Frostice Ver.2.0 Release. Online Manual.
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$Id: FROSTICE.TXT,v 1.13 2002/06/15 14:36:10 ardry Exp $

Introduction
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 Thank you for downloading Frostice. Positioning of this software is a
simple archiving and compress. We are glad when you use this software 
regularly for a long time.


Requirements
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 - Hardware
       + IBM-PC compatible computer.
       + Intel Pentium or higher processor, and, x86 Compatible 
         processor.
 - Software
       + Microsoft Windows 9x (95,98/98SE,Me) or NT (NT4,2000,XP...)
       + The Common Archivers Library DLLs.
         You can download the Common Archiver DLL from the Common 
         Archivers Library Project.
         (http://www.csdinc.co.jp/archiver/index-e.html)


About copyright, license, liability 
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Frostice for Windows.
Copyright (C) 2001-2002  ardry, Project Meltice.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 
  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of 
  the License, or (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

GNU General Public License : http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt


Installation and uninstallation
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 You have to install the Common Archiver DLLs (for example, 
UNLHA32.DLL)  before installing Frostice.

 - Installation
    1. Extract a file from the distribution file of Frostice. 
    2. The extracted file is copied to arbitrary folders.
    3. If required for you, you will create the shortcut of Frostice
        to a desktop or(and) sendto folder.

 - Uninstallation
    1.  If you created the shortcut of Frostice, then you have to 
       delete all the shortcuts of Frostice.
    2.  You need to delete the arbitrary folders which installed 
       Frostice for uninstallation.



How to use 
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 Frostice will prompt for directory to archiving files and optional 
parameters if no file name is specified.

 After specifying archiving directory, drop data files to archiving.

 Frostice needs many Common Archiver DLLs for archiving. For example, 
there are a UNLHA32.DLL and a CAB32.DLL. But, Frostice can archiving a
file to much archives when many Common Archiver DLLs were installed.

 Frostice with perfect Common Archiver DLLs can archiving the archive 
form LHa/Zip/Cab/tar.gz/yz1 and etc.

 Settings are saved to USERNAME.ini (or MELTICE.INI) at folder which 
installed Frostice.


Support
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 Support information on Frostice is in the Frostice Official Web 
page.
  
 The Frostice Official Web page performs an announcement of the 
information on bug correction, and the newest version.

  ardry's Software Library: 
  http://ardry.pos.to/asl/

  Frostice @ A.S.L.: 
  http://ardry.pos.to/asl/meltice/frostice.html


The author is looking forward to the comment of Frostice. Moreover, 
the report of the problem of a program is received.

 The author hardly answers delivered mail. But the author reads all
mails. When there is important information, the author answers Web 
page in principle.


Releases log
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      June 15, 2002 : Ver.2.0.5
                - Frostice.mxd stable final version.

     April 29, 2002 : Ver.2.04.2 Build 40
                - MessageBox string moved to resource script.
                  (complete)
                - (Frostice.exe icon became to 256 color.)

     April 24, 2002 : Ver.2.04.1 Build 39
                - BugFix:
                  User's click of a [Info] [Browse] button generates 
                  a memory leak.

     April 12, 2002 : Ver.2.04.0 Build 38
                - MessageBox string moved to resource script.
                  (...only a little.)
                - BugFix: Dialog title became (Automatic naming).zip
                          when user's file drop to frostice dialog.
                - I change WebPage URL and design.

  December  4, 2001 : Ver.2.03.1 Build 37
                - I corrected the incorrect notation of MD5 hash.

  November 26, 2001 : Ver.2.03.0 Build 36
                - The Frostice can record a log file in more detail 
                  than old version.

  November 22, 2001 : Ver.2.02.4 Build 35
                - DesignChange :
                  Move default focus for file archiving.
                  ([OK] -> [New archive file name])

    August  4, 2001 : Ver.2.02.3 Build 34
                - BugFix: A compression place may be mistaken when 
                          [Archive to Source folder] is effective.

      July 22, 2001 : Ver.2.02.2 Build 33
                - The buffer of filenames was enlarged more.
                - BugFix: A part of DBCS folder cannot compress a 
                          part normally.
                - The wild card of archive file  processing was 
                  changed into * from *.*. (Meltice 2.0.1 compatible)


      July 17, 2001 : Ver.2.02.1 Build 32
                - BugFix: If you make lha sfx file, directory 
                          information will be lost out of this file. 
                - Frostice can record more log file. 
                  (for create sfx file.)

      July 17, 2001 : Ver.2.02.0 Build 31
                - BugFix: Can't archiving tar.bz2 when compress level
                          enable.

      July  7, 2001 : Ver.2.01.0 Build 30
                - Frostice supported lzh archiving of the folder with
                  no file.

      July  1, 2001 : Ver.2.00.0 Build 29
                - First release version.


Special Thanks
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 I appreciate all the directions concerned with Frostice. People to 
appreciate especially are introduced.

  - Mr.K.INABA, Mr.nissy, Mr.Yamagin, Mr.Mario, Jun-san
     During development of Frostice Prototype and Beta, I received 
    many precious opinions.

  - the Common Archivers Library Project members.
     Frostice cannot exist without the Common Archiver DLLs.

  - And you. Thank you for downloading Frostice.


