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- Welcome to Tele-Finder.......
-
- Tele-Finder is an electronic telephone directory with links to Ashton-Tate's
- dBase II/III or any other system that can use SDF-format files.
-
- For IBM-compatible computers, no installation is required and this program
- will perform equally well on either a monochrome or color system. There is
- one restriction, however. If both a monochrome and a color video card have
- been installed, then the color screen must be active in order for this
- program to maintain proper screen management.
-
- This program uses three data files: PHONE.DAT, NAME.IDX and COMPANY.IDX.
- If they are missing, you will be given the option of either creating them or
- importing an ASCII SDF file. If either of the index files are missing,
- then PHONE.DAT will be automatically reindexed.
-
- EDITING KEYS:
-
- -> Cursor Right
- <- Cursor Left
- Previous Field
- Next Field
- ─ Delete Character Left
- Del Delete Character at the Cursor
- ─┘ End Line Entry, Next Field
- Ctrl-Y Erase Current Field
-
- ADDING RECORDS:
-
- F2 allows you to add new records to the file. There are no required fields.
- Keying [Esc] or [End], or keying ─┘ until you run out of fields will end
- the editing session.
-
-
- FINDING RECORDS:
-
- F3 allows you to locate records by name or by company. To locate by name,
- enter the last name (and optionally the first name). To locate by company,
- leave the name blank and enter only the company name. You need not enter
- the entire name you wish to locate. For example, entering "a" in the
- company field will locate the first company beginning with that letter.
- Case is ignored when searching for keys, so you may feel free to write your
- entries in any combination of upper or lower case.
-
- Once a record has been located, the following functions are available:
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- [PgUp] View Next Record
- [PgDn] View Previous Record
- [Ins] Edit Current Record
- [Del] Delete Current Record
-
- The Next and Previous functions will be based on either the name key or the
- company key, depending on which key was used for the original search.
-
- LISTING RECORDS:
-
- F4 allows you to list records.
-
- The name, company, telephone number and extension will be listed. You may
- send the list to either the screen or your printer. If the printer is not
- ready, an error message will be displayed. You may order the list by name
- or by company or you may view the list in its unsorted form.
-
- SAVING RECORDS IN ASCII FORMAT:
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- F5 allows you to save the current contents of the file in SDF format. The
- file thus created is easily loaded by dBase II/III.
-
-
- SDF format is represented as follows:
-
- 1. Each record is seperated by a CR/LF sequence.
- 2. All fields are padded with trailing blanks.
- 3. All numeric fields are represented in ASCII format.
- 4. There are no seperators between fields.
-
- dBASE FILE STRUCTURE:
-
- FIRSTNAME Char 15
- LASTNAME Char 30
- COMPANY Char 40
- STREET Char 40
- CITY Char 40
- TELEPHONE Char 15
- EXTENSION Char 5
- REMARKS1 Char 40
- REMARKS2 Char 40
- REMARKS3 Char 40
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- Field names are optional.
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