Category : Databases and related files
Archive   : CONTACT.ZIP
Filename : CONTAC40.HLP

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CONTACT is an interactive filing system that keeps
track of your important business and casual contacts.

CONTACT locates your important contacts quickly. By
first name, key (last name + first name), or company
name. CONTACT allows you to enter the first few
characters that make that contact unique when
searching for an important contact, thus saving many
keystrokes.

CONTACT is handy for salesmen, managers, retailers, or
anyone with a need to keep track of important con-
tacts. CONTACT allows you to interface with ASCII
text files and has a mail/merge feature. You can cus-
tomize forms using an ASCII text editor such as
Wordstar or Sidekick. You can create rolodex cards,
mailing labels, personalized form letters, custom re-
ports in formats of your choosing!

Each contact can be placed in up to 15 different
categories. Categories are useful for seperating
contacts.

Three date fields are attached to each contact: first
contact date, last contact date and next contact date.
You are able to select contacts by category for a
range of dates and print these out.

Separate file systems are available. Vendor contacts
can be kept in one file system and client contacts in
another. The possibilities are solely up to you and
limited only by disk space.

A contextual help system is available throughout
CONTACT to aid you in using the system. Press the
F1 key (FUNCTION 1 KEY) and CONTACT will place a
help window upon the screen similar to the one you
are viewing now. It will give you brief and informa-
tive messages about the screen currently being
viewed.

Contact has an AUTODIAL feature that will work with
Hayes compatible modems. While in the contact menu
press F3 to dial the home phone number and press F4 to
dial the work phone number. CONTACT will start up the
dial sequence and you can simply pick up the phone
when someone answers the line. CONTACT will also
record your incoming calls. Simply press F9 from the
CONTACT menu and the call will be timestamped.

CONTACT will also keep track of correspondence. Both
received and sent correspondence will be tracked.

CONTACT keeps track of important dates such as
birthdates anniversary dates, meeting dates, etc.

You can use your printer manual to set up different
fonts: underline, boldface, italics, compressed print
for your particular printer.

The ESC key can be used to exit menus and stop re-
ports at any time. This indicates to CONTACT that
you are finished looking at the display on the
screen. This key is used GLOBALLY through the system
as an escape hatch. It is ALWAYS available.

The LEFT ARROW Key will move left one field while you
are updating a record.

The RIGHT ARROW Key will move right one field while
you are updating a record.

The UP ARROW Key is used to move up one field if you
are in an update mode or the menu options are showing.
If you are in the contact menu it will move to the
prior record.

The DOWN ARROW Key is used to move down one field if
you are in an update mode or the menu options are
showing. If you are in the contact menu it will move
to the next record.

The F2 Key (FUNCTION 2) is used to make a copy of the
screen. Each time F2 is pressed, the current screen is
appended to the file "screen.sav" in the current
directory. This has the advantage over pressing SHIFT
PRTSCRN, in that screens are paginated correctly.

The F9 Key (FUNCTION 9) will record an incoming call
while in the CONTACT MENU for the displayed contact.

The F10 Key (FUNCTION 10) is an information screen
which displays where you can contact the author (me)
about enhancements or updates.
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Enter 'y' to save the changed information on this
page. Enter 'n' to discard changes.
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You can edit the memo fields using CONTACTS built-in
editor. The editor is limited to 4 lines of 50 char-
acters per line. It's enough room for a practical
amount of information.

To edit the DATE field, press HOME to position the
cursor in the top right corner of the box then press
the LEFT arrow.

The following keys are available in the mini editor:
ESC - exit the editor

LEFT-ARROW - move cursor one position left
if cursor is in top left corner,
move to Date field.

RIGHT-ARROW - move cursor one position right

DOWN-ARROW - move cursor down

UP-ARROW - move cursor up

CTRL-LEFT - move left to previous word.

CTRL-RIGHT - move right to next word.

HOME - goto top left corner

PAGEDOWN - switch to screen below.

PAGEUP - switch to screen above.

CTRL-END - Delete from cursor to end of line.

INSERT - switch from insert mode to type over
mode.
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Press ENTER to update the memo screens. Press "c" to
quickly copy the information in the NEXT memo screen
to the LAST memo screen.

