Copyright: AmiFind Installer Copyright® 1994 Matt Ginzton


AmiFind Installer

Installer v1.20 for AmiFind v1.20

Copyright 1994 Matt Ginzton, MaDdoG Software

This program is used to install AmiFind into a directory of your choice, and optionally create a program item in Program Manager or a menu item in AmiPro that will directly launch AmiFind.

For more information on any Installer options, position the cursor or focus (gray dotted rectangle) on that option, and press F1.

Quick install instructions

How to use the Installer

Help on Help

More information on AmiFind

What the Installer does (technical info)


Quick install instructions

See also:

Set the Install To directory to wherever you want AmiFind to be; the default setting should work fine.  The Install From directory setting can be left alone unless you get an error message when you try to install; if this happens, then set Install From to the current location of the AmiFind files.

Now, select Install AmiFind Now!  Files will be copied to the Install To directory.

After file copying is complete, you will be given choices on how to easily access AmiFind.

If you want an "AmiFind..." option to appear in your AmiPro file menu, select Autoinstall in AmiPro File Menu.  If you want an AmiFind icon in Program Manager, select Add AmiFind to Program Manager and select the name of the group you would like it to appear in from the dropdown list.

If you have the registered version of AmiFind, customize it with your name.

That's it!


INSTALLER OPTIONS
AmiFind Installer options:

Install from:

Install to:

Autoinstall in AmiPro file menu

Add AmiFind to Program Manager

Install AmiFind Now!

Exit Installer


Install from

The Install From directory should be set to the directory that currently contains the AmiFind files.  If you are installing from a floppy, this will be A:\ or B:\.  If you are installing from a hard drive, select the directory where the Installer is located.


Install to

The Install Into Directory tells Installer where to put the AmiFind files after the install.  You can set this option to any directory; if you enter a directory that does not exist, Installer will create the directory.  I suggest either the AmiPro directory (the default) or a separate AmiFind directory.

The Delete Originals option tells AmiFind whether to move or copy the files.  If you are installing from a network or floppy drive, this option will be automatically deselected, because in these cases you probably want the original files to remain on the disk.  If you are installing from a hard drive, this option will be selected because you probably already have another copy of the AmiFind files on a floppy disk or in a ZIP file.  Then, when Installer copies the files to the Install To directory, it deletes the files from their original locations so that you do not have two copies of AmiFind on your hard drive using up disk space.


AUTOINSTALL IN AMIPRO MENU
Autoinstall in AmiPro File menu

This option creates a macro that loads automatically every time AmiPro is run, that adds an "AmiFind..." option to your File menu.

The only reason that you would not want Installer to do this is if you do not want an AmiFind command in your menu, or if you already have an Autoexec macro and do not want Installer changing it.

In the latter case, you can deselect this option and add the line "CALL AddFindr.SMM!AddFinder" to your existing program load macro.


Add AmiFind to Program Manager

Select this option if you would like Installer to create an AmiFind icon in any specified group in Program Manager.

Simply select the Add option and then click the down arrow and select the name of one of your existing groups to create the AmiFind icon.  If you want to create a new group for AmiFind, type the name in the text field next to the down arrow.


INSTALL AMIFIND NOW
Install AmiFind now!

Once you have all other options selected to your liking, choose Install AmiFind Now! to perform the installation.

The program files will be copied to the selected directory, and if you so selected AmiFind will be added to Program Manager or the AmiPro file menu.


Exit Install

Ends the Installer.  If the install was successful, and if you selected Delete Originals, you will be given the option to remove the install program and this help file, since their function is now completed.

See also:

Delete Originals


Delete Originals

If you select Delete Originals, the AmiFind files will be moved -- instead of copied -- from the Install From directory to the Install To directory.

If you are installing from a floppy disk, do not disable Delete Originals.

If you are installing from unZipped files on your hard drive (ie after a modem download), you may want to enable Delete Originals to avoid having two sets of AmiFind files on your drive.


How to use the Installer

See also:

The following are detailed instructions on the use of Installer.

Installer copies files from their current location to a directory of your choice, and optionally makes it easier for you to access AmiFind.

First, make sure that the Install From directory is set to the current location of the AmiFind files (it should be, unless you ran Installer from a different directory).

Next, set the Install To directory to wherever you want the AmiFind files to end up.  The default is your AmiPro directory, which is not a bad choice since there are only 3 files required by AmiFind.  Selecting Delete Originals will cause Installer to move, rather than copy, the files from their current location to the new location.  This option defaults to off when installing from a floppy or network drive, or on when installing from a fixed hard drive.

Now click Install AmiFind Now! and you're off!

After files are copied, you will be given choices on how you want to be able to easily access AmiFind.  Choose one or both:

Select Autoinstall in AmiPro File Menu if you want an "AmiFind..." option to appear in the File Menu of AmiPro.  To do this, Installer has to create a new Autoexec macro, so if you already have an Autoexec macro, you can stop Installer from doing this and insert the line "Exec AddFindr.SMM" at the end of your current Autoexec macro.

The Add AmiFind to Program Manager creates a new program item in the group of your choice (you can only do this if Program Manager is running).  Press the down arrow and select one of your existing groups to add AmiFind to, or type the name of a new group.

