It Utilities 1.5 - Read me __________________________________________________________________ THIS IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE - PLEASE REGISTER __________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS 1. What are the It Utilities 2. List of files 3. How to install 4. How to uninstall 5. Benefits of registering 6. How to contact us 7. How to order 8. Software license 9. Disclaimer of warranty 10. Distributing this shareware version 11. History WHAT ARE THE IT UTILITIES It Utilities are not free or public domain software. Non- registered user are permitted to use them for a 21 days trial period. To continue using these utilities for more than 21 days requires registration. The It Utilities are extensions to the File manager of Windows 3.1. They use the drag and drop facility of the File manager to enhance it. Instead of buying a replacement File manager you can add functions to it, you won't have to learn a whole new tool. These utilities are enhanced with icon animation and sound. All sounds were recorded using a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 sound card. The first utility is Trash It and implements a trash can to delete files. Trash It can keep files from your fixed disk when deleting so you can undelete them if need be. The second utility is View It, a file viewer that can show up to four text files at a time in either text or hex mode. View It does not load files in memory, it reads each page from the disk when needed. View It is thus capable of showing text files of ANY size. The third utility is Zip It, a shell for PKWare's PKZip and PKUnzip. For this release you need a copy of PKZip and PKUnzip to use Zip It. Finally Load It is an extension menu to the File manager to automatically or manually load/unload the It Utilities when you start or close the File manager. Apart from Load It, these utilities may also be used with other File manager's that support drag and drop. For more information on each utilities you should check out the help provided. You can access the help of each utility from their respective system menu. The Load It help is accessed from the Load it menu command added to the File manager's main menu. LIST OF FILES Trash It - trash can trashit.exe program trashit.hlp help file sopen8.wav 8 bits sound file sclose8.wav 8 bits sound file kopen8.wav 8 bits sound file kclose8.wav 8 bits sound file topen8.wav 8 bits sound file tclose8.wav 8 bits sound file View It - file viewer viewit.exe program viewit.hlp help file viewit8.wav 8 bits sound file Zip It - shell for zipping and unzipping files zipit.exe program zipit.hlp help file zopen8.wav 8 bits sound file zclose8.wav 8 bits sound file Load It - File manager extension to load the It Utilities loadit.dll File manager extension loadit.hlp help file PKZip and PKUnzip PIF files pkzip.pif see HOW TO INSTALL below pkunzip.pif see HOW TO INSTALL below Dynamic link library bwcc.dll Documentation readme.txt This file orderit.txt Order form HOW TO INSTALL Simply run the Install program provided. You should restart the File Manager after installing to activate the It Utilities. You should check the Zip It help under 'Update File Manager' for details about speeding up File Manager's updates. These utilities are minimized as icons and you must reduce the size of the File manager to access them. The easiest way to do this is: 1. Minimize all your running applications to icons except the File Manager. 2. Double click on the desktop or press CTRL-ESCAPE to bring up the Task Manager. 3. Click on the Tile button. You will then have the largest File Manager window possible with access to the It Utilities. If you install over a previous copy of the same version of the It Utilities you should close the File manager and any It Utilities before running the install. You can start the install from the Program manager (File|Run). If you start the install from the File manager, you must close it immediately after the first screen of the install program appears. This will enable the install to overwrite existing files, since Windows will not let an application write over files that are in use. After installing, you may want to enable the new option for Trash It to keep files forever. Included are PIF files for PKZip and PKUnzip. These will run PKZip and PKUnzip inside a Window without closing it after they are done. This enables you to check for any errors that may have occured while zipping or unzipping. You then MUST close the window yourself. If you would like that behavior please move these files from the It Utilities directory to the directory where you have PKZip and PKUnzip. HOW TO UNINSTALL If you decide not to purchase the It Utilities after the 21 days trial period or you would like to delete the It Utilities for some reason, please follow the following steps. 1. Edit the WINFILE.INI file located in your Windows directory and remove the line from the [AddOns] section that refers to LOADIT.DLL. It should look something like this: [AddOns] Load it=C:\ITUTIL\loadit.dll 2. Delete the files located in the directory in which you installed the It Utilities. By default it is c:\itutil. Note that you should close any It Utilities still running before doing this. You MUST have done step one, closed and restarted the File manager to erase the file LOADIT.DLL. If not, the File manager will report it in use and refuse to delete it. 3. Delete the file ITUTIL.INI located in your Windows directory. You may wish to keep this file if you intend to install It Utilities again so that your settings are preserved. 