ZipScan v1.6 by Adrian Bhagat 
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This document gives only the basic information on ZipScan. See the file ZipScan.hlp for full instructions.

Introduction
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ZipScan is a program that performs a fast file search which includes looking inside archive files, such as Zip files. This is useful if you have lots of documents archived in Zip files and need to be able to search for specific documents. It is also useful when looking for a particular DLL from a set of CAB installation files, and for Java programmmers who need to search through their JAR archives. I wrote this utility because programs such as WinZip do not have a search facility.


Installation
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If you have downloaded the self-extracting executable version of the program, simply run the setup program and it will install itself on your computer.
If you have received the zipped release of the program, simply extract all the files from the zip to the 
same directory. (For this you will need a zip program such as WinZip or ZipCentral) Then, just run the program (ZipScan.exe).


Instructions
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On the main screen, you select the parameters for the search:
1) The directory or archive from which to begin the search.
2) What to search - files in directories or Zip, CAB, JAR or RAR archives
3) The search pattern(s) for the search; for example, *.txt
4) You can optionally filter the search based on file size or search for text within the files

As the search runs, you will see another window with the files that have been found. From here you can open the files and, for those stored inside archive files, extract them.
  

Other Info
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This information applies to both the Evaluation and Full versions on ZipScan. 
Some features have been disabled in the evaluation version of the program. 
You are not permitted to distribute copies of the full version of ZipScan or to distribute your registration code.
The complete licence agreement can be found by clicking the appropriate button in the About Box.

You can purchase a licence to use the full version of ZipScan from http://www.zipscan.co.uk

Please e-mail me if you:
a) Find this software useful
b) Find any bugs or mistakes
c) Have any ideas for new features

The latest version of the program will always be available for download from my website.
http://www.zipscan.co.uk/

The ZipScan program and all associated documents are (C)opyright 1999, 2000, 2001 Adrian Bhagat. 
mailto:info@zipscan.co.uk


Credits
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The Zip extraction is implemented using the freeware Info-Zip libraries which can be found at:
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/
See ZipScan.hlp for full licence information covering this library.

CAB file extraction is implemented using the Cabinet Software Development Kit from Microsoft. 

RAR file extraction is implemented using the library provided free by Eugene Roshal. Copyright (c) 1993-99 Eugene Roshal
