RADFind 96 BETA 3
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Thank you for testing RADFind 96! I hope that you will 
find RADFind 96 to be a useful and productive utility 
for your daily file management chores.

This section of the readme file will explain to you 
the essentials of how to use RADFind 96 effectively.

(1) RADFind 96 is activated by a pressing a user 
defined 'hot key' from within any Edit control in 
Windows 95.

(2) RADFind 96 can also be activated by clicking on 
its 'tray' icon. The 'tray' icon is located in a 
recessed region on the extreme right-hand side of your 
Windows 95 taskbar. RADFind 96's tray icon is a 
magnifying glass over a file.

(3) The default value of the 'hot key' is F12. You can 
customize this setting at any time by selecting the 
Set Hot Key menu option from the File menu.

(4) Once you have activated RADFind 96 by pressing 
it's hot key, or clicking on its tray icon, you simply 
type in the name of the file that you wish to search 
for.

(5) You can use any valid combination of DOS wildcard 
characters to help in your search.

    The ? symbol will match any SINGLE character in a 
filename.
    The * symbol will match one or more characters in 
a filename.
    
For example, suppose that we only have the following 
files on your hard disk:

    abc.txt
    aac.txt
    bcc.txt
    def.exe

(i)   If you type in abc.txt, you will only find the 
abc.txt file.

(ii)  If you type a?c.txt, you will find abc.txt and 
aac.txt.

(iii) If you type ??c.txt, you will find abc.txt, 
aac.txt and bcc.txt.

(iv) If you type *.txt, you will find abc.txt, aac.txt 
and bcd.txt.

(v)  If you type *, you will find all the files.

(6) You can search for all files under a specific 
subdirectory on your hard drive by entering a pathname 
before the filename that you are looking for. RADFind 
96 will search the subdirectory and all of its 
subdirectories for matching files.

For example,

(i)  c:\windows\*.dll

will return all DLL's in your windows directory, and 
all of the subdirectories under the windows directory 
on drive c.

(ii) c:*.exe

will return all EXE's on drive c.

(iii) *.exe

will return all EXE's on all of your local hard disks.


KNOWN ISSUES
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RADFind 96 uses a proprietary caching technology to 
achieve its tremendous performance. However, there are 
some known problems that can cause the cache to become 
out of sync with the files stored on your hard disk.

(1) Installation programs that generate a WININIT.INI 
file will cause files to be renamed before RADFind 96 
starts up. The files that are renamed by the 
WININIT.INI file will remain in cache, but will no 
longer be on the disk. However, since these files are 
usually system DLL's with unusual names like 
kernel32.dlb, it is highly unlikely that you will ever 
need to search for these files. In any event, 
selecting the Scan Drives menu option under the File 
menu will re-synchronize your filename cache.

(2) Norton FPROTECT will also rename temporary files 
that are created by Windows 95 during the startup 
process. This is due to the fact that these files are 
created / renamed by FPROTECT before RADFind 96 starts 
up. However, it is highly unlikely that you will ever 
need to search for these files. There is no current 
workaround for this problem.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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Please file all bug reports using the form on our web 
site at www.naleco.com.