**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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