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This is an abstract of the Scraps manual. THIS IS NOT THE
COMPLETE MANUAL. See the complete manual for copyright
statement, disclaimer, licence, credits, registration and for
full details on all operation.
This manual covers basic installation and set up in detail and
briefly touches on other matters of immediate importance.
Treat every statement as having an implicit "see main manual for
details" after it.
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Introduction:
Scraps is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) for your PC. You
can use Scraps to store all those odd facts and bits of
information that you come across in your busy life. Scraps will
then give you rapid access to those facts when they are needed.
Shareware:
Scraps is a user supported or Shareware package.
You are granted a licence for a 30 days trial period during which
you may use Scraps in order to decide if you want to use it
permanently.
See the section in the manual on Registering for details on how
to obtain your full licence.
Note:
Scraps is very much a Freeform PIM. It leaves it up to you how
you should arrange your information and how much structure you
should place on it.
Files:
The Scraps package consists of the following files;
SCRAPS.COM, The main program file. SCRAPS.DAT, A dummy file.
SCRFIX.COM, A utility. SCRAPS.DOC, This documentation file.
SCRAPS.HLP, The Scraps help file. REGISTER.FRM, Registration
form. README, Startup instructions. README.BAT, File to display
the README file. SCRAPS.PIF, Default Scraps setup for Windows.
SC-PIF.DVP, Default Scraps setup for DESQview. INSTALL.EXE,
Automatic installation program. SAMPLES.DAT, Set of example data.
ABSTRACT.DOC, Abstract of the manual. TUTORIAL.DOC, Tutorial
manual.
Setup:
The Scraps Install program will take care of installation for
you, and do a lot more besides. Just run INSTALL.EXE and select
the appropriate options from the menu.
Default settings files for using Scraps with Windows and DESQview
are supplied.
Using Scraps:
The heart of the program is the Find command which quickly allows
you to search for scraps containing a particular word or phrase.
When a find command finds scraps that contain a specified word,
or match some other requirements they are all gathered into a
`Group'.
You may then view the scraps in the group by paging to the next
or previous scrap with the GREY Plus and Minus keys.
With a set of handy built-in tools including calculator and phone
dialer Scraps provides all the facilities to manage your `random'
personal information.
The Menus:
Scraps is a menu driven program. All functions are available
through one of the main menus.
Activate the menus by pressing Alt-n where n is the highlighted
letter in the name of the menu at the top of the screen. Alt-E
is for the Edit menu, Alt-F for the Find menu and so on.
To abort a menu without choosing an option press the Esc key.
Mouse users can access menus and options by clicking on them.
They can also use the highlighted options in the base bar at the
bottom of the screen by clicking on them with the left mouse
button. The right mouse button escapes.
Full details of all menu options are given in the full manual.
You can, however, avoid reading the manual by simply pulling down
menus, moving the cursor bar to an entry and pressing F1 to
receive context sensitive help about that option.
Calculator:
The Calculator is a simple four function calculator with a `tape'
display. The tape simulates the paper tape produced by some
mechanical calculators.
When you exit the calculator, either by pressing the Esc key or
by clicking the right mouse button, you have the option of
copying the tape onto the clipboard.
If you choose to do so then you can use the Paste command from
the Editor menu to paste the tape into the scrap.
Phone Dialer:
The automatic telephone dialer will use your modem to dial a
specified telephone number. The telephone number can be picked
out of the text of a scrap by placing the cursor on the number
before you pull down the Tools menu.
DOS Shell:
The DOS shell gives you access to DOS. When selected as much as
possible of the Scraps program is swapped out to EMS memory or
disk space to make room for a DOS shell.
You can perform any DOS function while in the DOS shell except
load a TSR program such as PRINT.COM or SideKick.
Type EXIT at the DOS prompt to return to Scraps.
Reminders and Alarms:
Scraps allows you to specify a reminder date and time for any
scrap. You can then search for scraps with reminders within a
set range or reminders that are now due.
At any time you can run the Find reminders for Now command from
the Find menu to locate due reminders. This function is
performed automatically if you use the /R switch or set the
"Check for reminders at startup" in the Setup Scraps dialogue
box.
If you set on the "Alarm on due reminder" option on the Setup
Scraps dialogue box then Scraps will chime when a reminder is
due. BUT ONLY if you have done a check for reminders first
during that session. Therefore this feature is best used with
the "Check for reminders at startup" setting.
The alarm within Scraps causes it to become the top window if you
are running DESQview.
If you run Scraps with the /R switch it will load and go into the
check for due reminders function. If due reminders are found
then it will display them, if none are found then it will exit at
once.
SALARM.EXE is the program that provides the external alarm
feature. It is a Terminate and Stay Resident program (TSR) that
is loaded into your PC memory and stays there until you reboot
your PC.
To set SALARM run Scraps and do a search for due reminders. The
simplest way to do this is to run SCRAPS/R.
You may set in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file the lines;
C:\SCRAPS\SALARM
C:\SCRAPS\SCRAPS/R
to cause this to happen automatically. The Scraps Install
program will set this automatically for you if you choose.
Scraps had good support for Importing and Exporting of data.
Security:
Scraps provides two security measures. Encryption of scraps and
password protection of access to the program.
Projects:
Scraps uses a concept called `projects' to give you greater
control over how your information is organized.
Each scrap you enter can be assigned to a particular project,
think of projects as different categories. You might for example
have different categories for work and personal scraps. The term
`projects' of course comes from the fact that this is a good way
of separating information on different projects that you might
have running in parallel.
The main purpose of this is to be able to "turn off" a entire
category of scraps.
ToDo List:
The ToDo list option from the Tools menu gives access to the
Scraps ToDo List function. This is a complete application within
Scraps that provides all the facilities to create, maintain, view
and print lists of tasks to be done.
Help within Scraps:
Scraps has two systems of Help. The first is the Help Menu which
contains a number of help topics. Secondly there is `Context
sensitive help'. This is pages of help that relate directly to
the particular part of Scraps that you are using.
At any time you may press the F1 key to receive context sensitive
help about the part of Scraps you are using.
Once selected the help appears in a box in the middle of the
screen. Use the Page Up and Page Down keys, marked PgUp and PgDn
to move through the help screen. Use the Escape key to remove
the help screen.
Scraps with task switchers:
Scraps reaches its height of usefulness when it is used in
conjunction with a task switcher or multitasking environment.
Microsoft Windows and QuarterDeck Office Systems DESQview are two
good examples.
Scraps is supplied with configuration files for use with these
two environments.
Country specific settings:
For those outside the USA Scraps will configure itself according
to the COUNTY=<CountryCode> line in the CONFIG.SYS file on your
boot disk.
ScrFix utility:
The SCRFIX.EXE utility provides a way of rescuing data from a
corrupted Scraps database file. This means high security for
your personal data.
Registration:
The basic fee registration is HK$150, US$25, GB£18.