===============================VIEW.DOC======================================== USING THIS DISC AND THE VIEW PROGRAM For better accessibility of this cdrom, we at Walnut Creek developed a browsing program called "View." Located in the root directory, this "View" program allows the user to traverse through the directories and examine all the file descriptions on the cdrom. The view program in general searches for files, extracts and uncompresses them from the cdrom onto the user's hard drive. To use the view program from MS-DOS, change the current drive to your CD-ROM drive. Type "VIEW" at the root directory and press enter to start the program. To use the view program from MS-Windows, use the "Run" option under Program Manager. Assuming the cdrom drive is accessed through "D:", type "D:\view.exe" into the command line box and click on the "OK" button. The view program can also be accessed through the File Manager. For information on how to use the File Manager, please consult the MS-Windows manual. Once started, the view program displays a listing of the directories of the cdrom along with their content descriptions. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor bar up and down the list to select the desired directory. Pressing ENTER on any of the entries will bring the program into that directory. (To return back to the directory listing, press the ESCAPE key.) Once inside a directory, the view program then displays an index of filenames along with the file descriptions in that particular subdirectory. Here the view program allows the user to read text files, uncompress archived files, and copy files onto other disk drives. To read a text file from the file index menu, position the cursor bar onto the file entry and press ENTER. The view program will open up the text file, and will allow the user to read and scroll through the document. While scrolling through a text file, searching of a text string is accomplished by pressing the key 'S'. (The key 'R' searches a string in the reverse direction.) To return back to the file index menu after reading the text file, press the ESCAPE key. To uncompress an archived file from the index menu, select the file entry with the cursor bar and press ENTER. In general, archived files have names that end with the file extension ".zip", ".arc", or ".zoo". After selecting an archived file for extracting, a "destination query" screen will appear to ask for the directory where the archived file is to be uncompressed. A default destination directory will be already suggested by the view program, printed and highlighted in the destination box. Press ENTER here to use the default directory, or modify the default entry before pressing ENTER. The user may also scroll through some "suggested" default directories by using the down-cursor key. Once the ENTER key is pressed, the view program will then create the destination directory if it doesn't already exist, and begin to uncompress the archived file into that directory. After the archived file is successfully uncompressed, the view program then displays another index menu similar the previous one based on the files extracted from the archive. Here most of the "readme" files and text files extracted are be labeled as documentations on the right side. Use the cursor bar to select these files to open them for viewing. Extracted files that have ".bat", ".com", or ".exe" as extensions are executable files and are labeled as such on the right side. Selecting these files will run these applications on top of the view program. If wished, the extracted files can be removed from the hard drive at this point by pressing the keys "Alt-R". To return back to the first index menu, press the ESC key. To copy a file from the index menu, again highlight the file entry with the cursor bar, and press the 'C' key. A screen similar to that from the archive uncompressing process will appear asking the user for a destination. Enter the desired directory name where the file is to be placed, and press ENTER. The view program then copies the file to the destination directory, and returns back to the file index menu. You can also perform all of the above functions on the Global Index File. To jump into the Global Index File mode, press the keys "Alt-G". You will now be viewing the global index containing all of the files on both discs. You can search, view, and unzip from this one large index file instead of having to enter multiple directories. At any stage of the program, hitting the ESC key always brings the user back to the previous state -- so don't worry about accidentally hitting a wrong key. The On-line help is also provided at all stages of the program. Pressing the '?' key any time can bring up the help screen. =============================================================================== Trouble Shooting: Due to memory problems and the restrictions of other software, the view program may at times conflict with other applications when running them on top of itself. Whenever any newly uncompressed program retrieved from the cdrom doesn't run from the interactive file menu, please try running it directly from MS-DOS or MS-Windows. And in most cases, a shareware program usually comes with its own documentations and instructions. These instructions are normally stored in files such as "readme.txt". Please read all documentation included with a file before running a program. Doing so will prevent the occurrence of common problems that many users often encounter. =============================================================================== We hope that this view program will further improve the usability and the quality of our cdroms. Comments, suggestions, and criticisms are greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for using Walnut Creek CDROM products. =============================================================================== 1-800-786-9907 (US and Canada only) Walnut Creek CDROM 1-510-674-0783 1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260 1-510-674-0821 (fax) Walnut Creek, CA 94596 info@cdrom.com (e-mail) USA ===============================VIEW.DOC======================================== .