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ShezView 1.0


ShezView is written to work together with the famous compression shell
'SHEZ' written by Jim Derr, but you also may want to use it with
other software.

ShezView is a programm shell which is able to select the correct viewer
program depending on the extension of the passing filename.

A file 'SHEZVIEW.EXT' defines the corresponding viewer program to the
file extension similar to NC.EXT of the Norton Commander.

Example for this File:

gif: vpic.exe !
pcx: vpic.exe !
dbf: dbview.exe !
wk?: 123view.exe !
*: wpview.exe !
: wpview.exe !

Beginning at the leftmost column the extensions are listet. DOS wildcards
* and ? are supported. The colon ':' at the end of each extension is required.
After one or more blanks or TABs the decided call of the viewer is defined.
If this program should not be found via the DOS path, write here the full
pathname including the extensions exe or com e.g. c:\util\nc\wpview.exe.

The exclamation mark will be expanded to the filename to view, the full
pathname of this file will replace this sign during execution. The '!'
needs not to be the last item on the line, additional parameters or options
may be passed to the viewer program.

The extensions are checked in the order as written and the viewer is
executed at the first valid extension, that means in the above example
that each not defined extension will execute the WPVIEW program (from
norton commander) and NO extension can be directed to another program
in the last line. If no valid extension is found, nothing will happen.

The program is looking for an 'EXT' file with the same name of the
program itself in the same directory. This enables one more application
within SHEZ:

Copy the program ShezView a second time to e.g. 'EDIT.EXE' and create
a file 'EDIT.EXT' with the following contents:

doc: c:\word\word.com !
fax: c:\edit\q.exe !
asc: c:\edit\q.exe !
a*: c:\ne\ne.com +1 !
mcd: c:\mathcad\mcad.exe !
pr?: c:\dos\print ! /D:lpt1

Now you can use the command 'EDIT' extension sensitive to call the
correct editor. Also installing this EDIT command as editor within
SHEZ is possible.

In the example, WORD is called for all .doc, for .fax and .asc the q-
editor is called. All .asm .a86 and similar extension will call Norton
editor with immediately displaying line 1. .mcd will call Mathcad and
even printing is possible with the extensions .prn or .prt.

For this program nothing is guaranted - but therefor it is freeware!
There are a lot of copyrights for the programs named above. I am to lazy
to list all of them.

I would be grateful for bug reports or comments to this program.


Fido 2:313/7.15 Leo Rollenitz
GEnie L.Rollenitz Fuchsberg 7
A-3062 Kirchstetten
ShezView 1.0 / Oct.91 Austria / Europe