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Initial installation and start-up


Copy the application to wherever you wish on a hard disc.
Double-click on the application icon to start it: this produces an iconbar icon in the usual way.
Clicking the iconbar icon will display the following initial banner window.
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This banner window shows the maximum number of records and the maximum number of fields-per-record that your copy of !CSVamp is currently configured to handle - as a result of values set in the application’s !Run file.
If any of the files you intend to load in this session exceed either of the shown limits you need to quit the application at this stage, change the limits and re-start. Pressing the ‘Quit now & locate !Run file’ button will duly quit and bring up the directory window containing the !Run file, ready for you to change either or both of the limits. Later in the Manual the Section ‘Comments and limitations’ gives details of what needs to be changed. (You can also take the same action using ‘Quit & locate !Run file’ from the iconbar menu - at any time.)

However, in the more likely case that the limits are satisfactory for your current needs, press the ‘Close this window & continue’ button to open the main window. (There is also an alternative way of continuing described a little later below.)

On initial opening, the main window will have nearly all its icons disabled and will also have just a single row of ‘field icons’ - indicated by “Field #1” at the left-hand side.
The window title tells you to drag a CSV/TSV file to the window or to the iconbar icon. For meaningful use the dragged file needs to be in CSV or TSV format but it can have a file-type of either ‘CSV’ (&dfe) or ‘Text’ (&fff).
Once the iconbar icon is installed, files of the file-type ‘CSV’ (&dfe) can equally well be loaded just by double-clicking on the file.
If the main window is not already open, loading a file will also open the main window.

Whilst the above-shown initial banner window is open there is an alternative file-loading procedure if you are sure that your CSV/TSV file does not exceed the shown limits. In this case, dragging the file to the banner window (or to the iconbar, or double-clicking on a file of file-type ‘CSV’ (&dfe)) will have the same effect as pressing the ‘Close this window & continue’ button.

Any subsequent file-loading action will simply replace the existing loaded file.

(The application itself cannot be started up by double-clicking on a CSV/TSV file. This is deliberate.}

Please note that the first record of a loaded CSV/TSV file will be taken as the defining one for the subsequent processing e.g. number of fields-per-record, separator character, record terminator character(s) - see the Section ‘Comments and limitations’ for more details.




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