Here's where you add, change, or delete phone number entries. An entry in this database is simply a line of plain ASCII text. The format of a line is like so:
Before the first | character (that is, the shifted \ character) is the callee's name. The format of the name is totally up to you, as long as it doesn't contain a | character. The entries will be alphabetized, so start the entry with a letter that'll put it where you want it to end up in the list.
Between the first and second | characters is the phone number. You can enter phone numbers that have letters in them, such as 800-3-IBM-OS2. The program will always translate that into the proper numerical digits before dialing it.
If the phone number contains a / character (which will be removed before dialing, of course), or has a - character in the fourth and eighth positions, or is ten numerical digits long, the number will be assumed to be long distance. Otherwise, it will be assumed to be a local call.
If you want a normally-local phone number to have the area code in it, so that you have the area code handy if you ever call that person from another city, but you don't want to bother with the NOAREA key word (defined five paragraphs from now) to keep the area code from being dialed, just enclose the area code in parentheses. The program won't dial an area code in parentheses unless you specifically tell it to, by checking the DIAL AREA CODE checkbox or using the AREA key word.
By default, an entry which the program thinks is a local call will not have a "1" dialed in front of it, will not have the area code dialed, and will not be logged. Long distance calls will have the "1" and the area code dialed, and will be logged.
Of course you can alter those default behaviors at any time by setting the DIAL 1, DIAL AREA CODE, and LOG THIS CALL checkboxes manually. But if you have an entry where one or more of those behaviors should always (or more often than not) be different from the default, then you want to add other key words after a second | character in that database entry.
These key words can be in uppercase, lowercase, or mixed, and in any order. The program just looks between the second and third | characters for the words DIAL1, AREA, LOG, NODIAL1, NOAREA, NOLOG, NOTE, NOPRE1, and/or NOPRE2. If it finds any of those words there, it acts on them. If there's nothing at all in an entry after the phone number, that's fine too.
If you want a phone number that looks to the program like a local call, to have a "1" and the area code dialed before it, just put the key words DIAL1 and AREA there after the second | character. If you want a local call to always be added to the log, the key word for that is LOG.
If you want a number that looks like a long distance call to not have the "1" or area code dialed, say NODIAL1 and NOAREA. If you don't want the call added to the log, say NOLOG.
By default, the program does not add a Note to the log entry for any calls unless you specificially check the ADD A NOTE TO THE LOG checkbox. If you have a callee whose log entries you always (or usually) want to add a Note to, put the word NOTE after the second | character of that database entry.
By default, the USE PREFIX 1 and USE PREFIX 2 checkboxes are turned on at all times. If you have a callee for which you always want the PREFIX 2 characters to be ignored (for example, if you keep your phone company credit card number there and you don't want it dialed on a local call), put the word NOPRE2 after the second | character of that callee's entry. Or NOPRE1 to ignore the PREFIX 1 characters.
As soon as you select an entry to dial (or manually type one yourself), the program changes the four checkboxes so you never have to wonder whether the program is seeing a number as local or long distance, or whether the key words in your database entries are being recognized. You can see exactly what the program is planning to do, and manually change the checkboxes if the program plans to do something you don't want it to do.
If you want to put any sort of personal note into a database entry, put it after a third | character. The program won't look at anything after a third | character even if there are words there that the program would recognize as key words if they were before the third | character.
