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FOR THE PURCHASE OF ...... DISKS ÉNDEXES DESIRED: (PLEASE CHECK OFF) ÍAGAZINE ÙEAR ÑUANTITY ÔÐÕÇÍÁÇ 1985 ..... ..... ÃÏÍÐÕÔÅÓ' ÇAZETTE 1985 ..... ..... ÃÏÍÐÕÔÅÓ' ÇAZETTE 1984 ..... ..... ÔRANSACTOR 1985 ..... ..... - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDEààààààààààààààààààààààà ÉNTRODUCTION ÉÎÔÒÏÄÕÃÔÉÏÎ ààààààààà×ELCOME TO ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ FOR THE ÃOMMODORE COMPUTER. ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ IS A UNIQUE CONCEPT IN SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION INCORPORATING THE ACCESSABILITY OF PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE WITH THE QUALITY AND PROFESSIONALISM ASSOCIATED WITH COMMERCIAL PACKAGES. àààààààààÔHE ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ DISK PACKAGE INCLUDES: ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÄATABASE - A TEXT ORIENTED DATABASE, IT ALLOWS YOU TO HUNT FOR AND RETRIEVE ANY PIECE OF INFORMATION IN THE DATABASE. Á STRUCTURED ÂÁÓÉà PROGRAM, ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÄATABASE WILL RUN ON A ÖÉÃà20 OR A Ã-64 IN 22, 40 OR 80 COLUMNS.* ÔHE SOURCE CODE IS CRUNCHED FOR SPEED AND A COMPILED VERSION IS SUPPLIED FOR THE Ã-64. ààààààààààÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÕSERSàÇUIDE - Á DETAILED MANUAL REVISED WITH EACH NEW RELEASE OF ÉÎÆÅÒÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÄATABASE, THE ÉÎÆÅÒÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDEàFILE COMES FORMATTED AND READY TO PRINT ON ANY 66 LINES/PAGE, 80 COLUMN PRINTER. ààààààààààÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÉNDEXES - COMPREHENSIVE SUBJECT INDEXES TO POPULAR COMPUTER MAGAZINES. ÉNFORMATION ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN BASED ON ESTABLISHED PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPALS RESULTING IN INTUITIVE AND EFFORTLESS INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. ÏNE YEAR ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÉNDEXàDISK PACKAGES ARE AVAILABLE FROM ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÓERVICES. àààààààààààÉN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO THE SERVICES OF THE ÔORONTO ÐET ÕSERS ÇROUP IN PROMOTING PUBLIC DOMAIN AND FREEWARE SOFTWARE, THE ÔÐÕÇÍÁÇ INDEXES WILL BE RELEASED INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN THROUGH THE ÔÐÕÇ LIBRARIES AND ONLINE DATABASES, AS WILL PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÄATABASE AS IMPROVED VERSIONS ARE RELEASED COMMERCIALLY. * ÉT MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE TO ENTER INFORMATION WHEN YOU ARE USING SOME OF THE AVAILABLE COLUMN EXTENDERS. - 1 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDEààààààààààààààààààààà ÆILE ÓTRUCTURE ÆÉÌÅ ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÒÅÃÏÒÄÓ àààààààààÉNFORMATION