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Appendix A The CONFIG.SYS File
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If you are using a floppy system, you should have a CONFIG.SYS file
on your boot-up DOS disk. If you are using a hard drive, your
CONFIG.SYS file should be located in your root directory. If you do
not have this file, you will need to create it with a text editor or
word processor in DOS text mode. This file needs to contain the
following two statements on separate lines by themselves:
FILES=20
BUFFERS=8
If you are using DOS version 3.30 or later, set the FILES statement
to 30 instead of 20.
To check the FILES statement, select General Setup in the main menu,
then System Information in that sub-menu. If the FILES setting can
not be found in DOS or it is not set to 20 or greater, you will not
be able to select a database. You can edit the CONFIG.SYS file from
within DDFile using "opy/Rename/Delete/Edit Files in the main menu.
See "File Management" in the on-line documentation.
The FILES statement is placed on a line by itself towards the top of
the file. Simply type FILES=20 or FILES=30 then save and exit the
file. You will need to quit DDFile and then reboot your machine in
order for DOS to read the updated CONFIG.SYS file to set your system
up accordingly.
Appendix B Direct output to:
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At several areas in the program you will be prompted with "Direct
output to:" in order to print or send the output to a text fiile. To
direct output to the default printer port PRN you can leave this
blank and press <Enter>. To direct the output to ports LPT1, LPT2,
LPT3, COM1, COM2, COM3 or COM4, type the appropriate port. If going
to a COM port, you may need to first initialize the COM port with the
DOS MODE command. This is done at the DOS prompt by typing MODE
COMx=9600,N,8,1,P <Enter>. The x after COM is the COM port number.
The MODE command is also used to redirect standard PRN or LPT1 output
to a serial COM port. See your DOS manual for more on using the MODE
command.
To direct output to a text file, type a filename without extension
and press <Enter>. A filename extension of PRN will automatically be
assigned to the filename. This feature is useful for:
1) Sending the output PRN text file via modem to a remote location.
2) Creating ASCII SDF or ASCII Delimited files
3) Assisting in the creation of merge files for word processors.
Following are the various messages and reasons for them that you may
get in response of your direction.
"A file name was not specified. Press any key..."
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You may have specified a drive and/or directory, but did not specify
a filename.
"Do not specify a file name extention. Press any key..."
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A period was found which means that a filename extention was
specified. This is not allowed since the extention of PRN is
automatically assigned.
"File already exists. Overwrite? (Y/N)"
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A filename with the PRN extention already exists in the specified
drive and/or directory. If you answer Yes, the file will be
overwritten.
"Specified port is not present. Press any key..."
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The printer port specified is not present on your machine. (If you do
not specify anything and leave it blank, the output is directed to
the PRN port.)
The following possible messages are self-explanatory.
"Cannot determine status of printer. Press any key..."
"Printer is off-line or not turned on. Press any key..."
"Printer is off or not connected. Press any key..."
"Printer is out of paper. Press any key..."
"Printer is not connected. Press any key..."
If any of the above messages appear and your printer does not seem to
be having the stated problem, you may over-ride and print anyway by
pressing <Alt-O>. If a message appears at the top of your screen
stating "...printer not ready Retry (Y/N)" and you answer No, the
current database will be closed and the program will quit. If you
ready the printer and answer Yes, the program will continue pending
the printer was in fact made ready.