The fast copy will overwrite the information in the
LAST memo field with the NEXT memo field allowing new
changes to the NEXT memo field.
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Use the arrow keys to select a pre-existing file sys-
tem in the current directory.

The old file system will be flushed and the new file
system will become active.
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Enter the name of a new file system. It must not al-
ready exist. Use up to 8 characters.

Example:

To create a customer file system, call it
"CUST".

The following data files will be created:
CUST.hdr, CUST.dt, CUST.nx0, CUST.nx1 and
CUST.nx2 (these files comprise a file system)

This option must be run before trying to copy records
from one file system to another file system.
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The filesystem you specified could not be open. Try
using a backup copy of the file system.
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Enter "f" for first name, "k" for key value (last name
+ first name), or "c" for company name.

The index will be changed so that you will be able to
recall your contacts by last name + first name, first
name, or company name.

You are able to abbreviate the name when searching for
a contact ---

To search for "Joe's Bakery", set the index to "c"
company and enter "joe" at the prompt.

To search for "Gerald ???", set the index to "f"
(first name) and enter "Ger" at the prompt. CONTACT
will place you at the first match of "Ger" in the da-
tabase. "GER", "Ger" and "ger" are identical.
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The form file could not be located in the current
directory. CONTACT is looking for the following file
names in the current directory:

Form 1 - contact.1
Form 2 - contact.2
Form 3 - contact.3
Form 4 - contact.4
Form 5 - contact.5
Mailing Label - contact.lbl

These must be ASCII files and must be in the current
directory. CONTACT verifies that the file is ASCII
before proceeding.
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Press "y" if you wish to add this contact permanently
to the database. Otherwise press "n" - the contact
will not be added to the database.
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Press "y" if you wish to save the changes made to this
contact permanently. Otherwise press "n" - the
changes will be abandoned.
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Press "y" if you wish to permanently DELETE this con-
tact from the database. Otherwise press "n" - the
contact will remain in the database.
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Enter the salutation.

Examples :
Mr.
Mrs.
Dr.
Mr & Mrs

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.

Press the space bar then ENTER to erase the field.
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CONTACT MEMO DATE
F - first N - next L - last date

PHONE CALLS
b - busy phone call n - noanswer phone call
i - incoming phone call o - ok phone call

LETTERS
R - received letter S - sent letter


Press the down/up arrow to view next and previous
contacts, or enter a key. Press ENTER to change the
dates displayed.

This 1 month calendar displays reminder memos as well
as the same codes on the 3 month calendar.
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CONTACT MEMO DATE
F - first N - next L - last date

PHONE CALLS
b - busy phone call n - noanswer phone call
i - incoming phone call o - ok phone call

LETTERS
R - received letter S - sent letter


Press the down/up arrow to view next and previous
contacts, or enter a key. Press ENTER to change the
dates displayed.
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15 different reminder dates are kept track of from
this page.

In typing the reminder, move to cursor to an empty
slot or simply type over an old reminder date. You
must fill in the memo field in order to save the
reminder.

Don't worry about the order you insert the reminders
since CONTACT automatically sorts the reminders with
the earliest dates at the top when you save the
changes.

The reminder memo will appear in the 1 month calendar
page, and the date in the 3 month calendar will blink.
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This page is a log of the last 15 phone calls made to
this contact. By pressing ENTER, the only field al-
lowed to change is the MEMO field of the most recent
call.

The fifteenth call will drop off the list. If you
want to save this information, use the F2 (save screen
key).

Even if you aren't using a modem, you can still use
phone call logging. Press F3 or F4 and the call will
be placed "manually" - by you. The call and its
result (Busy, Noanswer or Ok) is saved along with the
current date and time. If you wish to receive incoming
calls, pressing F9 will log an incoming call in the
same manner as outgoing calls.

You will be allowed to enter a short comment next to
the call.

Press the DOWN arrow or UP arrow to view the next and
previous contacts.

Press the LEFT or RIGHT arrow to view the MEMO or
HEADER page.

Enter the first few letters of the key of which to
search.
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Enter a short comment next to the most recent call.
You can only change the memo of the most recent call.
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Enter the contact's last name.

