I can't figure out how to use ADL Search

Here's more information on Automatic Directory Listing Search or ADLSearch: http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/webhelp/window_adlsearch.html

DC++ Help link for more information: http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/webhelp

ADLSearch is a sophisticaded tool but I am not sure you need it for a simple 'D/L one or more entire directories from a favorite user'. ADL is primarily useful to filter out the same hits from >different< users' filelists.
I can't see what do you use ADLSearch for when you already found a particular user sharing what you're interested of. You can use the simple search inside the user's file list to locate the directories you want....
Btw. in the latest DC++ version the search inside file lists is greatly improved.

Thank you very much for taking the time for that explanation.

I appreciate that very much and I understand what you are saying.

I suppose that I just have that kind of curious nature that when I get a
new tool, I like to explore and experiment with it until I feel that I
understand very much how it works.

Unfortunately, I can't understand hardly anything about ADL Search. The
entries I have read in the Help files just don't explain what is going on
in plain English.

I would love to see some step by step instructions or examples of how it
works.

Would it be OK with you if I were to send you some more email with
questions about ADL Search from time to time? I promise to keep it brief
and to only ask when I can't find any other way to understand.

Thanks again.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 5:20 AM, eMTee <<email address hidden>
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> eMTee proposed the following answer:
> ADLSearch is a sophisticaded tool but I am not sure you need it for a
> simple 'D/L one or more entire directories from a favorite user'. ADL is
> primarily useful to filter out the same hits from >different< users'
> filelists.
> I can't see what do you use ADLSearch for when you already found a
> particular user sharing what you're interested of. You can use the simple
> search inside the user's file list to locate the directories you want....
> Btw. in the latest DC++ version the search inside file lists is greatly
> improved.
>
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This is the first time I've used this service (I guess that must be obvious) and I've received several emails which appear to be identical to the comments in this forum.

The first comment include two linke but upon examination of those links, they seem to contain excerpts from the help file that I've already read and so I don't understand how they help to explain "ADL Search" beyond any info in the help file.

I would still like to find a tutorial or a document that is written in plain English and contains step-by-step instructions of some examples on how to sue "ADL Search".

When reading the help file, I see that certain columns contain specific information, but nowhere is there any explanation for how these columns are linked or how they help to d/l files from user directories.

Am I missing something basic here?

Is it possible that anyone knows of the existance of such a file or a tutorial that explains "ADL Search"?

When reading through the Help file, it just seems as if it's "all Greek to me".

I certainly do not mean any offense to the people who wrote the Help file nor to the Greek people. But I just cannot figure out how to put this information together and use it to d/l from a user's file list.

There's no additional official documentation about ADL Search. You can help yourself though by using the search engines as it looks like google has some useful results: http://www.google.com/search?q=dc%2B%2B+adl+search&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a