Text In A Zip

Text In A Zip is now FREE, Latest version is 1.00

If you need the full package ie. all the runtimes and DLL's needed, please click here to download.

If like me you download lots of files from the Internet (either from WWW or Newsgroups), it can be a problem to remember what file contains what, as lots of authors still use 8.3 file names. So "Text In A Zip" trys to helps out - it only works on "Zips", as this is the dominant file format at this time.

Within most of these files there are a number of 'Text File Format' files, these generally have a file extension similar to one of the following (*.NFO, *.DIZ, *.TXT, *.DOC, *.PRN), there are of course others, in fact you can specify the formats you wish to examine, from within "Text In A Zip".

"Text In A Zip" will allow you to enter a Search String (or a file, containing a list of strings), also a path needs to be entered. Once this information is entered, "Text In A Zip" will then search your files, trying to match your Search String against one of the files you defined to be searched.

If a file contains a match, the file name is transferred to a file list, this will continue until either all files have been searched or you stop the scan.

Once you have your list of files, you can choose to either examine the file with the associated program (i.e. Winzip) or use the Internal Viewer, I'd recommend the latter, as its faster and each time your Search String is found, it will be changed to the colour Red+Bold+Italicised, so you should be able to find it. All files that match your extensions will be loaded into the Internal Viewer, once you have read the text you can then extract the files if so desired.

For System Administrators ========================= If you want some way of checking what a user is downloading then "Text In A Zip" may have the answer!

"Text In A Zip" can be run from the Command Line, and requires no user input, you enter a path or Network path to start from, and either a Search String, or my recommendation would be to use a File List of Search Strings, and then finally a list of file extensions to search (default list is - *.NFO *.DIZ *.TXT *.DOC). "Text In A Zip" will then scan the files and produce a detailed log, of path and the file name is.