IN ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÕÔÒÅ IS STORED AS A 'RECORD'. Á RECORD IS THE BASIC UNIT OF INFORMATION THAT ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ CAN MANIPULATE. ÅACH RECORD POSSESSES A RECORD NUMBER. ÔHE RECORD NUMBER IS THE UNIQUE LABEL POSSESSED BY EACH UNIT OF INFORMATION. ÔHE NUMBER OF RECORDS IS LIMITED ONLY TO SPACE AVAILABLE ON DISK. ÆÉÅÌÄÓ àààààààààÅACH RECORD CONSISTS OF A NUMBER OF FIELDS OF INFORMATION. ÅACH RECORD HAS THE SAME NUMBER OF FIELDS AND A GIVEN FIELD USUALLY CONTAINS THE SAME TYPE OF INFORMATION ACROSS RECORDS. ÉF YOU WERE CONSTRUCTING A MAILING, LIST FIELD ONE MIGHT BE DESIGNATED AS 'LAST NAME'. ÆIELD ONE OF EVERY RECORD WOULD CONTAIN THE LAST NAME OF THE PERSON WHOSE RECORD IT IS. ÔHE NUMBER OF FIELDS IN A RECORD IS LIMITED ONLY TO THE AMOUNT OF AVAILABLE MEMORY. ÆIELDS ARE LIMITED TO A LENGTH OF 80 CHARACTERS. ÏÒÄÅÒ àààààààààÏNE FIELD IS DESIGNATED AS THE 'KEYFIELD'. ×HEN YOU FIRST RUN ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ FIELD ONE IS THE DEFAULT KEYFIELD. ÒECORDS ARE SORTED AUTOMATICALLY IN ASCENDING ORDER ACCORDING TO THE KEYFIELD. - 2 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÇETTING ÓTARTED ÇÅÔÔÉÎÇàÓÔÁÒÔÅÄ àààààààààÔO LOAD ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ LOAD AND RUN THE BOOT MODULE. ÙOU WILL BE ASKED FOR THE NUMBER OF COLUMNS YOUR TERMINAL DISPLAYS. ÅNTERàTHE NUMBER OF COLUMNS. ÔHIS SETS UP THE PARAMETERS NECESSARY FOR VARIOUS COLUMN FORMATS. Á MENU WILL APPEAR ASKING IF YOU WANT TO PRINT THE ÕSERS ÇUIDE FILE TO THE ÓÃÒÅÅÎ OR ÐÒÉÎÔÅÒ. ÎÏÔ ÁÔ ÁÌÌ WILL LOAD THE PROGRAM PROPER. ÏNCE LOADED ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÄATABASE CAN BE STOPPED AND RE-RUN WITHOUT USING THE BOOT MODULE. àààààààààÔHE ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ TITLE SCREEN WILL APPEAR AND YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR THE DATABASE NAME AND FILE PRE-FIX THAT ARE TO BE USED. ÁNSWER YES OR NO TO THE 'CREATE NEW DATABASE' PROMPT. ÙÅÓ àààààààààÉF YOU ANSWERED 'YES' TO THE 'CREATE NEW DATABASE' PROMPT ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ WILL ASK YOU TO INPUT THE NECESSARY PARAMETERS. ÙOU WILL FIRST BE ASKED TO ENTER THE FIELD LENGTHS AND THEN THE FIELD NAMES. ÙOU WILL THEN BE ASKED TO ENTER THE NUMBER OF RECORDS TO BE CREATED. ÙOU CAN EXPAND THE NUMBER OF RECORDS AT A LATER DATE SO DON'T CREATE MORE THAN YOU WILL NEED FOR THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. ÔHIS HELPS CUT DOWN ON MEMORY USAGE AND INCREASES SPEED. ÁFTER THE DATABASE IS CREATED THE MAIN MENU WILL APPEAR. ÎÏ ààààààààààÉF YOU ANSWERED 'NO' TO THE 'CREATE NEW DATABASE PROMPT ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ WILL READ IN THE DATABASE PARAMETERS FROM DISK AND THEN ASK YOU WHETHER TO CREATE MORE RECORDS. ÉÆ ÙÏÕà×ÁÎÔàÔÏ ÅØÐÁÎÄàÙÏÕÒàÄÁÔÁÂÁÓÅàÙÏÕàÍÕÓÔàÄÏàÉÔàÎÏ×. ÉNPUT THE NUMBER OF NEW RECORDS TO BE CREATED OR 0 IF NO RECORDS ARE TO BE. ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÕÃÔÕÒÅ WILL THEN SET UP THE DATABASE KEYFIELD AND DISPLAY THE MAIN MENU WHEN DONE. - 3 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERS ÇUIDE ÅNTERINGàÉNFORMATION ÅÎÔÅÒÉÎÇàÉÎÆÏÒÍÁÔÉÏÎ ÉÎÆÏÒÍÁÔÉÏÎàÔÙÐÅÓ àààààààààÔHERE ARE TWO WAYS TO ENTER INFORMATION INTO ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÄATABASE. ÁUTOMATIC INPUT REQUIRES ONLY THAT YOU SELECT THE APPROPRIATE KEY FROM A LIMITED NUMBER OF PRESENTED CHOICES. ÍENUS AND YES/NO DECISIONS REQUIRE THIS TYPE OF INPUT. ÍANUAL INPUT REQUIRES A CARRIAGE RETURN '<ÒÅÔÕÒÎ>' TO ENTER THE INFORMATION. ÔHIS TYPE OF INPUT IS INDICATED BY A FLASHING CURSOR. ÓÃÒÅÅÎàÅÄÉÔÏÒ àààààààààÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ CONTAINS A FULL FUNCTION LINE EDITOR TO ENTER INFORMATION INTO YOUR DATABASE. ÔHIS EDITOR IS INVOKED DURING THE ÁÄÄ AND ÅÄÉÔ FUNCTIONS. ÔHE DATABASE TEMPLATE IS DISPLAYED AND A CURSOR APPEARS IN THE CURRENT EDITING LINE. ÕPPER AND LOWERCASE LETTERS ARE AVAILABLE AND THE CURSOR RIGHT AND LEFT KEYS AS WELL AS THE INSERT AND DELETE KEYS FUNCTION. ÔO INPUT THE CONTENTS OF THE EDITING LINE HIT THE <ÒÅÔÕÒÎ> KEY. ÔO BLANK A LINE WITHOUT TYPING IN SPACES PUT AN ARROW LEFT 'à_à' INàTHE FIRST POSITION AND HIT <ÒÅÔÕÒÎ>. ÔHIS CAUSES A BLANK FEILD TO BE WRITTEN TO THE DISK RECORD BUT DOES NOT BLANK THE PRESENT SCREEN LINE. àààààààààÁFTER ALL THE EDITING LINES ON THE SCREEN HAVE BEEN ENTERED YOU CAN RETURN TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SCREEN TO MAKE CORRECTIONS. ÉF CORRECT, THE NEXT SCREEN TO BE EDITED IS DISPLAYED. ÙOU CANNOT RETURN TO A PREVIOUSLY EDITED SCREEN. ÁFTER ALL THE SCREENS HAVE BEEN EDITED YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO WRITE THE NEW INFORMATION TO THE DISK RECORD. ÔHE INFORMATION ALREADY IN THE DATABASE IS NOT AFFECTED. - 4 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÓTORINGàÉNFORMATION ÓÔÏÒÉÎÇàÉÎÆÏÒÍÁÔÉÏÎ ÁÄÄ àààààààààÓELECT ÁÄÄ FROM THE MAIN MENU WHEN YOU WANT TO ENTER NEW INFORMATION; INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT ALREADY EXIST ON A RECORD. ÉF THERE ARE NO EMPTY RECORDS LEFT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE ÁÄÄ FUNCTION. ÔO CREATE NEW RECORDS EXIT ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ AND RESTART, EXPANDING YOUR DATABASE AT THE PROMPT. àààààààààÔHE RECORD TEMPLATE WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN AND THE SCREEN EDITOR WILL BE ENVOKED. ÅNTER THE INFORMATION YOU DESIRE. ÔHE NEW RECORD WILL BE INSERTED INTO THE KEYFIELD AND WILL APPEAR IN SUBSEQUENT SCANS. àààààààààÔO RETURN TO THE MAIN MENU WITHOUT ADDING A RECORD PASS THROUGH THE EDITING SEQUENCE AND ANSWER 'NO' TO THE 'WRITE THIS RECORD?' PROMPT. ÅÄÉÔ àààààààààÓELECT ÅÄÉÔàFROM THE MAIN MENU IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE