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- ZIPKEY, V2.00e Copyright 1991 Eric Isaacson.
- All rights reserved.
-
- ZIPKEY.OVL Copyright 1989,1990 Eric Isaacson.
- All rights reserved.
-
- Eric Isaacson Software
- 416 East University Ave.
- Bloomington, IN 47401-4739
- (812)339-1811
-
- This diskette contains the ZIPKEY zipcode directory and keyboard
- enhancement program. Please feel free to distribute the program
- by uploading it to bulletin-board systems, and by copying and
- distributing the diskette to anyone interested.
-
- You can run the program by putting ZIPKEY.EXE and ZIPKEY.OVL
- into your current directory, and typing ZIPKEY to the MS-DOS
- command prompt.
-
-
- What's New In This Version
-
- I have added telephone area codes to ZIPKEY's database.
-
- Now when you specify a zipcode or a city, you'll also get
- the telephone area code displayed in ZIPKEY's window. You
- can "play back" the area code with the T specifier in your
- hotkey or exit key configuration.
-
- Conversely, you can type a left bracket [ followed by an
- area code to ZIPKEY's window to obtain the location of the
- area code.
-
- Of course, the data itself is updated every month. The
- evaluation data is constrained to be at least six months old, so
- that you're now getting the data provided to registered users
- six months ago.
-
-
- File Name Conventions for BBS Uploading
-
- If you distribute files in a compressed format, using PKZIP,
- ARC, ZOO, or a similar program, I recommend that the evaluation
- ZIPKEY.EXE file and the manual ZIPKEY.DOC/ZPROG.DOC be packed
- together into one file, and the ZIPKEY.OVL file be provided as a
- second file.
-
- If you are a BBS sysop, with the ability to delete files on your
- BBS, you can maintain the single name ZIPKEY for the package.
- The compressed EXE-and-manual file can have the extension (.ZIP,
- .ARC, etc.) reflecting the compressing program used. The OVL
- file can keep its name ZIPKEY.OVL. ZIPKEY.OVL does not need to
- be compressed-- it's already so compact that there is little or
- no further gain from compression.
-
- If you are uploading to a BBS on which you cannot delete the
- previous version, I suggest that the names contain the version
- information. The EXE-and-manual file should be named ZKxxx, where
- xxx is the ZIPKEY.EXE version number -- for example, ZK200.ZIP for
- ZIPKEY V2.00e. The ZIPKEY.OVL file should be stored using a
- compression program (not for the compression, which is minimal,
- but so that the file will be named ZIPKEY.OVL again when it is
- extracted). The compressed OVL file should be named ZKmmyy,
- where mm is the 2-digit month and yy is the year of the ZIPKEY
- database -- for example, ZK0890.ZIP for the August, 1990
- version of the data.
-
- Here are sample directory lines for ZIP files, including
- recommended comment lines:
-
- ZK200.ZIP ZIPKEY zipcode dir V2.00 prog/doc,1 of 2
- ZK0890.ZIP ZIPKEY.OVL 08/90 zipcode data, 2 of 2
-
- Note that the data file does NOT contain the program version
- number in its comment line. I release new data files more often
- than new program versions, so that the data file is not married
- to the program version number. People can download new data
- files even if they already have the latest program version.
-
-