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Catalogviewer for CompuServe
CompuServe catalog viewer

non-registered Version 1.0

User instructions

Registration

Limitations on non-registered version

Future enhancements

Known problems

This is the first version of a program to browse through the catalogs of CompuServe with a lot more ease and off-line. You only need to download the catalog-files.

Please feel free to send me any feedback on the use of the program.


User Instructions

The working of this program is simple:

Use the option Catalogs->Change the catalog directory to give your directory where the catalogs are placed, after changing the directory the list of available catalogs will be refreshed, any open catalog/catalog-items from the previous directory will be closed at this time.

When the program starts it will collect all the available catalogs from that directory and show the

library number and description.

Select a catalog by double-click or enter  and the index will be build, now you can select from the new window and look off-line to the description and the index data of the catalog entry..

NOTE: This is the non-registered version 1.0 with limited functions.


Future enhancements
Future enhancements of registered version

The following enhancements are planned:

Selecting/Searching  items with the use of the keywords.

Selecting/Searching items with the use of the description.

Selecting./Searching items with the use of ID of the owner.

New way of registering the catalogs and thereby removing the problems of the non-standard layouts of the catalogs.

Also the users input for improvements of the program will be looked at.


Known problems/limitations of this version
Known problems/limitations with this version

Because the catalogs are not all starting with the same layout the following layout has to be present at all catalogs at the first line of the file:

^^^LIB 5 "Windows Prog.", BcppWin file descriptions.

3 blank positions and the LIB word, after the LIB word the description of the catalog is placed.

At this moment the program will disregard the catalogs that have not that layout.


Limitations of non-registered version

There are some limitations with the use of the non-registered version of this program, the current limitations are:

No more than 5 catalogs accepted

No more than 1 open catalog at one time

No more than 3 open index entries per catalog.

If you want to use the program with normal functionality you can register as described in Registration


Shareware registration
Registration

If you register yourself as a user of Cservcat, you will receive the fully functional version of this program also you will receive notification of future versions, and become eligible for enhancements to Cservcat.However, the other reason to register is to encourage the fair use of software and the creation and evolution of useful products at a fair price.

To register as a user of Cservcat, do the following:

transfer $15.00 (US) with remark Cservcat 1.0 registration, to:	ABN-AMRO

Account number 45.28.72.189

On behalf of M.J. Broekman, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Send a message with your Name, address and ID to the following CS ID:	M.J. Broekman	CompuServeID: 100272,302