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XDragnet is, simply, a tool for finding information that you've ah  misplaced. Using a series of several screens, you tell Dragnet ah  where to look (current directory, directory plus it's substructure, entire disk, or entire system), what files to include in the search, (by default, all files are searched except those with the extensions .EXE, .COM, and .OVL), and what to search for. Search specifications can include up to three boolean "and" and three "or" clauses, be limited to whole word matches, and be toggled for case sensitivity. XOutput can be directed to screen, file, or Windows' Clip ah ԭboard (any or all can be chosen), and you can customize it to include your choice of file creation date, any pattern specification you might have invoked, such as "every occurrence of "Smith" and "Jones" within 150 bytes of each other", and user entered comments (when used in interactive mode). WARNING: if you use Dragnet in interactive mode and switch away ah  to another task while it's working, you risk system instability and data loss. Since Dragnet works on unindexed data, it's not ah  exactly zippy; you'll probably want to use it in the background, so that shouldn't be an issue too often. When working in the background, Dragnet's icon changes dynamical ah ԭly to keep you updated on it's progress. XBoth Prompt and Dragnet are useful. We liked Prompt ah  enough to consider replacing File Manager, but Dragnet ah  doesn't come close to Lotus' Magellan on a system running ah  Windows in 386enhanced mode, so take a close look at it ah  before you buy it. Also be aware that documentation for both products is badly in need of an update, to the point that menu names and choices aren't correct anymore. The enclosed release notes in READ.ME files don't make up for this problem.   Form Publisher for Windows ă  FormWorx Corporationă XOne approach to solving a problem is to throw everything you have at it and hope something achieves the desired results. With Form Publisher, FormWorx Corporation stops ah  short of this, but only just. It doesn't fill them in (though an unimplemented feature within the product suggests that a future release probably will), but Form Publisher uses a ah  unique set of tools to make designing forms very nearly painless. Since it comes with a collection of 601 forms ready to modify or print as is, you may not care. XWhat's amazing about the collection of forms (dubbed "FOND" for F orms ON D emand) is that such a large collec ah ԭtion can be stored in such a small amount of space. While the program files install at nearly 1.4 megabytes of disk space (reducible to 1.1MB by pruning optionally [and only marginally useful] auxiliary files), the entire form collection, each member stored in its own file, takes up just 800 kilobytes. FOND contains a wide mix of forms designed to satisfy the needs of personnel departments, salespeople, project management, general business, architectural firms, those who make C0 schedules, and many governmental situations, all managed via a dBASE file and a special utility that reads from and writes ah  to it. Optionally, you may use a compatible third party database management program to do the same job. GHForm Publisher and FOND are installed in two separate but ah  similar operations that give you the option of using supplied batch files or installing the files manually. If you allow the job to be done for you, you specify a drive for installation, and the directories used are \FPW and \FPW\FOND, respectively. In what we hope was a humorous touch, last minute updates contained in a disk file are read (or so you're told) by typing "README" to execute a batch file so named. Instead of displaying the text file, though, you're told to start Windows and read the document via use of Windows's ah  NOTEPAD utility. GHThere's very little to say about FOND beyond this: if you can't find something here that can suit your needs with only minor alterations, you probably can't design it from scratch, either; this is a serious collection. That said, we'll spend the rest of this article addressing the creation and alteration of forms. y!a LZyjddPROFILEy U 1  1 M!A(dd( 3t> XA  Product Name  3 [ PA,  :=  FormPublisher $249 FormWorx Corporation Reservoir Place 1601 Trapelo Road Waltham MA 02154 (617)8904499MGHAlthough a Windows application (and appearing to be a ah  perfect example of one when it first loads), Form Publisher is ah  unlike most examples of products for the medium. First, $%%!%$there's the separate PRINT !%menu (which we approve of !%wholeheartedly). A multiple !%level "UNDO" command is !%present, as is a feature that !%!%allows you to "OPEN LAST !%!%FILE", even from a prior !%!%session. Then, things get !%!%(just a little) uncomfortable. !%!%Used to double clicking to !%!%execute actions? Many ac!%!%tions in Form Publisher ah  !%require only single clicks. !%Accustomed to using "han!%dles" to resize boxes con!%taining screen objects? Form ah ԭ!%Ԭ Publisher uses some han ah ԭ #%%dles for that purpose, other to move objects without effecting their dimensions, and one to open a menu that helps you define aspects of the object's appearance. The "Clipboard" is an internal Form Publisher routine (there's no interface with ah  other applications through Windows's utility of the same ah  name), and grids (which can be defined in increments as small as 1/20" horizontally and 1/12" vertically) can't be displayed on screen. There's an option that purports to do so, but it only shows the lines at fullunit increments (desktop publishers, Europeans, and other groups that don't use inches as their measuring criteria are accommodated). The Clipboard incompatibility issue is explained by pointing to the fact that Form Publisher uses "objects" rather than bitmaps, thus ah  rendering the ability insignificant (FormWorx hopes). GHUsing Form Publisher is easy. From an iconic menu bar, you ah  choose between fifty "drawing" tools that in additional to a small collection of art primitives include table layouts, clocks and calendars, and an UPC code. With a mouse click, you can