4. Delete the file BWCC.DLL in your Windows system directory. But ONLY if you are sure that no other software you have installed uses it. This file is a sharable dynamic link library containing the 3D look of the dialog boxes of the It Utilities. It was developed by Borland and may also be used by some of their products or products developed using their compilers. You can easily tell by the look of the dialog boxes. 5. In the program manager, delete all the icons in the It Utilities group and delete the group. BENEFITS OF REGISTERING If you decide to register you will get these benefits: 1. Sound support for 8 and 16 bits audio cards. 2. The "Unregistered" message under each utility will be replaced by a file counter that tells you how many files are kept or shown by each utility. 3. A manual. 4. Notifications of and special price for upgrades. 5. As a bonus you will also receive replacement sound files for the four standard sounds of Windows. They are similar but of much better quality. They will also be in 8 and 16 bits formats. 6. Finally you will receive a certificate good for one issue, or an additional issue if already a subscriber, of the "JCSM Shareware Collection" CD-ROM at 1/2 price ($9.95 + s/h). HOW TO CONTACT US We can be reached on Alleycat BBS, the home of Allegro software and the best place to get the latest version of the It Utilities. You should leave messages to Jacques Boileau. The phone number is 514-527-6599. We can be reached on Compuserve at ID: 72357,1727 Phone/Fax: 514-689-6689 You can write to us at: Allegro 560 Gervais Laval (Quebec) Canada H7X 1M4 Any feedback is appreciated. Tell us what you like or dislike about the It Utilities. What features or other utilities you would like to see. We listen to our users. If this version of the It Utilities does not suit your needs, tell us your needs, then maybe the next version will. We certainly listened to our users and incorporated many of their ideas in this release! HOW TO ORDER Simply fill out, print and send the order form in file ORDERIT.TXT. The It Utilities are only $24.95US + handling and shipping charges (and applicable taxes). SOFTWARE LICENSE It Utilities - Copyright © 1992,1993 by Allegro. All rights reserved. It Utilities, Trash It, View It, Zip It and Load It are Trademarks of Allegro. It Utilities are not free or public domain software. Non- registered user are permitted to use them for a 21 days trial period. To continue using these utilities for more than 21 days requires registration. The use of unregistered copies of these utilities beyond the 21 days trial period is strictly prohibited. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY THIS SHAREWARE SOFTWARE IS AVAILABLE "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. GOOD DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURE DICTATES THAT ANY PROGRAM BE THOROUGHLY TESTED WITH NON-CRITICAL DATA BEFORE RELYING ON IT. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THE PROGRAM. DISTRIBUTING THIS SHAREWARE VERSION You may distribute the shareware version of the It Utilities for the trial use of others, subject to the following limitations: 1. The It Utilities must be given in it's entirety. Which includes this file and all others listed above. 2. All files must be distributed unmodified in any way. 3. A maximum fee of $10US may be requested to cover the expense of disk duplication, postage, handling or any other charges. 4. Your catalog or listing must state that this program is not free, but is copyrighted software that is provided to allow the user to evaluate it before buying. It must also be stated that the fee charged is for disk duplication only and does not constitute payment for the software. Contact Allegro for a diskette version of the It Utilities. HISTORY 1.5 07/93 Added: files kept forever in Trash It, hex mode and hex search in View It and file information in Zip It. Install will not duplicate icons in the Program Manager group. Zip It gives a message when it encounters a corrupted zip file instead of crashing. You can now set Zip It so it will not update the File Manager's Windows. All of Zip It path fields have been made auto-scrollable for long pathnames. Because of new file structure for Trash It, it now only says if it is empty or if it is keeping files in the registered version. You can now setup default fonts for each mode in View It. Added PIF files to run PKZip and PKUnzip inside a Window. Must be manually installed by user. 1.4 02/93 Fixed more problems with install that did not always copy BWCC.DLL especially on networks. Added eyes to View It Icon on drop. Made all path fields in Zip It lower case only. Added percent full to Trash It title (registered version). Added minimal support for EGA. 1.3 01/93 Fixed bug in Trash It and Zip It where they could crash if the Show trashing or Show sending where disabled. Added the escape key to cancel both the Trashing and the Sending dialogs. Fixed problem with install that did not always copy BWCC.DLL. 1.2 01/93 Changed the way files are selected in list boxes. Now you can use shift with a click of the mouse to select a range. Ctrl with a click of the mouse will select/deselect an item. You can also select a range by dragging the mouse with the left button down. Fixed more problems with the keyboard handler of the find dialog. Added hourglass cursor while searching. 1.1 12/92 Fixed problems with Find dialog in viewer. Now you can't call up more than one Find dialog. Choosing Find from the menu simply gives the focus to the existing Find dialog. Also the keyboard handler of the Find dialog would get disabled when switching to another window and comming back. This is also fixed. Fixed problem in the viewer when a file was not ended with a carriage return, the last line would not always be visible when using the key 'End' to get to the end of file. Fixed problem in the viewer when the next command was used and the next file was minimized it would not open. 1.0 12/92 Initial release