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KC Consultants Announces BIMPZIP 2.0 !!!!
If you are like me, you are constantly running out of disk space.
The other day I noticed that I had over 29 megabytes of bitmaps for
Windows wallpaper. The BMP format is very wasteful of space. So I
wrote this little program in Visual Basic 3.0 to solve the problem.
BIMPZIP uses PKZIP and PKUNZIP. You must have those 2 programs on
your path for it to work. The first time you run BIMPZIP it will
compress all your bitmaps (*.BMP) into a zip file called BMPS.ZIP. It
keeps this in your windows directory. It then creates a list file
called BMPS.LST that is a listing of the all the file names in the zip
file.
Then each time you run BIMPZIP it will find the next bitmap in the
file and unzips it. It also deletes the existing bitmap (remember, its
already in the zip file.) The next time you start windows the new
bitmap will be in place. The program also makes a guess as to whether
or not the bitmap should be tiled. (BMPS smaller than 55k get tiled.)
BIMPZIP is FREE!!! All I ask is that you don't sell it or
incorporate it in to another product without first contacting me. I can
be reached on Channel1 (Kurt Levitan), Compuserve (72570,2747), and on
the Internet as kurt@tfn.com. I have also included the source code so
you can make any interesting changes for yourself. If you add any neat
features, please let me know about them.
INSTALLATION: Unzip everything in to a directory of your choice. You
only need BIMPZIP.EXE to run the program. The other files are Visual
Basic source code. You also need VBRUN300.DLL (not included). This
needs to be in your windows\system directory. If you don't have this
file, you can find it on almost any BBS.
Now add BIMPZIP to a group. I like to have it in my Startup group so
that it runs every time I start Windows. Remember, the first time
you run the program it will take a while to create the BMPS.ZIP file.
If you get moe bitmaps and want to add them to your collection, just
delete BMPS.LST. The program will update the BMPS.ZIP file the next
time it is run.
LEGAL mumbo-jumbo
Please note that I have not done any extensive testing of this
program, other than on my own PC (HP Vectra U 486/33). KC
Consultants and Kurt Levitan take no responsibility for any harm that
might occur from using this software.
ENJOY!!