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  1. .           PERSONALIZED FORM LETTER - ACCESSES CLIENT DATABASE                 
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  5. . A personalized FORM letter is simply a FORM as far as INFO-BASE is con-       
  6. . cerned -- another template or way of viewing the DATABASE.   However, there   
  7. . are print commands that allow for text re-adjustment.  First note that  any   
  8. . line beginning with a period (".") is a non-print line and unless it contains 
  9. . a print command it is ignored by the print routine.  Print commands are       
  10. . in columns two and three preceded by a period (e.,g. ".pa" in columns         
  11. . 1 to 3 tells INFO-BASE to space to the next page).                            
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  13. . **** Press "RETURN" to move to other sections *****                           
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  16. .         Title     first         last                                          
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  19. Attention _______Γ ___________Γ _______________                                 
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  21. .ll 44  Note the Γ causes all preceding blanks to be  eliminated after the      
  22. .       DATA FIELDS have been filled in.  Initially  formatting is off, else-   
  23. .       wise the line would be re-adjusted to its original length.  The command 
  24. .       ".ll 44" limits the print line to the first 44 columns which            
  25. .       prevents "Company Name..City/State Zip" from being printed.             
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  27. .       ".ad 3" adjusts all print to the right by 3 spaces                      
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  29. _____________________________               Company Name                        
  30. _____________________________               Street Address                      
  31. _____________________________Γ   _______    City/State Zip                      
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  35.      Dear ___________Γ;                                                         
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  37. .fo on                                                                          
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  40.      It was a pleasure to meet you and your lovely wife ___________Γ  at        
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  42. our demonstration this past Saturday.  I am sure you now  understand how        
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  44. INFO-BASE can be used in any  application which  uses  forms, and  needs        
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  46. to  solve  the  problem  of   data   redundancy.   For instance, if  you        
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  48. already  have  a customer file  that  includes  name, address,  discount        
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  50. available, etc.,  then  an  invoice  data base can be created and rather        
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  52. than re-entering the data for each  invoice, it can  be  extracted  from        
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  54. the customer  file.  Other applications include:  insurance  forms, real        
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  56. estate multi-list agreements, income  tax  forms  etc.   Please  let  me        
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  58. know if I can be of further assistance.                                         
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  60. .   Note FIELDS can be imbedded in non-printing lines, which  makes  it         
  61. .   easy to create  extremely personal letters (see Post script below).         
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  69.                                   Yours Truly,                                  
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  73.                                   Clark   Readler                               
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  75. .   You can individually print out letters (one RECORD at a time) or all of the 
  76. .   RECORDS by pressing Ctrl P (^P).  You will be prompted  for printing        
  77. .   the current RECORD or all RECORDS, and/or whether you want just the DATA or 
  78. .   both the DATA and the TEXT prompts.  After you have finished with this      
  79. .   FORM press Ctrl O (^O) and enter "LABELD" in response to the FORM name      
  80. .   request.                                                                    
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  86. .    Note a post script can be entered here using comment information.          
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