FilesCollection: README
=============================

Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
chapter) before installing the program to your computer.


Contents
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  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Installation
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
  fc102.zip
Program Name:
  FilesCollection
Program Version:
  1.02
Program Release Date:
  April 02, 2001
Program Description:
  Indexing system - index your disks, folders and files, makes search
Target OS:
  Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000
Software type:
  Shareware 30-day trial


Company information
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Developer, Distributor and Copyright Holder:
  Programs2k company
Contact E-mail Address:
  filescollection@programs2k.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.programs2k.com


Description
-----------

FilesCollection (FC) is an easy to use multi-featured tool with
explorer-like interface which allows you to index the drives 
(floppy disks, hard drives (including network ones), optical
disks, CD-ROMs, ZIP disks and other media), folders and archives 
on them.

With FC you are able to:

	- Indexes volumes, folders and files;
	- Add comment to each file, folder and disk;
	- Analyse ZIP, ARJ, RAR, CAB, ARC and etc archives;
	- Search for files/folders using file name (with wildcards);
	- Search for files in archives;
	- Import descriptions from files like "readme.txt", 
	  "file_id.diz","files.bbs", "descript.ion" etc.;
        - Extract descriptions from MP3 files (ID3 tags etc);
	- ... and much more.

FC  doesn't use any database engines and so very fast. The database 
generated by FC is very compact.


Installation
------------

Important! If you've got FC not from our web page, but from
the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please
visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version;
usually, we release the updates about once a month.

We recommend you to uninstall the previous version of FC (if
you have one) from your computer before installing this one. You
can do this via "Add/Remove Programs" Control Panel applet. If
you'll get the notification that the FC folder is not empty, be
careful when removing it: it may contain the .fcidx files (the
databases created by FC) you may wish to keep.

To install FC, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the
instructions. You'll need to select the target directory
to install.

Registration
------------

See "order.txt" file.


Copyright and license
---------------------

See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
-----------------

Before you contact us, please do the following:

- Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make
  mistakes sometimes... Be attentive.
- Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to
  your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how
  do I:", though the complete information is there.
- Visit FC home page in the Internet at
  http://www.programs2k.com. It's a good chance that you'll
  find the newer version of FC there. If the serious bug has
  been found in the program, but the new version is not ready yet,
  we make the hot fix for it.

But if you still have a problem with FC and nothing else helps,
please contact technical support at home@programs2k.com.

Please inform us about the following:

  - FilesCollection version (from "About" dialog)
  - FilesCollection serial number (if you're a registered user)
  - where did you get FilesCollection (http or ftp site)
  - Windows 95/98/NT/2000 version (including service packs and other
    fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not
  - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory
  - description of your problem (as much information as possible
    to retrieve the problem)

If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
please don't hesitate to post them to us.
