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- Federal Express Label Printer V1.01a
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- Copyright 1990, 1991 Thomas V. Sollas III
- CompuServe ID: 76427,3056 Member of ASP
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- FEDEX101.DOC Copyright 1990,1991 Thomas V. Sollas III Page 2
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- SHAREWARE MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- LICENSE AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- ABOUT THE SOFTWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- ABOUT THE EXTRA FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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- SETTING PROGRAM OPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- PRINTING AND SETTING PRINTER CODES . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- DATE ON LABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- SHOW SENDER'S ACCOUNT ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- SAVE ADDRESS ON ONE TIME LABELS? . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- DEVICE NAME OF PRINTER? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- PRINTING YOUR FIRST LABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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- OTHER STUFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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- REVISION HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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- INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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- FEDEX101.DOC Copyright 1990,1991 Thomas V. Sollas III Page 3
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- SHAREWARE MESSAGE
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- This program is a "Shareware program" and is provided at no
- charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with
- your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part
- of another system. If you find this program useful and find that
- you are using Federal Express Label Printer V1.01a and continue
- to use it after 30 days, you must make a registration payment of
- $35 to the author. This fee will license one copy of this
- program in accordance with the license agreement stated below.
- See the order form for details on site licenses. Mail check or
- money order for $35 payable in U.S. funds to:
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- Thomas V. Sollas III
- 77 Main Ave. Unit 3A
- Ocean Grove, NJ 07756
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- You are encouraged to pass a copy of Federal Express Label
- Printer V1.01a to your friends and associates for evaluation.
- Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that
- they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the
- latest version of this program. Thanks, and enjoy!
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- DISCLAIMER
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- Users of Federal Express Label Printer V1.01a must accept
- this disclaimer of warranty: "Federal Express Label Printer
- V1.01a is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties,
- expressed or implies, including, without limitation, the
- warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
- The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or
- consequential, which may result from the use of Federal Express
- Label Printer V1.01a."
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- LICENSE AGREEMENT
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- After registering this program, you are granted a limited
- license to use this program on one machine at a time. While you
- may freely distribute the Shareware version of this program,
- copying, translating, transmitting, distribution, or reverse
- engineering of the registered version is strictly forbidden.
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- For network users, this license applies to one user only.
- The program may be used by other users, but not at the same time
- unless they have been registered as well. See the order form
- below to register additional users and/or additional copies.
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- FEDEX101.DOC Copyright 1990,1991 Thomas V. Sollas III Page 4
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- ABOUT THE SOFTWARE
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- Ok, enough of that stuff. And now about the program itself...
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- Federal Express Label Printer V1.01a was written to help anyone
- who has much better things to do than to hand type up Federal
- Express labels. It's time consuming, a pain in the neck
- (especially when you have a billion of them), and you inevitably
- make mistakes requiring you to rip up the one you're on and to
- start over again.
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- Until now. This program allows you to take advantage of those
- little holes on the sides of these labels by feeding them into
- your dot-matrix printer. You can edit basic Sender information,
- and keep a list of people whom you send things to. There is
- complete on-line help, so, no matter where you are in the
- software, you can have basic questions answered.
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- The name of this program may lead you to believe that this
- software prints Fed Ex labels only. Not so, since this version
- will also print Express Mail (our beloved Post Office's answer to
- overnight mail) labels as well. If enough people register and I
- can get my hands on other types of labels, future updates of this
- program will include them as well.
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- ABOUT THE EXTRA FILES
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- Following is a basic description of FEDEX101's auxiliary files:
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- FED_FROM.* - Contains sender data for Federal Express labels
- FED_MAIL.* - Contains sender data for Express Mail labels
- FED_TO .* - Contains list of recipients and their data
- FED_CTL .* - Contains printer codes and other program
- options*
- FEDEXLBL.HLP - On-line help file
- FEDEX101.EXE - The executable program
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- * This file is a required file that must exist in the same
- directory as the .EXE file in order for this program to work! If
- the other .DAT or .K01 files do not exist, or are not in the same
- directory, this program will create them in the same directory.
- If you are missing this file, please contact me on CompuServe and
- I will send you a copy of this file.
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- FEDEX101.DOC Copyright 1990,1991 Thomas V. Sollas III Page 5
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- INSTALLATION
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- You should probably create a separate directory for this program,
- since all of these program files MUST reside in the same
- directory. See your DOS manual if you are unfamiliar with
- creating directories. You should then copy all of the above
- files into that directory, and you'll be ready to roll! To
- execute the program, type: FEDEX101 at the prompt and the program
- will run. Ex:
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- C:\FEDEX101\>fedex101
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- If you plan to install this program on a network, you should
- create a separate directory, and mark all of the data files as
- Shareable Read Write (use FLAG command with Novell Netware), and
- mark FEDEX101.EXE and FEDEXLBL.HLP as Read Only. Prior to
- executing this program, you should execute your network
- software's printer capture utility if you plan on printing to
- network printers (use CAPTURE command with Novell Netware). See
- your network manual if you have questions.
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- SETTING PROGRAM OPTIONS
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- After installation, the next thing you should do should be to set
- up your program options. Do this by selecting the EDIT PROGRAM
- OPTIONS menu choice from the top menu. Another window will
- appear, allowing you to change the program options. A help
- window will appear anywhere in this program by typing F1.