The key is composed of the first name appended to the
last name.

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the contact's first name.

This is an INDEX field. If you wish to
search for a particular contact by first name, simply
change the index to FNAME, and type in the first few
characters that distinguish the contact name at the
prompt.

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the address of the contact. If the address spans
two different lines, use both ADDRESS1 and ADDRESS2.

Example:
ADDRESS 1: 1580 Main Avenue
ADDRESS 2: Suite 120

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the contact's city of residence. If you are
entering the same city repeatedly for new entries,
enter the city name in the DEFAULT CITY field under
the SYSTEM PARAMETER MENU.

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the contact's state of residence. If you are
entering the same state repeatedly for new entries,
enter the city name in the DEFAULT STATE field under
the SYSTEM PARAMETER MENU.

Enter a two letter code, this will be expanded to a
full name by CONTACT.

I.e. nm - New Mexico
fl - Florida
ca - California
dc - Dist of Columbia

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the zip code. If you are entering the same zip
code repeatedly for new entries, enter the zip code in
the DEFAULT ZIP field under the SYSTEM PARAMETER MENU.

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the contact's home phone number. There is extra
room to add a comment next to the phone number. For
example, if your insurance agent had a number for
claims and you wanted that in place of the home phone
number field, you could simple enter:

HOME PHONE : Claim 444-2321

Make sure the comment doesn't contain an 'X', as CON-
TACT ignores all digits after an 'X' or 'x'.

Note also that you can signify an extension by making
an 'X' in the number. CONTACT will ignore all digits
appearing after the 'X'. For example:

HOME PHONE : 255-4433 x444

CONTACT will dial "2554433" for you and it is up to
you to ask for the extension.

CONTACT normally ignores all non-numeric chars when
autodialing for you, except for the ",". Thus this
number would be correctly dialed when F3 is pressed.

A comma "," will cause the modem to pause for a mo-
ment. This would be used in places where there is a
need to dial 9 to get an outside line.

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the contact's work phone number. There is extra
room to add a comment next to the phone number. For
example, if your insurance agent had a number for
claims and you wanted that in place of the work phone
number field, you could simply enter:

WORK PHONE : Claim 444-2321

Make sure the comment doesn't contain an 'X'.

CONTACT normally ignores all non-numeric chars when
autodialing for you. Thus this number would be
correctly dialed when F4 is pressed.

Note also that you can signify an extension by making
an 'X' in the number. CONTACT will ignore all digits
appearing after the 'X'. For example:

WORK PHONE : 2554433x444

You may have to compress the number if it is a long
distance call. (by eliminating spaces and dashes)

CONTACT will dial "2554433" for you and it is up to
you to ask for the extension.

A comma "," will cause the modem to pause for a mo-
ment. This would be used in places where there is a
need to dial 9 to get an outside line.

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the name of the contact's company.

This is a INDEX field. If you wish to
search for a particular contact by company, you can
simply change the index to COMPANY. Typing in the
first few characters that distinguish the company at
the prompt will bring the contact to the screen.

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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Enter the code(s) that are applicable to this contact.
The selected codes will be highlighted and marked with
an asterisk '*'.

A contact may belong to up to twelve different codes
or categories.

Enter ESC, to get out of the update mode.
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You can change any of the memo fields attached to the
First, Next, and Last contact date from this page.
Useful information here would be "spouse's name",
birthdates, anniversary dates, etc.

Press ENTER to change one of the fields.

To quickly copy information from the NEXT memo field
to the LAST memo field, press "c" after pressing
ENTER.

To change one of the contact dates, move the cursor
to the top left corner of the box desired then press
the LEFT arrow.

Press the DOWN arrow or UP arrow to view the next and
previous contacts.

Press the LEFT or RIGHT arrow to view the HEADER or
PHONE LOG page.

Enter the first few letters of the key of which to
search.
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Enter the date of the contact memo field.

