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New TSR program POPGDB.EXE
The POPGDB.EXE program is a small TSR like GRAB but it does nothing more
that allow you to pop up the GRABDB database program over other programs.
This program must be configured before using it. It must be loaded after
GRAB.EXE in order to use also. You can add it immediately after the GRAB
line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file if you want it to load automatically.
To configure POPGDB you will use the GRABCFG.EXE program just as though
you are going to configure GRAB. However there are only two items that
may be configured. One is the location of the GRABDB.EXE file. The
default setting in the POPGDB program is:
C:\GRABPLUS\GRABDB.EXE
Note that it is the location that our installation program uses as a
default when installing the GRAB Plus package. You must supply the full
drive, path and file name for GRABDB.EXE as shown above.
The second item is to change the default hot key for the POPGDB program.
The default hot key is <Ctrl><Alt>F10 and you can change it to any
combination just as GRAB's hot key.
To configure POPGDB load the GRABCFG program. Select the "File" pull
down menu (formerly called Exit) and select "get pOpgdb" from the pull
down. This will read in the present configuration from POPGDB.EXE.
Next to change the location of the GRABDB.EXE file if your's is not in
the default directory as shown above. Select "Address & tsr" and then
select "Location of grabdb.exe" from the pull down. Make your changes
and press enter to exit the edit screen.
To change the hot key for POPGDB, select "Hot key" and then select
"pOpgdb hot key" from the pull down. Enter your new hot key and exit
the hot key change window.
Next you must save the changes as your default settings. This is done
by selecting "Files" and "save pOpgdb" in the pull down. The changes will
be written to the POPGDB.EXE file at this time. You can then exit the
GRABCFG program and load POPGDB.EXE into memory for use.
It should be pointed out that POPGDB cannot be used at the DOS prompt,
you must be in another application to run it. This is normal as at the
DOS prompt, you can simply run GRABDB without POPGDB. If you try to
run POPGDB when at the DOS prompt or in a graphics screen, the program
will beep to let you know it cannot pop up GRABDB for you.
What's great about this new program is that you can be in your word
processor, call POPGDB to find an address, pop up GRAB to print an
envelope and then after exiting GRAB and GRABDB, paste the address in
the word processor using the new paste function of GRAB.
For a list of command line options such as removing PopGDB from memory
type:
POPGDB /?
at the command line.