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                           VDB 3.1 beta release

                Complete Video Data Base Cataloguing System

                          Developed & Sent in by 

                             Jason M. Butwell
                              18 Stanley Road
                                 Stamshaw
                                Portsmouth
                                   Hants
                                  PO2 8EN
                              (01705) 672028
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READER WARRANT
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In respect of all material which forms my reader contribution to Future
Publishing's Amiga Format I hereby warrant that:-

(1)  the material is original and does not infringe any other material or 
     rights;

(2)  the material does not contain any material which is defamatory, 
     obscene or indecent and is exempt from classification under the Video 
     Recordings Act 1984;

(3) that there are no legal claims against the material provided;

(4) that I have full power and authority to provide this material to Future 
    Publishing.



REQUIREMENTS & INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:


VDB requires the following in order to run:
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Workbench 3.0 / 3.1 OS

68020 processor or better (68040, 68060 & Gfx Card not yet tested!)

Around 400k free public memory on program execution.

Installation to read \ writtable media.

xen.font, size 9 in FONTS:

mathieeedoubtrans.library, 
mathieedoubbas.library,	Any version.

diskfont.library
graphics.library
intuition.library
gadtools.library,	Version 37+, in LIBS:

Assigns (see below!)


Installation Instructions
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Copy all the files in the VDB3.1b_Complete directory to read/writtable media.

To quickly test the program click on the VDB_ASSIGNS icon to create temporary
assigns to the current directory that the files were copied to.

The simple Amiga Dos script should create a directory called VDB_records with
3 further directories inside that one as : alternate, original & standard.

These are needed for the program to be able to read and write its data records
successfully.

These assigns would of-course be better invoked from a start-up script!

Once the directories have been created and assigned the program can be run
by clicking on the VDB, or VDB_custom icon.

VDB allows usage on the workbench screen, and VDB_custom uses a med-res
custom screen.

Further operating instructions for VDB can be found in the README file!


Thank-you for your time and attention, and I hope you like my submission!