Examples:

To select contacts for Nov 23, 1987
Simply enter: "23Nov87", or "112387".
other examples:
"11JAN87"
"11 Jan 87"
"11 jan 87"
"011187"

SHORTCUT FORMAT EXAMPLES
"." - today
"+1" - tomorrow
"-1" - yesterday
"+1w" - one week from today
"-1w" - today last week
"+1m" - this day next month
"1+1m" - first day of next month
"+thu" - next thursday from today
"-wed" - last wednesday
"+1w" - next week
"-1w" - last week
"+2m" - 2 months from today
"1+1m+fri" - 1st friday of next month
"+wed" - next wednesday
"-tue" - last tuesday

All date arithmetic expressions are relative to today,
unless the date expression starts with a number (i.e.
5) which stands for the fifth of this month. So 5+2w
is equivalent to 2 weeks from the 5th day of the
current month.
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This page records the last 15 letters/memos sent or
received from this contact. Press ENTER twice to
update the top entry. Press ENTER then enter 'a' to
add a new entry, moving all prior entries down.
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It is from this page that you can add, delete, change,
or search for contacts.

Enter:
a - add a new contact
d - delete an old contact
i - change the index
F3 - dial the home number
F4 - dial the work number
F9 - log an incoming call
ENTER - change/modify the contact

If the phone is busy: enter "b". If nobody answers
enter "n", otherwise press any key.

Press the DOWN arrow or UP arrow to view the next and
previous contacts.

Press the LEFT or RIGHT arrow to view the MEMO or
PHONE LOG page.

Enter the first few letters of the key of which to
search. Example:

To find the contact "Ed Trujillo":

Entering "tru" will search the database for the first
occurrence of a key field starting with "tru". If
there is a "Sam True" in the database, it will find
"Sam True" instead of "Ed Trujillo", as "True"
appears alphabetically before "Trujillo". Press the
DOWN arrow key to the next record: "Ed Trujillo"

The key field is composed of the first 16 nonblank
characters of the last name appended with the first 16
nonblank characters of the first name.

For example:

FIRST NAME: Ed
LAST NAME: Trujillo

Would produce the KEY

KEY: TrujilloEd

Note: CONTACT does NOT make a distinction between
upper and lower case names. I.e., there is NO differ-
ence between Trujillo and TRUJILLO and trujillo

The other indexes (First name, and Company name)
operate similarly.

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CONTACT Menu - Add, delete, update and search for con-
tacts from this menu. Use the UP and DOWN arrow keys
to change the selection bar or enter an option number.

Also, you can change the index from this menu. The
default index is the key field of (last name + first
name).
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CONTACT Reports - Print listings of contacts from this
menu. There are a total of 12 different reports, 6 of
which can be customized by you as form letters,
rolodex cards or mailing labels. This makes CONTACT
applicable to your specific needs.

For custom printouts see the files:

contact.lbl contact.1 contact.2
contact.3 contact.4 contact.5

They must all be ASCII files and live in the current
directory.
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Edit Codes - You can edit all codes from this menu.
Choose from 15 different codes.
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Enter the selection code letter(s). For example, if
Code A is the Bowling Team, Code B is the Baseball
Team and you wish to select all members of both Code
A and Code B, type "ab".

Enter "a" for just Bowling Team.

Enter ".", to select ALL contacts in ALL categories.

Press ESC to quit.
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Contact's with a NEXT contact date of TODAY will be
printed along with the home, and work phone number and
the lines in the NEXT CONTACT MEMO fields.

Contacts are sorted in key alpha order and this is one
of two reports that don't give you a select option.

If there are zero contacts to meet with today, none
will be printed.
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Contact's with a NEXT contact date of today thru 7
days from today will be printed.

Contacts are sorted in key alpha order. This is one
report that doesn't give you a select option.

The output is similar to the TODAY'S APPOINTMENT re-
port except that the NEXT contact date is shown in-
stead of the Home and Work numbers.
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Each contact name is printed along with his home and
work phone number(s).

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Each contact name is printed along with the NEXT con-
tact date.

Select contacts for appointments next month, next
week, or tomorrow. You have many different choices.
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Each contact is printed along with the following data:

o Date and time of phone call
o BUSY, OK, NOANS, or INCALL
o a phone message as recorded on the
PHONE LOG PAGE.

