Searching PTJ (was Old Journal Articles)

[Isaac OLEG]

Hello,

Are (almost all) the old issues on CD's, or are you talking of the
reprints CD's (I only heard of 2 versions at this time).

Thanks.

Isaac OLEG

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]De la part de
> Robert Hohf
> Envoyé : vendredi 22 novembre 2002 15:45
> À : College and University Technicians
> Objet : Re: Searching PTJ (was Old Journal Articles)
>
>
> As far as I know there are no plans to index or access
> Journal articles on
> the PTG website.  Last year we studied the feasibility of
> an independent
> Journal website but abandoned the project as too expensive and labor
> intensive.  The Journal CDs provide better access to
> articles than has ever
> been available before, and new CDs will be made to keep
> this resource up to
> date.
>
> Here is a step-by-step method of installing the CDs from
> Kent Swafford.
> This makes it easy to search all 20 years of Journals on
> the CDs at once.  A
> word of advice:  don't install the version of Adobe from
> the CDs.  Go to the
> Adobe website and get the most recent version.
>
> INSTALLING THE 5 JOURNAL CD-ROMS TO A WINDOWS HARD DRIVE
>
> (Copying entire content of the CD¹s to a hard drive
> requires 2.51 gigs of
> free space.)
>
> 1. create a folder called journal
> 2. create a folder within journal called disk1ptg
> 3. create a folder within journal called disk2ptg
> 4. create a folder within journal called disk3ptg
> 5. create a folder within journal called disk4ptg
> 6. create a folder within journal called PTJarchive
> 7. insert cdrom disk one into drive
> 8. open cdrom
> 9. set a block over all items in disk one by rolling over
> from ctrl to A.
> 10. click copy
> 11. move to folder called disk1ptg
> 12. click paste.
> 13. wait
> 14. remove cdrom and put in disk two
> 15. open cdrom
> 16. select index and papers by holding down the ctrl key
> and clicking each
> one once.
> 17. click copy
> 18. move to folder called disk2ptg
> 19. click paste
> 20. wait
> 21. remove cdrom and put in disk three; open cdrom
> 22. select index and papers by holding down the ctrol key
> and clicking each
> one once.
> 23. click copy
> 24. move to folder called disk3ptg
> 25. click paste
> 26. wait
> 27. remove cdrom and put in disk four; open cdrom
> 28. select index and papers by holding down the ctrl key
> and clicking each
> one once.
> 29. click copy
> 30. move to folder called disk4ptg
> 31. click paste
> 32. wait
> 33. remove cdrom and put in reprint cdrom; open cdrom
> 34. select index, resource, index.pdx and piano.pdf by
> holding down the
> ctrl key and clicking each one once.
> 35. click copy
> 36. move to folder called PTJarchive
> 37. click paste
> 38. wait
> ---------------------------------------------
> 39. install adobe acrobat from disk1ptg folder
> 40. open any .pdf file from disk1ptg folder
> 41. click global search
> 42. click indexes
> 43. click add
> 44. open the folder called journal
> 45. open the folder called disk1ptg
> 46. open the folder called index
> 47. open the file called index.pdx
> 48. repeat steps 41 thru 47 selecting disk2ptg\index\index.pdx,
> disk3ptg\index\index.pdx, disk4ptg\index\index.pdx
> 49. repeat steps 41 thru 44.
> 50. open the folder called PTJarchive
> 51. open the file called index.pdx
>
>
> > That brings up a question I was about to ask. I remember
> at a cyber cafe a
> couple years ago being shown how to search the entire PTJ
> cd (both cd's) if
> they were loaded to the hard drive. IOW,
> > not separate searches for portions, but a single search
> of the entirety.
> Since I didn't have a large enough hard drive, I promptly
> forgot. Could
> someone give some brief instructions about how
> > that might work? My recollection is that it involved
> simply creating a
> single folder with a specific name, and dragging all the
> content files into
> it.
> > Thanks,
> > Fred Sturm
> > University of New Mexico
> >
> > "Jorgensen, Michael L" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >      Does the ptg website or anywhere have a search
> method for old PTJ
> articles by title subject or author.   I'm looking for one
> which I think was
> called "The pitch wars"  from years ago.
> > > -Mike
>
>
> Bob Hohf, RPT
> Editor, Piano Technicians Journal
> voice:  262-495-8058
> fax:      262-495-2983
> Editor@ptg.org
>
>
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