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- Custom Services DataBase Manager
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- This program is "No-Frills Software" and is available with full
- documentation for a fee of $10.00. The documentation included here is a
- sample of what this program can do. For a complete manual and current
- version of this program you must register. If you include a disk with your
- PD or shareware programs you will recieve a $2.00 discount.
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- The program is a CLI only product. You must run it from CLI.
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- The basic idea of this program is to allow you to have up to 1024 byte
- records, each record may have up to 36 keys and 255 fields. The data file
- is packed binary to minimize the disk usage. Keys are kept on RAM: for
- fast access.
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- This program will use the first CLI argument as the filename. It will
- create the file if it does not exist. The filename may be up to 30
- characters in length. The default name is "MASTER". the program will
- create MASTRER.DIC, which is the dictionary for your file, and MASTER.DAT,
- which is the actual data. You may:
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- Add records
- Change records
- Delete records
- repack the file (really deletes the deleted records!)
- Select a set of record
- Reselect from the current set of records
- change the print options
- perform math on the selected records
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- When adding a record you will be asked for the name, description, if it
- is to be a key and the type. The type of the data may be:
- i - integer data
- f - real data(floating point number)
- l - logical flag(Y or N only values)
- c - character data( you will be asked the size)
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- The Idea of this database is to allow you to keep track of your data and
- print it selecting the items and fields. A simple sequence of using it
- would be:
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- 1) build the database(automatic if file doesnt exist)
- 2) Add records
- 3) Select on a Key field
- 4) Reselect one or more times to reduce the Current Set to the
- records you want
- 5) make changes to the selected records
- 6) make proper print selection(what prints, to a file?)
- 7) print reports
- 8) do whatever else you want! then exit
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- Selecting records from the file can be done with lists of exact data
- or ranges of data. The type of character can be matched on a wildcard
- character of "*" which matches all characters that follow. The "*" will
- end the check for a match causing a match. Characters after the "*" are
- ignored. "abc*" is equivalent to "abc*fg" both will match "abcdef".
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- Other than the "*" match all list matches are for exact matches. Upper and
- Lower case do matter!
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- A more complete manual will be supplied to registered users.
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