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The Best on the Boards
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Copyright (c) 1993, Russell Mirabelli
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All rights reserved
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Many bulletin boards across the nation have a huge amount of
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software to choose from for download. Most have so many titles
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that determining which ones might be worth the download time is
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difficult. In this column, I will attempt to help you sort through
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the huge morass of shareware available and let you know which
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titles I feel are worth your evaluation. All the software reviewed
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in this column is available on many bulletin boards throughout the
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country. If you have difficulty locating a particular title, I
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recommend that you contact its author at the address listed.
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DRAG AND ZIP is a Windows shell for PKZIP and PKUNZIP. In that
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brief description, it may not sound like much, but it is so very
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easy to use that it falls into the category of "can't live
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without" software.
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Most of my days are spent entirely within Windows, and I often
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am bringing compressed files form one computer to another. Until
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I met DNZ, I had to exit Windows, change directories, run PKZIP
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from the command line, and then bring Windows back up. NO MORE!
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now, I simply double-click on a .ZIP file in the file viewer,
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and DNZ will take care of making sure that the files all reach
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the directories I want.
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Zipping files up is equally easy. DNZ's zipping program sits,
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minimized as an icon, and all that the user needs to do is drag
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the files from the file manager and drop them on top of the DNZ
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icon. A dialog box will ask for a file name and options, and
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then it's taken care of.
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Another nice feature of DNZ is that it allows the user to get
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use of all the obscure command-line parameters that PKZIP
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offers. Without DNZ, I would never use fast memcopy, EMS, 386
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protection, or any of the other two dozen options I now use
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regularly.
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DNZ does require that you already have a copy of PKZIP, and it
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will support the latest version (as of this writing:2.1g).
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This may sound like a rave, and it is. I simply could not get
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much of my work done as quickly as I do if it were not for Drag
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and Zip. Its $25 registration fee is a pittance for the
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heavy-duty functionality that it provides. If you haven't
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downloaded this one yet, DO IT NOW!!!
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Value 10
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Usability 9
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Performance 7
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Overall 9
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Dan Baumbach
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Canyon Software
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1527 Fourth St. Ste 131
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San Rafael, CA 94901
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If you are a shareware author and would like to see your product
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reviewed in this column, please contact me either via e-mail at the STTS
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bulletin board, through RIME, WME, or P&BNET, or via conventional mail.
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My conventional mail address is:
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Russell Mirabelli
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1216 Lamar Blvd E #508
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Arlington, TX 76011
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