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BASEBALL ROOKIE CARD INDEX
Baseball Rookie Card Index is made available to the general
public under the concept of Shareware. As such, you are free to
copy it and distribute it to others provided that all accompanying
files remain intact and unmodified, and that no fee is charged.
The author retains ALL rights to the program. If you find this
program useful, please consider supporting the efforts of the
author by sending a small contribution to the address shown below.
To register your copy of BASEBALL ROOKIE CARD INDEX, send a
contribution of $10.00 to its author:
Dennis Bub
210 Huntington Rd.
Delafield, Wi. 53018
(414) 646-8181
A ready-made order form has been included for your convenience.
When the program is running, select the Print Registration option
from the Main Menu.
INTRODUCTION
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Baseball Rookie Card Index is a database program designed
to easily find a Player's Rookie or First Issue card. This
Index contains cards for Donruss, Donruss Rookies, Fleer, and
Fleer Update from years 1981 through 1991. Cards for the
Update and Rookie sets for 1991 were not available when this
program was created but will be included in the registered version.
When you register this program, additional card sets for
Leaf, Bowman, Score, Score Traded, Topps, Topps Traded, Upper Deck,
and Upper Deck Extended will be included from Years 1948 through 1991.
The registered version contains approximately 9500 card listings!
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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IBM compatible computer
Any printer
Color Monitor, CGA or higher resolution
Hard Drive
and at least 400k of ram
PROGRAM INSTALLATION
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To install the programs from this disk onto a hard drive, create
a directory and then copy all the files to the new directory. If you
are going to install the disk on drive C:, for example, and this floppy
disk is in drive A:, you would first enter
C: <Enter> Make sure you are on C:
C:\ <Enter> Change to the root directory
MD INDEX <Enter> Create a subdirectory called INDEX on your
hard drive. (or any name you desire).
CD INDEX <Enter> Change directory to the INDEX directory.
COPY A:*.* <Enter> Copy all files from A: to your hard drive
BBROOK <Enter> Type BBROOK to run the program
Baseball Rookie Card Index will most likely come in a packed file
format containing the following files. Make sure you have them all.
INDEX.DOC...............this file
BBROOK.EXE..............Executable file
ROOK.DAT................Data file
ROOK.IDX................Index file
YEAR.DAT................Data file
HELP.TXT................Help file
INVOICE.TXT.............Registration form
USING THE SEARCH OPTIONS
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SEARCH BY NAME:
Use this option to find all Rookie and first cards issued
for a particular player. Enter a player's full last name for
an explicit search or enter fewer letters (3 letters min.) to
scan for all similar names.
If only one name is found, that player's cards will be
immediately displayed. If multiple names are found, a
selection box will be displayed enabling the user to scroll
up and down the list of names. Press the ENTER key to make a
selection and display that player's cards.
SEARCH BY YEAR:
Use this option to find all Rookie and first cards issued
in a particular set for a given year. Enter a year from 1981
thru 1991 (4 digits must be entered). A selection box will
then be displayed containing the Card sets available for the
year. Use the up and down arrow keys and press ENTER to select
a card set.
All Rookie Cards issued in that set will then be displayed
in a window which can be scrolled up and down to view the list.
UPDATES
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As a registered owner, besides receiving the latest version
of this program, you will receive information on updates or
improvements in this software.