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Searcher V 01/24/93
This program, as far as I know, requires WINDOWS 3.1. It
also requires that you have the Arial and MS SansSerif
fonts installed. If you did a normal WINDOWS installation,
then these files are already installed.
To install this program, either run the included setup
program under Windows or do the installation manually. Manual
installation is performed by copying the SEARCHER.EXE File to a
directory of your choice. You will also have to copy the
VBRUN200.DLL and the GAUGE.VBX files into the WINDOWS system
directory. Then add the program to a program manager group of
your choice.
This program is composed of the following files:
SEARCHER.EXE located (by default) in C:\SEARCHER.
SEARCHER.INI located in the WINDOWS directory.
VBRUN200.DLL located in the WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory.
GAUGE.VBX located in the WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory.
SEARCHER.GRP located in the WINDOWS directory
The program will generate SEARCHER.INI in the WINDOWS directory
when it is run for the first time. VBRUN200.DLL may already be
installed on your system by other programs.
I wrote this program to help me locate files in the various
bulletin board file lists that I have. You can enter (or
pick) files to scan and enter a string and the program will
attempt to locate files with the string in the name or
description. If you double click on a description line in
the big window, the program attempts to extract the file
name to the smaller file window in the upper right corner
of the program window. When you are finished searching for
file names, click the Clipboard button and the contents of
the small window will be copied into the clipboard. If this
is done while you are connected to a BBS via a WINDOWS comm
program, you can generally select a command for batch
download and then do an Edit Paste or press Shift Insert to
paste the filenames so that they may be downloaded. The
exact procedures for this will be determined by both the
BBS that you call and the comm program that you are using.
As the program searches, the name of the file that it is
currently working on is displayed in the title bar and the
progress through the file is displayed on the bargraph at
the bottom of the program window.
The following information is also in the help box in the program.
This program will scan selected filenames for search strings
and place those lines into a window where the filenames can be
extracted from them. It is primarily intended to be used to search
BBS download file lists for a specific string and extract those
filenames that it locates to the clipboard. This information can
then be pasted to your comm program to download those files.
Search Path - File specification to search
Search String - String to search all files for
Browse Button - Select file specification
Start/Stop Button - Start/Stop search process
Exit Button - Leave program
Clipboard Button - copy filenames in small box to clipboard
Large file box - Lines from the files described by searchpath that
contain the search string are displayed here. Double clicking a line
will attempt to extract the file name to the small box in the upper
right corner.
Should you find this program useful, I would appreciate a donation of
$10.00. This would encourage me to continue to develop this program
and others. Should you feel inclined to make a donation, send it to:
Tandy Penn
3306 Daisy Circle
Richardson, Tx. 75082
I also my be contacted by leaving a message in the FIDONET WINDOWS
conference.
LIMIT OF LIABILITY
Searcher is distributed as-is. The author disclaims all warranties,
expressed or implied. The author will assume no liability for damages
either from the direct use of this product or as a consequence of the
use of this product.
Searcher may be used by any private individual or non-commercial
organization for any purpose. You may distribute it to
anyone, and you may place it on any archive or bulletin board system for
wider access. You may not charge anyone for it other than a reasonable fee to
cover your distribution costs.
This program is written with Visual Basic 2.0 from Microsoft
Visual Basic and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.