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- PRINTING AND SETTING PRINTER CODES:
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- As I do not know what printer you are using, you'll have to check
- your printer manual to get the specific codes for 10CPI printing
- and UNCOMPRESSED printing, if you do not use an Epson compatible
- printer. The reason the program uses these codes is because
- other software may change the status with out resetting it (such
- as the accounting software I use). If you wish, you can leave
- these two fields blank (type Ctrl-Home to clear the field), and
- no codes will be sent to the printer.
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- The current set-up is for Epson and compatible printers. If you
- use a different printer, enter the correct code for your printer.
- To print unprintable characters such as Esc, hold the Alt key
- down while you type its ASCII decimal code on the numeric key
- pad.
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- FEDEX101.DOC Copyright 1990,1991 Thomas V. Sollas III Page 6
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- PRINTING, PROGRAM SETUP, Cont.
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- Ex: To enter the code for 10CPI printing for Epson printers,
- while holding down the Alt key, type 027 on the numeric keypad.
- After releasing the Alt key, a left arrow should appear.
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- DATE ON LABEL:
- Press enter if you want today's date. You can change this
- anytime you like, however every time you select this window, the
- date will revert back to today's date.
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- SHOW SENDER'S ACCOUNT ETC.:
- Use these switches depending on whether you have pre-printed
- labels or not. (use left and right cursor keys to move the
- selector bar)
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- SAVE ADDRESS ON ONE TIME LABELS?:
- If you choose to print up a label one time rather than print a
- label from your address file, this option will save the
- information of the last label sent, so long as you don't exit the
- program.
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- DEVICE NAME OF PRINTER?:
- This software can print to any legal DOS device (i.e. LPT1, LPT2,
- CON, COM1, COM2, etc.) If you print to any of the serial ports
- (COM1 etc.), make sure that you set the correct mode for that
- port.
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- C:\FEDEXLBL\>mode com1:9600,n,8,1,p
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- When feeding the labels into the printer, please note that
- Federal Express and the Post Office saw it fit to make the forms
- larger than the 8 1/2 inch standard. To compensate for this,
- move the form as far left in the printer as it will go.
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- FEDEX101.DOC Copyright 1990,1991 Thomas V. Sollas III Page 7
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- PRINTING YOUR FIRST LABEL
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- You should now be ready to print your first label! Let's first
- do a test label: You should first feed in the FedEx (or Express
- Mail) labels into your printer. Then using the pull down menu
- titled "Print Labels", select 'Print Federal Express labels from
- List'. The next window will be a window allowing you to select
- recipients. There should only be one, a series of
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX's. Make sure the label is lined up, and just hit
- Enter. The selector bar will blink to let you know that it will
- print. Check the label to see that it printed correctly. If
- your alignment is off, reset the label and try again until it is
- correct. Once you are all set, make note of the correct
- alignment so that you won't have to go through this process
- again.
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- Other stuff: You can add people to the recipient's list by
- selecting 'Edit recipient's' list from the 'Edit Lists' menu.
- Other helpful keys:
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- Esc - Go back to previous field.
- Enter - Accepts a field, or selects an item for editing
- or printing.
- Ctrl-Enter- Accept a whole window
- Ctrl-Esc - Reject a whole window or a menu screen
- Ins - Add an item when editing recipients
- Del - Delete an item when editing recipients
- Ctrl-Home - Clear a whole field
- Ctrl-End - Clear to end of field
- F1 - pull up context sensitive help screen
- Up and Down cursor
- keys - move menu bar, selector bar, or move
- between fields.
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- FEDEX101.DOC Copyright 1990,1991 Thomas V. Sollas III Page 8
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- OTHER STUFF
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- If you are having trouble getting this program started, please
- feel free to contact me on CompuServe at ID 76427,3056. However,
- if you register, you will receive free technical support by phone
- as well, and any upgrades that I write.
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- As of this release (1/10/91), I do not know of any
- incompatibilities with other software or hardware. If you
- encounter any, please write to me at the above address with the
- software you use, and the system you are on, and any other
- relevant information.
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- Suggestions for V1.02 can be mailed to me at the above address,
- or via CompuServe Mail.
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- Finally, thanks to Seymore Halpern for his help and advice, and
- to my beta testers/reviewers et. al. for their valuable input.
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- In the file called "ORDER.DOC" is a handy ordering form (you can
- print one out from the program as well) that you can send in with
- your check.
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- REVISION HISTORY
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- 10/18/90 - v1.00 Initial completion
- 11/30/90 - v1.01 Add pull-down menus, optimize code, revise
- docs and shareware messages etc, add readme
- and vendor messages. Revised help file (on-
- line)
- 1/10/91 - v1.01a Updated to show author as member of ASP
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- FEDEX101.DOC Copyright 1990,1991 Thomas V. Sollas III Page 9
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- INDEX
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- ABOUT THE EXTRA FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- FED_CTL .* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- FED_FROM.* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- FED_MAIL.* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- FED_TO .* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- FEDEX101.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- FEDEXLBL.HLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- ABOUT THE SOFTWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- DATE ON LABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- DEVICE NAME OF PRINTER? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- EDIT PROGRAM OPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- execute the program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- LICENSE AGREEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 5
- capture utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Register additional users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Novell Netware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- OTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- PRINTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- PRINTER CODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- PRINTING YOUR FIRST LABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Required file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- REVISION HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- SAVE ADDRESS ON ONE TIME LABELS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- Select recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- SETTING PROGRAM OPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- SHAREWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- registering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- SHOW SENDER'S ACCOUNT ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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