example of using the DOS search PATH is: 

        You are currently using an executable program which resides 
on a floppy diskette, which in turn is inserted in the "A:" drive. You 
finish with the program and are returned back to DOS. The DOS cursor is 
displayed on screen as A:\>. Now you want to use WINDOWS. Without doing 
anything else, you type WIN and press RETURN or ENTER. WINDOWS starts 
running.

        From the example above if the directory in which the executable
file named WIN.COM were not included in the DOS search PATH, it would 
have been mandatory for you to change directories to the directory
which contained the executable file WIN.COM before you could run
WINDOWS.

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AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE SECTION 2
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        It is recommended to add the AUTOZIP directory to the
DOS search path and MANDATORY that the directory which contains
PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE be added. To do this, change the current 
directory on your boot drive to the root directory by typing cd\ then 
type "EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT" at the DOS prompt (this requires MS-DOS 5.0 
or above). Find the line that looks similar to this:  
PATH=C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\ANY_DIRECTORY etc...  
At the end of this line add ;C:\AUTOZIP; and the directory that contains 
PKZIP.EXE & PKUNZIP.EXE. The semicolon serves to separate the 
different directories. EXIT and save the file. Restart your computer 
for the modification to take effect. For more information about the 
AUTOEXEC.BAT file, refer to your DOS manual. PLEASE NOTE: Improper 
use of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file CAN DISABLE YOUR COMPUTER. It is suggested 
that you make a system boot disk BEFORE MODIFYING YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 
To do this, insert a blank diskette in the A: drive, at the DOS prompt 
type "FORMAT A: /S/U", then press ENTER or RETURN. This will make a 
system diskette from which you can start your computer.


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NOTES ABOUT AUTOZIP AND MEMORY
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        If you notice erratic behavior when running your COMM.
software with AUTOZIP'S RUN selection from the FILE MENU, or 
starting AUTOZIP with the command line switch "a", check the setup
options from the FILE MENU. If AUTOZIP is setup to use EXTENDED
or EXPANDED memory when swapping,  and your COMM. software also
uses EXTENDED or EXPANDED memory, set option number two ("2 Set swapping")
in the setup selection from the FILE MENU to "SWAP_DISK". Taking this 
action should clear up any memory related problems. NOTE: When 
option 2 is set to "SWAP_DISK", AUTOZIP'S DOS selections, shell to DOS 
selections and run selection, (found in various menus in AUTOZIP) work
a little slower.

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UTILITES THAT COME WITH AUTOZIP
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PRINTEM.EXE
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       PRINTEM is a command line utility for printing the
AUTOZIP USER MANUAL. PRINTEM will also print any other ASCII text
file. To print the AUTOZIP USER MANUAL, the file "AUTOUSER.MAN" must
be in the same directory as PRINTEM.EXE. Then at the DOS prompt
type PRINTEM, and press RETURN or ENTER. AUTOZIP'S USER MANUAL will
then be printed to the printer conected to "LPT1". To print any
other text file, type PRINTEM space the <filename> and space 
<options>.  There are two command line options PRINTEM takes (the
order which they are used makes no difference).  1. "/p", this
option enables page numbering.  2.  "/f", enables form feed extraction.
PRINTEM automatically inserts a form feed for every 55 lines printed.

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INSTALL.EXE
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       INSTALL is primarily used for installing AUTOZIP from a floppy
diskette to A hard disk drive.  INSTALL should be used when you want
to move the entire AUTOZIP system to a different disk drive or directory.
INSTALL makes sure all files which are integral to the operation of 
AUTOZIP are placed in the same directory as the executable file 
"AUTOZIP.EXE". Please use INSTALL to make a complete copy of the AUTOZIP
system for a friend.  NOTE: AUTOZIP can be installed and run from a
floppy diskette with 800k of free disk space.
