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.