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- HOW TO USE AMCAT - Copyright (C) 1986 Brian Conrad
-
- Preparing A 'Master Catalog' Disk
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- Before running AMCAT, format a blank disk for your Master Catalog Disk.
- You may use the whole disk as a Master Catalog Disk or you may set up
- subdirectories for catalogs for example: you may have a subdirectory
- for PICTURES, another for GAMES, another for BUSINESS, etc.
-
- AMCAT will not write to your Master Catalog if there is less than
- 50 blocks left free on the disk.
-
- Using AMCAT with a Single Drive
- -------------------------------
- AMCAT may be used with single drive Amigas. The default setting is
- for two drives. To change the setting select Single Drive in the
- Preferences section of the AMCAT menu. AMCAT will tell you when to
- insert the appropriate disk.
-
- Using AMCAT with Two Drives
- ---------------------------
- AMCAT defaults to two drives. You will be prompted to put your
- Master Catalog in the external drive. Disks to be cataloged will
- be inserted in the internal drive.
-
- Occasionally when the program needs a printer driver or parallel
- driver, you will be requested to insert your Workbench disk.
-
- Cataloging Files
- ----------------
- Cataloging All Files:
-
- AMCAT will only log numeric and alphabetically named files that
- are on your disk. This listing is sorted and written to your
- Master Catalog. If a disk of the same title has been previously
- logged, you may change the name of your disk or cancel logging
- that disk.
-
- Cataloging By Directory:
-
- This allows you to catalog only the contents of a specified directory
- on your disk. Let's say you have a collection of disks with
- Deluxe Paint Pictures , you may create a catalog of 'lo-res' pictures
- by entering 'lo-res' in the directory requester.
-
- Cataloging By Pattern:
-
- You may catalog files matching a specific pattern. For instance,
- if you are a C programmer you may want a catalog consisting only
- of files ending in '.c'. Just enter '*.c' and AMCAT will only
- catalog files matching that pattern. See 'Pattern Matching Conventions'
- for further details.
-
- Printing Files
- --------------
- Printing to Screen:
-
- To display the contents of any catalog to the screen, just select
- SCREEN when requested. You may cancel the display at any time
- by selecting CANCEL.
-
- Printing to Printer:
-
- 1. Directing output to PRT:
- This uses the printer configuration you have set in Preferences
- on your Workbench Disk. The line length should be set to at least
- 80 characters.
-
- 2. Directing output to PAR:
- This directs output to the parallel device. This configuration
- will allow you to print your Master Catalog even if you do not
- have a driver for your parallel printer. Parallel device is
- the default setting on AMCAT.
-
- Printing All Files:
-
- This will display all numeric and alphabetically named files to the
- selected output device. May be cancelled at any time by selecting
- the CANCEL gadget.
-
- Printing Alphabetical Files:
-
- Will only display alphabetically named files to the selected output
- device. May be cancelled at any time by selecting the CANCEL gadget.
-
- Printing Files Matching A Pattern:
-
- Will only display files matching a specified pattern to selected
- output device. May be cancelled at any time by selecting the CANCEL
- gadget. See 'Pattern Matching Conventions' for further details.
-
- Print Disks Logged:
-
- Will display the names of the disks logged to the selected selected
- output device. May be cancelled at any time by selecting the CANCEL
- gadget.
-
- Pattern Matching Convertions:
-
- AMCAT uses the asterisk '*' and question mark '?' to match patterns.
- The asterisk is used to match any number of unspecified characters.
- For example: '*.c' will match 'horse.c' but not 'horse.pic' 'c*' will
- list all files beginnig with 'c'. The question mark is used to match
- any one character in a pattern. For example: 'b?g' will match 'bag',
- 'big', and 'beg'.
-
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- REMEMBER, IF YOU FIND AMCAT USEFUL
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- Please send $20 to:
-
- Brian Conrad
- P.O. Box 62
- Touchet, Wa. 99360
-
- Feel free to distribute this program to your friends and user's groups.
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