If you have the registered version of AmiFind, customize it with your name.

That's it!  Exit the installer; to access AmiFind use any of the methods that you enabled above.


AmiFind Overview

AmiFind is designed to help you quickly and easily located "lost" files, created by Ami Pro and, to a lesser degree, other programs.

The idea in AmiFind is to locate your files based on the minimum amount of information you remember about a file that you saved perhaps years ago.  If you have any idea how you named or described the file, you can find it quickly; you can even search the document text itself, although this takes much longer.

AmiFind enables you to locate a file based on its name, date (of creation or last modification), description, keywords, or contents.  Remember a few letters of the filename?  How about a word from the description, or one of the keywords?  Even a general idea of the last time you accessed the file, or when it was created, will help find the file.  Finally, you can search through the text of your files, finding words in the main body.  And of course AmiFind has powerful wildcard and pattern-matching capabilities.

Once you have entered all information about the file that you remember, called search criteria, you are presented with a list of all matching files.  At this point, you can print the list of files, or copy it to the Windows clipboard.  You can view the document description, or the entire Doc Info window, just like in Ami Pro.  Or, you can load one ore many files into Ami Pro for easy editing, or print any files you want.  All without leaving AmiFind!

Go ahead.  Try it out for a week, or two.  Take a month.  At the end of this time, if you find AmiFind to be a useful addition to your collection of software tools, please register it.  Otherwise, delete it, or pass it on for a friend to try.  Enjoy!


What the Installer does

Technical info

The Installer first copies the Program file (AMIFIND.EXE), the Help file (AMIFIND.HLP), and, if you opt to install AmiFind into AmiPro's File menu, the Macro file (ADDFINDR.SMM), into the directory specified as "Install into".  (Installer expects to find all these files in the "Install from" directory.)

If you have the registered version of AmiFind, the file AMIFIND.DLL will be copied to your Windows System directory (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM).  This file improves AmiFind's speed when searching directories for eligible files.

If you received AmiFind on a disk containing VBRUN300.DLL (the Visual Basic runtime library), and VBRUN300.DLL is not present in your Windows System directory, it will be copied there (AmiFind, like any other program written in Visual Basic, requires this file).

If the Delete Originals box is checked, the files will be moved; otherwise, they will be copied.  This is for ease of installation after a download: if you download the ZIP file and extract it, then install with Delete Originals selected, you won't have multiple (extra) copies of the AmiFind files.

If any AmiFind files exist in the "Install into" directory, you will be prompted before Installer overwrites them.  (You will be told whether the existing version is older, newer, or dated the same.)

Then, if you selected "Add AmiFind to Program Manager," an icon for AmiFind will be created, in the specified group.  If the group does not exist, it will be created.

Finally, if you selected "Autoinstall into AmiPro File menu," and if the macro file was successfully copied, Installer will force ADDFINDR.SMM to be run each time you load AmiPro.  This is done in one of several ways:

1	If you have no current Program Load macro in AmiPro, Installer makes ADDFINDR.SMM!AddFinder your Program Load macro.  ADDFINDR.SMM adds an AmiFind... command to the File Menu.

2	If your AmiPro Program Load macro is AUTORUN.SMM or _AUTORUN.SMM, Lotus' macros that allow multiple Program Load macros, Installer adds ADDFINDR.SMM!AddFinder to the end of AMIAUTO.CFG (located in the Windows directory), and deletes any existing references to ADDFINDR.SMM.

3	If you have any other macro specified as Program Load in AmiPro, Installer saves this value (in WIN.INI, under the [AmiFind] heading, with the key Old Program Load Macro).  The Program Load macro is then set to ADDFINDR.SMM!AddFinderChain.  The AddFinderChain portion of the macro adds an AmiFind... command to the File menu in AmiPro, then calls the old program load macro.

Uninstallation

If you want to un-install AmiFind, the process to take depends on how it was installed.  If a Program Manager icon was created, delete it.  If you installed AmiFind into the AmiPro File menu, you must either remove the reference to ADDFINDR.SMM from AMIAUTO.CFG (located in the Windows directory), or change the Program Load macro in AmiPro (in the Tools/User Setup dialog) to the value specified in WIN.INI, under the [AmiFind] heading, key name "Old Program Load Macro" (which method you take depends on if you use the _AUTORUN macro; see above section for details).

After the above steps are carried out, if necessary, the program, help, and macro files can be deleted.  The [AmiFind] section can be removed from WIN.INI.


HOW DO YOU WANT TO RUN AMIFIND
How do you want to run AmiFind?

This dialog gives you options on how to integrate AmiFind smoothly into your system.  You can do either, or both:

•	Install AmiFind into the File menu of Ami Pro.  That way, when you are working in Ami Pro, file finding is only a menu selection away.

•	Create an icon for AmiFind in the Program Manager.  This gives you easy access to AmiFind when you aren't in Ami Pro.

For more information, see:

Autoinstall in AmiPro File menu

Add AmiFind to Program Manager


AmiPro

Superb Windows word processor.  AmiFind is designed to work with files created by AmiPro.  AmiPro is copyright Lotus Development Corporation.