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Macintosh DiscPassage
This document contains the following information:
Ñ System Requirements for running DiscPassage
Ñ Installing and Using DiscPassage
Ñ Features
Ñ Troubleshooting
Ñ Some commonly encountered problems
System Requirements for the Macintosh
DiscPassage requires:
Ñ A Macintosh Plus, SE, SE/30, II (any model), Classic, LC,
or IIsi with CD-ROM drive.
Ñ 400K of available space on your hard drive.
Ñ System software 6.0.7 or greater, 32 Bit QuickDraw, Foreign File
Access and ISO 9660 File Access in your System folder and driver
software for your CD-ROM drive in your System folder.
For instance, if you have an AppleCD SC drive, the init is named
"Apple CD-ROM."
Ñ A minimum of 2 MB of RAM (2.5 MB for System 7).
Ñ Color images require a color monitor; they are displayed
in 640x480 resolution in 256 colors. You need to have 32-bit
QuickDraw in your System Folder. Images automatically convert
to black and white for the SE, Plus, and Classic.
Ñ DiscPassage operates under Finder or Multi-Finder environments,
as well as System 7.
Installing & Using DiscPassage
To install the DiscPassage application, insert the floppy diskette
(or CD-ROM), and open the Desktop. Drag the icon labeled "DiscPassage"
to the area on your hard drive where you wish to install it.
Ñ Launch DiscPassage by getting to the hard drive, then double
click on its icon.
Ñ DiscPassage first presents you with a database selection menu
representing databases on the disc.
Ñ Selecting a database by double-clicking will display the
contents for this database. You can navigate the disc by
searching or browsing from the menu bar or traversing the
hierarchically structured contents windows.
Ñ An item with a folder icon to the left of the entry indicates
that there are levels beneath this. Individual entries which
can be called up directly will be labeled by one of these types
of icons:
T: text file
Pict Icon: image
audio speaker: audio selection
Features
DiscPassage offers powerful search and retrieval features, including:
Ñ The File menu allows you to Save text and images, Print
text or images, get comprehensive on-line Help, Eject the
DiscPassage disc, see which Discs are available, or Quit.
Ñ The Edit menu provides basic text editing functions including
Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear and Select All.
Ñ The Format menu on the main menu bar supports various operations
on text files. Once a region of text has been highlighted, you
can change its font, point-size, and style. Text files are
saved in Microsoft Word format. Format does not affect files on
the CD.
Ñ The Related Items menu shows you the entries for images, audio,
or text files related to the file you are viewing.
Ñ The Search menu lets you perform on-line searching on various
indexes: Words, Authors, Titles and Subjects.
You may search for phrases, wild cards, proximity and combine
search terms with the AND, OR, or NOT Boolean operators. See
on-line Help for more information. Click on the Titles button
to see the titles of the documents matching your search
criteria.
Ñ Browse lists every word of every document on the disc and the
number of documents that contain the word. Click on the Titles
button to see the titles of these documents. You may cut and
copy a word found in browse to the Search template, and build
phrases this way.
Ñ The Find menu allows you to search a document for a search or
browse term or any word or phrase you are looking for.
Troubleshooting
Installation of the DiscPassage software should be easy. Problems may
arise, however, with installation of the CD-ROM unit and its drivers.
Be sure you have the proper inits in your System folder (they have to
be inside the System folder or they will not get installed at system
startup).
You need to have the following:
Ñ System Software 6.0.7 or greater, Foreign File Access and
ISO 9660 File Access inits
Ñ An init supporting the type of CD-ROM you have, for example:
AppleCD-ROM init
Ñ 32-bit QuickDraw
Ñ You should see an icon for the CD-ROM disc on the desktop. If
you don't, the system is not mounting the drive properly. Check
to be sure your SCSI cable is securely connected and there are
not multiple devices assigned to the same SCSI address. If
trouble persists, check the SCSI termination.
Some commonly encountered problems
Ñ An Apple CD-ROM drive requires the Apple CD-ROM init
version 2.0 or greater to properly mount ISO-formatted CD-ROMs.
Ñ If your CD-ROM disc is not mounting on the desktop
consistently, you may have an init conflict. Be sure to only
╩ install the init for the CD-ROM drive you are using, and hide
the others (create a folder inside your System Folder to save
them).
Ñ Other inits besides drivers may conflict with your CD-ROM
inits.
Ñ "The selected index is not available on this Disc" You must
be in a text database to access indexes. Some discs, as well as
some databases, do not have indexes associated with them.