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- aaReadMe.1st - Macintosh DiscPassage
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- This document contains the following information:
- . System Requirements for running DiscPassage
- . Installing and Using DiscPassage
- . Features
- . Troubleshooting
- . Some commonly encountered problems
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- System Requirements for the Macintosh
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- DiscPassage requires:
- . A Macintosh Plus, SE, SE/30, II (any model), Classic, LC,
- or IIsi with CD-ROM drive.
- . About 350K of available space on your hard drive or on a
- floppy drive. A hard drive is strongly recommended.
- . System software 6.0.5 or greater, 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."
- . A minimum of 2 MB of RAM (2.5MB for System 7).
- . 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.
- . DiscPassage operates under Finder or Multi-Finder environments,
- as well as System 7.
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- Installing & Using DiscPassage
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- To install the DiscPassage application, insert the floppy diskette
- (or CD-ROM), and open the Desktop. Drag the icon labelled "DiscPassage"
- to the area on your hard drive where you wish to install it.
- . Launch DiscPassage by getting to the hard drive, then double click
- on its icon.
- . DiscPassage first presents you with a database selection menu
- representing databases on the disc.
- . 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.
- . 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 labelled by one of these types of icons:
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- T text file
- smiley face image
- audio speaker audio selection
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- Features
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- DiscPassage offers powerful search and retrieval features, including:
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- . The File menu allows you to Save text and images, Print
- text or images, fine tune Image quality (for black and white systems),
- get comprehensive on-line Help, Eject the DiscPassage disc, see which
- Discs are available, or Quit.
- . The Edit menu provides basic text editing functions including Cut,
- Copy, Paste, Clear and Select All.
- . 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.
- . The Document menu shows you the entries for images, audio, or text
- files related to the file you are viewing.
- . The Search menu lets you perform on-line searching on various
- indexes: Words, Authors, Titles and Subjects. You may search for phrases,
- wildcards, 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.
- . 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.
- . The Find menu allows you to search a document for a search or browse
- term or any word or phrase you are looking for.
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- Troubleshooting
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- 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).
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- You need to have the following:
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- . System Software 6.0.5 or greater, Foreign File Access and
- ISO 9660 File Access inits
- . An init supporting the type of CD-ROM you have, for example:
- AppleCD-ROM init
- . 32-bit QuickDraw, if you have a color system
- . 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.
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- Some commonly encountered problems
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- . An Apple CD-ROM drive requires the Apple CD-ROM init
- version 2.0 or greater to properly mount ISO-formatted CD-ROMs.
- . 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).
- . Other inits besides drivers may conflict with your CD-ROM
- inits.
- . "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.
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- See the READ.ME file on the root of your CD-ROM drive for more
- up-to-date information on the software. Be sure to install software
- from the floppy, if you received one.
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