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                              V i d e o P h i l e

                               by Robert B. Cook

     VideoPhile is a file program that will allow you keep a record of your
video tapes and will also print labels for them.  When running VideoPhile
for the first time you'll receive the message 'File not found on disk'.  Not
to worry.  This only indicates that you have no video file saved to disk,
yet.

REVISING THE MENU

     The menu allows ten file categories.  Because the majority of the
people that will be using this program are not programmers, and probably not
even familiar with the BASIC language, I have included a method of easily
revising the names of the categories.  Using the cursor keys, move the white
cursor bar to 'Quit/Save/Revise' on the menu and press RETURN.  Then select
REVISE MENU by pressing 'R'.  Move the purple cursor bar to the category
name you wish to edit and select it by pressing RETURN.  Enter the new
category name and press RETURN.  The new category name(s) will be preserved
when you save your video file.

ENTERING DATA

     Using the cursor keys, move the white cursor bar to a category of your
choice on the menu and select it by pressing RETURN.  The following options
are available to you:

+ - VIEW - You may peruse your cards forward and backward with the + and -
(plus and minus) keys.  Of course you can't do this until you've filled in
some cards.

F1  EDIT - This allows you to add a new card to the file or edit an existing
card.  Note the numbers at the top of the card, 'n of n'.  The first number
is the card number that you are editing, the second is the number of cards
in the present category.  When the card number is higher than the number of
cards, it indicates that the card is a blank, or new card.

     There are seven places for entries.  The first two lines are for the
movie title and the stars of the movie.  The next entries are for the tape
speed and the tape counter, start to finish.  The next is for the time or
length of the tape or movie in minutes.  The last two are for the tape
number and any notes you may want to include about the tape.

     Use the CURSOR keys or the HOME key to move the cursor and the INST and
DEL keys to edit your entries.

     Press F1 again to enter the card into memory.  If you are editing an
existing card you'll exit from the EDIT mode, otherwise the number of cards
will be incremented by one and another blank card will be displayed for
editing.  You may also press ESCape if you wish to exit without changing or
saving the card.

     The maximum number of cards for each category is determined by the
variable MAX which is initially set at 50.  There is room for about 275
cards if each card is completely filled in.  But, since you'll probably be
filling in less than the full amount of the available space on each card,
you should have 375+ cards available.  If you don't plan on using all the
categories you may change MAX to a higher number and save the program to
preserve it.  This will allow more cards per category but fewer cards
overall.  You'll receive the message, 'No more cards available' if you
should attempt to use more cards than the maximum allowed per category.

F3  SORT - There are two ways to sort each card category; by Title or by
Stars.  The cards are sorted alphabetically in ascending order.  In order
for SORT to work properly your entries should be consistent.  For example,
if you want to keep all your Werewolf movies together, "Werewolf" should be
the first word in each of the Title entries.  SORT is case sensitive, if you
use capital letters in one entry use them in similar manner in all entries.

F4  COPY - You can copy the card on the screen to the current category or to
another category.  Use the cursor keys to scan the category names then
choose a category to COPY to by pressing RETURN.

F5  SEARCH - Keeping your item entries consistent is necessary to enable the
SEARCH command to find similar items.  The search string may be up to ten
characters long and these characters may occur anywhere in the title.
Pressing RETURN with no entry will display the blank (new) card for editing.
SEARCH is case sensitive.

F6  DELETE - Deletes a card from memory and reduces the quantity by one.

F8  PRINT - You can send control codes to you printer by pressing 'C'.
Enter each code as a number from 1 to 255 or as a letter from a to z, lower
case only, then press RETURN to send it to the printer.  Exit by pressing
the ESCape key.

     The card on the screen may be printed as a LABEL or all of the cards in
the current category printed as a list or RECORD.

     A label may be printed full-size or condensed.  A full-size label
contains all of the information on the card in a four-line format.  The
condensed version does not include the Notes entry and is formatted on two
lines.  The condensed version is useful if you have more than one movie on a
tape.

F7  MENU -  Returns you to the main menu.

     Choosing 'Quit/Save/Revise' and then pressing 'S' will save the card
file as VIDEO and also create a back-up file, VIDEO.BAK.  If for some reason
the VIDEO file cannot be read, scratch the VIDEO file and rename the
VIDEO.BAK file to VIDEO.

     If you attempt to quit the program without saving your edited card file
you'll be asked if you want to save first.

RBC
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