LOCATING YOHIWORLD.HTML

The basic technique is that YOU must use the features available on YOUR SYSTEM to navigate from YOUR DESKTOP through YOUR HARD DRIVE 'structure' to YOUR CD ROM drive and find the file named yohiworld.html that is located in the 'root' [top level] directory on the CD. That is normally accomplished by using a feature on YOUR COMPUTER called 'Windows EXPLORER'. This function may be activated using several methods. The procedure requires the 'changing of directories' [folders / drives] as you navigate through YOUR HARD DRIVE to the CD 'structure', then selecting the yohiworld.html file on the CD by clicking on it and viewing the YOHI WORLD in YOUR BROWSER [Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape,......] which YOU have configured to 'associate' with htm/l files. Do not confuse 'Windows EXPLORER' with Microsoft Internet Explorer -- they are 2 entirely different things. MIE is the program you use [if you use it as opposed to Netscape or something else] to view web sites on the internet -- and your hard drive and CD, and will be used to view the YOHI World on your computer. The other 'Windows EXPLORER' is a management tool that comes with 'windows' to manage the files on your hard drive and is the one we are talking about now.

There are at least 3 known methods used to find the 'Windows EXPLORER' on your computer that we are aware of, but surely other methods exist on newer versions of 'windows' that we are unfamiliar with. The highest level of 'windows' that we use is '98'. [perhaps some of you who have later versions can enlighten us on the procedures for your version so we may pass it on here]. The 3 ways to begin your journey through your 'structure' using 'Windows EXPLORER' are indicated below and are illustrated by a graphic which will refresh your memory.

METHOD 1 -- Clicking the 'My Computer' icon on your desktop

The end result of those methods produce a screen that looks similar to the one below -- which is of course on MY COMPUTER -- but is believed will be very similar to yours. The designation of the 'drive' letter [ (A:), or (B:), or (C:) or (D:) or (E:), or....] may be different on yours, and of course the composition and names of the folders and files will be also. This screen represents the TOP LEVEL of the 'structure' and again by navigating within that 'structure' by by going from place to place ['changing directories' [folders]] you can go anywhere on your hard drive, and your other drives ['floppy', CD, 'ZIP', .....]

It is important to point out here for those of you who have the versions of CD's that starts AUTOMATICALLY when inserted [version 05a and up......], using the 'Windows EXPLORER' is the ONLY way to bypass the AutoPlay feature, and permit you to view folders and files without activating it. For example if you want to go directly to other locations on the CD to reach specific htm/l pages or graphics.

The drive which has the CD loaded in it will include in addition to the alpha designation [ (D:), .....] ALSO the CD ID number. In my case, my CD ROM drive is the 'D' drive, and the CD loaded in it is number 021229_file. Which means, a CD created Dec 29, 2002, and is my 'file' copy of that version.

To continue your journey to locate and use the yohiworld.html file, you must navigate to the next level -- DOWN -- please follow these steps. First you must access the CD itself and determine what is on it. Using the above illustration as a guide, click on the appropriate drive in the LEFT window that represents your CD ROM drive. This will open up another screen that will look similar to the one below. It will identify the contents of the CD at the TOP LEVEL in both windows. The window on the left will indicate ONLY the folders on the CD at that level; but the window on the right will reveal not only the [same] folders but also the files that are available for viewing / use at that level.

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Note from the screen on the right the following important features:

1	The 6 FOLDERS in the 'root' directory [AT TOP LEVEL OF THE CD] are shown. Those folders lead to ALL the files on the CD, except the the 5 that appear on that screen.
2	There is a file there with YOUR NAME. It is the file that identifies the specific CD to YOU. If you click on that file, your 'browser' will open it and you can read it.
3	You have now located the YOHIWORLD.HTML file. That is the file that permits you to start from the beginning, and view the ENTIRE YOHI WORLD using your 'browser'. Just click on that file and your journey through the 'world' begins!
4	The remaining files are those that are needed to permit the 'AutoPlay' function to work, and you need not do anything about or with them. Those of you who have CD versions prior to 05a, will NOT have those 3 files.

Once you activate the yohiworld.html file and are inside the HomePage, please read all the explanations before proceeding. They contain important information that will assist you throughout the viewing of the YOHI WORLD. As you progress down through those boring but essential bits of information you will discover a link to some MAPS and VIDEOS. Visit them, and then to enter the rest of the 'world' simply click on this button and you are on your way.

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From time to time you may desire to go DIRECTLY to a specific place within the 'world' and bypass others -- for example to certain images or pages like a yearbook, or what ever. This is easy to do, if you understand the procedures explained above. You will simply enter into the 6 directories identified above, and as explained below. Think of the CD as your apartment. The yohiworld.html file is the 'key' that opens the door that permits you to enter. Once inside the entry way, their are a few pieces of furniture [the files in the root directory] and a whole lot of rooms -- the folders [referred to also as 'directories' and 'sub-directories']. Each folder [directory] has a door [a file that opens it] and once inside, you will discover more pieces of furniture ['files'] and more rooms ['folders]. Some rooms have closets with cabinets where more files and sub-directories reside ..........