Canyon Software's New Drag and File Desktop for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 Includes Launcher With Award-Winning File Manager.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)--Oct. 18, 1996--Canyon Software today announced the availability of Drag And File Desktop, a combination file manager and launcher for Windows 95 and NT 4.0. The product, which ships with optional integrated file zipping and unzipping capabilities, offers a flexible, full-featured alternative to native elements in these two operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Drag And File Desktop incorporates two new toolbars with an award-winning file manager to provide users a streamlined, efficient desktop setup. One toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the , the DF Bar, functions like the Windows 95 task bar and can be docked on any edge or floated in the middle of the screen. Drag And File drives and commands, other programs, shortcuts See Win Shortcuts. , and URLs can be added to this toolbar and operated directly from it, enabling the user to conserve limited screen space. The second launch bar, DF Task, performs all these functions but sits right on the Windows 95/NT 4.0 task bar itself. The toolbars supplement the extensive file searching and hard disk management capabilities in Drag And File Desktop's file manager, which was named "best utility" and "best 32-bit application" in a recent Shareware Industry Awards Foundation The Shareware Industry Awards Foundation (SIAF) was formed in 1991 by Marshall Magee (a successful shareware author), Bob Ostrander (head of Public Brand Software), Paris Karahalios (head of Trius Inc), Randy MacLean (head of FormGen, and Jim Perkins (FormGen's head of marketing) in order competition. The file manager enables users to select files from multiple directories and work on them simultaneously; copy and drag-and-drop files from multiple windows in a single operation; tag directories and view listings across drives; and view listings of the contents of entire drives. Drag And File Gold Desktop combines the file management and launching capabilities of Drag And File Desktop with powerful file compression See data compression. (algorithm) file compression - The compression of data in a file, usually to reduce storage requirements. functions. This program lists archive files with ZIP, GZ, and TAR extensions as folders on the directory tree. In addition, it allows users to create filter sets with multiple file specifications. Fully functional "try before you buy" versions of Drag And File Desktop and Drag And File Gold Desktop can 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 File Desktop costs $35. Drag And File Gold Desktop costs $55. The two programs can be purchased directly from Canyon Software by phone (800/280-3691). Current users can upgrade at a discounted price through the company. Site license and quantity pricing options are also available. Canyon Software was founded in 1988 to provide file management utilities for Windows-based environments. In addition to the Drag And File Desktop products, the company offers Drag And Zip, which manages compressed files and archives with ZIP, LZH (filename extension) lzh - The filename extension for a file produced by the LHA program. , GZ and TAR extensions, 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. Additional information can be obtained from Canyon Software's World Wide Web site, http://www.canyonsw.com. 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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