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In addition to navigating the Digital Archive through the indexes, you can search
for keywords in the text of the articles using the ASTAware search engine.
The CD-ROM set comes with one license for the ASTAware SearchDisc search engine
software (henceforth, ASTAware search engine) licensed from ASTAware Technologies Inc.
To use ASTAware search engine, you must first install it on your hard drive.
Please check the CD-ROM 0 contents for the exact
location of the ASTAware installation software.
Please refer to the licensing
agreement before you install the ASTAware search engine.
The ASTAware search engine may only work on the following platforms and browsers.
For the above-mentioned platform/browsers, please carefully follow the instructions below.
If you do not find appropriate help, please send email (with a full description of the problem)
using the Feedback email link in the left hand frame in the home page of the Digital Archive.
Installation of the appropriate Java JDK/MRJ is the
responsibility of the user.
The ASTAware search engine software and the search index must be installed on your
local hard-drive. You need only do this installation once. If you have previous
installations of the ASTAware search engine on your local hard drive, please uninstall them.
Platform-specific instructions for installing and activating the ASTAware search engine:
Windows 95/98/NT/2000 Users:
Installation
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Insert the CD-ROM 0 containing the ASTAware installation software into your drive.
- Go to the contents
through Windows Explorer and run Installer.exe (by double clicking it or by
using the Run command from the Start Panel).
- Follow the instructions provided by the ASTAware installer.
- Choose a directory to install the ASTAware search engine and the search index.
You can either choose C:\Program Files or another directory such as C:\temp.
Make sure that you have about 300 MB of available space on your hard drive.
- Specify the path to the CD-ROM that you will use to read the CD-ROMs in the Digital Archive.
Examples: D:\ or E:\
- Press Install to start the installation of the ASTAware search engine
and the search index. This operation may take several minutes as the installer
will copy about 300 MB of data from the CD-ROM onto your hard drive.
- After the installation is complete, you will be able to run the ASTAware
search engine from your Programs folder in your Windows START menu.
In fact, you will find an entry for ASTAware SearchDisc in your Programs folder.
To run the search engine, you click on SD Search from the ASTAware SearchDisc subfolder.
Activating the ASTAware Search Engine
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To activate the ASTAware search engine, run Start>Programs>ASTAware SearchDisc>SD Search
from your Windows Start menu. You can also create a shortcut for SD Search on your desktop.
- The ASTAware search engine will be activated and will ask for confirmation of
your CD-ROM path. A small window containing an ASTAware SearchDisc logo will appear. Leave
this window open (you can minimize it as well).
If you close this window, you will not be able
to use the search function.
- Your browser will also automatically be launched and you will be asked
to insert any desired CD-ROM
containing the content.
If your browser does not automatically start,
you can start it yourself and load index.htm from
the top level directory of any desired CD-ROM containing the content.
- Once the CD-ROM is inserted in the drive, you can press the Enter link in your
browser. This brings up the Digital Archive interface along with search facilities.
- Please read the Section on Searching the Content Using the Search Engine
for conducting your searches.
- If you want to use the CD-ROM without the ASTAware search engine, shutdown the
ASTAware search engine by clicking on the "shutdown" message in the small ASTAware SearchDisc window.
You can use the CD-ROM without the search engine by opening the file start.htm in your
browser.
- If you need to change the CD-ROM to access DjVu files that are not on the current
CD-ROM, please follows the platform-specific instructions for changing CD-ROMs.
Unix/Linux Users:
You will need to install the Java JDK (version 1.1.8 or higher) before
using the search engine. If you don't have it already, you
can download it from http://www.javasoft.com.
Installation
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Insert the CD-ROM 0 containing the ASTAware installation software.
After inserting the CD-ROM, you must mount the CD-ROM drive
(for example, mount /dev/hdd /cdrom).
If you don't know the name of your CD-ROM device, try using dmesg
to find it. Many Solaris systems
will mount the CD-ROM automatically under /cdrom.
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Once the CD-ROM is mounted, copy the installer file, Install.tar,
on to your hard drive from the root
directory of the CD-ROM.
- Untar the file Install.tar.
