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- PROCESSING MULTIPLE FILES TOGETHER
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- PC-INDEX has the ability to process a group of files together and
- create just one index for all of them. This feature should be very
- useful for writers that put chapters into separate files and for
- attorneys that have a number of depositions or trial transcripts
- relating to the same case.
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- The process to create an index for multiple files is the same for
- single words and phrases. For an example we will work through a
- single word index.
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- To begin select Extract Single Words from the File menu. There are
- three sample files supplied with PC-INDEX for the sole purpose of
- demonstrating Multi-File Processing. They are SAMPLE1.DOC,
- SAMPLE2.DOC, and SAMPLE3.DOC. These sample files are ASCII files so
- select ASCII from the Document menu.
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- PC-INDEX examines the Input File Name to see if any wildcard
- characters ('*' or '?') are used. If a wildcard character is used
- anywhere in the filename, PC-INDEX will check to see if there are any
- matching files. If there are matching files, PC-INDEX will get all of
- the filenames that match, sort them, and display them.
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- For our example, enter SAMPLE*.DOC as the input filename and
- SAMPLE.SRT as the output filename. When the files are processed
- together, all of the output is placed into one file.
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- These files are all ASCII files and they were all created using 60
- lines per page. Enter 60 as the Page Size and leave the other
- settings as they are.
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- If you need to skip over the first few pages of a document and enter a
- number for Start Indexing on Page, then those pages will only be
- skipped for the first document. All other documents will begin
- processing on page one.
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- The completed screen should look something like this:
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- +---------------------------------------------------------------+
- | |
- | Input File Name: (Name of Document to process) |
- | SAMPLE*.DOC |
- | |
- | Output File Name: |
- | SAMPLE.SRT |
- | |
- | Page Size Start Indexing on Page First Page Number to use|
- | 60 1 1 |
- +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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- Press F10 when you have completed this screen.
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- The next screen you see will be the Multi-File Processing screen. If
- you don't see this screen then you have done something wrong.
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- The first entry is for a Wildcard Description Filename. This file is
- where PC-INDEX will store the information it needs to complete a
- multi-file index. For this example we'll call it SAMPLE.
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- The next entry is for the type of prefix you want (if any). A prefix
- is a string that will be placed in front of the page numbers to
- indicate what file or chapter the word or phrase occurred in.
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- There are three ways to set the prefix. Use Filename for Prefix, Use
- Prefix String, and No Prefix.
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- 1) Use Filename for Prefix will use all or part of the filename as a
- prefix. For example, if you use the filename for a prefix your index
- entries may look like the following:
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- absolute SAMPLE1.23-SAMPLE1.57, SAMPLE2.14, SAMPLE2.20,
- SAMPLE3.92
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- To select the Use Filename for Prefix option position the cursor in
- front of that option and press the spacebar. The cursor will move to
- the right in an area with hyphens and a period. There is one hyphen
- for each character available in a filename. To use any position in
- the filename for a prefix you must place an asterisk '*' in that
- position. For example, with the files that we have selected (SAMPLE1,
- SAMPLE2, and SAMPLE3), here are some examples along with the prefixes
- that would result:
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- Filename Resulting Prefixes
- Entries
- *******-.--- SAMPLE1 SAMPLE2 SAMPLE3
- ***-----.--- SAM SAM SAM
- ************ SAMPLE1.DOC SAMPLE2.DOC SAMPLE3.DOC
- ***---*-.--- SAM1 SAM2 SAM3
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- There is quite a bit of flexibility here. You need to keep in mind
- that the filenames will be sorted in alphabetical order and they will
- also be processed in that order.
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- 2) Use Prefix String will allow you to enter one string and that
- string will be used as the prefix for all files. Later you will have
- a chance to edit the prefixes so that each file will have a unique
- prefix.
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- 3) Use No Prefix will list only the page numbers by themselves.
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- For this example select the Use Filename for Prefix entry and place an
- asterisk over the first seven hyphens.
- The next section of the screen asks you for a few more pieces of
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- information. The first one is the character to separate the prefix
- from the page number. This character can be any character you wish to
- use, but you must use a character (even if it is a space). This
- character separates the prefix from the page numbers and will help
- increase the readability of your index.
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- For this example leave this entry as it is.
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- Next you are asked whether or not you want to start each chapter with
- page one. This option gives you the ability to control whether you
- want the page numbers to be contiguous (keep on going from 1) or to
- start each file or chapter with page 1.
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- For this example select Y. We want to begin numbering each chapter
- with one.
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- The completed screen should look something like this:
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- +---- Multi- File Processing --------------------------------+
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- | Wildcard Description Filename |
- | SAMPLE |
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- | Prefix String |
- | +-------------------------------------------------+ |
- | | X Use Filename for Prefix: *******-.--- | |
- | | | |
- | | Use Prefix String: | |
- | | | |
- | | No Prefix: | |
- | +-------------------------------------------------+ |
- | Character to separate prefix from page number: . |
- | Start Each Chapter with Page one (Y/N): Y |
- | |
- +--------------------------------------------------------------+
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- Press F10 when you have completed this screen.
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- The next screen should like the screen below. PC-INDEX has searched
- for all matching filenames and displayed them along with the prefix
- that you selected, the separate character, the restart flag, and the
- first / each flag. The start pagenum entry will always be zero at
- this point since PC-INDEX hasn't processed the files yet. PC-INDEX
- will fill in these entries later.
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- At this point you can delete complete lines so that PC-INDEX will not
- process individual files. You can also edit individual lines to
- change the prefix, the separate character, or the restart flag. The
- filename and the start pagenum cannot be changed.
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- Please note that the filenames are sorted in alphabetical order and
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- this is also the order that they will be processed in. There is
- nothing that you can do here to alter the order that the files will be
- processed in. If this order is not acceptable you will need to rename
- your files.
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- For this example, just leave the entries as they are.
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- FILENAME PREFIX CHAR RESTART START PAGENUM 3
- +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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- |SAMPLE1.DOC SAMPLE1 . Y 0 |
- |SAMPLE2.DOC SAMPLE2 . Y 0 |
- |SAMPLE3.DOC SAMPLE3 . Y 0 |
- |<end of list> |
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- | |
- +---------------------------------------------------------------+
- Press ESCape or F10 to continue.
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- PC-INDEX will begin processing the first file in the list immediately.
- It will also display the name of the file it is currently processing.
- For this example the processing should only take a few seconds.
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- The next step is to build the index. Select Build Single Word Index
- from the File menu. The build single word index function is the same
- here as it is for processing just one file except for one difference.
- You will need to enter the name of the Wildcard Description File that
- was just created so that PC-INDEX will know how to process the index.
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