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- PLSTsearch v1.0
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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- - by Ola Ekström (c) 1997 -
- - Written in C using the DICE Freeware compiler -
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- IMPORTANT!:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- You use this program totally on your own risk. I am not
- responsible for anything that this program does to your hardware
- and/or software. Remember that it is always a healthy thing to
- make backups of your data on a regular basis.
-
- PLSTsearch is Freeware, this means that it may be distributed
- and used freely, but it may not be sold for money.
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- What is PLSTsearch and how do I use it?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- PLSTsearch is a search-tool for plst-files produced by Protracker
- and it's close relatives. It can only be run from the CLI and use
- this command format: PLSTsearch <plst-file> <search-string>. You
- must replace <plst-file> with the full path to where your plst is
- stored. Usually this is the root-directory of dh0: but I thought
- it would be nice to have it all defineable by the user.
- Directories defined by the path command will not be checked. You
- will replace <search-string> with any string that you would like
- to search the plst for. I.e. if you search for "snare",
- PLSTsearch will report back all entries found with where "snare"
- is part of the name. If you don't specify a search-string, the
- whole plst will be listed. 22 lines at a time will be listed,
- and then you will be prompted to press the return key, so you'd
- better maximize the CLI-window if you don't want to miss anything.
- PLSTsearch will also tell you on which disk the sample is on and
- the length of the sample. PLSTsearch does not support wild-cards
- or other advanced forms of searching. If your searchstring contains
- spaces you must enclose it within quotation marks. Like this:
- "string.with a.space.in.it".
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- Why?
- ~~~~
- Why write a program like this, you might ask yourself. The plst
- is already arranged in alphabetical order... Well, that is true,
- but when your plst grows bigger, it will be harder and harder
- to remember the names of individual samples. If you have 30
- snare-drum samples called things like: bigsnare, smallsnare,
- shortsnare etc. it will not help you very much if they are
- listed alphabeticaly. My plst contains about 600 entries and
- I don't think it's very large, yet it's hard to locate things
- sometimes. I can imagine how hard it would be to find one's way
- around a plst with a couple of 1000 entries. If you only remember
- a part of a name or want to list samples of a special type, you
- can use PLSTsearch.
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-
- Last Words:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- I would like to thank Rober Lager, sysop of Lager BBS (phone:
- +46-(0)141-213636) for betatesting. Thanx! If you want to reach me
- (for reporting bugs etc.) you can send e-mail to me at this address:
- olaek321@student.liu.se (valid at least to January 1998) or if you
- have access to FidoNet at 2:204/255 (I don't think that FidoNet
- accepts swedish characters so you will probably have to substitute
- 'ö' with an 'o'). I can also be reached at above mentioned BBS.
-
- Hope you will find PLSTsearch usefull! / Ola Ekström, 19 Oct 1997.
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