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- Searcher V 01/24/93
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- This program, as far as I know, requires WINDOWS 3.1. It
- also requires that you have the Arial and MS SansSerif
- fonts installed. If you did a normal WINDOWS installation,
- then these files are already installed.
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- To install this program, either run the included setup
- program under Windows or do the installation manually. Manual
- installation is performed by copying the SEARCHER.EXE File to a
- directory of your choice. You will also have to copy the
- VBRUN200.DLL and the GAUGE.VBX files into the WINDOWS system
- directory. Then add the program to a program manager group of
- your choice.
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- This program is composed of the following files:
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- SEARCHER.EXE located (by default) in C:\SEARCHER.
- SEARCHER.INI located in the WINDOWS directory.
- VBRUN200.DLL located in the WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory.
- GAUGE.VBX located in the WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory.
- SEARCHER.GRP located in the WINDOWS directory
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- The program will generate SEARCHER.INI in the WINDOWS directory
- when it is run for the first time. VBRUN200.DLL may already be
- installed on your system by other programs.
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- I wrote this program to help me locate files in the various
- bulletin board file lists that I have. You can enter (or
- pick) files to scan and enter a string and the program will
- attempt to locate files with the string in the name or
- description. If you double click on a description line in
- the big window, the program attempts to extract the file
- name to the smaller file window in the upper right corner
- of the program window. When you are finished searching for
- file names, click the Clipboard button and the contents of
- the small window will be copied into the clipboard. If this
- is done while you are connected to a BBS via a WINDOWS comm
- program, you can generally select a command for batch
- download and then do an Edit Paste or press Shift Insert to
- paste the filenames so that they may be downloaded. The
- exact procedures for this will be determined by both the
- BBS that you call and the comm program that you are using.
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- As the program searches, the name of the file that it is
- currently working on is displayed in the title bar and the
- progress through the file is displayed on the bargraph at
- the bottom of the program window.
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- The following information is also in the help box in the program.
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- This program will scan selected filenames for search strings
- and place those lines into a window where the filenames can be
- extracted from them. It is primarily intended to be used to search
- BBS download file lists for a specific string and extract those
- filenames that it locates to the clipboard. This information can
- then be pasted to your comm program to download those files.
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- Search Path - File specification to search
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- Search String - String to search all files for
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- Browse Button - Select file specification
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- Start/Stop Button - Start/Stop search process
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- Exit Button - Leave program
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- Clipboard Button - copy filenames in small box to clipboard
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- Large file box - Lines from the files described by searchpath that
- contain the search string are displayed here. Double clicking a line
- will attempt to extract the file name to the small box in the upper
- right corner.
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- Should you find this program useful, I would appreciate a donation of
- $10.00. This would encourage me to continue to develop this program
- and others. Should you feel inclined to make a donation, send it to:
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- Tandy Penn
- 3306 Daisy Circle
- Richardson, Tx. 75082
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- I also my be contacted by leaving a message in the FIDONET WINDOWS
- conference.
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- LIMIT OF LIABILITY
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- Searcher is distributed as-is. The author disclaims all warranties,
- expressed or implied. The author will assume no liability for damages
- either from the direct use of this product or as a consequence of the
- use of this product.
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- Searcher may be used by any private individual or non-commercial
- organization for any purpose. You may distribute it to
- anyone, and you may place it on any archive or bulletin board system for
- wider access. You may not charge anyone for it other than a reasonable fee to
- cover your distribution costs.
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- This program is written with Visual Basic 2.0 from Microsoft
- Visual Basic and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
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