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Run the SDUInstallerS.bin to install the ASTAware search engine on your hard drive.
- Follow the instructions provided by the ASTAware installer.
- Choose a directory to install the ASTAware search engine and the search index.
Make sure that you have about 300 MB of available space under this directory.
- Specify the path to the CD-ROM that you will use to read the CD-ROMs in the Digital Archive.
For example, on some Solaris machines it is /cdrom/cdrom0
and on some others it is /mnt/cdrom.
- Press Install to start the installation of the ASTAware search engine
and the search index. This operation may take several minutes as the installer
will copy about 300 MB of data from the CD-ROM onto your hard drive.
- You should get a message that the installation
is successfully completed.
Activating the ASTAware Search Engine
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To activate the ASTAware search engine,
run the program
searchdisc-unix.sh. You will find this program under the directory
SearchDisc/SDCDSearch/astaware where you installed
the ASTAware search engine.
- The ASTAware search engine will be activated. You will be asked for a path
where ASTAware can store temporary files. You will then be asked to confirm
the CD-ROM path (/cdrom/cdrom0 or /mnt/cdrom or other pathname). A small window containing ASTAware SearchDisc logo will appear. Leave
this window open (you can minimize it as well).
If you close this window, you will not be able
to use the search function.
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Start your browser and load the file,
index.htm, from
the top level directory of any desired CD-ROM containing the content.
- Once the CD-ROM is inserted in the drive, you can then press the Enter link in your
browser. This brings up the Digital Archive interface along with search facilities.
- Please read the Section on Searching the Content Using the Search Engine
for conducting your searches.
- If you want to use the CD-ROM without the ASTAware search engine, shutdown the
ASTAware search engine by clicking on the "shutdown" message in the small ASTAware SearchDisc window.
You can use the CD-ROM without the search engine by opening the file start.htm in your
browser.
- If you need to change the CD-ROM to access DjVu files that are not on the current
CD-ROM, please follows the platform-specific instructions for changing CD-ROMs.
Macintosh Users:
To use the search engine, you will need
Java installed on your machine (MRJ 2.1 or higher). Note that you may
not have MRJ installed even if you have a browser installed that can run Java.
You can download MRJ from http://www.apple.com/java and install it. (Users of MacOS 8.6+ will find an appropriate version of MRJ on their original MacOS CD. Users of pre-8.1 versions of MacOS may be
able to use the search engine in conjunction with older versions of MRJ
available from http://devworld.apple.com/java/text/download.html, but no support is
available for the use of this older software).
- Insert CD-ROM containing the ASTAware installation software.
- Copy the installer for Mac (Install.bin) onto the desktop and double click
on it.
This will create an icon named SDUInstallerM.
Clicking on this file will launch the installer.
- You will be prompted to enter the location to copy the SearchDisc
folder. Make sure that you have at least 300MB on your hard drive
to copy the SearchDisc folder.
- You will also be asked for the CD-ROM PATH which is the label of the CD-ROM.
Use /OE as the CD-ROM path.
Activating the ASTAware Search Engine
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To activate the ASTAware search engine,
go to the SearchDisc folder and click on the file named NRServer
inside the directory SDCDSearch/astaware.
- The user will be prompted to confirm the CD-ROM path, at which point the user should
insert the CD-ROM containing the content.
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Start your browser and load the file,
index.htm, from
the top level directory of the CD-ROM.
- You will not see the "Exit SearchDisc" window on Mac as on
Windows and Solaris.
- Once the CD-ROM is inserted in the drive, you can then press the Enter link in your
browser. This brings up the Digital Archive interface along with search facilities.
- Please read the Section on Searching the Content Using the Search Engine
for conducting your searches.
- To shut down the search engine, you have to choose
the NRServer application and Quit. For example, choose
NRServer application from the top right corner on the main menu
and click on the Quit option on the top left corner of the main menu.
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You can use the CD-ROM without the search engine by opening the file start.htm in your
browser.
- If you need to change the CD-ROM to access DjVu files that are not on the current
CD-ROM, please follows the platform-specific instructions for changing CD-ROMs.
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