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NET Resources Documentation If this program was acquired from an online service, you should have completed the installation described by the INSTALL.DOC file which appeared after the first UNZIP. If it is running off a CD-ROM now, it must be installed to the hard disk before it will be of much use. Select H from the menu below to produce a printout. You'll need to read this while working with the program. Nearly 300 pages of printed documentation is available for $26 which includes shipping. Run the BUYER.EXE program to order. ------Getting Started------- If you are running from a CD-ROM you wouldn't be here useless the program was already running. For those running from a hard disk, see file INSTALL.DOC. The means of starting the program is a function of how the install program set things up. This program will store what you find on the Internet either on the hard disk or floppies. To get you started it comes with a database of Internet search engines and a few other things. Perfect Recall must be launched from under Windows since the program must interact with your Web browser. If the install program did not provide a group Window, then press Alt-1 to activate Winkey and click on the PR button. If the install program linked the NET Resource database to an existing installation of Perfect Recall then start the existing copy and find the new category on the main menu called NET Resources. The following list will appear upon starting the program. Perfect Recall permits any organizational structure. This one was provided to help you understand what the program is about. (1) Web Sites (2) Internet Sites (3) Graphics (4) Documents (5) Address (6) E-mail (7) Threads (8) Imported records Let's look at the search engines. Select (1) Web Sites. From the next list select (1) Jump Stations. This brings up a list of database entries. Press 1 to view information on the WebCrawler. Now load the WebCrawler's URL into your Web Browser. Press the up arrow key to move the highlight off (1) and onto the URL. This places the URL in memory where Winkey can fetch it. Press ALT-ESC to switch back to the Windows Program Manager. Press ALT-1 to activate Winkey and click on the text line starting with "LOAD". Your Web browser will start. Now highlight the text in the URL box. Press the End key followed by the Backspace key to clear it. With the cursor at the beginning of the URL box, press Shift-Ins to paste in the new Net site URL. Press ENTER to load. At any time you mamy return to Perfect Recall and fetch another Net address. Leave the browser now and return to Perfect Recall by holding down the ALT key and pressing TAB until Perfect Recall cycles up. There's is another way to do this you'll find handy when wandering the Net. Press ESC until back at the maim menu where Web Sites is the first option. Now go to Internet Sites. highlight (2) and press ENTER. The Internet Sites category stores URL's in text files rather than the database itself. Press (1) or ENTER to access Web development resources. The Filename line shows D24.WRI. This is a Windows Write file not a URL. Let's load it. Press the up arrow key to highlight D24.WRI or press G for GET FILE & APP. Press ALT-ESC to switch back to Windows. Press ALT-1 to activate Winkey and then click on the text line that says "LOAD". Windows Write will start with file D24.WRI loaded. Highlight a URL of interest and select Edit/Paste to place it in the Windows Clipboard. Now use ALT-TAB to switch over to your Web Browser. Clear the URL space and use Shift-Ins to paste in the clipboard contents. Press ENTER to load. The reverse process can be used to record Web sites. While viewing a Web page, highlight text in the URL box. Select Edit/Copy to place it in the clipboard. Return to Windows Write and use Shift-Ins or Edit/Paste to place the URL text in the Windows Write file. Add a note about the site and save the file. This is an easy means of storing Web URL's for long term storage. Return to Perfect Recall. Hold down the ALT key and press TAB until Perfect Recall cycles up. Press ESC to return to the Record List screen. Add a text file to hold new Web sites. Select ADD RECORD. The new record will offer a new Windows Write filename. Press RETURN to accept. Enter "New Web sites" as the description. Press S to save. The actual file does not yet exist. Press the up arrow key to highlight the filename. Then press ALT-TAB until Windows Write turns up. The old file is still loaded so select File/New to start another. Type in something like, "New Web sites" to start the file. Select File/Save As. Now the new filename must be fetched from Winkey. Press ALT-1 and click on the filename (last line in Winkey). This places it in the Windows Clipboard. Press Shift-Ins to paste in the new filename and press ENTER to save. That's it. Perfect Recall will load any application, DOS or Windows. To use an editor for storing URL's it must be a Windows program such as WinWord or Word Perfect for Windows so the clipboard can be used to copy URL's to the browswr. Run the Setup program to load other applications. Return to Perfect Recall. Press ALT-TAB until Perfect Recall shows up. Press ESC until the main menu returns. -----Graphic files----- The whole point of this program is to store things found on the Web. Graphic files are a good place to start for seeing how this works. The Net Resource database came setup for Internet In A Box. The installation program would have attempted to substitute another application if you did not have Internet In a Box. If no other suitable application existed at the time, then Spry's ImageView is still installed and must be replaced with some other program such as ArchiveBuddy. See Install New Graphics app text file in the README library before continuing if you do not have Internet In a Box. Highlight (3) Graphics and press