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Each contact is printed along with the following data:

o Date of letter or correspondence
o RECEIVED or SENT status
o a short note as recorded on the LETTER PAGE.
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Each contact name is printed according to the ASCII
file in the current directory. CONTACT is looking for
the following files in the current directory:
(if "CONTACT" is the current file system)
contact.lbl
contact.1
contact.2
contact.3
contact.4
contact.5

If the current file system is business associates
"BUSINESS", then the following
files should be in the current directory:
business.lbl
business.1
business.2
business.3
business.4
business.5

These files correspond to their menu selection.

Field definitions are as follows:
*d1 - current date (format - 31 Oct 87)
*d2 - current date (format - October 31, 1987)
*d3 - current date (format - 11/31/87)
*t1 - current time (format - 15:23:43) military
*t2 - current time (format - 15:23) military
*t3 - current time (format - 03:23:43) standard
*t4 - current time (format - 03:23) standard
*sa - salutation
*fn - first name
*ln - last name
*a1 - address line 1
*a2 - address line 2
*st - two letter abbrev for state
*ST - spelled out state
*ci - city name
*zi - zip code
*hp - home phone
*wp - work phone
*co - company name

*fc - first memo date
*nc - next memo date
*lc - last memo date

*f1 - first line of first memo field
*f2 - second line of first memo field
*f3 - third line of first memo field
*f4 - fourth line of first memo field

*l1 - first line of last memo field
*l2 - second line of last memo field
*l3 - third line of last memo field
*l4 - fourth line of last memo field

*n1 - first line of next memo field
*n2 - second line of next memo field
*n3 - third line of next memo field
*n4 - fourth line of next memo field

*p0 - printer code 0
*p1 - printer code 1
. ... ...
*p7 - printer code 7

To pad with blanks and right or left justify a field
enter a width specification like:

*hp%20 - home phone right just. pad with space
*wp%-20 - work phone left just. pad with space

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Press 'y' to finish this session with CONTACT. All
files will by flushed and closed.

Press ESC or 'n' to continue working with CONTACT.
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Print screens that have been saved using the F2 save
screen function. The screens have been saved in a
file called "screen.sav". Each time F2 is pressed,
the current screen is appended to this file.
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Discard screens that have been saved using the F2
save screen function. The file "screen.sav" in the
current directory will be cleared.
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Modify system parameters from this menu:

Open an existing file system
Create a new file system
Delete an old file system
Copy records from one file system to another
Change printer parameters
Change modem line parameters
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Open an existing file system. The file system speci-
fied will be opened and made "current". The existing
file system must be in the current directory.

Example: If you are currently working on your
"FRIENDS" file system and want to switch to the "CUST"
file system, you will use this menu.

To create a new file system, you must use the CREATE
file system option.
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Change the printer setup string, printer codes for use
with the custom forms, printer port and margin set-
tings.

Use your printer manual to change some of these set-
tings.
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Change system parameters - error bells on or off, file
system SYNC frequency, COM port assignment, defaults
for CITY, STATE, and ZIP when adding new entries.
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Enter a description for the printer code used in
printing the custom forms. You can get this informa-
tion in the Programming Section of your printer manu-
al.

The description is not used in any reports by CONTACT,
it is simply information for your reference.

Examples: printer code 0: Bold on printer code 1:
Bold off

Each printer code is used in the ASCII form files of
your choice by specifying:

*p0 - printer code 0
*p1 - printer code 1
...
*p7 - printer code 7

See "contact.3" for an example. The printer codes are
setup for the Toshiba P321SL printer. You can change
these at any time.
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Allows the deletion of old file systems in the current
directory. The file system to be deleted must not be
the current open file system.
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Copy records from one file system to another file sys-
tem. Both file systems must have been created previ-
ously using the CREATE file system option.

Press ESC while copying and the remaining records will
NOT be copied.

Another way to copy records from one file system to
another would be from DOS:

> copy contac20.* newsys.*

The COPY MENU option is different from using the DOS
command to copy the file system since the COPY MENU
option has the side effect of compacting all deleted
records of the old file system. Thus the new file
system may actually use a little less disk space.
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Open an existing file system; one that has been creat-
ed. For example, if you are currently working with
"FRIENDS" and you desire to work with "CUST" use this
menu.

