Canyon Software's Drag And Zip Version 2.0 offers new options for extracting and viewing zip files.SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 1997--Canyon Software today released version released version - release 2.0 of Drag And Zip, a software program that manages compressed files and archives with extensions of ZIP, TAR and GZ as well as Internet encoded files entirely from within Windows 95/NT. Drag And Zip Version 2.0 adds new options for extracting and viewing zip files (1) A file that contains one or more files that have been compressed into the ZIP format. Also called a "ZIP archive," "zipped file" or "zipped archive," the ZIP algorithm is the most popular compression method in use. Not Just the . to a powerful, flexible zip file manager that works with both Explorer and Drag And File, Canyon Software's award-winning file manager program. Drag And Zip 2.0 allows users to create self-extracting zip files from which files can be viewed or launched. Auto launch self-extractors also can be created, which will first extract the files from the archive and then automatically launch a particular program. In contrast, other zip file managers simply offer users a choice about where to extract a particular file. Drag And Zip 2.0 also offers new ways to view zip files. Embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. folders can be displayed in a tree in a left hand window (like Explorer) or listed in the zip file listing. Multiple zip files can be viewed at one time thanks to changes incorporated into the program's viewer, which is the only zip file viewer that includes a virus scanner See antivirus program. . Other new features in Drag And Zip Version 2.0 include the ability to create zip files encoded with Uuencode and MIME formats, as well as unencode files in these formats and others. In addition, the program's file viewer Software that displays the contents of a file. File viewers are a quick way of looking into different types of files without having to open each application that created them. A general purpose file viewer is capable of displaying a wide variety of document, database, spreadsheet and now supports ASCII text Alphanumeric characters that are not in any proprietary file format. See ASCII file. and bmp, pcx and some tif formats. Drag And Zip Version 2.0 will run on 486 or higher machines that have 8MB of RAM and 2MB of hard disk space. Fully functional "try before you buy" versions of Drag And Zip Version 2.0 can be obtained from C/NET's download.com site for software programs on the World Wide Web (http://www.download.com). Copies of the program can also be downloaded from Canyon Software's World Wide Web site (http://www.canyonsw.com) and bulletin board system (415-453-4289), or from its forum on CompuServe (GO CANYON). Drag And Zip Version 2.0 costs $30. The program can be purchased directly from Canyon Software by phone (1-800-280-3691). Users of the 32-bit version of Drag And Zip can upgrade at no charge. Site license and quantity pricing options also are available. Canyon Software was founded in 1988 to provide file management utilities for Windows-based environments. In addition to Drag And Zip, the company offers Drag And File Desktop, a combination file manager and launcher, and Drag And View, a program that plays multimedia files; views graphics, database, spreadsheet, and word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and files; edits text files; and copies, moves or deletes within the clipboard A reserved section of memory that is used as a temporary holding area for data that is copied or moved from one application to another using the copy and paste and cut and paste (move) menu options. Each time you transfer something into the clipboard, the previous contents are deleted. . Canyon Software is located at 1537 Fourth Street, Suite 131, San Rafael, Calif. 94901; 415-453-9779 phone, 415-453-6195 fax, info@canyonsw.com e-mail, http://www.canyonsw.com World Wide Web. CONTACT: Canyon Software M.B. Fribley, 415/453-9779 75407.154@compuserve.com or Mitchell Friedman Communications Mitchell Friedman, 415/824-1466 102200.320@compuserve.com |
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