

aaReadMe.1st - Macintosh DiscPassage

This document contains the following information:
	. System Requirements for running DiscPassage
	. Installing and Using DiscPassage
	. Features
	. Troubleshooting
	. Some commonly encountered problems


System Requirements for the Macintosh
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DiscPassage requires:
	. A Macintosh Plus, SE, SE/30, II (any model), Classic, LC,
or IIsi with CD-ROM drive.
	. About 350K of available space on your hard drive or on a
floppy drive.  A hard drive is strongly recommended. 
	. System software 6.0.5 or greater, Foreign File Access and
ISO 9660 File Access in your System folder and driver software
for your CD-ROM drive in your System folder. For instance, if you
have an AppleCD SC drive, the init is named "Apple CD-ROM."  
	. A minimum of 2 MB of RAM (2.5MB for System 7). 
	. Color images require a color monitor; they are displayed
in 640x480 resolution in 256 colors.  You need to have 32-bit
QuickDraw in your System Folder.  Images automatically convert to
black and white for the SE, Plus, and Classic. 
	. DiscPassage operates under Finder or Multi-Finder environments,
as well as System 7.


Installing & Using DiscPassage
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To install the DiscPassage application, insert the floppy diskette
(or CD-ROM), and open the Desktop.  Drag the icon labelled "DiscPassage"
to the area on your hard drive where you wish to install it.
	. Launch DiscPassage by getting to the hard drive, then double click
on its icon. 
	. DiscPassage first presents you with a database selection menu
representing databases on the disc.
	. Selecting a database by double-clicking will display the
contents for this database.  You can navigate the disc by searching
or browsing from the menu bar or traversing the hierarchically
structured contents windows. 
	. An item with a folder icon to the left of the entry indicates that
there are levels beneath this.  Individual entries which can be called
up directly will be labelled by one of these types of icons:  

	T                     text file
	smiley face     image
	audio speaker  audio selection


Features
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DiscPassage offers powerful search and retrieval features, including:

	. The File menu allows you to Save text and images, Print
text or images, fine tune Image quality (for black and white systems),
get comprehensive on-line Help, Eject the DiscPassage disc, see which
Discs are available, or Quit.
	. The Edit menu provides basic text editing functions including Cut,
Copy, Paste, Clear and Select All.
	. The Format menu on the main menu bar supports various operations
on text files.  Once a region of text has been highlighted, you can
change its font, point-size, and style.  Text files are saved in Microsoft
Word format. Format does not affect files on the CD.
	. The Document menu shows you the entries for images, audio, or text
files related to the file you are viewing.  
	. The Search menu lets you perform on-line searching on various
indexes:  Words, Authors, Titles and Subjects.  You may search for phrases,
wildcards, proximity and combine search terms with the AND, OR, or NOT
boolean operators.  See on-line Help for more information.  Click on the
Titles button to see the titles of the documents matching your search
criteria.
	. Browse lists every word of every document on the disc and the
number of documents that contain the word.  Click on the Titles button to
see the titles of these documents.  You may cut and copy a word found in
browse to the Search template, and build phrases this way.
	. The Find menu allows you to search a document for a search or browse
term or any word or phrase you are looking for.


Troubleshooting
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Installation of the DiscPassage software should be easy.  Problems may
arise, however, with installation of the CD-ROM unit and its drivers. 
Be sure you have the proper inits in your System folder (they have to
be inside the System folder or they will not get installed at system
startup). 

You need to have the following:

	. System Software 6.0.5 or greater, Foreign File Access and
ISO 9660 File Access inits
	. An init supporting the type of CD-ROM you have, for example:
AppleCD-ROM init
	. 32-bit QuickDraw, if you have a color system 
	. You should see an icon for the CD-ROM disc on the desktop. If
you don't, the system is not mounting the drive properly.  Check to be
sure your SCSI cable is securely connected and there are not multiple
devices assigned to the same SCSI address.  If trouble persists, check
the SCSI termination.


Some commonly encountered problems
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	. An Apple CD-ROM drive requires the Apple CD-ROM init
version 2.0 or greater to properly mount ISO-formatted CD-ROMs. 
	. If your CD-ROM disc is not mounting on the desktop
consistently, you may have an init conflict.  Be sure to only
install the init for the CD-ROM drive you are using, and hide the
others (create a folder inside your System Folder to save them).
	. Other inits besides drivers may conflict with your CD-ROM
inits.
	. "The selected index is not available on this Disc"  You must
be in a text database to access indexes.  Some discs, as well as some
databases, do not have indexes associated with them.

See the READ.ME file on the root of your CD-ROM drive for more
up-to-date information on the software.  Be sure to install software
from the floppy, if you received one.
