

                         Zip Clean v1.0 Quick Start
                     Copyright (c) 1995 Thomas J. Smith
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  1) Edit the UNWANTED.LST file to reflect all file names of files that you
     want removed from .ZIP files. Right now it contains a list of some
     popular unwanted files, but you may wish to look it over and add some
     of your own, or remove some that you want to keep in your .ZIP files.
     Must be one file name per line. This file is needed by ZIPCLEAN.EXE,
     and it must reside somewhere in your path, unless you will be using
     the optional parameter that forces Zip Clean to read an alternate file
     list every time you run it! This is described in step 3 below.

  2) Place the ZIPCLEAN.EXE & UNWANTED.LST files in a directory that is in
     your path (see PATH below if you are unsure about your DOS path).

  3) Usage for Zip Clean is as follows,

 ZIPCLEAN FileName.ZIP -- This will clean one file named FILENAME.ZIP

 ZIPCLEAN FileName ------ This will also clean one file named
                          FILENAME.ZIP. If no filename extension is
                          given, then .ZIP is automatically assumed.

 ZIPCLEAN FileName.EXE -- This will clean a self extracting .EXE archive
                          that was converted using ZIP2EXE.EXE, provided
                          with the PKZIP package. In this case, the file
                          name extension must be included on the command
                          line or it will not be found.

 ZIPCLEAN *.* ----------- This will clean all .ZIP files in the current
                          directory.

 ZIPCLEAN FileName /F:Files.Lst --- This will instruct Zip Clean to
                                    read a different "Unwanted" list
                                    file, other than the default of
                                    UNWANTED.LST. Where Filename is
                                    any of the above parameters, and
                                    Files.Lst is the name of the list to
                                    use instead of UNWANTED.LST. To have
                                    Zip Clean read a file list named
                                    FILES.TXT which is located in the
                                    current directory, and clean all
                                    files in the current directory, you
                                    would type,
                                    ZIPCLEAN *.* /F:files.txt
                                    If FILES.TXT is located in another
                                    directory besides the current
                                    directory, then specify the full
                                    path,
                                    ZIPCLEAN *.* /F:C:\text\files.txt

  ZIPCLEAN FileName /L:LogFile.Txt -- This will instruct Zip Clean to keep a
                                      log file of its work in a file named
                                      LOGFILE.TXT, and place it in the
                                      current directory. If you want the log
                                      file to be placed in a different
                                      directory, then specify the full path
                                      and file name after /L:

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  DOS PATH Statement
 --------------------

 If you are unfamiliar with the DOS PATH statement, then read on...

 Load your AUTOEXEC.BAT file in any text editor, such as DOS's EDIT.COM.
 AUTOEXEC.BAT is located on the root directory of your startup drive. In most
 cases this will be C:\. At the prompt, type, C:\>edit autoexec.bat
 (without the C:\> of course, this is your prompt!).

 Look for a line that starts with, PATH=  In mose cases, it will look
 similar to the following,
 PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS  Where each directory is separated by a
 semicolon (;).

 What the PATH statement does, is tell DOS what directories to look for
 executable programs if they are not found in the current directory when
 typed at the command line. For example, when you type "edit autoexec.bat" at
 the DOS prompt, it does'nt matter what directory you are in, the DOS editor
 will be executed because it is located in the C:\DOS directory, and the
 C:\DOS directory is in the PATH statement. You can put any directory you
 want DOS to look to for programs in your PATH statement, as long as those
 directories you add exist, and are separated by semicolons after the PATH=
 statement.

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