Disk No: 1719                                                           
Disk Title: Find-X                                                      
PC-SIG Version: S1.1                                                    
                                                                        
Program Title: Find-X                                                   
Author Version: 2.3                                                     
Author Registration: $20.00                                             
Special Requirements: 384K RAM, and 2 floppy drives.                    
                                                                        
If you are looking for an easy way to catalog household goods, coins,   
photographs and slides, record albums and compact discs, computer       
programs, or some other collectible, FIND-X may be the program for you. 
FIND-X is a compiled DBASE program which takes the user through a series
of menus to create indexed .DBF files containing a list of cataloged    
items (ITEMS.DBF) and descriptors for locating them (CLUES.DBF).        
                                                                        
Apparently designed with the computer novice in mind, FIND-X is         
relatively easy to install and use.  Installation requires a basic      
knowledge of DOS, including the ability to format disks and copy files, 
and, if the user has a hard disk, to create subdirectories.  Once       
installed, FIND-X is totally menu-driven, so that very little computer  
knowledge is required to add or retrieve information.  However, you     
probably will be able to use the program more effectively if you have   
some familiarity with how DBASE programs create and handle files.       
                                                                        
By taking advantage of the relational capabilities of the DBASE         
language, FIND-X stores data in two relatively small files rather than  
one large one. This allows it to find and retrieve information          
relatively quickly, even when the catalogs being maintained are large.  
In fact, the size of the catalogs you can maintain is limited only by   
available disk space.                                                   
                                                                        
A particularly useful feature of FIND-X is that it allows you to conduct
either exact or generic searches.  Exact searches retrieve only those   
files containing text strings identical to that requested by the user.  
Thus, as noted in the manual, entering "flower" will not yield entries  
for which the descriptor is "flowers."  Generic searches will yield all 
entries containing a descriptor beginning with the same text string as  
that specified by the use. For example, entering "flow" will yield      
"flower," "flowers," "flowery," and "flowing."                          
                                                                        
FIND-X is a friendly program and it creates and searches catalogs with  
agility.  For the home user seeking to bring a bit more order to        
domestic life, it is worth a look.                                      
                                                                        
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