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- USING THIS DISC AND THE VIEW PROGRAM
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- For better accessibility of our cdroms, we at Walnut Creek developed a
- browsing program called "View." Located in the root directory, this
- "View" program allows the user to traverse through the directories and
- examine all the file descriptions on the cdrom. The view program in
- general searches for files, extracts and uncompresses them from the
- cdrom onto the user's hard drive.
-
- *** RUNNING VIEW.EXE ***
- To use the view program from MS-DOS, change the current drive to your
- CDROM drive. Type "VIEW" at the root directory and press enter to
- start the program.
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- To use the view program from MS-Windows, use the "Run" option under
- Program Manager. Assuming the cdrom drive is accessed through "D:",
- type "D:\view.exe" into the command line box and click on the "OK"
- button. The view program can also be accessed through the File
- Manager. For information on how to use the File Manager, please
- consult the MS-Windows manual.
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- *** FILE/DIRECTORY INDEXING ***
- Once started, the view program displays a listing of the directories
- of the cdrom along with their content descriptions. Use the arrow
- keys to move the cursor bar up and down the list to select the desired
- directory. Pressing ENTER on any of the entries will bring the
- program into that directory. (To return back to the directory
- listing, press the ESCAPE key.) Once inside a directory, the view
- program then displays an index of filenames along with the file
- descriptions in that particular subdirectory. Here the view program
- allows the user to read text files, uncompress archived files, and
- copy files onto other disk drives.
-
- *** TO READ TEXT FILES ***
- To read a text file from the file index menu, position the cursor bar
- onto the file entry and press ENTER. The view program will open up
- the text file, and will allow the user to read and scroll through the
- document. While scrolling through a text file, searching of a text
- string is accomplished by pressing the key 'S'. (The key 'R' searches
- a string in the reverse direction.) To return back to the file index
- menu after reading the text file, press the ESCAPE key.
-
- *** TO UNCOMPRESS FILES ***
- To uncompress an archived file from the index menu, select the file
- entry with the cursor bar and press ENTER. In general, archived files
- have names that end with the file extension ".zip", ".arc", or ".zoo".
- After selecting an archived file for extracting, a "destination query"
- screen will appear to ask for the directory where the archived file is
- to be uncompressed. A default destination directory will be already
- suggested by the view program, printed and highlighted in the
- destination box. Press ENTER here to use the default directory, or
- modify the default entry before pressing ENTER. The user may also
- scroll through some "suggested" default directories by using the
- down-cursor key. Once the ENTER key is pressed, the view program will
- then create the destination directory if it doesn't already exist, and
- begin to uncompress the archived file into that directory.
-
- *** DYNAMIC FILE INDEX MENU ***
- After the archived file is successfully uncompressed, the view program
- then displays another index menu similar the previous one based on the
- files extracted from the archive. Here most of the "readme" files and
- text files extracted are be labeled as documentations on the right
- side. Use the cursor bar to select these files to open them for
- viewing. Extracted files that have ".bat", ".com", or ".exe" as
- extensions are executable files and are labeled as such on the right
- side. Selecting these files will run these applications on top of the
- view program. If wished, the extracted files can be removed from the
- hard drive at this point by pressing the keys "Alt-R". To return back
- to the first index menu, press the ESC key.
-
- *** TO COPY FILES ***
- To copy a file from the index menu, again highlight the file entry
- with the cursor bar, and press the 'C' key. A screen similar to that
- from the archive uncompressing process will appear asking the user for
- a destination. Enter the desired directory name where the file is to
- be placed, and press ENTER. The view program then copies the file to
- the destination directory, and returns back to the file index menu.
-
- *** THE GLOBAL INDEX FILE ***
- You can also perform all of the above functions on the Global Index
- File. To jump into the Global Index File mode, press the keys
- "Alt-G". You will then be viewing the global index containing all of
- the files on the disc. You can search, view, and unzip from this
- one large index file instead of having to enter multiple directories.
-
- At any stage of the program, hitting the ESC key always brings the
- user back to the previous state -- so don't worry about accidentally
- hitting a wrong key. The On-line help is also provided at all stages
- of the program. Pressing the '?' key any time can bring up the help
- screen.
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- Trouble Shooting:
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- Due to memory problems and the restrictions of other software, the
- view program may at times conflict with other applications when
- running them on top of itself. Whenever any newly uncompressed
- program retrieved from the cdrom doesn't run from the interactive file
- menu, please try running it directly from MS-DOS or MS-Windows. And
- in most cases, a shareware program usually comes with its own
- documentations and instructions. These instructions are normally
- stored in files such as "readme.txt". Please read all documentation
- included with a file before running a program. Doing so will prevent
- the occurrence of common problems that many users often encounter.
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- Credit:
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- The view program uses the SPAWNO routines by Ralf Brown to minimize memory
- use while shelling to DOS and running other programs
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- We hope that this view program will further improve the usability and the
- quality of our cdroms. Comments, suggestions, and criticisms are greatly
- appreciated. Thank you very much for using Walnut Creek CDROM products.
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- 1-800-786-9907 (US and Canada only) Walnut Creek CDROM
- 1-510-674-0783 1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260
- 1-510-674-0821 (fax) Walnut Creek, CA 94596
- info@cdrom.com (e-mail) USA
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