Unzipping your Zoomer - Method 1

Garland@aol.com
XXX, 11 Sep 1994 23:22:18 -0400 (EDT)

Unzipping files on the Zoomer - Editing the GEOS.INI method.

Warning: editing your Zoomer's GEOS.INI is risky, it can lock up your Zoomer. There are several texts around that describe *how* to edit your GEOS.INI, so I'm not going cover that here.

Why are we doing this? Because we want to unzip files on our Zoomer by just double tapping the zip file in the file manager.

Put PKUNZJR.COM on your Zoomer somewhere. Because I use many DOS utilities, I've grouped them all together in B:\DOS_UTIL.000. When you do the edits below, substitute the appropropriate path to where you put PKUNZJR.COM.

Edit your GEOS.INI. Look for the [file manger] section. If your GEOS.INI doesn't have a dosAssociations section, add it.

[file manager]
dosAssociations={
*.ZIP=b:\dos_util.000\pkunzjr.com
}
filenameTokens={
*.BAT="gDOS",0
*.COM="gDOS",0
*.EXE="gDOS",0
*.ZIP="FILE",0
}

This edit will allow you to launch all DOS executables. It will also associate all files named *.ZIP with the unzipping utility so that when you double tap the file, the unzipping utility will be run with the filename as it's only parameter. (Your file will be unzipped into the current directory.) You can get fancy and add other command line parameters, or have GEOS ask you for parameters before it runs a program, but that's another kettle of fish.

Happy unzipping!
Garland