The old file system will be written to disk and the
new file system will be made current.
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Create a new file system from here. CONTACT makes
sure the system doesn't already exist.

Example: If we wanted to create a new list of "CUST"
(customers) the following files would be created:

cust.dt - data file
cust.hdr - parameters file
cust.nx0 - index file on key
cust.nx1 - index file on firstname
cust.nx2 - index file on company
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Enter a name for the code category listed.

Examples:
Code A: Friends
Code B: Bowling
Code C: Xmas List
Code D: Vendors
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Enter "n" if you don't have a modem attached to your
serial port. Enter "1" if your modem is attached to
COM1, enter "2" if its attached to COM2.

CONTACT currently works with Hayes compatible modems
only.
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Enter "m" if you have a monochrome screen and the
shades that CONTACT is using are not acceptable.

Enter "c" if you have a color screen.
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Type "y" to turn on CONTACTS's error bell - it will
beep at you if you make an input error.

Type "n" to turn off this bell.
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This field allows you to specify how often you desire
to "sync" the file system. CONTACT's internal file
structure needs to be physically updated occasionally.
The smaller this number is, the more often the file
system will be SYNCED. Of course, small values for
the sync will slow CONTACT down when adding many en-
tries to the system. This may be intolerable on a
floppy based system.

When entering many contacts into the database, you may
wish to set it to 10. After entering the contacts,
for maximum file integrity, set it to 1. CONTACT au-
tomatically sync's its files when you exit. Be sure
to exit CONTACT by pressing the ESC key and answering
"y" to the exit prompts.

DO NOT exit CONTACT by turning off the computer or
pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE. This may destroy the index
files in which case you would have to reload all your
data from scratch.

It is advisable to make backups of the system after
making significant changes.
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If you experience a snow effect on the screen. Enter
"y" to this question. CONTACT will try to draw the
screen to limit the snow effect.

This may occur on some CGA monitors.

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The "printer end-of-line" is used to control the
printer output at the end of the printed line. There
are 4 options to set depending upon your printer.
You may have to do a little bit of experimentation
with this to get it right. Once it is set correctly,
it will not have to be changed (as long as the switch
settings on the printer do not change).

Option 1 newline character
2 carriage return character
3 newline then carriage-return character
4 carriage-return then newline character
1) Output is double spaced - try setting option to
"cr".

2) Output is overprinting or printing on one line -
try setting the option first to "nl" and if that
doesn't work, try out the options "nl/cr" or "cr/nl".

3) Output is jagged like: This is
an example of
a jagged line.

Try changing option to "nl/cr" or "cr/nl".
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Press any key to continue to the next page of the re-
port, press ESC to stop the listing.

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Press ENTER to see all reports on the screen.

Select the "printer" to send the reports to a printer
- directly.

Select "capturefile" to send the output to an ASCII
file. The output will be appended to an existing
file.

While the report/form is printing you may press SPACE
which will pause the printer, or ESC which will abort
the printout.
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Enter "y" to change the information on this page.

Press ESC, press ENTER, or enter "n" to return to the
"MISCELLANEOUS MENU".

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Type "y" and the changes made to the parameter page
will be saved into CONTACT's data files.

Type "n" and the changes will be discarded and the old
values will be retained.

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Enter the full name of the file you want to save the
output of the report to.

Examples: report1.out
a:7eportsmar.87

If the file exists and is ASCII, CONTACT will APPEND
to it. If it isn't ASCII, you must make another
selection.

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CONTACT cannot make contact with your printer.

CONTACT is set up to talk to LPT1:. Check and make
sure that the printer is online and has paper.

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The output file "screen.sav" has been printed. Press
any key to continue.

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The output file "screen.sav" has been cleared. Press
any key to continue.

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Enter "y" to delete the screens previously saved in
the file "screen.sav". Otherwise, enter "n".

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Enter the sequence of decimal codes that will place
the printer into the mode desired (e.g. 16 pitch or
"NLQ" - Near Letter Quality) See your printer manual
for ASCII control codes.

