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Help for Searcher
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Purpose
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Mr.Clippy has the ability to store compressed versions of clip files for
quick viewing while leaving the original source file on the original media.
This is great, until you come to drag a clip to !Draw or whatever, and the
original is somewhere else. It might be on a CD-ROM for instance. If this
is the case, Mr.Clippy pops up a message box to tell you that file so-and-so
is not available.
Unfortunately, Mr.Clippy shows the file name in truncated form, so if you
have originals stored on several Zip disks or removable hard disks, the
displayed information may not be enough to locate the file.
Searcher displays long file names as used internally by Mr.Clippy, enabling
you to find them.
WARNING
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This is a stand-alone program which opens and closes files within the
Mr.Clippy application. It is therefore probably better to run this program
after Mr.Clippy has been Quitted. You can always restart him....
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Instructions
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You will need to change the path definitions in lines 15 and 16 to suit your
own installation of Mr.Clippy. Only the parts which read
ADFS::IDEDisk4.$.Temp
will need changing.
If you are not using ADFS, change the ADFS part to match your filing system,
e.g. to SCSIFS, IZipFS, etc.
You will probably have to change the IDEDisk4 part to match the name of the
drive you are running Mr.Clippy from, e.g. to HardDisk, IDEDisc4, SCSI2, etc.
The dollar sign will probably remain unchanged.
The Temp part should be changed to whatever subdirectory (if any) you have
installed Mr.Clippy into, e.g. Info, Pictures, MyClips, etc. If you run
Mr.Clippy from the drive's root directory, then this bit should be removed
altogether.
Don't forget the dots between each part of the pathname. Change one line at
a time, and compare it carefully with an unchanged line until you are sure
the syntax is correct.
Sorry about all this, but I only wrote it as a quick fix to implement a big
improvement to Mr.Clippy. If somebody wants to put a nice WIMP front-end on
it, please feel free. Perhaps Mr.iSV will build this feature into the next
version of Mr.Clippy, making this program obsolete. That would be even
better, now, where did I put that registration card for free user upgrades?
Anyway, back to the plot. When you find a clip you want to identify fully,
write down the Clip name as displayed in the box. Quit Mr.Clippy, and run
this program. You will be asked for the clip name, so type in what you just
wrote down, and press Return. This bit is not case-sensitive, e.g. rabbit is
treated the same as Rabbit, RABBIT, etc.
The search can take a while, so be patient. A list of all the files whose
Mr.Clippy name matches what you entered will appear. Part-names are catered
for, so if you enter "Bear" then the list would also include "TeddyBear",
"BBearing", "grizzlbear", and so on (if those names exist, of course).
I tried "car" on my system, and found the Nicaraguan flag in the list....
That is one possibility. The other result of a search is to find that a clip
exists in compressed form within Mr.Clippy. In this case, the original
source file cannot be found, and the line in the list will tell you that
you can drag this clip direct from Mr.Clippy.
Thanks and donations always gratefully received. I am
Chris Beesley
15 Byron Close
Cheadle
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST10 1XB
Oh, by the way, in the unlikely event that this program causes any problems
at all, please don't hold me responsible. Because I'm not. Usual disclaimers,
etc, etc.