Luckman Interactive Microhelp Zip 1.1 Making ZIP Easier For You John Brown
With the average Internet user spending upwards of five hours per week online, and a great majority of those users spending part of that time downloading files, finding a compression utility to meet your needs proves to be an essential and time consuming task for any Internet user. Luckman's MicroHelp Zip proclaims itself to be the first compression utility that enables Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0, and Windows 3.x users to zip and un-zip files in just one step.
MicroHelp Zip is designed to zip and unzip files in one easy step through drag-and-drop operations. Although numerous drag-and-drop operations are supported for file management and archive management, the primary drag-and-drop operations are for adding files to archives (zipping) and extracting files from archives (unzipping).
The two primary components for drag-and-drop zipping and unzipping are the Archive View and the Explorer View. Dragging files from the Explorer View to the Archive View adds (zips) the files to the current archive. Dragging files from the Archive View to the Explorer View extracts (unzips) the files.
MicroHelp Zip is designed to provide full support for PKZIP-compatible archives. These archives are often called ZIP archives and are the most common type of archive files in the PC industry. With MicroHelp Zip, you can create ZIP archives, extract files from ZIP archives, add files to ZIP archives, and more. MicroHelp Zip also allows you to extract the contents of TAR archives, which are commonly found in UNIX environments and on the Internet. In addition, MicroHelp Zip provides basic support for LZH archives. With MicroHelp Zip, you can convert both TAR and LZH archives to ZIP archives in one easy step.
MicroHelp Zip offers many features that make zipping and unzipping files easy. These features include:
Compatibility with PKZIP 2.x archives: Unzip existing ZIP archives or create your own ZIP archives. View the contents of any ZIP archive, add files to any ZIP archive, and more.
Built-In Explorer: The built-in Explorer makes it easy to zip and unzip files. Simply drag a file from the built-in Explorer to zip it. Drag a file from an archive and drop it on the Explorer to unzip it. With the built-in Explorer, zipping and unzipping files is a one-step, drag-and-drop operation. The built-in Explorer also provides common file management capabilities including copy, rename, move, and more.
LZH and TAR Archive Support: Open, view, and extract files in TAR, G-zipped TAR, and LZH archives. You can also convert these archives to ZIP archives in one easy step.
Self-Extracting Archives: MicroHelp Zip allows you to convert any ZIP archive to a self-extracting archive. A self-extracting archive is an executable archive that automatically extracts its contents. MicroHelp Zip creates self-extracting archives that are true Windows applications.
UUEncode and UUDecode Support: With MicroHelp Zip's UUEncode feature, you can encode files so they can be sent over the Internet and used by a variety of computers, including UNIX systems. With the UUDecode feature, you can download, decode, and use files from the Internet that were generated by almost any computer system.
Backup to Floppy: MicroHelp Zip makes it easy to create a backup of files, folders, or drives to floppy disk. This feature also supports multi-volume archives (archives that reside on multiple disks). Use the convenient Restore feature to restore your backups.
Password Protection: With MicroHelp Zip, you can protect your archives using its data encryption capabilities. When an archive is encrypted with MicroHelp Zip, the user must know the correct password before extracting any file from the archive.
Archive and File Comments: Easily add comments to your archives. You can even add individual comments to each file in your archives.
Microhelp, although it lacks the support of other compression programs like WinZip, is still a useful addition to any utility-monger's collection.
MicroHelp Zip is designed to zip and unzip files in one easy step through drag-and-drop operations. Although numerous drag-and-drop operations are supported for file management and archive management, the primary drag-and-drop operations are for adding files to archives (zipping) and extracting files from archives (unzipping).