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PHONE BOOK
by Dick Heckert
Now you can let your fingers do the walking at your computer instead of
through the yellow pages or your little black book. PHONE BOOK will hold up
to 300 names, addresses, phone numbers and notes. It also allows you to
print out mailing labels from the records, sort them by any of its six
fields, and even make phone calls without dialing!
The program has been compiled in order to speed up the sort routine,
but the source code (in BASIC 7.0) is on the disk under the name "phone
book.bas". LOADSTAR wants you to have full control of the programs we
publish.
PHONE BOOK has two modes of operation -- COMMAND MODE and EDIT DATA
MODE. In COMMAND MODE you can use all the keyboard commands listed along
the left side of the screen. No need to memorize commands here. Here's
what the commands do, starting at the top.
E EDIT DATA
Press E to enter EDIT DATA MODE where information can be added or
revised on the file cards. You are moved to line #1 of the showing record
of the current "BOX" -- more on the two BOXes later. If you press RETURN
with no entry the line will not change. Otherwise enter the entire line of
text. A typical record will have:
name line #1
street address line #2
city state zip line #3
phone number line #4
notes line #5
sort code or notes line #6
Almost any characters can be used, including commas and colons. Complete
all six lines and you will return to COMMAND MODE. You can erase a line by
entering a space and then pressing RETURN. The record is corrected after
you finish line 6. The first three lines will be your mailing label and
line #4 should only have the phone number (for the ringer).
G GOTO (SEARCH)
Press G to search from the present record card to the end of the file
for any name or address. Just enter up to ten letters and press RETURN.
The following cards will be searched (all six lines) for a match, and when
found, will be displayed.
+ NEXT RECORD
Press + to advance to the next record.
- PREVIOUS RECORD
Press - to back up to the previous record.
A FIRST RECORD
Press A and the first record in the file will appear in the active box.
Use this to return to the beginning before a GOTO search.
Z LAST RECORD
Press Z for the last record in the file. Go here and then press + for
a blank card to add to the file.
^ DELETE RECORD
Press the UP ARROW key to delete the current file card.
\ INSERT RECORD
Press the BACK ARROW key and all the following records will be moved up
one number. You can then add data to the blank card showing in the active
card window.
F FILE DIRECTORY
Press F for the directory of the phone book files on your disk. Files
for this program are identified by "m." prefixes to the filenames and only
these files are shown in the directory. Then use the UP/DOWN CRSR key to
select a file and press L to load the file into memory in place of the
current file. If you want to add the new file to the end of the current
file, press A for APPEND. To return to the current file in memory without
loading, just press RETURN to abort to COMMAND MODE.
N NEW FILENAME
To change to another filename or load another file, press N and then
enter the new name. Do not add the "m." identifier to your filename.
L LOAD FILE
Press L to load the filename shown at the top of the active window.
The file now in memory will be replaced by the file being loaded.
C CONCAT (APPEND)
To add the new file to the end of the file now in memory press C. You
can tack on files to make one big master file (up to the 300 record limit).
S SAVE FILE
Press S and the file now in memory will replace the one on disk with
the filename shown. If you do not want the disk file replaced, change the
filename (with N) before pressing S.
T TITLES
Press T to see a list of the first lines of each card in the file. Use
this to check for correct spelling and case before using GOTO for a search.
O ORDER (SORT
Press O to change the order of the records in the file. You will be
asked for the line number to be used as the sort index. This sort is
upper/lower case sensitive so try to keey your list consistent. Have all
proper names start with caps, for example. If you want to sort by something
other than title or ZIP code, try using line #6 as a "sort index". Give the
records you want to be listed first a letter from the beginning of the
alphabet and the records you want last letters from the end of the alphabet.
The sort will be much faster if you keep these codes short -- one or two
letters long.
P PRINTER
Press P to print out mail labels or to print out all six lines of data.
You can then choose the starting record number and the final record for your
print-out. If you want a number of mailing labels for the same record,
enter the record number as starting and final record and then enter the
number of copies you would like (up to 99). This is handy for making return
address labels for yourself.
R RING PHONE
Find the card file for the person to be called (with the phone number
on line #4), turn up the volume on your monitor and press R. Hold the
handset of your touch-tone phone near the monitor speaker. You can use
1-800-555-3426 format or 18005553426. The dash will be skipped. Do not
leave spaces between numbers or they will sound like a zero. The monitor
volume must be up pretty high for the phone system to catch it.
U DRIVE:
Any drive that's on and hooked up to your system can be chosen by
pressing U. This unit will then be the source AND destination drive. To
load from one drive and save to another, press U before and after the load
to set the desired drive numbers.
B BOX:
There are two "boxes" of cards visible on the screen. BOX ONE is at
the top and BOX TWO is at the bottom. If you want to compare two record
cards put one record in BOX ONE and then switch to BOX TWO and GOTO the
comparison card. You can even leave a card from one file in BOX TWO while
you load a new file in BOX ONE. The COMMANDs window on the left shows which
BOX is the currently active one.
H HELP
Press H anytime you're in the COMMAND MODE and short synopses of the
Commands are displayed in three help screens.
Q QUIT
Press Q and you'll be asked if you really want to quit. If there is a
LOADSTAR in drive 8, you'll return to LOADSTAR's menu. If not, then you'll
return to BASIC.
I've found this PHONE BOOK to be quite handy for keeping track of
important numbers, as well as addresses. I hope you can use it, too.
DH
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