Applied Physics Letters Online
Demo Diskette Quick Reference Guide


System Requirements:

  o  IBM or compatible PC
  o  80386 or greater cpu
  o  4MB or more RAM
  o  VGA (256 colors) or greater display
  o  8 MB free disk space
  o  Microsoft Windows V3.1 or later

Installing the Program

(NOTE:  If you have downloaded these instructions and the two demo
files from AIP's ftp server, it is assumed that you have copied the
file APLDEMO.EXE to a floppy disk labeled "Demo Disk 1" and the file
APLDB.EXE to a floppy disk labeled "Demo Disk 2.")

1.  Insert Demo Disk 1 into your computer's floppy disk drive.

(These instructions assume that your hard disk drive is C, and that
your floppy disk drive is A.  If necessary, substitute the correct
letter(s) for your system in the following instructions.)

2.  Run Windows File Manager and create a new directory on your
hard disk drive with the directory name APLODEMO.

3.  Select the new directory by clicking the left mouse button.

4.  Click on the File option on the top menu, then click on the Run
option of the drop-down list.  Type over the highlighted command
line contents (C:\APLODEMO) with the following:
A:\APLDEMO.EXE
and click on OK.

(The display will change from Windows to DOS, and a listing of the
extracted files will be displayed.  Upon completion, the display
will return to the Windows File Manager.)

5.  Replace the Demo Disk 1 in the floppy disk drive with Demo Disk
2.

6.  Click on the File option on the top menu, then click on the Run
option of the drop-down list.  Type over the highlighted command
line contents (C:\APLODEMO) with the following:
A:\APLDB.EXE
and click on OK.

(The display will once again change from Windows to DOS, and a
listing of the extracted files will be displayed.  Upon completion,
the display will return to the Windows File Manager.)

7.  Exit from the Windows File Manager program.

8.  Create an icon to run the program as follows:
From the Program Manager, click on the File option, then click on
the New option from the drop-down list.  On the resulting New
Program Object window, click on Program Item and then click OK. 
Fill in the Program Item Properties as follows:
Description:  APL Online Demo
Command Line:  C:\APLODEMO\GUIDON.EXE C:\APLODEMO\GUIDON.INI
Working Directory:  C:\APLODEMO
Click on OK

(A Guidon 3.0 icon will now appear in your current program group. 
If you wish to move the icon to a different group, just drag the
icon to the top of the destination group.)

Running the Program:

Double-click on the icon, and follow the directions.

The Help System:

APL Online provides comprehensive on-line help.  Click on the Help
item on the Menu at any time (or on the Help button when the Search
dialog box is being displayed).  Help for the Guidon interface
system and APL Online itself are both available.  Topics can be
selected from the list that appears when Help is invoked.

Getting Started:

The demonstration database contains only seven articles, so the
easiest wasy to perform a simple search to display the titles and
authors of the seven articles.  After dismissing the OCLC EJO Terms
and Conditions box (by clicking the Agree button) and APL Online
logo screen, click on the Contents button of the Search dialog box,
select the All Items option, and click on OK.  The search will
retrieve a results list that should contain all seven articles. 
Any one of the individual articles can be displayed, by selecting
it (click anywhere within the title/author display for the article
you wish to display) and clicking the Display button.

Need More Help:

If you have questions about APL Online, or installing the demo
disk, feel free to contact AIP via e-mail at aplonline@aip.org or
call 1-800-344-6902.