Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society

General Index Search Facility


Introduction  (see below for Installation)

This program provides a simple, but extremely powerful, computerised search facility for the General Index to the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. At present, Volumes 1 to 116 (1876-1998) are covered.

Starting the program by double clicking the red book icon on your Desktop loads the Search Window.  Each search is performed by typing one or more keywords into the Input Box in this window and pressing Go. Complex searches involving bracketed terms, AND, OR and NOT logic can be made.

Entries in the index which match the keywords are displayed in a separate Results Window.  The user has a choice of simply noting the results or saving them to a file or copying them into a word processor.  

All bug reports and comments will be welcomed by the Author.  

The index data have yet to be verified and are likely to contain some errors.  However, by releasing this version at an early stage it should be possible to gauge the level of interest in the program, which in turn will assist its future development.

Installation

The whole of the program is contained within a single installation file named setup.exe.  You will require 6.0 MB of disk space for the program and data files.

·	If you have downloaded the setup.exe file from the internet make a note of where it has been saved.  

·	If you have  received it by e-mail you must save the file in any convenient folder on your hard disk (likely to be your C: drive).  If you wish you can save it to a floppy disk (A: drive).  

To install the program :- 

·	Press the "Start" key located between the Ctrl and Alt keys in the left hand bottom corner of the keyboard.  (Alternatively click once on the "Start" icon that is likely to be visible in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. 

·	This should cause the "Start Menu" to pop up.

·	Click on "Run" in the "Start Menu".

·	Type in the "Run" box the full path to the setup.exe you have previously saved on your system (plus the name setup.exe)  and click on "OK".  

Examples

C:\Temp\setup.exe       (if you had saved the file in the C:\Temp folder)    


This will start to install the program.

During installation you will need to make a few responses.

·	You will be asked to read and accept the terms of the licence.  Please note that every effort has been made to ensure that the program cannot disrupt your computer and existing data.  In particular no information is written to the Registry Files. All the program and data files are stored in a single folder that is selected at the time of installation.  The only files to be placed outside this folder are the Desktop icon and the entry in the Start Menu.  


·	You will be asked to specify the name of the folder where you wish the program files to be installed.  The default folder name suggested is C:\Program Files\tbgas but the user can choose any valid folder name.

·	You will be asked to specify the name of the folder where the shortcut icons will be stored.  The default name is TBGAS Index.

After the program has been installed it can be used immediately without the need to reboot your computer. An uninstall program is included.

To start the program, double click on the red book icon on your Desktop.        


Ray Wilson     September 2005