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Quibble Archives Browser 1.0Copyright©2002-2003
by Mark Schonewille
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
On the right, you see a screenshot showing Quibble Archives Browser 1.0 on my PowerBook. My iMac is synchronizing its database with my PowerBook, as is indicated by the message in the yellow text box in the top-right of the screen.
About Quibble Archives Browser
Every now and then, ways to manage and browse information that is downloaded from the HyperCard Mail List are discussed on that List. Several solutions have been proposed, which essentially resort to downloading e-mails using an e-mail application and AppleScript. Once downloaded, messages can be read and searched, but messages that don’t make it to the mail box or are lost otherwise are difficult to recover.
The Quibble Archives Browser uses a different approach. This Browser searches the Quibble Archives, the archives of the HyperCard Mail List. It does not use e-mail but directly downloads the headers of relevant messages. The user decides which messages to read. These messages are downloaded from the Quibble server. Once downloaded, messages are store in an off-line database.
When searching messages, the user can choose whether to search on-line or off-line. If an on-line search is done, all messages in the Archives are searched for entries. A message selected for download by the user is downloaded from the Archives if it is not present in the off-line database, only. This makes browsing the Archives faster as the user continues to search and download the archives for different topics.
Below, you see a screenshot of the Quibble Archives Browser. The options window that is visible in this screenshot is available to registered users. Unregistered users have a simpler options window with less possibilities.
Currently, a user manual is being written. Read the manual if problems occur or ask the author of this application.
Minimum Requirements
The Quibble Archives Browser needs a PowerPC with at least MacOS 8.1. It has not been tested with earlier System versions and might work with MacOS 7.5.3 or later. AppleScript 1.4 or later has to be installed.
Installing the Quibble Archives Browser
Install the Quibble Archives Browser 1.0 by moving the folder with that name to your hard disk. It is not possible to start the Quibble Archives Browser from a locked volume, such as a CD-rom, or disk image.
If you are going to use this application with system software earlier than MacOS 8.6, then you may have to install the URL Access extension. You find this extension in the Extra folder on your Quibble Archives Browser CD-rom or disk image. Simply drop the URL Access extension onto your system folder and press “Okay” if you are asked whether to put the extension into the Extensions folder. If there is an extension with this name in the Extension folder already, do not replace it.
Quick Start
Open the Quibble Archives Browser by double-clicking it in the Finder and make a connection to the internet (e.g. with Apple Remote Access). Once you have a connection, enter a few keywords in the Query field, uncheck the Search Off-line checkbox, and click the Search button. Netscape will download the headers for you and send them to the Browser.
The messages are shown in the Browser window. Double-click a message to download the message and save it to your database. If you downloaded it before, it will appear in the Browser window almost immediately.
You can save a set of message headers including their location on the Quibble server. After doing an on-line search, just choose Save Bookmark... from the File menu.
If an error occurs after doing an on-line search, while the error message doesn’t make any sense to you, it might be that the Quibble is off-line. In that case, just try again, later.
Migrating to a new Message Database
You may want to use the the messages of your old database with a later version of the Browser. First of all, choose Database Info from the Sync menu. In the Info window, you will see the version number of the database. Currently, there are two versions: 1.0a001 and 1.0b003. If your old database has version number 1.0b003, simply substitute your old database for the database that comes with the latest Browser. You do this by opening the Q Data folder, removing the new Database and putting the old Database back in place.
If the version number of the old database is 1.0a001, you should put the old database somewhere on your hard disk. Once you have installed the new version of the Quibble Archives Browser, open it by double-clicking on its icon in the Finder. Once the Browser is running, choose Local... from the Sync menu and select the old Database. Now, the Browser will copy the messages from the old database to the new one.
More Information
This Read Me file contains the most important information. A user manual is being written, but not finished yet. To get an answer to urgent questions, send an e-mail to the author of the applicatation.
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Credits
Many thank are due to the beta testers Paul Gronemeyer and Jonathyn Bet’nct. They gave me valuable comments and helped me enhance my creativity.
Copyrights apply to the following components:
Aide XCMD by Mathieu Boretti
GetHTTP XCMD by Frédéric Rinaldi
Setup and StackToFilename XCMDs, DeleteCommas,HexToChar, ItemMaxLength, ReplaceCommas, and StringToHex XFCNs by Mark Schonewille
The Quibble Archives Logo, the designer of which is unknown to me
ShowModal XFCN 1.02 by Dennis Birch
AddColor and URL Access by Apple Computer inc.
The HyperCard Player is copyright by Apple Computer Inc.
Several pictures come from freefoto.com, nycenet.edu, and the AltaVista search engine. The pictures are copyrighted but free for use in non-commercial products.
Register
In order to get access to all of the Browser's features, you need a license. A license costs 10 euro or an equivalent amount of dollars. You can use PayPal to order and pay for your license.
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Note that access to the Quibble Archives is free. Using your internet browser, you can freely access the Archives by going to http://www.quibble.com/hclist. Obviously, this web site does not give you the great features of the Quibble Archives Browser.
Contact information
The author of the Quibble Archives Browser can be contacted by e-mail at europe@ehug.info. You can also send your questions to the HyperCard Mail List.
Quibble Archives Browser 1.0 is available for download here.
Quibble Archives Browser License Conditions
In the text below, application refers to Quibble Archives Browser 1.0 and the accompanying components. Author refers to Mark Schonewille, product is defined as any medium that may contain the application. User is a person who has the application installed on a hard disk or removable media for use with a computer. Other terms are defined by Dutch national laws.
Quibble Archives Browser 1.0 is copyright protected. The application and all other components of this software package cannot be sold as separate software packages and cannot be part of any commercial product, such as magazines, shareware collections on cd-rom and the internet, books and promotional artefacts, without a written permit of the author. This restriction also holds if the product is a free gift.
Unregistered copies of this application may be freely distributed in unaltered form, as long as the above restriction is not violated. Quibble Archives Browser 1.0 is shareware; the property rights remain with the author and the user has to pay a registration fee to continue using this stack. The author is eligible to request the removal of the stack from hard disks and computers and the destruction of any product that contains the application. Registered versions of the application may not be copied or distributed.
Licensed users have the right to keep one registered copy of the application on a hard disk or removable media for use with one computer. Users who want to use this application on more than one computer have to buy a license for every computer they wish to install the application on, regardless of whether these computers are on a network. One license may be used by more than one users on the same computer, if this computer is not connected to a network. It is strictly prohibited to share license information, including serial number, password, and key.
The author and the persons who are mentioned anywhere in the application or documentation are not responsible for any damage that is possibly, allegedly or actually a consequence of the use of the application.
Even though Quibble Archives Browser 1.0 may be distributed freely for non-commercial purposes, the copyrights still apply to the stacks as well as separate parts of it. Some parts of Quibble Archives Browser 1.0 may be copyrighted by Apple™ Computer, inc.
Last update: 02-06-2005