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There are categorized file sections which have complete program descriptions to allow you to find what you are looking for. With the click of your mouse button you can download a file. You can get a listing of all the files that are new since the last time you checked. There is a search engine which can quickly find files containing the information you are looking for. The system also contains message areas for you to exchange public and private messages with other system users.
When you login to Train-Sim.Com you must enter a unique user name and a personal password. This allows you to be uniquely identified for sending and receiving messages and to allow access to the proper forums. When you wish to exit the system, you should use the logout buttons. If you don't logout, the system will eventually log you out automatically. However, this time is deducted from your daily time limit.
Some Internet Explorer users have problems getting the browser to save files where they want them saved; instead it saves them to a temporary folder or immediately opens them. Microsoft tech support has an article that explains how to solve this:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q177/9/76.asp
The usual cause for such problems is security software being run on the user's computer; firewalls in particular. You should be able to change your firewall settings to solve this problem, or temporarily disable it just to test whether it is the cause of the problem.
In the case of the popular Zone Alarm software, it is reported that "Mobile Code Control" must be turned off to allow downloading.
Another known cause for this problem is a setting in Windows XP which needs to be changed, a checkbox labeled "notify server when download complete". If your computer does not report back to the file server that the download completed and you attempt additional downloads eventually you will go over your limit.
To fix this, load Internet Explorer, then select Tools, Internet Options, "Advanced" tab, then scroll down the options (called settings) into the section headed "Browsing" and some way down the list of tick boxes is "Notify when downloads complete"; make sure this box is ticked.
The search criteria on the standard File Search form are as described
below. You can also use another form to change your
display options.
Single Word: To find all files that have a specific word in
their file description enter just that word in the "Search For Text"
box, then press the search key. Example: to find all Boeing aircraft
do a search with boeing as the single search word.
Several Words: To find all files that have all of a group of
words in their file description enter each of the words in the
"Search For Text" box, separated by spaces. The order in which you
enter the words does not matter. Example: to find all Boeing 747's do
a search with boeing 747 entered in the box.
Phrase: To find a phrase, or to put it another way, to find
several words in a specific order, enter the phrase in the "Search For
Text" box with double quotes around it. Example: to find Pan American
airplanes (but not things like "an American pan") do a search with
"pan american" entered in the box. You can use the asterisk
character as a wildcard for any entire word in the middle of a phrase.
Boolean Operations: Searchs can be additionally refined by using
boolean operators between search words. Recognized operators are and,
or, not. You can use the actual words "and", "or" and "not" as the
operators, or you can use the characters "&", "|" and "!" respectively.
See below for samples.
Nesting Words: Parentheses can be used to nest words together
when creating complex search strings. See below for samples.
Search Examples:
Search Tips:
Examples:
Searching by file name is generally faster than seaching by text
string.
To sort the file list a different way click on the down arrow on the
"Sort file list by" box and choose one of the other selections:
[number of] downloads, file name, file section or size [of file].
This selection has uses which may not be obvious at first. Sorting
by date in descending order results in the newest files being
displayed. Sorting by downloads in descending order results in a
"hot files" listing, showing the most popular files.
Note: if your display does not change after setting new options
or doing a new search it may be because your browser is still
loading the previous page from local cache. Try using the browser's
reload button to ensure that the new display is loaded.
Note that some database entries may not actually be used and thus
turning them on or off will have no visible effect.
When all settings are the way you want them, click on the "Update
Display Options" button. To leave your settings unchanged, click
on "Return".
Note: if your display does not change after setting new options
or doing a new search it may be because your browser is still
loading the previous page from local cache. Try using the browser's
reload button to ensure that the new display is loaded.
To select the desired file section, simply click on the file
section name.
File Searchs can be done within a file section or all file sections.
The search criteria are performed on the entry for each file
in the directory listings. The search criteria are easily entered.
Once you have filled in these items to your satisfaction, just click
on the Start Search button.
By default all file sections are searched. If you wish to search only
a single file section click on the down arrow on this box and then
select a single file section from the list that appears.
Instead of searching for files by string you can search by the
name of the file. You can search for the exact file name or use the
standard wildcards * and ? in the search.
There are several choices of how the resulting list of files can be
arranged. By default the files are listed by date, with the most
recent files first.
The final choice in how the file list is displayed is the display
order. By default this is descending but ascending can also be
selected.
Click on this button to start your search. A display of all the files
found matching your criteria will be shown.
The Display Options are check off boxes, one for
each field within the file directory database. By checking all boxes
on you can get the most detailed file listings possible, but for
faster and smaller listings fields can be turned off. For example,
turning off the description can result in a very concise listing of
files by just name, title, etc.
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