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CD SCAN Version 3.00
Copyright (c) 1992, 1993
By Joseph Dunn.
All rights reserved.
USER MANUAL
26 January 1993
CONTENTS
Chapter Page
CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Credits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1 Installation and System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 How Cd Scan Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3 Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4 Entering a New Cd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5 Exiting Cd Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6 Browsing Your Cd Collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1 Re-sorting the Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6.2 Deleting a Cd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7 Displaying a Cd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.1 Editing a Cd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8 Tagging Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
9 Searching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
10 Print Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.1 Printing the Cd Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.2 Printing the Full Catalogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10.3 Printing a Text File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10.4 Determining the Output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10.5 Printer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
11 Utilities Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
11.1 Optimising the Data File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
11.2 Undeleting Cds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
11.3 Merging Catalogues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
11.4 Rebuild Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
11.5 Calculating Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
12 Errors and Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Final Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Foreword
This project has taken over a year of hard work to complete. I
would like to express my appreciation of your registration of
this software.
A bit about me: I am a blind student studying at The Flinders
University of South Australia. I enjoy listening to music,
playing drums and being a friend. I hope to complete my B.SC.
degree and major in Computer Science and use this as a basis
to go on writing software to aid the disabled.
Credits
Special thanks to:
- The Lord Jesus Christ who is my inspiration and saviour,
to whom I owe everything. (Psalm 139, Colossians 3:17)
- To my family for their support and patience,
- To Rohan Lewis for suggestions and testing of this version
and for the publication of the print manual,
- To Tony Galliford for his help with colour choices, the
coding for the mouse support routines and the
preparation of this manual,
- To Mark George for his help with testing this version,
- To Darrin Smith for his help with debugging some tricky
pieces of code,
- To you for choosing this software.
IBM is a registered trademark of International Business
Machines Corporation. Introduction
Cd Scan is a powerful music cataloguing system specifically
designed for cataloguing a compact disk collection. The
program has been designed with specific goals in mind: I
wanted quick access to any track in my collection, I wanted
an efficient means of browsing titles and artists, to be able
to calculate times for recording purposes and to readily be
able to print lists of either full cd data or just artist and
title lists.
Up to 2000 cds each containing up to 40 tracks may be
accommodated on this version.
The program includes a powerful and flexible search facility
and a quick scan browse facility which allows the index to be
sorted by either the cd title or the artist name at the press
of a key. The program also includes a facility to print a
short or long form listing of all compact disks.
You will never have to guess how many tracks can fit on the
side of a tape again because Cd Scan also gives you the
ability to calculate track times for recording purposes and a
special "Pasting" function is available to aid in creating
cassette labels.
A Utilities Menu offers maintenance features like rebuilding
the index if it is corrupted or accidentally deleted,
Optimisation to ensure the most efficient access to your cd
collection, the ability to merge two catalogues together and
a function to calculate some statistics about your collection
like average track time etc.
You may also "lock" Cd Scan so that if you are using it in a
library or other public display, data may be protected from
unauthorised editing. 1 Installation and System Requirements
To run Cd Scan you need an IBM compatible with at least 384k
ram and DOS 2.11 or later. A hard disk is recommended for
fastest and most reliable performance. Cd Scan is distributed
on a single floppy disk. The files on this disk should be
placed in a directory by themselves. For the uninitiated, a
directory is a place on the disk which contains files
belonging to a particular group, i.e. all these files belong
to Cd Scan and therefore should be placed in an area by
themselves to distinguish there function from say your word
processor files. To make a directory and place Cd Scan into
it do the following:
1. Exit any application you may be running and get to the
DOS prompt. It may look something like:
C>
2. From this point type:
CD\
(after pressing Enter) type:
MD CD-SCAN
(after pressing Enter), type:
CD\CD-SCAN
(and press Enter again).
3. Place the disk with the Cd Scan files on it into drive A
and type:
COPY A:\*.*
then press Enter again.
4. Once you have been returned to the DOS prompt, you may
run Cd Scan by typing the command:
CDS
See your DOS manual about creating batch files if you wish to
run Cd Scan from a batch file or see the appropriate
documentation if you wish to run Cd Scan from a menu program.
I have included a sample batch file which can be typed in from
the DOS prompt to run Cd Scan from any directory and which
will start Cd Scan up in monochrome mode. (To start it up in
colour mode just omit the -m command line option.) I am
assuming you have a subdirectory for your batch files called
C:\BATS.
cd\bats
copy con cds.Bat
@echo off
cls
c:
cd\cd-scan
cds -m
cd\
^z
(The last line is a Ctrl-z.) 2 How Cd Scan Works
Cd Scan maintains two special files on disk, one contains the
main text of the compact disk data and the other is an
electronic index for quick access to the cds. This file
basically contains a reference pointer for all cds. You, the
user will not directly come in to contact with either files
but you must be made aware of their presence and warned not
to modify, move or delete these special data files. Cd scan
also creates text files for printing or editing and these will
be discussed in a later section.
3 Getting Started
Cd Scan supports both Monochrome and colour monitors. If you
wish to start Cd Scan in monochrome mode, suitable for a black
and white monitor or a lap-top, add the -m command line option
to start the program up appropriately.
To run Cd Scan in "Locked" mode, add the -l command line
option. In "Locked" mode, you will not be permitted to modify
any data whatsoever.
Run Cd Scan by typing the appropriate command, e.g. cds -l -m,
or by choosing it from your menu system.
Your screen will clear and a menu box will appear in the
middle of your screen with the option "3 Browse Cd Index"
highlighted. By pressing the up and down cu