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ZIP32S ARCHIVE MANAGER
SUMMARY
ZIP32S is a freeware 16/32-bit ZIP manager for Windows.
It was originally intended as an open-source project; unfortunately,
the source has been lost, and the program was last worked
on in June 2001.
It was written in Delphi 2 as a "hybrid" program for 16-bit
Windows with the Win32s libraries installed, and designed
to take advantage of the 32-bit InfoZIP libraries and DelphiZIP
components.
Its only claim to fame is that it features in several of
the Calmira screenshots on this site...
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Minimum:
* Windows 3.1 with Win32s version 1.3 (the newest version)
installed, or any 32-bit version of Windows.
* 386 processor
* 4 Mb RAM
* VGA display
Recommended:
* 486 processor
* 8 Mb RAM
* 16-bit colour SVGA display.
Tested under:
Win 3.1/Win32s, Win 95, 98, ME, 2000. Not tested under NT4
or XP.
INSTALLATION/UNINSTALLATION
Simply unzip the files in the archive to a folder and run
ZIP32s. To uninstall, delete the same files.
NB: Don't copy or move the DLLs to your system folder,
especially under 32-bit Windows. If you're running any
other 32-bit freeware or shareware archive managers, it's
quite likely that they're using newer versions of these
DLLs which shouldn't be replaced. ZIP32s intentionally uses
older versions of the DLLs to maintain 16-bit compatibility.
USAGE
* Common ZIP operations: create archive; open archive; save
archive; add to archive; extract from archive; delete from
archive; delete entire archive.
* Additional operations: Open/view files from within archive;
optionally extract archive and run a SETUP or INSTALL program
if one is detected; open archives by drag/drop onto program's
main window (tested with File Manager, Calmira and Win32
Explorer); associate with ZIP files if required; extract
SFX files.
LIMITATIONS
1) Features not implemented due to loss of source during
development.
* There are no program options, and no settings are saved.
* ZIP32s always offers to clear its temporary folder on
closing if any files are present; this was intended to be
optional. This procedure doesn't delete subfolders in the
ZIP32s temp folder if they exist.
2) Unsolved limitations:
* Slow starting up under Win3x (no speed problems under
Win32).
* ZIP32s doesn't like opening non-SFX EXEs; it recognises
them as non-SFX, but takes a long time (sometimes around
2 minutes under Win3x) doing so. It doesn't hang Windows,
but feels as though it has. This problem is present, but
to a lesser degree, under Win9x.
* Can't rename LFNs or filenames with spaces to 8:3 format.
Extracting these type of files under Win3x is therefore
not recommended.
DOWNLOAD
ZIP32S can be downloaded from here
(ZIP file, 280 Kb). Archive includes executable, DLLs
and information file.
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