Disc Passage

DiscPassage for Macintosh 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 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 afloppy 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 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 About DiscPassage DiscPassage is a program which provides a menu-driven user interface for accessing the information on your CD-ROM. DiscPassage provides various means of accessing CD-ROM data, including a hierarchical "Contents" menu and "Search" and "Browse" facilities. In addition, DiscPassage offers facilities for displaying graphic images, printing text and images, playing sounds (if the CD-ROM has audio content) and copying text to user-named files. DiscPassage will run properly only if there is a DiscPassage CD-ROM in the CD drive. DiscPassage CD- ROMs have the word "DiscPassage" or the word "CMC" printed on the CD-ROM or the CD-ROM jewel box. Once DiscPassage has been installed on your hard drive, use the same installation to access all your DiscPassage CD-ROMs. Features 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 quali…