INFORMATION IN A RECORD THAT ALREADY EXISTS. ÙOU WILL ASKED WHICH RECORD YOU WANT TO EDIT. ÅNTER THE RECORD NUMBER OR A '0' TO RETURN TO THE MAIN MENU. àààààààààÔHE RECORD WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN AND THE SCREEN EDITOR WILL BE INVOKED. ÃHANGE THE INFORMATION AS YOU DESIRE. ÁNY CHANGES TO THE KEYFIELD WIL BE NOTED AND APPEAR IN SUBSEQUENT KEYFIELD SCANS. ÒÅÍÏÖÅ àààààààààÓELECT ÒÅÍÏÖÅ FROM THE MAIN MENU TO DELETE A RECORD FROM THE DATABASE. ÙOU WILL BE ASKED WHICH RECORD TO REMOVE. ÅNTER THE RECORD NUMBER OR A '0' TO RETURN TO THE MAIN MENU. ÔHE DESIGNATED RECORD WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN AND YOU WILL BE ASKED WHETHER OR NOT TO REMOVE IT. àààààààààÒEMOVAL OF A RECORD FREES UP THE RECORD FOR LATER USE AND DELETES THE ENTRY FROM THE KEYFIELD SO THAT IT DOES NOT APPEAR IN SUBSEQUENT SCANS. - 5 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDEààààààààààààà ÉNFORMATION ÒETRIEVAL ÉÎÆÏÒÍÁÔÉÏÎàÒÅÔÒÉÅÖÁÌ ÓÃÁÎ àààààààààÓELECT ÓÃÁÎ FROM THE MAIN MENU TO LOCATE A SPECIFIC PEICE OF INFORMATION IN THE DATABASE. ÙOU MAY SEARCH ONLY THE KEYFIELD OR YOU MAY SEARCH EVERY FIELD IN THE DATABASE. àààààààààÁ ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄ SCAN SEARCHES ONLY THE FIELD CURRENTLY DESIGNATED AS THE KEYFIELD. Á ÄÁÔÁÂÁÓÅ SCAN SEARCHES EVERY FIELD IN THE DATABASE AND CONSEQUENTLY TAKES LONGER. ÙOU MAY CHOOSE TO DIRECT OUTPUT TO THE SCREEN OR THE PRINTER. àààààààààÙOU WILL BE PROMPTED TO ENTER THE STRING TO BE SEARCHED FOR. ÅNTER A BLANK TO RETURN TO THE MAIN MENU. ÙOU CAN DELIMIT THE BEGINNING AND END OF A STRING WITH AN ASTERISK. ÔHIS ALLOWS YOU TO FORCE THE LEADING AND TRAILING BLANKS TO BE PART OF THE SEARCH STRING. àààààààààÔHE SEARCH TREATS UPPER AND LOWER CASE LETTERS AS DIFFERENT INSTANCES. ÉF YOU CANNOT FIND A PIECE OF INFORMATION TRY A DIFFERENT COMBINATION OF UPPER AND LOWER CASE LETTERS. àààààààààÔHE SEARCH WILL LOCATE EMBEDDED OCCURRENCES OF THE STRING. Á SEARCH STRING OF 'àFORà' WILL LOCATE OCCURENCES OF 'àFOR ', 'àFORM ', ' FORMULA ' ETC. ÔO RESTRICT THE SEARCH TO NON-EMBEDDED OCCURENCES OF 'àFORà', ENTER A SEARCH STRING OF 'àFOR *'. àààààààààÁS EACH OCCURENCE IS FOUND THE FIELD IT WAS FOUND IN IS PRINTED ON THE SCREEN OR PRINTER ALONG WITH THE RECORD NUMBER. ÉF OUTPUT WAS DIRECTED TO THE SCREEN THERE IS A TWO SECOND PAUSE IN THE SEARCH AFTER THE FIELD AND RECORD NUMBER ARE DISPLAYED. ÉF YOU WANT TO VIEW THAT RECORD PRESS THE <ÒÅÔÕÒÎ> KEY. ÔHE COMPLETE RECORD WILL BE DISPLAYED AND THE SEARCH WILL RESUME FROM WHERE IT LEFT OFF. àààààààààÉF FURTHER INFORMATION FROM THE RECORD IS REQUIRED USE THE ÐÒÉÎÔ FUNCTION FROM THE MAIN MENU TO RETRIVE IT. ÔHE SCAN FUNCTION CAN BE STOPPED AT ANY TIME BY HOLDING DOWN ANY KEY UNTIL THE <ÒÅÔÕÒÎ> PROMPT APPEARS. - 6- - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÉNFORMATION ÒETRIEVAL ÐÒÉÎÔ àààààààààÓELECT ÐÒÉÎÔàFROM THE MAIN