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- Sven B. Schreiber (sbs@orgon.com)
- Niederndorfer Hauptstr. 70
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- Germany
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- SBS ILINA Version 1.00
- The Interrupt List Navigator
- Copyright (c) 1995 Sven B. Schreiber
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- PLEASE READ THIS FIRST!
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- ILINA is FreeWare. This software package may be distributed royalty-free on
- any media including electronic mail, internet services, network news, and
- bulletin board systems, provided that all files are included, no files are
- modified and no fee is charged for the software.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- This software is provided "as is" and any express or implied warranties,
- including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantibility and
- fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall the
- author Sven B. Schreiber be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental,
- special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to,
- procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits;
- or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability,
- whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or
- otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if
- advised of the possibility of such damage.
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- 1. Installing ILINA
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- Installation of "The Interrupt List Navigator" is easy and straightforward.
- Just copy the program files ILINA.EXE and ILINA.INI to a directory of your
- choice. Then create a shortcut, pointing to ILINA.EXE.
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- By default, ILINA will search for a file called INTERRUP.LST in its working
- directory. This file can be built from parts of Ralf Brown's "Interrupt
- List" archives by calling COMBINE.COM, included in the Interrupt List
- archives. You can override the default directory by specifying the path to
- INTERRUP.LST on ILINA's command line. If your input file is named other than
- INTERRUP.LST, you may specify this name on the command line as well.
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- 2. Viewing INTERRUP.LST
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- After startup, ILINA builds a temporary index in memory to allow fast random
- access to individual data records. This might take a couple of seconds.
- After that, ILINA pops up a dialog box with four list windows that enable
- you to navigate hierarchically through the entire list. On top level,
- there's the "Category" window, located in the upper left corner of ILINA's
- dialog box. The categories displayed there are taken from the configuration
- file ILINA.INI, which must be located in the same directory as ILINA.EXE.
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- If you click on an entry in the "Functions" window, you will see the
- complete record of this function in the lower half of ILINA's dialog box.
- The arrow labeled buttons in the upper right corner let you scroll the text
- up and down if it exceeds the size of the window. If the record window has
- the input focus, you may use the arrow and PgUp/PgDown keys as well.
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- The source code of ILINA hasn't been changed since 02-10-1995. This means
- that the code has survived more than three years while lots of Interrupt
- List versions have been coming and going. This makes me quite confident that
- my parsing routines will keep on working well with future Interrupt List
- versions.
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- 3. Searching for data
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- ILINA contains a basic full text search module, using the fast SHIFT-AND
- search algorithm. It will allow you to search for text strings consisting of
- up to 32 characters. Case sensitivity may be turned on or off optionally, as
- well as wildcard recognition. Please note, that currently only the wildcard
- '?' is supported. In the search results window, you can highlite a hit to
- jump directly to the location in the data file where the hit occurred.
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- While searching, the data file will be filtered transparently. Multiple
- spaces are compressed to a single space, while any control characters,
- including all CR/LF and tabulator characters, are treated as spaces. So it
- is easy to search for groups of words which do not necessarily occur on a
- single line. Therefore, you should always separate words by no more than a
- single space.
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- 23.07.1998 Sven B. Schreiber
- sbs@orgon.com
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