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- ∫ GETTING STARTED ∫
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- This catalog viewer is specifically for the LONG description
- catalogs, in the format current as of Jan. 1992, available in
- the CompuServe IBMNET. They are in library 0 of each IBMNET
- forum and are named as follows:
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- Forum File Name Unzips to
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- IBMAPP IBMAPP.ZIP IBMAPP.CAT
- IBMBBS IBMBBS.ZIP IBMBBS.CAT
- IBMCOM IBMCOM.ZIP IBMCOM.CAT
- IBMHW IBMHW.ZIP IBMHW.CAT
- IBMNEW IBMNEW.ZIP IBMNEW.CAT
- IBMPRO IBMPRO.ZIP IBMPRO.CAT
- IBMSYS IBMSYS.ZIP IBMSYS.CAT
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- If other forums have catalogs with the same format, CISREF will
- work for them as well.
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- One or more of these files must be downloaded and made available
- to CISREF before you can effectively use the program for anything
- except generating "No *.CAT files found on this directory".
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- In order to retrieve a list of catalogs for viewing, CISREF expects the
- catalog files to have and extension of ".CAT" and be located in the
- current directory. There is a limit of 20 Catalogs per directory.
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- The program itself can be located in the current directory, or any
- directory specified in your PATH.
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- Once you are in the directory with the *.CAT files, start the program
- with:
- CISREF
- or
- CISREF/m for a monochrome monitor
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- ∫ OPERATION ∫
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- The program is directed with menu selection and various keys.
- The applicable key definitions are displayed on the screen during
- program execution for reference.
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- The Function Keys generally have the following effect:
- [F1] - Display these instructions
- [F2] - Mark this item (see "Marking", below)
- [F3] - Continue with the same search criteria
- [F8] - Go to Main Menu
- [F9] - Exit the program
- [ESC] - Back out of current activity/Interrupt search
- [HOME] - Restart same search at beginning of file
- [ENTER] - Select high lighted menu item/Page forward
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- One note on [F9] and [ESC] - The [F9] key will go immediately to
- the program exit. [ESC] will keep backing up, until finally you
- back out the door to the program exit.
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- ∫ SEARCH CRITERIA ∫
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- The search criteria will find a hit on any occurrance of the search
- string you enter, within the field being searched. Therefore, if
- your search field is "File Name", and your search string is "ZIP",
- all of the following file names would be a "hit":
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- CISREF.ZIP
- PKZIP.ARC
- UNZIP.EXE
- ZIP210.EXE
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- If your search string is ".ZIP", then only CISREF.ZIP would be found.
- If you enter no search string, all records are displayed in turn.
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- If there is room in memory, the program uses an index file for the
- search. If the index has not yet been created, it creates one. This
- greatly speeds up searching. If there is not room in memory, the
- search is sequential, and much slower.
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- ∫ MARKING FILES ∫
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- After finding something that looks interesting, you can "mark" the
- item for later viewing or printing. [F2] will mark it, and at the end
- of the program, all these items are gathered together into three files,
- described next. Any number of catalogs can be searched during one
- execution of the program. All marked items from every catalog visited
- during the session will be saved.
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- If any items are marked, three files will be issued:
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- FORUMARK.TXT - a text (ASCII) file of header information.
- FORUMARK.DES - a text file of the full description of the
- item marked.
- FORUMARK.CUR - a one record file containing an array of
- all the header information for use by other
- programs. See the documentation for a
- description of the layout.
- If no items are marked, only a zero length FORUMARK.DES will be issued.
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- Before exiting, CISREF will give you the option to print the first
- two files if any items were marked. The files will remain intact
- but will be overwritten next run, whether or not you elect to print.
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- See the documentation for samples of expected input and the format
- of all output.
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- The time and cost estimates for downloading are based on values in
- CISREF.CNF, which is initialized to 1200 Baud, $12.80/Hour. You
- can change these by selecting "Change Rates" from the Main Menu.
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- ∫ If you have problems or questions, contact the author: ∫
- ∫ JN Goodale ∫
- ∫ CIS ID 71116,302 ∫
- ∫ Phone (704)-537-0329 (Your nickel!) ∫
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