CD Catalogist Help

Welcome to CD Catalogist v.0.98

1. Overview: CD Catalogist is a tiny program, which can be used for fast searches when you are looking for a file that is on a CD of your CD collection. It supports databases, called `catalogues', which contain index to your files on the CD collection, so when you type the name of the file, or just a part of its name, the program immediately shows you on which CD the file is.

2. Simple Usage Example: You have about 25 CDs with MP3s, and you are urgently looking for certain mp3. You type the name of that mp3, and the program shows you on whics CD(s) the mp3(s) is/are.

3. Features:
* Easy and intuitive interface
* Partial name search
* Case sensitive or case insensitive search
* Supports as many catalogues as you want
* Adds new CDs to the catalogue very easy
* Never adds a mp3 that is already in the list.

4. `File' Menu:
- Open Catalog: lets you choose a catalog to search or add to. (hint: if you type a catalogue name that does not exist, it will be created as empty catalogue)
- Save Now: Saves the catalog data immediately
- Options: A little configuration settings
- Exit: if the `save on exit' option is turned on, saves the catalogue and then exits

5. `Edit' Menu:
- Add CD: push the CD in your drive, type the CD label you want to be displayed later when searching, and click on the `ADD CD' button.

6. Bugs:
- If a file exists on several CDs it will be added twice; note that you will still see that the file sizes are equal
- Does not detect which is your CD drive; you must configure this yourself.

7. Contacting the author: Write to me at vessko@ArcticMail.com for bugs, suggestions and improvements.

8. Product license: freeware

9. Additional notes: linux rules.