MENU TO RETRIEVE A SPECIFIC RECORD FROM THE DATABASE. ÙOU CAN DIRECT OUTPUT TO THE SCREEN OR TO THE PRINTER. ÒECORDS CAN ALSO BE SENT TO THE PRINTER IN MAILING LABEL FORMAT (SEE ÍÁÉÌÉÎÇàÌÉÓÔÓ). àààààààààÍORE THAT ONE RECORD CAN BE PRINTED AT A TIME BY CHOOSING ÂÁÔÃÈ OR ÃÏÎÔÉÎÏÕÓ PRINTING. ÂATCH PRINTING WILL PRINT OUT THE INDIVIDUAL RECORDS THAT YOU SPECIFY. ÙOU CAN SPECIFY ONE TO TEN RECORDS TO BE PRINTED. ÙOU WILL BE ASKED TO ENTER THE NUMBERS OF THE RECORDS TO BE PRINTED. ÅNTER A 'à0à' TO INDICATE THE END OF A BATCH. ÕSE THE ÓÃÁÎ FUNCTION TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE RECORD NUMBERS. àààààààààÃONTINOUS PRINTING WILL PRINT ALL THE RECORDS BETWEEN TWO SPECIFIED RECORDS. ÁLL THE RECORDS THAT ARE ALPHABETICALLY GREATER THAN THE STARTING RECORD AND LESS THAN THE ENDING RECORD WILL BE PRINTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER ACCORDING TO THE DESIGNATED KEYFIELD. àààààààààÅNTER THE STARTING AND ENDING RECORD NUMBERS AT THE APPROPRIATE PROMPTS. ÕSE THE ÓÃÁÎ FUNCTION TO DETERMINE THE RECORD NUMBERS. ÔO START PRINTING AT THE BEGINNING ENTER A 'àÂà'àAT THE 'àFIRST RECORDà' PROMPT. ÔO STOP PRINTING AT THE END ENTER A 'àÅà'àAT THE 'àLAST RECORDà' PROMPT. àààààààààÔO RETURN TO THE MAIN MENU ENTER A 'à0à' AS THE FIRST RECORD NUMBER FOR BATCH PRINTING, OR AS THE STARTING RECORD NUMBER FOR CONTINUOS PRINTING. ÔO STOP PRINTING HOLD DOWN ANY KEY UNTIL THE <ÒÅÔÕÒÎ> PROMPT APPEARS. ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄ àààààààààÓELECT ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄ FROM THE MAIN MENU IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE THE DESIGNATED KEYFIELD. ÒECORDS ARE SORTED IN ASCENDING ORDER ACCORDING TO THIS FIELD. ÔHIS IS ALSO THE FIELD THAT IS THE PRIMARY SCAN FIELD. ÂY CHANGING THE DESIGNATED KEYFIELD RECORDS CAN BE ORDERED ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT FIELDS AND FAST SCANS ON THESE FIELDS CAN BE PERFORMED. àààààààààÙOU WILL BE SHOWN A LIST OF THE KEYFIELD NAMES. ÓELECT THE NUMBER OF THE FIELD YOU WISH TO DESIGNATE AS THE KEYFIELD. ÔHE DEFAULT KEYFIELD IS FIELD ONE UNTIL YOU CHANGE IT. ÔO INCREASE SET UP SPEED THE SCREEN IS BLANKED DURING THIS OPERATION. - 7 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÍAILINGàÌISTS ÍÁÉÌÉÎÇàÌÉÓÔÓ àààààààààÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÄATABASE ALLOWS RECORDS TO BE PRINTED ON MAILING LABELS. ÔO DO THIS IT EXPECTS CERTAIN CONDITIONS TO BE MET. ÒÅÃÏÒÄàÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ àààààààààÒECORDS MUST CONTAIN AT LEAST EIGHT FIELDS THAT MEET THESE PARAMETERS: --------------------------------------------------------- ÆIELD ÎUMBER ÆIELD ÎAME ÆIELD ÌENGTH --------------------------------------------------------- ONE ÌAST ÎAME <= 35 TWO ÆIRST ÎAME THREE ÏPTIONAL ÏNE <= 35 FOUR ÏPTIONAL ÔWO <= 35 FIVE ÓTREET <= 35 SIX ÔOWN <= 35 SEVEN ÐROVINCE EIGHT ÐOSTAL