
           DiscCat - Floppy / Winchester disc cataloging application
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                      version 1.01   6 October 1990


Instructions
============

This program is intended to be used to maintain catalogues of your floppy
discs and winchesters.  A search can then be made for a file whose name
contains a particular string of characters. 


Making a New Catalogue
----------------------

To make a new catalogue, position the pointer over the application icon and
click the menu button.  Selecting the 'New' option will pop-up the 'New
Catalogue' window.  Select the drive that you wish to use and insert a new
disc if necessary.  Click SELECT over the 'New Disc' icon and the program
will make a catalogue of the files and directories on the disc.  Continue
inserting further discs until all discs have been catalogued.  Click SELECT
over the 'Save' icon and drag the data icon to a directory window.

If the data is not saved or the 'New Catalogue' window is closed, the data
is retained until the user starts to make another catalogue.  Upto 500
discs and a maximum of 8000 files can be catalogued.


Specifying Files not to be Catalogued
-------------------------------------

When the Disc Catalogue application is invoked, it searches its resources
for the file 'XMatch'.  This file contains a list of files that are not to
be included when a new catalogue is made.  This file can contain a maximum
of 40 entries and can be edited to suit the user.


Searching a Catalogue
---------------------

Clicking the SELECT button over the application icon will pop-up the 'Search
Window'.  If a file has been loaded, the window displays the name of the
file being searched and the date that the file was made.  To search the
database enter a string a characters into the 'Search' icon and either press
RETURN or click on the 'OK' icon.  Use the 'Case sensitive' icon to make a
case sensitive search.

The total number of matches found will be displayed in the 'Matches' icon
and each match displayed in the scrolling pane in the centre of the 'Search
window'.  Use the arrow icons to scroll the matched items within the central
pane.

The three switch icons marked 'Disc', 'File' and 'Type' allow searches to
made against the disc names, file names and file types.  A maximum of 500
matches can be found and displayed in the pane.


Finding a File
--------------

To find the full pathname of a particular file, select the file by clicking
the SELECT button over the required file.  The file name will become
highlighted, clicking SELECT over the 'Find' will begin the search.  The
program may ask for the appropriate disc to be inserted.  Once the search is
complete, a window will appear containing the full pathnames of all of the
files found.


Loading a Catalogue
-------------------

The load a previously saved file, simply drag the file icon over the
application icon.  The application will accept files of type 7A3 which also
have the header characters 'DISC_CAT_FILE'.


Conditions of Use
=================

This public domain program is supplied free to everyone 'as is', but I
cannot guarantee that it is free of bugs.  The program can be freely
distributed through any medium, as long as it is delivered with all the
unaltered resource files and it is not supplied for profit in any way.

Permission is given to employ part or whole of the program in any software
intended for the public domain, with due credit to me as necessary. If the
software is incorporated in a program that is for sale or released as
copyright material then written permission is required. The author holds the
copyright on all the material supplied and can alter these conditions as and
when appropriate.


Credits
=======

Music while I write from 'Lily on the Beach' by Tangerine Dream and 'Green'
by R.E.M.  Thanks to Nigel Smithies for comments etc.


(c) Michael Spearpoint

If you find any bugs or have any comments, please contact me at...

Arcade BBS     #1035  (081 654 2212)
Snail mail     3, Lawrence Crescent
               Edgware
               Middx  HA8 5PB

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