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RADFind 96 BETA 3
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Thank you for testing RADFind 96! I hope that you will
find RADFind 96 to be a useful and productive utility
for your daily file management chores.
This section of the readme file will explain to you
the essentials of how to use RADFind 96 effectively.
(1) RADFind 96 is activated by a pressing a user
defined 'hot key' from within any Edit control in
Windows 95.
(2) RADFind 96 can also be activated by clicking on
its 'tray' icon. The 'tray' icon is located in a
recessed region on the extreme right-hand side of your
Windows 95 taskbar. RADFind 96's tray icon is a
magnifying glass over a file.
(3) The default value of the 'hot key' is F12. You can
customize this setting at any time by selecting the
Set Hot Key menu option from the File menu.
(4) Once you have activated RADFind 96 by pressing
it's hot key, or clicking on its tray icon, you simply
type in the name of the file that you wish to search
for.
(5) You can use any valid combination of DOS wildcard
characters to help in your search.
The ? symbol will match any SINGLE character in a
filename.
The * symbol will match one or more characters in
a filename.
For example, suppose that we only have the following
files on your hard disk:
abc.txt
aac.txt
bcc.txt
def.exe
(i) If you type in abc.txt, you will only find the
abc.txt file.
(ii) If you type a?c.txt, you will find abc.txt and
aac.txt.
(iii) If you type ??c.txt, you will find abc.txt,
aac.txt and bcc.txt.
(iv) If you type *.txt, you will find abc.txt, aac.txt
and bcd.txt.
(v) If you type *, you will find all the files.
(6) You can search for all files under a specific
subdirectory on your hard drive by entering a pathname
before the filename that you are looking for. RADFind
96 will search the subdirectory and all of its
subdirectories for matching files.
For example,
(i) c:\windows\*.dll
will return all DLL's in your windows directory, and
all of the subdirectories under the windows directory
on drive c.
(ii) c:*.exe
will return all EXE's on drive c.
(iii) *.exe
will return all EXE's on all of your local hard disks.
KNOWN ISSUES
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RADFind 96 uses a proprietary caching technology to
achieve its tremendous performance. However, there are
some known problems that can cause the cache to become
out of sync with the files stored on your hard disk.
(1) Installation programs that generate a WININIT.INI
file will cause files to be renamed before RADFind 96
starts up. The files that are renamed by the
WININIT.INI file will remain in cache, but will no
longer be on the disk. However, since these files are
usually system DLL's with unusual names like
kernel32.dlb, it is highly unlikely that you will ever
need to search for these files. In any event,
selecting the Scan Drives menu option under the File
menu will re-synchronize your filename cache.
(2) Norton FPROTECT will also rename temporary files
that are created by Windows 95 during the startup
process. This is due to the fact that these files are
created / renamed by FPROTECT before RADFind 96 starts
up. However, it is highly unlikely that you will ever
need to search for these files. There is no current
workaround for this problem.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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Please file all bug reports using the form on our web
site at www.naleco.com.