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- * STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO !ARCHIVER *
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- * By A. Rebmann *
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- * * Interactive help is supported * *
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- 1 - Loading up Archiver
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- Double-click on the application named !Archiver. It has an icon of a
- bookshelf with books. The hourglass will appear and after a short pause the
- Archiver icon will appear on the right side of the icon-bar.
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- 2 - To load a file
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- To load a file, double-click on it or drag it to the Archiver icon on the
- icon-bar. Archive files (files created with Archiver) have the Archiver icon
- with a black border around it.
- If Archiver is not loaded, the computer will load it for you and load up
- the file too.
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- 3 - Browsing through the records
-
- To practise browsing, load up the ArcWorld92 file as detailed above. Click
- with MENU over the Archiver icon and the Archiver icon-bar menu will
- appear. Choose Browse from the menu or click with ADJUST on the Archiver
- icon on the icon-bar.
- A window will appear. The first four fields contain written information
- about that particular record. Below this is the topics that the record is
- classified under. For the first record these will be Hardware News. This
- ability to classify each record under a set list of topics makes searching
- for a particular item easy.
- To move back and forth through the records, use the left and right arrow
- buttons at the bottom of the window. Click on them with SELECT. The button
- with the arrow facing right will move to the next record and the other
- button will move to the previous. When you come to the end of the file,
- clicking on the right button will take you back to the beginning. To move to
- the beginning or the end of the file much faster, click with MENU over the
- browse window, go into the Goto submenu and choose first or last option,
- which will take you to the first and last record respectivly. Next and Prev,
- the first two options in the goto menu perform the same fuction as the
- buttons in the browse window.
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- 4 - Finding a record
-
- To bring up the find dialog box, choose Find item from the Archiver
- icon-bar menu or click with SELECT on the Archiver icon on the icon-bar.
- There are four ways to search for an item, each is independant of each
- other (not using one way will not affect the others).
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- 1 - Type in the whole or part of the title of the item you want to find
- into the top field. This search is not case sensitive and if it is left
- blank, Archiver will look for items with any title.
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- 2 - Choosing a topic out of the first list. This is the second box from the
- top. Make sure the small box to the left of the larger one contains a
- tick otherwise the computer will not use this to search under. If it
- contains a cross, click SELECT over it. Clicking SELECT again will
- change it back to a cross. To choose a different topic, click SELECT on
- the downward facing arrow at the right side of the second box. A menu
- will appear containing other topics. Choose one and it will appear
- inside the box.
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- 3 - The same applies to the two boxes beneath the last two, except they
- contain a different list of topics. If say, the first topic list is
- used, but not the second, items will be found with any second topic.
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- 4 - At the very bottom of the dialog box is an option box. This is the
- optional topic. If this is chosen, only items with the optional topic
- will be found, but if it is unselected any item will be found, if it
- has the optional topic or not. To select the optional topic, Click with
- SELECT over the grey box. It will push inwards and a red square will
- appear inside it. To deselect it, click SELECT over the box again.
-
- When you have specified what you want to search under, click on the Find
- button with SELECT. The hourglass will appear with the percentage of the
- search completed shown beneath it.
- When the search is complete, a window will appear containing all of the
- items found will appear.
- If nothing was found, an error message will appear saying 'No matches
- found.'. The second topic will also be advanced to the next entry in the
- topic menu.
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- 5 - Adding a record
-
- To add a record, choose Add Item from either the icon-bar menu or the
- browse window menu. A dialog box will appear. Type in the details of the new
- record into the first four boxes. You should type in somthing appropriate
- for the box according to its name (shown to the left). Choose two topics,
- like in the find dialog box and select the optional topic if it applies.
- NOTE : The topics here, unlike in the find dialog box must be chosen, as
- they cannot be disabled.
- Check that all the details are correct and click on the Add button. This
- will add the record to the end of the file.
- If you chose Add item from the browse window menu, the Insert button will
- be ungreyed. Clicking on this will insert the new record where the current
- one (the one displayed in the browse window) is. The original record will be
- shifted along one and so will all the others after it.
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- 6 - Editing
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- To edit a record, bring it up in the browse window and choose Edit item
- from the browse window menu. A window similar to the add record dialog box
- will appear, but containing the details of the record you want to edit
- already. Alter the record and click on the Add button. The record will be
- changed and the dialog box will disappear.
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- 7 - Deleting
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- To delete a record, bring it up in the browse window and choose Delete item
- from the browse window menu. A dialog box will appear to confirm your
- choice. Click on OK with SELECT to delete the record or click on Cancel to
- cancel the delete operation.
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- 8 - Saving
-
- To save, open the save dialog box on the file submenu of the icon-bar
- menu. Give the file a name (10 letters max.) if it hasn't got one and drag
- the file icon to the directory viewer to which you wish to save the file. If
- the file has been saved already or loaded in, it will have a name and you
- just need to click on the OK button to save the file.
- Information can be given about the file. Click MENU on the icon-bar icon
- and open the File submenu. Open the Info dialog box. You give the file a
- full name (not the filename) and write some information about it. Click in
- the appropriate white box with SELECT to edit it and choose OK when you have
- finished. This information is saved along with the file and can be useful if
- you have used a really cryptic file name!
-
- 9 - Creating a new customised file
-
- To create a new file, click MENU over the Archiver icon on the icon-bar
- and the icon-bar menu will appear. Open the file sub-menu and open the new
- file dialog box. Creating a new file is quite complex, so read carefully!
-
- 1. A very large dialog box will appear. If you have a file loaded already,
- you can copy the configuration from that by clicking with SELECT on the
- copy button in the bottom-right corner of the dialog box. If the dialog
- box contains information you don't want, click on the Reset button,
- below the copy button.
-
- 2. Enter the topics you want into the two large white boxes towards the
- left of the dialog box. You have to click in each row with SELECT and
- type in the topic. There is a limit of 11 characters for a topic, so you
- may have to abbriviate words. Your topic lists might look something
- like:
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- Topic list 1 Topic list 2
-
- Hardware Review
- Software News
- Games Program
- Graphics Feature
- ... ...
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- 3. Next to topic list 2 is a series of 4 small text entry boxes. You type
- in here the names of the four fields. The suggested ones are :
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- Title
- Magazine
- Date
- and Page
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- but they could be anything, for example if you had a database of clubs
- you might want :
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- Club
- Secetary
- Addr 1
- and Addr 2
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- 4. Below these are four option buttons. These control which fields are
- cleared when a new record is created. For example, if you are creating a
- database of magazines, you might want the page number field cleared and
- the item title cleared, but not the magazine name or the date cleared for
- each new entry. To select a field as clearable, click on the respective
- grey box with SELECT. To delselect it, click on the box again.
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- 5. When all the data has been entered, click on Create new file with SELECT.
- After a short pause, the file will have been created and you can start
- entering data.
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- All of the main features of Archiver have been covered now. For more
- advanced users, read the ReadMe file for information on how to use the more
- complex features although Archiver is perfectly usable just using the
- features detailed in this text file.