ÃODE <= 35 --------------------------------------------------------- àààààààààÔHE INDICATED INFORMATION MUST APPEAR IN THE DESIGNATED FIELDS. ÆEILDS THREE AND FOUR, THE 'ÏPTIONAL' FIELDS ARE JUST THAT, OPTIONAL. ÉF YOU NEED TWO EXTRA LINES FOR INFORMATION, THEY'RE THERE FOR YOU TO USE. ÉF YOU ONLY NEED ONE EXTRA LINE, LEAVE FIELD THREE, 'ÏPTIONAL ÏNE', BLANK. ÉF YOU DON'T NEED ANY EXTRA LINES JUST LEAVE BOTH OF THEM BLANK. - 8 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÍAILINGàÌISTS ÐÒÉÎÔÉÎÇàÌÁÂÅÌÓ àààààààààÓELECT ÐÒÉÎÔàFROM THE MAIN MENU AND ÌÁÂÅÌÓ FROM THE ÐÒÉÎÔàMENU. ÆOLLOW THE ÐÒÉÎÔ INSTRUCTIONS. ÙOU WILL BE ASKED TO ENTER THE NUMBER OF LINES PER LABEL. ÉNCLUDE ENOUGH LINES TO CLEAR THE PERFORATIONS AND LABEL MARGINS. àààààààààÐRINTING BEGINS WHERE THE PRINTHEAD OF YOUR PRINTER IS LOCATED. ÓPACES LEFT BY BLANK OPTIONAL FIELDS ARE PULLED UP. ÓPACES LEFT BY OTHER BLANK FIELDS ARE PRINTED AS BLANK LINES. ÌAST ÎAME AND ÆIRST ÎAME ARE MERGED ON ONE LINE IN THEIR APPROPRIATE ORDER AS ARE ÔOWN AND ÐROVINCE. - 9 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÄISËàÆUNCTIONS ÄÉÓË ÆÕÎÃÔÉÏÎÓ àààààààààÓELECT ÄÉÓË FROM THE MAIN MENU TO ACCESS DISK FILE FUNCTIONS.ààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààà àààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààààà àààààààààÄÉÒÅÃÔÏÒÙ - DISPLAYS THE DISK DIRECTORY. àààààààààÅÒÒÏÒ - READS THE ERROR CHANNEL AND DISPLAYS THE INFORMATION. àààààààààÓÅÑ > ÒÅÌ - ENTERS INFORMATION FROM A SEQUENTIAL INTO THE DATABASE. ÕSE THIS FUNCTION TO TRANSLATE SEQUENTIAL ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÉNDEX FILES INTO DATABASE RELATIVE FILES. àààààààààÐÒÉÎÔà- PRINTS A SEQUENTIAL FILE FROM DISK TO YOUR PRINTER OR SCREEN. - 10 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÆILE ÔRANSLATION ÆÉÌÅàÔÒÁÎÓÌÁÔÉÏÎ àààààààààÂEFORE TRANSLATING FILES YOU MUST HAVE CREATED A DATABASE WITH ENOUGH EMPTY RECORDS TO HOLD THE NEW INFORMATION. ÏNCE THIS IS DONE SELECT ÓÅÑ > ÒÅÌ FROM THE ÄÉÓà MENU. ÅNTER THE NUMBER OF DRIVES YOU ARE USING. ÉNPUT THE FILENAME OF THE SEQUENTIAL FILE TO BE TRANSLATED. Ô×ÏàÄÒÉÖÅàÔÒÁÎÓÌÁÔÉÏÎ àààààààààÉF YOU ARE USING TWO DISK DRIVES INSERT THE DISK WITH THE SEQUENTIAL FILE ON IT INTO DRIVE #9. ÉNSERT THE DATABASE DISC INTO DRIVE #8. ×HEN YOU ARE READY ANSWER 'YES' TO THE 'DRIVE READY ?' PROMPT. ×HEN THE TRANSLATION IS FINISHED YOU WILL BE RETURNED TO THE MAIN MENU. ÓÉÎÇÌÅàÄÒÉÖÅàÔÒÁÎÓÌÁÔÉÏÎ àààààààààÉF YOU ARE USING A SINGLE DISK DRIVE FOLLOW THE PROMPTS TO SWITCH DISKS. ÔHE NUMBER OF SWITCHES IS A FUNCTION OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RECORDS DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF FEILDS. ÔHE LARGER THE DATABASE, THE FEWER DISK SWAPS WILL BE REQUIRED. - 11 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERS ÇUIDE ÍAGAZINE ÉNDEXES ÍÁÇÁÚÉÎÅàÉÎÄÅØÅÓ àààààààààÔHE ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÄATABASE