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Sven B. Schreiber (sbs@orgon.com)
Niederndorfer Hauptstr. 70
D-91074 Herzogenaurach
Germany

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SBS ILINA Version 1.00
The Interrupt List Navigator
Copyright (c) 1995 Sven B. Schreiber

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PLEASE READ THIS FIRST!

ILINA is FreeWare. This software package may be distributed royalty-free on
any media including electronic mail, internet services, network news, and
bulletin board systems, provided that all files are included, no files are
modified and no fee is charged for the software. 

DISCLAIMER

This software is provided "as is" and any express or implied warranties,
including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantibility and
fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall the
author Sven B. Schreiber be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental,
special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to,
procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits;
or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability,
whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or
otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if
advised of the possibility of such damage. 

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1. Installing ILINA

Installation of "The Interrupt List Navigator" is easy and straightforward.
Just copy the program files ILINA.EXE and ILINA.INI to a directory of your
choice. Then create a shortcut, pointing to ILINA.EXE. 

By default, ILINA will search for a file called INTERRUP.LST in its working
directory. This file can be built from parts of Ralf Brown's "Interrupt
List" archives by calling COMBINE.COM, included in the Interrupt List
archives. You can override the default directory by specifying the path to
INTERRUP.LST on ILINA's command line. If your input file is named other than
INTERRUP.LST, you may specify this name on the command line as well. 

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2. Viewing INTERRUP.LST

After startup, ILINA builds a temporary index in memory to allow fast random
access to individual data records. This might take a couple of seconds.
After that, ILINA pops up a dialog box with four list windows that enable
you to navigate hierarchically through the entire list. On top level,
there's the "Category" window, located in the upper left corner of ILINA's
dialog box. The categories displayed there are taken from the configuration
file ILINA.INI, which must be located in the same directory as ILINA.EXE.

If you click on an entry in the "Functions" window, you will see the
complete record of this function in the lower half of ILINA's dialog box.
The arrow labeled buttons in the upper right corner let you scroll the text
up and down if it exceeds the size of the window. If the record window has
the input focus, you may use the arrow and PgUp/PgDown keys as well. 

The source code of ILINA hasn't been changed since 02-10-1995. This means
that the code has survived more than three years while lots of Interrupt
List versions have been coming and going. This makes me quite confident that
my parsing routines will keep on working well with future Interrupt List
versions.

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3. Searching for data

ILINA contains a basic full text search module, using the fast SHIFT-AND
search algorithm. It will allow you to search for text strings consisting of
up to 32 characters. Case sensitivity may be turned on or off optionally, as
well as wildcard recognition. Please note, that currently only the wildcard
'?' is supported. In the search results window, you can highlite a hit to
jump directly to the location in the data file where the hit occurred. 

While searching, the data file will be filtered transparently. Multiple
spaces are compressed to a single space, while any control characters,
including all CR/LF and tabulator characters, are treated as spaces. So it
is easy to search for groups of words which do not necessarily occur on a
single line. Therefore, you should always separate words by no more than a
single space. 

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23.07.1998 Sven B. Schreiber
sbs@orgon.com