ENTER. A single entry is provided as a demonstration. Let's make sure Perfect Recall is working right with your graphics file viewer. Press the up arrow key to highlight file G4.JPG. Again, press ALT-ESC to switch back to the Program Manager. Press ALT-1 and click on "Load". Your graphics file viewer will start with G4.JPG loaded. Return to Perfect Recall. Press ALT-TAB until Perfect Recall shows up. One of the significant differences between Perfect Recall and other file management programs is its range of services. It not practical to cover them all here, its documentation is almost 300 pages long, but we can explore a few items. You should still be in the Record for Hajime Sorayama's work. At the moment there is just one file G4.JPG with the description, "Full metal love". Each record, however, can hold any number of filenames, each with its own description. Let's go to Sorayama's Web page and fetch additional graphics. I'm going throw you for a loop here just to demonstarte Perhect Recall's flexibility. Sorayama's Web page address would be found under (1) Web Sites/ (4) Art work. This would normally require nagivating to another location in the category tree structure. Instead, we'll jump straight to it. Highlight, (3) and press ALT-L. Bingo! You are in the category for art work Web pages now. This record has both the Sorayama URL and the entire Web page stored as a file. Let's take a look at the saved Web page for fun. File A4.htm should be already highlighted. If not, use the left/right arrow keys to move the highlight. Loading an html file if the browser is NOT already running: ----------------------------------------------------------- With A4.htm highlighted, press G. Switch to Windows by pressing ALT-ESC. Activate Winkey with ALT-1. Click on the text line that starts with LOAD. Your Web browser will start and load the Web page from the hard disk. We'll cover how to save Web pages like this a little later. Loading an html file if the browser is already running: ------------------------------------------------------- When the browser is running it will not accept a DOS file. You can't even pasted it in the URL box. The DOS filename must be rewritten. With A4.htm highlighted, press G. Press C to run the filename converter. Press ALT-TAB until the browser appears. Click at the end of the browser's URL box. Press backspace to clear existing text. Activate Winkey with ALT-1. Click on the filename (last line) Click on the browser's URL box. Press Shift-Ins to paste in filename URL. Press ENTER to load. Note: Web browsers are notorious for locking up if a graphic is missing. Reducing the browser to an icon and restoring it will unfreeze it. Now let's load the real Web page on the Net. Hold down ALT key and press TAB until Perfect Recall cycles up. Press the left arrow key to highlight the http URL. Press G or moving the highlight off the numbers and onto the URL with the up arrow key. Switch to Windows using ALT-ESC or ALT-TAB. Start Winkey by pressing ALT-1. Click on the line displaying the URL. Go back to the browser, click at the end of the URL box and press backspace to clear it. Use Shift-Ins to paste the new URL in. Press ENTER to launch. From this Web page of Sorayama's work you can access graphics. Suppose you did all this and were now viewing a new graphic with Internet In A Box ImageView. What now ? Remember the basic process - let Perfect Recall create the filename, return to the Windows app, select Save As and use Shift-Ins to paste in the new filename. In this case we've twisted things up a bit. Press ALT-TAB until Perfect Recall shows up. Let's return to the Graphic file database rather than add a file there. Press ESC. This will put you back in the Graphics category. Select EDIT FILENAME/ADD or just press A. The filename menu box appears with a suggested path in (1) but no filename. Highlight (1) and press ENTER. Press the END key. Type in G4-2.JPG. G4 is unique to this record so it's good to use that as a base filename. Press ENTER to save. Before leaving you should add a description under (2). Press S to save. The filename has been recorded under Perfect Recall but the acutual graphic is still waiting to be saved. Select GET FILE & APP to place the filename in Winkey. Press ALT-TAB and cycle to ImageView or whatever graphics viewer you are using. Upon returning, select Save/As, press ALT-1 to call Winkey, click on filename, use Shift-Ins to paste filename into the Save as box. Press ENTER to save file to new name. It does take a few steps to complete this process but a perminent record now exists for this graphic. ----Saving things off the hard disk---- Now for a very important feature. Over time you may want to move files off the hard disk. Perfect Recall provides a means to do this without throwing away files or losing them on floppies. If you are still following along on the previous exercise it's time to flip flop back to Perfect Recall. Press ALT- TAB. The process of moving a file to or from a floppy is very easy. Select the filename to operate on using the left and right arrow keys then use Edit/Edit. Now just change the path associated with the filename in (1). Perfect Recall will offer several options upon recongizing the path has changed. Select (3) to move the file. At this point you have performed most of the basic opertations necessary to use Perfect Recall. Of course, there is a quite bit more to know over all about making new categories to store things or new databases to store different types of information but that is only available in the full documentation. Full documentation can be ordered from MicroExcel's Web page by credit card at http://www.garlic.com/mxsoft/mxweb.htm. Mail to: mxsoft@garlic.com. ------Documents, E-mail, Threads------- These three services are farely similar and not significantly different from saving graphic images. A record is added to