For example: sending 'ESC F' to the IBM Proprinter
will turn EMPHASIZED PRINT ON. This would correspond
to entering decimal 27 then 70 into the printer setup
string.

printer setup : [ 27] [ 70] [ ] [ ]

What follows is a short, incomplete list of common
ASCII decimal codes.

COMMON DECIMAL ASCII CODES:
27 - ESC 32 - SPACE 8 - BACKSPACE
9 - HORZ TAB 10 - LN FEED 12 - FORMFEED
13 - CAR RET 14 - SO 15 - SI
33 - '!' 34 - '"' 35 - '#'
36 - '$' 37 - '%' 38 - '&'
40 - '(' 41 - ')' 42 - '*'
43 - '+' 44 - ',' 45 - '-'
46 - '.' 47 - '/' 60 - '<'
61 - '=' 62 - '>' 63 - '?'

1 - 'CTRL-A' 65 - 'A' 97 - 'a' 48 - '0'
2 - 'CTRL-B' 66 - 'B' 98 - 'b' 49 - '1'
3 - 'CTRL-C' 67 - 'C' 99 - 'c' 50 - '2'
4 - 'CTRL-D' 68 - 'D' 100 - 'd' 51 - '3'
... ... ... ...
25 - 'CTRL-Y' 89 - 'Y' 121 - 'y' 56 - '8'
26 - 'CTRL-Z' 90 - 'Z' 122 - 'z' 57 - '9'
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If you wish to send an initialization string to the
printer every time a report is printed answer "y" to
the question.

If you answer "n", CONTACT will not send a printer
string.

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Enter "1" - for LPT1:, "2" for LPT2: or "3" for LPT3
as a printer port.

CONTACT doesn't currently support a serial printer
port, however, you can direct the output of the report
using the "capturefile" option and print the report
from DOS upon exiting CONTACT.

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Enter the number of columns that you want the printer
to start printing. I.e. if you enter 5, CONTACT will
advance 5 spaces on each printed line.
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Press "y" and CONTACT will pause between each form al-
lowing you to change sheets of paper without having to
press the off-line key on your printer.

This is handy when printing individual sheets or rolo-
dex cards.
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Feed in a new form then press ENTER to print the next
form. ESC aborts the printout.
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The end of the report/form has been reached.

Press any key to continue.
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Use the arrow keys to select the file system to
delete. Press ENTER when the highlight bar is over
your choice.

The file system will be permanently deleted.
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Use the arrow keys to select the SOURCE file system.
Press ENTER when the highlight bar is over your
choice.

The data records will be copied from this file system.
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Enter 'Y' to delete this file system permanently.
Otherwise press ESC or enter 'N'.
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Use the arrow keys to select the TARGET file system.
Press ENTER when the highlight bar is over your
choice.

Data records from the SOURCE file system will be
copied to this file system. Once the copy is started
you may press ESC which will stop the copy operation.
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Enter "k" for key (last name + first name). Enter "f"
for first name and enter "c" for company name.

The records will be sorted in alphabetic order accord-
ing to the sort selection.
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Enter a code or codes in which to select the records.

For example:

To select: "a,d and c", enter: "adc"

To select all records, enter: "."
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Enter "k" for key, "z" for zip code, "c" for company
name and "n" if you do NOT want to select records.

The "From name" and "Thru" fields will specify the
range of selection.

Example:

If you want to select a single record, "SmithJoe",
enter "K" for key selection at the "Name selected"
prompt. Then at the "From name" and "Thru" prompts
enter "SmithJoe" and "SmithJoe". CONTACT is NOT case
sensitive, so "smithjoe" will do as well.

To select all contacts with last name starting with
"r", enter "r" at "From name" and "r" at the "Thru"
prompts.

To select all contacts within certain zip code areas,
enter "z" for zip code and enter "87" thru "88" at the
range fields.

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Enter the starting name of the field you want to
select. For example, if we want to print out a list
of contacts with last names from "a" to "g" enter "a"
in the From name field, and enter "g" in the Thru name
field.

If the zip code field was selected, enter the first
few digits of the starting zip code.
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Enter the ending name in alphabetic order for this
field.
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Enter "f", "l", or "n" for first, last and next dates
respectively. Enter "o" for no selection. CONTACT
will print those contacts which first, last or next
contact dates fall within a certain range.

