Welcome to Slides! 
                                                                           
Slides is a self-contained Windows Screen Saver that reads images and other
types of media from your computer and displays them using various effects. 
Its main purpose, however, is to illustrate the robustness of the Image 
Commander product. 

USES FOR SLIDES:
One way to use Slides as a screen saver is to set the Directories path to a 
CDROM drive that has alot of images and/or video clips. For instance, 
if you have a Photo CD or the MS Video for Windows CD in drive D:, set the 
Database/Directories field to D:\*.*.

If you have any version of Image Commander, Slides can use one of its databases
for displayed images.

You can specify certain formats that Slides will search for by use DOS file 
masks. 
For example:
C:\IMGCDR\DATA\*.PCX;*.GIF;*.TIF

This entry will cause Slides to display all PCX, GIF and TIFF files found in 
the C:\IMGCDR\DATA directory. You can also specify that subdirectories be 
searched by checking the appropriate box in the configuration window.

IMAGE COMMANDER:
Image Commander archives and catalogs various types of media into central 
databases (*.DCF) providing a thumbnail representation of each in order to 
quickly identify and locate image files. DCF databases are constructed using 
a variety of compression methods based on the type and nature of the media 
in order to optimize storage space. 

This unique feature allows you to combine image, sound and document data into 
one file while using the best compression method unique to each (i.e. JPEG, 
ADCPM, and LZW).

Image Commander allows maximum flexibility to manipulate your images via 
Drag-n-Drop, Microsoft Mail integration, Scanner support and many other 
streamlined features designed to take the hassle out of managing graphics files.

The sample database provided with Slides (SAMPLE.DCF) contains a small 
representation of the types of data Image Commander is capable of supporting. 

Although Slides was designed to work off databases created using Image 
Commander, you can configure it to continually scan any and all directories on 
you hard disk and use all supported images that it finds.

***NEW***
Image Commander 2.0 introduces ZIP file support allowing you to view and manage 
ZIP files as in they were DCF databases. This means you can produce a thumbnail
representation of the contents of your ZIP files and easily locate specific 
files amounts a sea of compressed data!

To obtain more information regarding the Image Commander line of products 
please contact:

DataCal Corporation
531 East Elliot rd
Chandler, AZ. 85225
(800) 237-6206
(800) 545-8090  FAX

Slides is currently not available as a separate product although it will 
continue to be an integral part of future Image Commander versions. If you 
have trouble running Slides or would like to report a bug, please do not 
call DataCal. Instead, contact:

Windswept Software
118 Alcott Rd.
E. Falmouth, Ma. 02536
(508) 540-5458 (508) 540-3440 FAX
76307,2411 CIS

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Since Slides is designed as demonstration product, you may distribute it freely. 

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Neither DataCal nor Windswept Software will accept 
responsibility for any damage or loss resulting from its use.
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