WAS DESIGNED TO BE USED WITH THE MAGAZINE INDEXES AVAILABLE FROM ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅMATION. ÓERVICES. ÔHE DATABASE IS CAPABLE OF LOCATING AND RETRIEVING ANY PIECE OF TEXT FROM THESE INDEXES. ÔHE ÔÐÕÇ MAGAZINE INDEXES, RELEASED AS ADWARE AND DISTRIBUTED WITH THE ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÄATABASE, ARE JUST AN EXAMPLE OF THE INDEXES AVAILABLE FROM ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÓERVICES. Ô×ÏàÄÒÉÖÅàÔÒÁÎÓÌÁÔÉÏÎ àààààààààÔHE ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÉNDEX FILES ARE DISTRIBUTED ASITH SEQUENTIAL FILES AND MUST BE TRANSLATED INTO RELATIVE FILESE FORMAT TO BE USED WITH ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÄATABASE. ÔHISO THE TRANSLATION CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED USING THE ÓÅÑ > ÒÅÌ OPTION FROM THE ÄÉÓà MENU OF ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ. ÂEFORE TRANSLATING YOU MUST HAVE CREATED A DATABASE WITH THE NECESSARY PARAMETERS (SEE ÉÎÄÅØ ÐÁÒÁÍÁÔÅÒÓ). ÁS WELL THERE MUST BE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF EMPTY RECORDS TO HOLD THE NEW INFORMATION. ÓÉÎÇÌÅàÄÒÉÖÅàÔÒÁÎÓÌÁÔÉÏÎ àààààààààÉF YOU ARE USING A SINGLE DISK DRIVE FOLLOW THE PROMPTS TO SWITCH DISKS. ÔHE NUMBER OF SWITCHES IS A FUNCTION OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RECORDS DIVIDED BY THE NUMBER OF FEILDS. ÔHE LARGER THE DATABASE, THE FEWER DISK SWAPS WILL BE REQUIRED. - 12 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÉNDEXàÐARAMETERS ÉÎÄÅØàÐÁÒÁÍÅÔÅÒÓ àààààààààÂEFORE TRANSLATING ANY INDEX FILES CREATE A DATABASE ACCORDING TO THESE GUIDELINES: ----------------------------------------------------- MAGAZINE NO. FIELDS/ NO. RECORDS/ RECORD YEAR ----------------------------------------------------- ààààààÔÐÕÇ 6 12*7 ÔRANSACTOR 6 6*? ÃÏÍÐÕÔÅÓ' 6 12*? ÇAZETTE ÒÕÎ 6 12*? ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- FIELD NUMBER FIELD TITLE --------------------------------------- ONE àààààààààààààààààààààËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄ TWO ÎÏÔÅÓàÏÎÅ THREE ÎÏÔÅÓàÔ×Ï FOUR ÎÏÔÅÓàÔÈÒÅÅ FIVE ÎÏÔÅÓàÆÏÕÒ SIX ÎÏÔÅÓàÆÉÖÅ --------------------------------------- - 13 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERS ÇUIDE ÉNDEX ÓTRUCTURE ÉÎÄÅØàÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÒÅÃÏÒÄàÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ àààààààààÁLL ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ ÉNDEXES USE RECORDS OF SIX FIELDS. ÁLL FIELDS REQUIRE A DECLARED LENGTH OF 80 CHARACTERS. ÆIELD ONE IS DESIGNATED AS THE INDEX ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄ AND CONSISTS OF VARIOUS TYPES OF KEYWORDS. ÔHE REMAINING FIVE FIELDS ARE DESIGNATED AS ÎÏÔÅÓàÏÎÅ THROUGH ÎÏÔÅÓàÆÉÖÅ. ÔHESE FIELDS CONTAIN MORE DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING THE CONTENTS OF THE MAGAZINE. - 14 