For example, we might wish to select those individuals
we need to contact tomorrow, or next week or next Fri-
day or next month. Or we may want to select those in-
dividuals that we first contacted two months ago.
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Enter the starting date for selection.

The quotes in the examples that follow are not to be
entered into CONTACT, they are there to highlight the
proper response.

Examples:

To select contacts for Nov 23, 1987
Simply enter: "23Nov87", or "112387".

To select contacts for the month of
December enter: 1Dec87 and 31Dec87

Shortcut examples (using date arithmetic):

To select contacts for today's date:
enter ".", which is a shortcut for
today.

To select contacts for today thru next
week: enter "." and "+1w", which means select
dates from today to 1 week from today.

To select contacts for tomorrow:
enter "+1", which stands for 1 day
from today. Similarly, yesterday would
be entered as "-1"

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Enter the ending date for selection.

The quotes in the examples that follow are not to be
entered into CONTACT, they are there to highlight the
proper response.

Examples:

To select contacts for Nov 23, 1987
Simply enter: "23Nov87", or "112387".

To select contacts for the month of
December enter: 1Dec87 and 31Dec87

Shortcut examples (using date arithmetic):

To select contacts for today's date:
enter ".", which is a shortcut for
today.

To select contacts for today thru next
week: enter "." and "+1w", which means select
dates from today to 1 week from today.

To select contacts for tomorrow:
enter "+1", which stands for 1 day
from today. Similarly, yesterday would
be entered as "-1"

Today's date is always measured from the
date CONTACT thinks it is. You should
set the date when booting the system
up.

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Enter "y" if you have finished choosing the sort and
selection criteria. The reports will now be sent to
the screen or printer.

Enter "n" to go back to the previous menu.

Enter ESC to continue editing the sort/select fields.
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Set this field if you want to speed up the process of
adding new entries to CONTACT. When you type in "a"
at the CONTACT menu header page, the CITY field will
automatically be set to the default.
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Set this field if you want to speed up the process of
adding new entries to CONTACT. When you type in "a"
at the CONTACT menu header page, the STATE field will
automatically be set to the default.
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Set this field if you want to speed up the process of
adding new entries to CONTACT. When you type in "a"
at the CONTACT menu header page, the ZIP field will

automatically be set to the default.
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Enter "t" if your telephone is equipped with a tone
dial phone. Enter "p" if it is a pulse or rotary
phone.
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Press ENTER to change the top entry or enter 'a' to
add a new entry.

If you add new entries the prior entries will be
shifted down by one.
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Enter the date of correspondence:

Examples:

To select correspondence for Nov 23, 1987
Simply enter: "23Nov87", or "112387".
other examples:
"11JAN87"
"11 Jan 87"
"11 jan 87"
"011187"

SHORTCUT FORMAT EXAMPLES
"." - today
"+1" - tomorrow
"-1" - yesterday
"+1w" - one week from today
"-1w" - today last week
"+1m" - this day next month
"1+1m" - first day of next month
"+thu" - next thursday from today
"-wed" - last wednesday
"+1w" - next week
"-1w" - last week
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Enter an 's' for SENT letters/correspondence and an
'r' for received letters.
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Enter a short note describing this letter.

Examples:
Thank you note
Notice of deposition
Bill payment
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Enter a name for the appropriate form. If a form name
is entered and you choose to print the form or send it
to a capture file, then this name will be
automatically recorded on the LETTER PAGE with the
form name in the MEMO field.
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The following keys will scroll through the dates:

Up Arrow - Previous year
Down Arrow - Next year
Left Arrow - Previous month
Right Arrow - Next month
Home key - This month

You are limited to scrolling through 10 years. The
bell will beep when the limit is reached.
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Enter a reminder date : anniversary date, birthdate,
meeting date, etc.

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Enter a short memo (10 chars) which will appear in the
1 month calendar page.
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Enter "n" for no answer, "b" for busy, "o" for ok" and
"i" for incoming call.

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Enter "h" for home phone or "w" for work phone.