S E E K E A S Y --------------- OVERVIEW SeekEasy is an easy-to-use "FUZZY-LOGIC" text-finding program. It scans your disk files, finding text that even APPROXIMATELY matches what you asked for, and displays what it finds in "best-matches-shown-first" order. It neatly solves those "I KNOW it's in here SOMEWHERE!..." situations. With SeekEasy, you don't have to remember the exact wording or spelling of the text in the file you're trying to find. If your requested text is even CLOSE, SeekEasy will find the file! For example, if a file somewhere on your disk holds the text "...THE TRUNK OF THE ELEPHANT IS...", SeekEasy can find it even if your request is for "EPHALANT'S TRUNQ." Typical applications: finding all your source code files - perhaps created over many years - that reference a function name you now wish to change; finding the filename of a year-old letter to your Uncle Mort when you don't remember exactly the name you used in the letter; etc. SeekEasy can search through one file, or up to all the files on an entire drive. Matched text is displayed along with its file name. The "probable match" words are highlighted, and twelve lines of the file around the matched words shown for context. The display window may be scrolled forward and backward through the file to show more surrounding text. SeekEasy will scan ALL file types - word-processor, database, even ".COM" and ".EXE" files if desired. It can be told which filenames or filetypes to ignore and/or to always include in the search. It has many default settings of this type that are user-customizable through simple menus. Please note: SeekEasy will FIND text, but it won't ALTER it - you must use the appropriate word processor, database program, etc. for that. SOME DETAILED FEATURES OF SEEKEASY - It will handle files of any length. It displays 12 lines of a file on the screen at once, and you can scroll the 12-line window through the entire file if you wish, a line or a screen at a time. - If so instructed, it will search one file, all the files in a directory, a directory and all its "child" directories, or a whole drive's worth of files. It will also search through specific files on a list, and/or skip files on another list you can set up within SeekEasy. For example, SeekEasy can be set to automatically search, say, "REFERENC.TXT," plus all "*.LST" files, while skipping over a particular file named "BIGFILE.LST". And these choices can be saved as the "default" mode of operation. - SeekEasy will search floppy disks, hard disks, CD-ROM drives, etc. - At the end of a search, SeekEasy shows you the items it found in "best- matches-first" order - the highest-scoring (as evaluated by its fuzzy- logic matching algorithms) block of text is shown first, then the next-highest-scoring, etc. - You can mark blocks of text that SeekEasy has found, then send the blocks of text out to a printer or a disk file, for reviewing later. - SeekEasy is highly customizable. Defaults can be set specifying the files to search, search mode, turning beeps on or off, printer port to use, screen colors, etc., etc. - all through simple menu choices. - SeekEasy does not use up valuable disk space with index files, as do cross-referencing programs. - Wherever it makes sense, each screen in SeekEasy has one or more pages of Help Screens behind it, available at the press of the F1 key. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SeekEasy runs on virtually any IBM PC or clone. All it needs is MS-DOS 2.0 or higher, 256K of RAM, any color or monochrome display, and a serial or parallel printer port if you wish to make printouts. SeekEasy also runs under Windows 3.0, and a "SEEKEASY.PIF" file is included on the disk to enhance its operation under Windows. ORDERING DETAILS CHOICE #1: SeekEasy is distributed as SHAREWARE. The full registration fee is just $39.95. For this you receive a disk with the latest SeekEasy program version, a full user's manual - including many "performance optimizing" tips available nowhere else, and unlimited telephone support for SeekEasy-related questions. Also, as a registered user you are notified when significant upgrades to SeekEasy are available, and receive special low pricing for those upgrades. CHOICE #2: For $5.00, we'll mail you a disk with the full program and a short-form manual on it, so you can try SeekEasy and see if you like it. You will not be a registered user. We'll help you install it if required, but we can't provide any support beyond that until you register. If you first try the $5.00 disk, then decide to register your copy, note that the $5.00 you paid for the unregistered version is not applicable towards the $39.95 registration fee. CHOICE #3: You may download the same files as those on the $5.00 disk, free of charge, directly from the Correlation Systems Bulletin Board System (BBS) at (310) 547-2870 (1200/2400 baud, 24 hours a day - downloads use the XMODEM protocol). Again, we can't give you significant SeekEasy support until you actually register your copy. In any event, please feel free to use the BBS to leave us messages or questions and to pick up our replies. It's a very easy-to-use BBS, dedicated solely to SeekEasy topics. The BBS is actually our preferred way of receiving questions - you can leave questions any time of day or night, we can generate the answers when the right people are available, then leave the answers for you to pick up when it's convenient for you. ORDER FORM SeekEasy Version 7.04 TO ORDER: Please fill out the following form. Include either $39.95 or $5.00 (California residents also add sales tax; for orders from outside the USA, add $10.00). All payment must be in U.S. funds. Prices already include postage and handling. If you have any questions, call our voice line at (310) 833-3462, 10AM- 6PM, California time, or have your modem call our computer BBS at (310) 547-2870 anytime. Send cash, check, or money-order (no credit-card orders) to: Correlation Systems P.O. 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