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERS ÇUIDE ÉNDEX ÓTRUCTURE ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄàÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ àààààààààÔHE ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄ CONSISTS OF VARIOUS TYPES OF KEY AND CATCH WORDS. àààààààààÁÒÃÈÉÖÁÌàËÅÙ×ÏÒÄÓ - THESE KEYWORDS IDENTIFY THE MAGAZINE AND SUPPLY INFORMATION ABOUT THE DATE OF THE PUBLICATION AND THE SUBJECT OF THE RECORD. E.G. ÔÐ 09/85 ÓÅÐ ÆEATURES ÔÐ - MAGAZINE CODE 09/85 - NUMERIC DATE ÓÅÐ - MONTH ÆEATURES - RECORD SUBJECT àààààààààÈÁÒÄ×ÁÒÅàËÅÙ×ÏÒÄÓ - THESE KEYWORDS PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HARDWARE FOR WHICH THE RECORD INFORMATION IS RELEVANT. E.G. Ã-64 Ã-128 ÖÉà 4040 àààààààààÓÕÍÍÁÒÙàËÅÙ×ÏÒÄÓ - THESE KEYWORDS PROVIDE ONE WORD SUMMARIES OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE RECORD. E.G. SPEED DIFFERENCES ALIGNMENT - 15 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÉNDEX ÓTRUCTURE ÁÒÃÈÉÖÁÌàËÅÙ×ÏÒÄÓ àààààààààÅVERY ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄ WILL CONTAIN THE FOUR REQUIRED PIECES OF ARCHIVAL INFORMATION ÍÁÇÁÚÉÎÅàÃÏÄÅ : ÔÐ - ÔÐÕÇ ÃÇ - ÃÏÍÐÕÔÅÓ' ÇAZETTE ÒÕ - ÒUN ÔÒ - ÔRANSACTOR ÎÕÍÅÒÉÃàÄÁÔÅ : MM/YY MM - MONTH YY - YEAR ÍÏÎÔÈ : MMM MMM - ÔHREE CHARACTER ABBREVIATION ÆÅÁÔÕÒÅ : ASDFGHJKL ASDFGHJKL - RECORD SUBJECT - 16 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÉNDEX ÓTRUCTURE ÎÏÔÅÆÉÅÌÄàÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ àààààààààÔHE ÎÏÔÅÆÉÅÌÄS CONSIST OF INFORMATION SUMMARIZING THE SUBJECT OF THE MAGAZINE CONTENTS. ÔHESE CONTENTS INCLUDE FEATURES, ARTICLES, PROGRAMS, PROGRAMMING INFORMATION, REVIEWS AND DEPARTMENTS. àààààààààÁ GIVEN ÎÏÔÅÆÉÅÌÄ CONSISTS OF THE ARTICLE TITLE OR SUBJECT FOLLOWED BY A SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE. ÔITLES ARE CAPITALIZED WHERE APPROPRIATE. ÔHREE SPACES SEPERATE THE TITLE FROM THE SUMMARY. ÔWO SPACES SEPERATE UNRELATED SUMMARY WORDS. - 17 - - € ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅàÕSERSàÇUIDE ÆINDINGàÉNFORMATION ÆÉÎÄÉÎÇ ÉÎÆÏÒÍÁÔÉÏÎ àààààààààÓELECT ÓÃÁÎ FROM THE ÉÎÆÅÒ-ÓÔÒÕÃÔÕÒÅ MAIN MENU TO LOCATE A DESIRED PIECE OF INFORMATION. ÙOU CAN INDICATE A ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄ SCAN OR A ÄÁÔÁÂÁÓÅ SCAN. ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄàÓÃÁÎ àààààààààÕSE A ËÅÙÆÉÅÌÄàÓÃÁÎ TO LOCATE THE RECORD OF A SPECIFIC MAGAZINE ISSUE; OF A PARTICULAR RECORD SUBJECT; FOR INFORMATION RELATING TO A SPECIFIC PIECE OF HARDWARE; OR TO LOCATE FOR GENERAL SUMMARY SUBJECTS. ÉNFORMATION IS SEARCHED FOR AND OUTPUT ALPHABETICALLY BY RECORD. ÄÁÔÁÂÁÓÅàÓÃÁÎ àààààààààÕSE A ÄÁÔÁÂÁÓÅàÓÃÁÎ TO LOCATE THE RECORD CONTAINING THE INFORMATION ABOUT A SPECIFIC ARTICLE OR SUBJECT. ÅVERY FIELD IN THE DATABASE IS SEARCHED AS IT IS ENCOUNTERED ON DISK. ÃONSEQUENTLY OUTPUT IS NOT ORDERED WHILE THE SCAN TIME REQUIRED IS DRASTICALLY REDUCED. - 18 - -