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- This is an abstract of the Scraps manual. THIS IS NOT THE
- COMPLETE MANUAL. See the complete manual for copyright
- statement, disclaimer, licence, credits, registration and for
- full details on all operation.
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- This manual covers basic installation and set up in detail and
- briefly touches on other matters of immediate importance.
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- Treat every statement as having an implicit "see main manual for
- details" after it.
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- Introduction:
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- Scraps is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) for your PC. You
- can use Scraps to store all those odd facts and bits of
- information that you come across in your busy life. Scraps will
- then give you rapid access to those facts when they are needed.
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- Shareware:
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- Scraps is a user supported or Shareware package.
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- You are granted a licence for a 30 days trial period during which
- you may use Scraps in order to decide if you want to use it
- permanently.
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- See the section in the manual on Registering for details on how
- to obtain your full licence.
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- Note:
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- Scraps is very much a Freeform PIM. It leaves it up to you how
- you should arrange your information and how much structure you
- should place on it.
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- Files:
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- The Scraps package consists of the following files;
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- SCRAPS.COM, The main program file. SCRAPS.DAT, A dummy file.
- SCRFIX.COM, A utility. SCRAPS.DOC, This documentation file.
- SCRAPS.HLP, The Scraps help file. REGISTER.FRM, Registration
- form. README, Startup instructions. README.BAT, File to display
- the README file. SCRAPS.PIF, Default Scraps setup for Windows.
- SC-PIF.DVP, Default Scraps setup for DESQview. INSTALL.EXE,
- Automatic installation program. SAMPLES.DAT, Set of example data.
- ABSTRACT.DOC, Abstract of the manual. TUTORIAL.DOC, Tutorial
- manual.
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- Setup:
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- The Scraps Install program will take care of installation for
- you, and do a lot more besides. Just run INSTALL.EXE and select
- the appropriate options from the menu.
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- Default settings files for using Scraps with Windows and DESQview
- are supplied.
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- Using Scraps:
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- The heart of the program is the Find command which quickly allows
- you to search for scraps containing a particular word or phrase.
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- When a find command finds scraps that contain a specified word,
- or match some other requirements they are all gathered into a
- `Group'.
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- You may then view the scraps in the group by paging to the next
- or previous scrap with the GREY Plus and Minus keys.
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- With a set of handy built-in tools including calculator and phone
- dialer Scraps provides all the facilities to manage your `random'
- personal information.
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- The Menus:
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- Scraps is a menu driven program. All functions are available
- through one of the main menus.
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- Activate the menus by pressing Alt-n where n is the highlighted
- letter in the name of the menu at the top of the screen. Alt-E
- is for the Edit menu, Alt-F for the Find menu and so on.
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- To abort a menu without choosing an option press the Esc key.
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- Mouse users can access menus and options by clicking on them.
- They can also use the highlighted options in the base bar at the
- bottom of the screen by clicking on them with the left mouse
- button. The right mouse button escapes.
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- Full details of all menu options are given in the full manual.
- You can, however, avoid reading the manual by simply pulling down
- menus, moving the cursor bar to an entry and pressing F1 to
- receive context sensitive help about that option.
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- Calculator:
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- The Calculator is a simple four function calculator with a `tape'
- display. The tape simulates the paper tape produced by some
- mechanical calculators.
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- When you exit the calculator, either by pressing the Esc key or
- by clicking the right mouse button, you have the option of
- copying the tape onto the clipboard.
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- If you choose to do so then you can use the Paste command from
- the Editor menu to paste the tape into the scrap.
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- Phone Dialer:
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- The automatic telephone dialer will use your modem to dial a
- specified telephone number. The telephone number can be picked
- out of the text of a scrap by placing the cursor on the number
- before you pull down the Tools menu.
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- DOS Shell:
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- The DOS shell gives you access to DOS. When selected as much as
- possible of the Scraps program is swapped out to EMS memory or
- disk space to make room for a DOS shell.
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- You can perform any DOS function while in the DOS shell except
- load a TSR program such as PRINT.COM or SideKick.
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- Type EXIT at the DOS prompt to return to Scraps.
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- Reminders and Alarms:
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- Scraps allows you to specify a reminder date and time for any
- scrap. You can then search for scraps with reminders within a
- set range or reminders that are now due.
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- At any time you can run the Find reminders for Now command from
- the Find menu to locate due reminders. This function is
- performed automatically if you use the /R switch or set the
- "Check for reminders at startup" in the Setup Scraps dialogue
- box.
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- If you set on the "Alarm on due reminder" option on the Setup
- Scraps dialogue box then Scraps will chime when a reminder is
- due. BUT ONLY if you have done a check for reminders first
- during that session. Therefore this feature is best used with
- the "Check for reminders at startup" setting.
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- The alarm within Scraps causes it to become the top window if you
- are running DESQview.
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- If you run Scraps with the /R switch it will load and go into the
- check for due reminders function. If due reminders are found
- then it will display them, if none are found then it will exit at
- once.
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- SALARM.EXE is the program that provides the external alarm
- feature. It is a Terminate and Stay Resident program (TSR) that
- is loaded into your PC memory and stays there until you reboot
- your PC.
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- To set SALARM run Scraps and do a search for due reminders. The
- simplest way to do this is to run SCRAPS/R.
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- You may set in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file the lines;
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- C:\SCRAPS\SALARM
- C:\SCRAPS\SCRAPS/R
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- to cause this to happen automatically. The Scraps Install
- program will set this automatically for you if you choose.
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- Scraps had good support for Importing and Exporting of data.
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- Security:
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- Scraps provides two security measures. Encryption of scraps and
- password protection of access to the program.
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- Projects:
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- Scraps uses a concept called `projects' to give you greater
- control over how your information is organized.
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- Each scrap you enter can be assigned to a particular project,
- think of projects as different categories. You might for example
- have different categories for work and personal scraps. The term
- `projects' of course comes from the fact that this is a good way
- of separating information on different projects that you might
- have running in parallel.
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- The main purpose of this is to be able to "turn off" a entire
- category of scraps.
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- ToDo List:
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- The ToDo list option from the Tools menu gives access to the
- Scraps ToDo List function. This is a complete application within
- Scraps that provides all the facilities to create, maintain, view
- and print lists of tasks to be done.
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- Help within Scraps:
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- Scraps has two systems of Help. The first is the Help Menu which
- contains a number of help topics. Secondly there is `Context
- sensitive help'. This is pages of help that relate directly to
- the particular part of Scraps that you are using.
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- At any time you may press the F1 key to receive context sensitive
- help about the part of Scraps you are using.
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- Once selected the help appears in a box in the middle of the
- screen. Use the Page Up and Page Down keys, marked PgUp and PgDn
- to move through the help screen. Use the Escape key to remove
- the help screen.
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- Scraps with task switchers:
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- Scraps reaches its height of usefulness when it is used in
- conjunction with a task switcher or multitasking environment.
- Microsoft Windows and QuarterDeck Office Systems DESQview are two
- good examples.
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- Scraps is supplied with configuration files for use with these
- two environments.
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- Country specific settings:
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- For those outside the USA Scraps will configure itself according
- to the COUNTY=<CountryCode> line in the CONFIG.SYS file on your
- boot disk.
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- ScrFix utility:
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- The SCRFIX.EXE utility provides a way of rescuing data from a
- corrupted Scraps database file. This means high security for
- your personal data.
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- Registration:
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- The basic fee registration is HK$150, US$25, GB£18.
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