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- Ŵ Real Instructions for !!DisCat and !!Request€
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- ☓Introduction:€
- !!DisCat was wrote out of sheer frustration at not being able to find a
- decent program to catalogue my discs with. All other programs I have seen
- have been either very awkward to use or lack some or other feature I would
- have liked.
- The design of !!DisCat was to make it as much like the filer in operation
- as possible so it's use would be fairly intuitive, as all good RISC-OS
- software should be.
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- ☓Cataloguing your discs:
- €Having loaded the program, clicking select on !!DisCat's icon will open a
- window. The main menu on this window contains the following options:
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- ŴScan € This leads to an option window which allows you to select which
- files are included in your catalogue. By selecting ŴAll€, all files
- within a directory or application will be included. SelectŴ None€ and
- files within the directory/application will not be included.
- By selecting ŴPrompt€ a dialogue window will ask if you wish to
- catalogue the files within a directory/application or not.
-
- ŴExpand Archive€ allows cataloguing of the files contained within an
- Archive created by !Spark or !ArcFS.
-
- ŴExpand PackedDir€ allows cataloguing of the files contained within a
- file created by !PackDir.
-
- ŴCFS FileTypes€ This option selects whether CFS files are included as
- ☓ CFSlzw€ or the 'real' file type.
-
- ŴFiling Options€ These allow you to select which filing system will
- be used, and which disc drive to select. If you have ☓MSDOS filer€
- installed you can also catalogue files on MSDOS discs.
-
- ŴCatalog €This option catalogues a disc. During the process a dialogue window
- is opened to let you know what's happening. If the ŴPrompt€ option has
- been set, you will be asked if you want to include files contained
- within directories/applications. ☓Note€ that directories/applications
- contained within PackDir files will always be fully catalogued.
-
- ŴSave €This leads to the normal save dialogue window. Drag the file icon or
- click on the ☓ok€ button.
-
- ŴSearch €This leads to a dialogue window which allows you to search through
- the catalogue file for a specified entry.
-
- Ŵ Select €The last menu entry allows you to delete selected entries. You can
- select an entry using select and/or adjust (for multiple selections)
- and delete the selected entries using this option.
- Clicking ☓menu€ over the filename entry of an unselected entry will
- select that entry if no other entries are select before bringing up
- € the main menu.
- This option is actually harder to explain than it is in practice,
- but it is designed to be as close to the way that the filers work as
- I could get.
-
- ☓Editing
- €When you have catalogued a disc, clicking on an information entry in the
- !!DisCat window allows you to edit these entries. Using up/down cursor
- allows you to scroll through the entries.
-
- ☓Printing
- €You can printout your catalogue file by dragging the saved file onto your
- printer driver. Full instructions are included in the Ŵ!Help€ file within
- the !!DisCat directory.
-
- ☓Linking to !!Request
- €!!DisCat can export files to !!Request in exactly the same way as
- !!ReadCat. Full information on this is included in the !Help file within
- the !!ReadCat directory.
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- ☓Further information/updates are contained in the file !Help within the
- !!DisCat directory.€
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