Main_Window

    **Main_Window

      For general information about the program, how to get on line
    help, how to use the mouse, how to print windows, authorship,
    distribution, copyright etc, press the page_up button.

     ** To exit the program choose Quit from the menu in the main window. **

    The main window lets you find objects in the database in two
    different ways:

    (1) You can pick a class by clicking with the left mouse button.
    Clicking again will give a list of all objects in that class in the
    Selection Window.  You can restrict this list by typing a template
    in the Template box.  When you press the Return key you activate the
    search.  Name recognition is not case sensitive.  A '*' in the
    template will match anything; e.g. "S*" will match all names
    beginning with 'S', "*S*" will match all names containing an 'S',
    "*a*b" all names containing an 'A' and ending with a 'B'.  To
    actually display the object you must pick its names twice in the
    Selection Window (see help for Selection Window).

    (2) You can type a text string in the Text Search box (first click
    on it with the left button to make it yellow).  This will find all
    the objects in the database which contain the search text.  More
    precisely, we find all objects whose name contains the search
    string, all objects they refer to, and all containing Text (or other
    X class data) containing the search string.

    In addition the Main Window menu allows access to many other
    applications and functions of acedb.

    Menu entries:
    Quit	              Quits entire program
    Help                  Gets the on line Help
    Program Status        Info on the database
    Clean up              Kills all acedb windows except main
    Add update file       To read the official data updates
    Query                 Starts a window which has its own  help.
    Deficiencies          Primitive tool to analyse deficiency data.
    Genetics              Run the get buttons to preprocess Mapping data
    DNA                   Starts a window which has its own  help.
    Wild Worms            Starts an OPEN-WINDOWS screen saver if available

      Toggle entry (you only see one of these at a time)
    Write Access          Select this to get write access to the
                          database. If you are not registered
                          in wspec/passwd, you will not be offered this option.
    Save                  Saves all changes permanently and releases write access.

      The following entries only exist if you have Super-User access
    Add/Alias/Rename      Starts a window which has its own  help.
    Read .ace files       Starts a window which has its own  help.
    Align maps            Starts a window which has its own  help.
    Read Models           Run this after modifying wspec/models.wrm
    Dump asn models       Produces an asn definition file.
    Dump                  Dumps the whole databse in ace format. Slow.
    Debugger              Calls the function "invokeDebugger()", set a
                          break on this function in your favorite debugger.
    Test subroutine       Calls acedbtest(), for use to test new code.

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