Some notes for people who have lost the instruction sheet
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The current data is based on information from a tape received January 1997.
The database contains 47,503 callsigns.

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If you are reading this, then you have successfully extracted the files off
the diskette.  The supplied program "callsign.exe" checks your video card and
tries to determine if it can display color.  On some CGA boards with composite
monochrome monitors,  the color emulation looks bad.  This is also true with
some laptops.  You can force CALLSIGN to use black & white only.  To do this,
you must add 1 line to your autoexec.bat.  The line is as follows:

set color=no

If you have a color monitor, and the program thinks you don't, then you can
force the color by adding:

set color=yes

By default, callsign prints 7 lines per label.  The dos variables LINES can be
used to change this.  For example, to set the number of lines to 8:

set lines=8

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If you are like myself, you like to have programs run from any drive, and any
directory.  Under DOS, you can add  C:\CALLSIGN to your path=  line in your
autoexec.bat.  Unfortunately, CALLSIGN wants to find the datafile in the
current drive/directory.  You can force it to locate the file elsewhere by
adding the following to your autoexec.bat:

set callsign=c:\callsign\canadian.ham

Of course, if you have the datafile stored somewhere else, you would type in
the correct location in the above example.

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Costs & Updates:

The cost of this software is $15.00 Canadian.

I plan on visiting most of the flea markets in southwestern Ontario, and will
try to set up at the annual Dayton Hamfest.  If you send your old disk back
with your payment, I'll knock off $5.00 as a discount.  I should note that I
will be sending you a new disk of course.  I have no formal method of
determining who has purchased disks from me in the past unless I see the
old disk.

The Department of Communications updates their database 2 to 3 times a year.
I will receive the updated tape when it becomes available.

Mark Bramwell (VE3PZR) London, Ontario
Voice:(519) 473-3618 Fax:(519) 473-9762
Packet: ve3pzr@ve3uwo
Internet: mark@ardsley.ivey.uwo.ca