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Documentation for MultiSearch Text Door
Configuration Editor
Written by Robert V. Chambers
Copyright (c) 1996
The configuration editor will help you add, delete, and modify the file menu
that the door presents to the user. To use the editor run MULTEDIT.EXE from
the same directory as MAIN.CFG and MULTSRCH.CFG. It requires information from
both files and expects to find them in its own directory.
The editor is very simple to use, and is written to help with maintenance of
MULTSRCH.CFG, the primary configuration file. It will not allow editing of
MAIN.CFG, the category configuration file.
When the program is run it will display a menu of all the options to choose
from. You can:
1) Change your registration information (enter name and key).
2) Change the number of entries per page in the menu.
3) Enable or Disable the file download function.
4) Add an entry to the menu.
5) Delete an entry from the menu.
6) Modify any menu entry.
7) List all the entries you have defined so far.
8) Sort entries alphabetically by title.
9) Sort entries by category, then alphabetically.
Details on how to use each individual functions are not presented, as they are
very simple and straightforward. However, here are a few things that you need
to be aware of:
1) If MULTSRCH.CFG cannot be found it will be created with one default entry.
You will need to edit this entry with the proper information for your first
document.
2) The editor looks for MAIN.CFG to see if you are using categories. If you
are not, then the category entry field will not be displayed, and all new
entries will have a default category of 1.
3) The default category is always 1 and the default security level is always
0.
4) The default menu entry and path are are both always "Unknown".
5) If you edit MAIN.CFG and change the order of the entries then you MUST
change the category in each entry in MULTSRCH.CFG as well. The entries in
MULTSRCH.CFG use a number for the category, and this number points to an entry
in MAIN.CFG. It will use whatever category name is in that entry position.
6) One tip that might be helpful when using the program is that the Enter key
is used to go from one data entry field to the next. Hitting Enter without
entering new data in the field will retain the current settings.
7) Sorting your entries is very beneficial when searching a range of files. If
you are using categories, then sort using option #9. Otherwise, use option #8.
You should sort your entries and save the results every time you add an entry
to the menu.