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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.
Treat every statement as having an implicit "see main manual for
details" after it.
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Scraps is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) for your PC, it is
a user supported or Shareware package.
Scraps is a great way of managing your random information. Enter
everything into Scraps find what you need when you need it.
Installing Scraps. Let the INSTALL program do it (best) or just
copy everything to C:\SCRAPS and run it. Sample data will be
installed automatically. Read the tutorial.
Scraps is menu driven. Use Alt keys to pull down menus. Esc to
abort. Keyboard shortcuts work at any time. With the mouse left
button selects, right button aborts.
Edit functions may not work if a scrap is `protected'. Use
Scrap/Settings to disable protection.
From the Edit menu you can use block operations. Mark a block
then delete, copy or write it. Blocks copied to clipboard can
then be pasted into another scrap.
Find in one of these ways.
Find a word or phrase. Use AND and OR to combine. Find "Smith
and phone number", "ticket or voucher" and so on.
Find word at cursor, good for hypertext-like jumps to other
scraps containing the same word.
Find by date range. Good for finding reminders not yet due, ones
that have been changed recently and so on.
Find reminders for Now. See what is due now. Also sets the
SAlarm and Alarm on reminder chimes.
Use Set reminder on the Scrap menu to set or clear a reminder for
this scrap. Press F10 for a point-and-shoot calendar.
Group menu lets you manipulate and view the whole group.
Grey +/- on the left of your keyboard page back and forward.
Group delete does mass delete, can be set to prompt on each.
Group list goes into special list mode. Good for seeing the
`title' of each scrap to choose the one you want.
Tools menu has a number of useful tools.
Calculator is a simple four function calculator with tape
display. You can move to tape to add annotations. When exiting
calculator you have the option of copying the tape to the editor
clipboard. Then it can be pasted into a scrap.
Autodialer dials a number you enter. Place cursor on a phone
number before activating dialer to load the number.
DOS Shell swaps Scraps to EMS or disk to make more room. You
must not load a TSR while shelled.
There are various Setup options available from the Setup menu.
Force BIOS video writes from the Setup box. Setup allows you to
force mono, force colour or have autodetect. The autodialer
doesn't work until you use the Setup/Phone dialer option to set
the communications port.
All Scraps, settings and registration data is in SCRAPS.DAT.
Keep your registration code elsewhere for safety.
Scraps supports REMINDERS for scraps. Set a reminder for a scrap
from the Scrap/Reminder option. Then search for them with Find
reminders for Now. This is done automatically if you set "Check
for reminders at startup" in the Scraps setup box.
The /R switch makes Scraps run, check for due reminders, and exit
if none are present. Also sets the SAlarm chime.
SAlarm is an external TSR that chimes when a reminder is due.
The Scraps check for reminder function sets it.
Put SALARM and SCRAPS/R (in that order) in your autoexec.bat to
get chime reminders when a scrap is due. You'll need to then
load Scraps, read the due scrap, reset the reminder date and do a
Find for due reminders to set the next chime.
Import into an individual scrap by choosing Edit/Import. Text
and word processor formats supported. Export individual scrap by
marking as a block and then choosing Edit/Write.
Group export takes the current group and exports as a text file.
The include settings option places special fields in the text
that are read by group import.
Import group is the reverse of export. Enter a file name, wild
cards accepted, and on or off for two settings. Read settings
normally is on, it means read the special settings marks that
Group export places in a file. Include separator is normally
off, it means include the line that is contains the specified
separator. Default separator is ~ tilde or `squiggle'.
When entering a wild card use Tab to the next field. If you
press enter you get a pop up file selection box.
Get a head start with Scraps by importing your own data from
other applications. If they can export to text files you can
probably import to Scraps with little difficulty.
Import a dBase format phone list by creating a LABEL format and
LABEL FORM .. TO FILE .. . Put a separator character (the tilde
~ character is best) as the last line in each label so that it is
read as the separator by Group import. Include files names such
as "Address" and "Phone" to help in finding.
Scraps can read word processor files in Edit/Import and
Group/Import. WordStar, WordPerfect, Windows Write/Microsoft
Word, XyWrite and ASCII supported.
You can set a password for access to Scraps. Set it from the
Setup menu, Setup security box. It is possible to get at the
data anyway by cracking the file with the SCRFIX utility.
You can encrypt individual scraps. Set the Encrypt setting on in
the Settings box for that scraps. This is only very minimally
secure! Just prevents people peeking at your data by TYPEing the
file or similar.
To get the best from Scraps be consistent with wording. Use
multiple standardized keywords. Make up keywords to ensure that
they don't appear by accident in other places.
Scraps works well with taskswitchers. Configuration files for
Windows 3.0 and DESQView are supplied. When setting up for other
systems do not "Allow close window".
Scraps can issue various different error messages. Most are
non-fatal. If you get a file corrupted error or a fatal error
repeatedly then use SCRFIX to salvage your data from the
corrupted data file.
SCRFIX can read badly mangled SCRAPS.DAT files. Output result to
a text file then Group Import into an empty SCRAPS.DAT with the
separator set to ~!~.
The Scraps interface is a standard pulldown menu and dialogue
boxes one.
File name fields support a file selection box if you press enter
with a wildcard in the field.
Date fields match `fuzzy' dates and convert to strict MM/DD/YY
HH:MM. Press F10 or click for a point-and-shoot calendar.
Please support Scraps by registering. Basic registration
(without disk) is HK$150, US$25, £18. Discount for Sysops.