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The Super Scanner
Documentation
The Super Scanner was written to provide folks who like listening to
scanner frequencies with a way to exchange information about frequencies
and enjoy listening even more! As a sysop of a BBS and a scanner user, I
knew there was a perfect marriage of the technologies to accomplish the
goal.
All you really need to do with the super scanner is to bring it up
from the DOS command line by typing "sc"
and the rest is just following the menu prompts. You can add new
frequencies to the database, scan for existing frequencies in the
database, set colors for your screen, produce an ASCII text file of the
current information in the database files, or add new frequencies from
another database that has been renamed "scan-db.dbf".
All you need to ensure is that the "sc.exe" and the "sc.dbf" files are
in the same sub-directory and your on your way! If you want to share your
database with others, then simply rename your "sc.dbf" (be sure you keep a
copy of the original with its original name) to a new file name called
"scan-db.dbf", and give it to whoever or upload it to a BBS with the super
scanner software available. If you get a copy of the "sc.dbf" database
from whereever, then virus check it, rename it "scan-db.dbf" and place it
in your sub-directory with the other Super Scanner files and run menu
option "I" and watch the new frequencies roll in automatically!
Sysops running the program in a doorway should use a doors program
like "Doorway.exe" which is contained in a file usually called
"drwy212.zip" on the PC-Board support BBS, or on others that have had the
file uploaded to them.
If you run into problems running the software or need a demo copy of
"doorway.exe" then call the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind BBS at
area (617)-451-5327 (8,n,1) and leave a message for the sysop and I'll get
back to you. You can download "drwy212.zip" from the MCB BBS as well.
If you have expanded memory and find the program not working, then
place "Set clipper=e000" in your autoexec.bat file. This tells clipper
that there is no expanded memory for it. There seems to be a conflict with
a small number of expanded memory managers with program compiled in
clipper that this line fixes.
that's about it! You can upload frequencies you've received in the
database by renaming it "scan-db.dbf", zipping the database, giving it a
zip name and uploading it to other BBS systems.
The next version of the Super Scanner will have an editor program for
sysops and those currently using the program can edit with DBASE or any
other database manager that can handle DBASE files.
Enjoy the Super scanner and here's wishing you and your callers all
the fun of great frequencies.
Charles H. Crawford
March 16, 1991.