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- V i d e o P h i l e
-
- by Robert B. Cook
-
- VideoPhile is a file program that will allow you keep a record of your
- video tapes and will also print labels for them. When running VideoPhile
- for the first time you'll receive the message 'File not found on disk'. Not
- to worry. This only indicates that you have no video file saved to disk,
- yet.
-
- REVISING THE MENU
-
- The menu allows ten file categories. Because the majority of the
- people that will be using this program are not programmers, and probably not
- even familiar with the BASIC language, I have included a method of easily
- revising the names of the categories. Using the cursor keys, move the white
- cursor bar to 'Quit/Save/Revise' on the menu and press RETURN. Then select
- REVISE MENU by pressing 'R'. Move the purple cursor bar to the category
- name you wish to edit and select it by pressing RETURN. Enter the new
- category name and press RETURN. The new category name(s) will be preserved
- when you save your video file.
-
- ENTERING DATA
-
- Using the cursor keys, move the white cursor bar to a category of your
- choice on the menu and select it by pressing RETURN. The following options
- are available to you:
-
- + - VIEW - You may peruse your cards forward and backward with the + and -
- (plus and minus) keys. Of course you can't do this until you've filled in
- some cards.
-
- F1 EDIT - This allows you to add a new card to the file or edit an existing
- card. Note the numbers at the top of the card, 'n of n'. The first number
- is the card number that you are editing, the second is the number of cards
- in the present category. When the card number is higher than the number of
- cards, it indicates that the card is a blank, or new card.
-
- There are seven places for entries. The first two lines are for the
- movie title and the stars of the movie. The next entries are for the tape
- speed and the tape counter, start to finish. The next is for the time or
- length of the tape or movie in minutes. The last two are for the tape
- number and any notes you may want to include about the tape.
-
- Use the CURSOR keys or the HOME key to move the cursor and the INST and
- DEL keys to edit your entries.
-
- Press F1 again to enter the card into memory. If you are editing an
- existing card you'll exit from the EDIT mode, otherwise the number of cards
- will be incremented by one and another blank card will be displayed for
- editing. You may also press ESCape if you wish to exit without changing or
- saving the card.
-
- The maximum number of cards for each category is determined by the
- variable MAX which is initially set at 50. There is room for about 275
- cards if each card is completely filled in. But, since you'll probably be
- filling in less than the full amount of the available space on each card,
- you should have 375+ cards available. If you don't plan on using all the
- categories you may change MAX to a higher number and save the program to
- preserve it. This will allow more cards per category but fewer cards
- overall. You'll receive the message, 'No more cards available' if you
- should attempt to use more cards than the maximum allowed per category.
-
- F3 SORT - There are two ways to sort each card category; by Title or by
- Stars. The cards are sorted alphabetically in ascending order. In order
- for SORT to work properly your entries should be consistent. For example,
- if you want to keep all your Werewolf movies together, "Werewolf" should be
- the first word in each of the Title entries. SORT is case sensitive, if you
- use capital letters in one entry use them in similar manner in all entries.
-
- F4 COPY - You can copy the card on the screen to the current category or to
- another category. Use the cursor keys to scan the category names then
- choose a category to COPY to by pressing RETURN.
-
- F5 SEARCH - Keeping your item entries consistent is necessary to enable the
- SEARCH command to find similar items. The search string may be up to ten
- characters long and these characters may occur anywhere in the title.
- Pressing RETURN with no entry will display the blank (new) card for editing.
- SEARCH is case sensitive.
-
- F6 DELETE - Deletes a card from memory and reduces the quantity by one.
-
- F8 PRINT - You can send control codes to you printer by pressing 'C'.
- Enter each code as a number from 1 to 255 or as a letter from a to z, lower
- case only, then press RETURN to send it to the printer. Exit by pressing
- the ESCape key.
-
- The card on the screen may be printed as a LABEL or all of the cards in
- the current category printed as a list or RECORD.
-
- A label may be printed full-size or condensed. A full-size label
- contains all of the information on the card in a four-line format. The
- condensed version does not include the Notes entry and is formatted on two
- lines. The condensed version is useful if you have more than one movie on a
- tape.
-
- F7 MENU - Returns you to the main menu.
-
- Choosing 'Quit/Save/Revise' and then pressing 'S' will save the card
- file as VIDEO and also create a back-up file, VIDEO.BAK. If for some reason
- the VIDEO file cannot be read, scratch the VIDEO file and rename the
- VIDEO.BAK file to VIDEO.
-
- If you attempt to quit the program without saving your edited card file
- you'll be asked if you want to save first.
-
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