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Combine.exe - By Charlie Crawford.
Documentation.
Combine.exe is a utility that I wrote to work with the
"Answering Service Assistant" software. It takes the databases
(ASA.dbf) created and used by other workers at an answering
service and combines them with the original "ASA.dbf" database
used by the manager of the service. This allows for all messages
taken to be contained in the original database and
reports/invoices to be generated by the manager. In this way, a
large answering service can effectively use the assistant program
to create customer databases and take messages and add messages
taken by others in the service to produce proper invoices.
The customer database originally created by the manager
should be copied to the machines of other workers so they can run
the assistant software but should not be creating customer
records themselves, but only take messages. The "ASA.dbf"
database created and generated by these workers will then need to
be placed in drive A: of the managers machine and new messages
(those not on the managers message database already) will be
appended to the managers database. Once done, the manager can
then run the "ASA" software to generate the reports and invoices.
To run the "Combine.exe" file:
1. Place the "Combine.exe" program in the same subdirectory
as the original "ASA" program,
2. Place a diskette with another copy of the "ASA.dbf" and
"ASA.dbt" databases of another worker in drive A:,
3. type "combine" without the quotes and answer "Y" to
continue,
4. Repeat the operation for each set of "ASA.DBF" and
"ASA.DBT" databases used by other workers until you have gotten
all current messages into your "ASA.dbf" and "ASA.dbt" original
databases,
6. Run "Asa.exe" and use the "R" command to run a report or
invoice.
That's about it and enjoy. Of course, nobody takes any
responsibility for the effects of running this or any other
Charlie Crawford software.
Please call me with any problems you may have at area 617-
727-5550 extension 4503.
June 1, 1993 - Charlie Crawford.