This program requires VBRUN300.DLL.

You may use this program free of charge and you need not register it; 
however, the interface for this program was written in Visual Basic.  If 
you want to be able to modify this program for use in other programs or 
if you just don’t like the way it looks, the Visual Basic source code is 
available by registering (GO SWREG - $21.00, ID# 5391).

The DLL (READARCH.DLL) does the actual decoding of the archives based on 
offsets into the binary file and has a couple of other utilities for 
reading the dates on some files and listing PIT archives.  Everything 
else was done in VB so you can have the most flexibility to make changes 
to the interface.

READARCH.DLL should be placed in your WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory or in the 
same directory as AV.EXE.

Technical support for Archive Viewer is only available to registered 
users.

This program is intended for private use and may not be included in 
commercial products or resold.

Archive Viewer can extract files from the following archives with the 
listed compression methods:

ARC/PAK
	None - Old style, no compression 
	None - New style, no compression 
	RLE - Compression of repeated characters only 
	Huffman - Compression of repeated characters plus Huffman SQueezing 
	12 bit LZW - Lempel-Zev packing of repeated strings (old style) 
	LZW w RLE - Lempel-Zev packing of repeated strings (new style) 
	LZW w RLE - Lempel-Zev Williams packing with improved hash function 
	LZW w RLE - Dynamic Lempel-Zev packing with adaptive reset 
	Squashing - Dynamic Lempel-Zev packing, larger hash table 

ARJ
	No compression
	lz1
	lz2
	lz3
	lz4

GZ
	GZIP

LHARC
	lh0
	lh1
	lh4
	lh5
	lzs
	lz5

PIT
	No compression
	Huffman

SIT
	No compression
	RLE compression
	LZW compression
	Huffman
	LZH

TAR
	No compression

ZIP
	No compression
	Shrunk
	Reduced(1)
	Reduced(2)
	Reduced(3)
	Reduced(4)
	Imploded 8K/D 2 Sfano
	Imploded 4K/D 2 SFano
	Imploded 8K/D 3 SFano
	Tokenized
	Deflated

Z
	Unix Compress
	Unix Pack
	SCO LZH Compress

ZOO
	No compression
	LZW
	LZH


Archive Viewer can also decompress files compressed with Microsoft 
COMPRESS.

Archive Viewer may take a long time to list the contents of PIT archives 
if the archive is compressed because it has to decompress the entire 
archive before the contents can be listed.


Credit where credit is due...

ARC/PAK
Copyright (C) 1985-87  System Enhancement Associates
Thom Henderson 

ARJ
Copyright (C) 1991 Robert K. Jung
2606 Village Road West 
Norwood, Massachusetts 02062 

COMPRESS
Copyright (C) 1985, 1986 The Regents of the University of California.
James A. Woods, derived from original work by Spencer Thomas and Joseph 
Orost.

GZIP
Copyright (C) 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly
The unzip code was written and put in the public domain by Mark Adler.
Portions of the lzw code are derived from the public domain 'compress'
written by Spencer Thomas, Joe Orost, James Woods, Jim McKie, Steve 
Davies, Ken Turkowski, Dave Mack and Peter Jannesen.

LHARC
Copyright (C) 1989 Yooichi Tagawa

Microsoft COMPRESS
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1990-1992

PIT
R. (Scott) McGinnis
P.O. Box 3607 Mdse Mart
Chicago, IL 60654-0607

SIT
Allan G. Weber

TAR
Copyright (C) 1988, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation 
John Gilmore

ZIP
Robert A. Heath
157 Chartwell Rd
Columbia, SC 29210

ZOO
Rahul Dhesi
Phone: (317) 285 8641 daytime EST
720 W. Centennial Ave #15
Muncie, Indiana 47303

Additional information about some of the archive formats was derived 
from ZV.BAS by Dick Dennison, CompuServe [74270, 3636].


Questions or comments about this program can be sent to:

Joe Oliphant
CompuServe: [71742, 1451]
Email:      joe_oliphant@csufresno.edu