Common Questions about the Theophilos Addons!

What’s a Zip File?

The files that are available for download on this website are in what is called a "zip file" format. A zipped file is a file that has been compressed and most often has a file extension of ".ZIP". We zip the files on our system for two reasons. First, we have some add-ons that are huge. By zipping the file we collapse the file to 1/3 of its former size, significantly reducing the amount of time that it takes to download the add-on. Second, we are concerned about space on our server and zipping allows us to keep more files on our system. This is a very common way of distributing files on the Internet.

How do I download these Zip Files?

Most browsers (MS IE & Netscape) allow you to right click with the mouse on the link and save the file to your hard drive. Select the "Save Target As" option in Microsoft Internet Explorer or "Save Link As" option if you are using Netscape. Select the location (directory) on your system where you would like to store the download, and click "OK". Depending on the speed of your modem and the size of the file that you are downloading, this download process could take less than a minute or quite some time.

I downloaded a file, what’s next?

Once you have saved the file to your hard drive, you need to "unzip" or expand the file back into it’s normal size. If you do not have a program to expand zipped files, and there are quite a few out there on the web, I recommend that you can download WINZIP. This can be found at www.winzip.com. It has a user friendly interface and contains all the help files to help you accomplish the task of unzipping the downloaded zip files.

The File has been unzipped, but where does it go?

The easiest way to have Theophilos recognize the new add-ons is to simply place the unzipped file directly into the same directory where the theophil.exe program is (the startup directory). Next, start Theophilos and go to the menu bar at the top of the screen and select the appropriate category (i.e. commentaries, dictionaries, writings etc.) and there you have it.

I put the file in the same Directory as the Theophilos program, but I don’t see it. What happened?

You can’t add add-ons into the directory and have them recognized by Theophilos while Theophilos is running. You have to restart Theophilos.

I run the Theophilos program from my CD. Where do I put the addon?

Another option, and one that you obviously have to do if you purchased the Theophilos CD and run the program from the CD, is set a directory path to a directory that you want to store your files in. This is accomplished by selecting "options" from the "program" menu. You can then set paths to the data & user directories. If you click on the help file in Theophilos it details out a little bit about these paths.

My Question wasn’t answered by this page. How do I get it answered?

Send us an email with your question. We’ll try and help you with your problem. If we can’t answer the question we’ll forward it on to Ivan, the author of Theophilos, or bring the question to the eGroup for assistance. Maybe someone else has had a similar problem.