This version of Search & Rescue was released 20th May 1999. A new version is likely to appear every few months. The latest version of Search & Rescue can always be found at:
http://www.kagi.com/tjriley/
• Description
Search & Rescue is an application to make recovering text from memory a quick and easy task. The most likely scenario in which you may need Search & Rescue is if you suffer from a crash (either application or system) while working on a typed document, and you lose some or all of you text. It is likely that the text is still there, somewhere, in memory, but with no way to get at it, you are stuck! This is where Search & Rescue comes in. You simply enter a portion of text, which you know to exist in your document, and Search and Rescue will locate possible places in memory where you may be able to salvage your text - either in part or, if you're lucky, in full.
Even if you are forced to restart your Mac, Search & Rescue may well still be able to recover data. Simply run Search & Rescue immediately after your Mac has restarted!
Search & Rescue differs from auto-savers because it can be used in any situations where you are typing text, even text that you do not or cannot normally save. For example if you are submitting some information in a form on the web and you experience a crash, or your browser 'deletes' the text for some reason (like you loaded a different page), then Search & Rescue may be able to salvage that text. Search & Rescue does not have to be installed as a system extension or control panel - it can always be there if you need it.
• Requirements
Search & Rescue provides support for modern operating system features such as the appearance manager but also runs well on older, pre-Mac OS 8 systems. Search & Rescue runs best with at least 1200K of memory allocated to it but, on machines with a limited amount of RAM, 600K will be sufficient for performing searches and saving recovered text.
• How to use Search & Rescue
Hopefully, you will find Search & Rescue fairly easy to use. A new 'Search' window is created when you run Search & Rescue, in which you initialise a search for a specific piece of text.
Full documentation is supplied on-line ( choose "Help…" from the apple menu or "Search & Rescue Help" from the help menu ) and in a seperate PDF document which is inside the Docs folder which is in the Search & Rescue folder in the Finder.
• Version History
1.0.1 - 20th May 1999 - Some bugs (mostly in the text editor) fixed
1.0.0 - 14th April 1999 - Initial release
• Registration
Search & Rescue is not free, if you use it and choose to keep it on your computer you should register your copy. Registering Search & Rescue entitles you to free support via email and I also keep registered users informed of updates and new products. There is, however, one exception and that is that students need not register.
You can register by email, snail mail, fax or on the web.
Full details on how to register and included within the document 'Registration Info' which is included in the Docs folder.
• About Me
My name is Tom Riley and I live and go to school in the town of Wootton Bassett in England. I write software, most of which is written in Metrowerks CodeWarrior in C/C++ for the Macintosh. My other computer related interests include html, graphics, alternative operating systems and communications programming.
• Contact Information
( Double clickable link/bookmark files can be found in the 'Net Stuff' folder included with this distribution. )
I can be contacted by...
email: tjriley@kagi.com
address: Faber Old Malmesbury Road,
Wootton Bassett,
Swindon,
Wiltshire SN4 7HT,
UK.
web: http://www.kagi.com/tjriley/
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Payments to (see registration info):
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-OMH
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
• Warranty
This software is released on an "as is" basis. The author provides no warranty of any sort. The user of this software assumes complete responsibility for any direct or indirect damages due to use or misuse of this software.