Perfect Recall, new filename is passed to Winkey and lastly the clipboard is used to pass filename to Save/As in the application program. The files save in E-mail and Threads categories are used to maintain text files that are continuously added to over time. Thereby, creating a single file containing all communication on a particular subject. ------Address------ The address category has no relationship to the Internet. It's just an ordinary database like any other although it does have label printing capabilities you may find useful. If you should get the printed documentation, you will learn a number of ways to tie, say, a Web page entry to an address entry. This is helps make a very large set of information more manageable. ----Saving WEB Pages---- Web browsers can capture Web pages and save them intact to a file. This is handy for developing a library for future reference or just reading off line. Perfect Recall can then load these these Web pages into the browser from the hard disk or into an editor to study their construction. The process is different for Mosiac and Netscape. For Mosiac, while viewing a Web page, select File/Document Source. Then select File/Save as. For Netscape, while viewing a Web page, select File/Save as. At this point either progarm is waiting for a proposed path and filename to be supplied by Perfect Recall. Go to (1) Web sites/ (6) Saved Web pages. The program will suggest something like C:\PR\WEB\N32.htm. Here you have a decision to make. If you intend to save only this page and not the graphics or other related pages when it makes sense to use the suggested filename. If you will be saving more than this you might consider using the page's own filename and creating a new directory just for it. For example change the suggested path/filename to C:\PR\WEB\PAGE1\HOME.htm. Prefect Recall will offer to create the new directory does not exist. Now enter other descriptive information in; (1) Site name (2) Description (3) Keywords (4) E-mail Now the new filename must be passed to the Web browser. Load the filename into Winkey by pressing G or using the arrow key to move the highlight up onto the filename. Press ALT-TAB to switch back to Windows. Press ALT-1 to call Winkey. Click on the filename (last line). Use Shift-Ins to paste it into the Save as filename box. Press ENTER to save. If you go on to save other pages referenced by the home page then save these other pages to their existing filenames. While viewing the Web page you might want to save the graphics in the page as well. Click the right mouse button on top of a graphic. Graphics should always be saved to the existing filename and to the same directory as the Web pages. The newly saved Web page may lock up the browser software. This is because the graphic filenames are in a Unix or Mac format. The Web page file must be translated. Return to Perfect Recall using ALT-TAB. The Web page filename created by Perfect Recall should still be highlighted. If not, press the up arrow key until it is. The box at the bottom of the screen should say, "Press ALT-ESC to execute-->....". Now press S to load the file into another program. Move the hightlight down to MX Web file converter. Press ENTER. Now press ENTER again to execute. The converter will load and re-write the Web page file. It can now be loaded into the browser without difficulty. -----Loading a saved Web page----- If the browser is not running; Go to a record in Perfect Recall of interest. Select GET FILE & APP or highlight the filename. Press ALT-ESC to switch back to Windows. Press ALT-1 to activate Winkey. Click on the text line that says "Load". The browser will start and load the Web page. If the browser is already running; Go to a record in Perfect Recall of interest. Select GET FILE & APP or highlight the filename. Press ALT-ESC to switch back to Windows. Press ALT-1 to activate Winkey. Click on the line with the filename (last line). From the browser select Open Local File or Open File. Press Backspace key to clear the box. Press Shift-Ins to paste in path and filename. Press ENTER to load. -----Importing Records------ The remaining category, Imported Records, serves to receive new records from someone else or even MicroExcel. It is not intended as a place to add work you create. In coming records should have there own place to go so they can be reviewed before moving them to a perminent location. Instructions on how to do this will accompany material sent from MicroExcel. You must not import material until after Perfect Recall has been registered. You must have a unique ID to prevent incoming work from writing over any new work added by you. ------Registration------ Perfect Recall will allow you to create 25 new records. After that it will display a message saying the program must be registered by the time it reaches 50 new records. If the program is not registered by the time 50 records is reached, you will not be able to add new records although existing ones will still function. You do not need to register the program if 50 new records is never reached. Registration at 50 records is $35 dollars. A second $45 registration will occur at 200 new records. Alternatively, a single $80 double registration may be done at 50 records. Documentation is sold separately for $26. You do not need to register the program to buy the documentation. The 300 pages of documentation contains everything you need to apply Perfect Recall to any need imaginable. Registration and documentation is performed by the BUYER.EXE program. This will create a file which must be snail mailed or e-mail in to: 73364,1021@compuserve.com mxsoft@garlic.com Support is available with the purchase of documentation, with or without registration. If you acquire a large number of files off the Net, you will probably want to create more places (categories) to put things. You will need the documentation for this.