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The NPA system consists of the following files:
npa.exe - The NPA program itself.
npa.doc - Documentation for NPA (please, at least
puruse this doc file).
npa286.exe - Version of NPA that loads faster on 8086
and 80286 machines. Add'l info below.
brand.exe - Do-it-yourself registration utility.
brand.doc - Documentation for brand.
readme!!.now - heh heh, you guessed it.
npa_data.exe - Self-extracting ZIP file containing
NPA database.
intl - Listing of international dialing prefixes.
summary.npa - Listing of US and Canadian area codes sorted
by both area code and state/province.
I recommend that you create a separate subdirectory for the
database files, change to the new subdirectory, then run the
'npa_data.exe' from inside that subdirectory. There are many files
that comprise the database. It's not absolutely necessary to contain
the database in it's own directory, but it sure is a lot neater!
The environment variable 'npa_data' can be used to instruct NPA
where to look for the data base no matter what drive or directory is
current. ie: Suppose you elect to place the data in the directory
C:\NPA, then you'd add the following line to your autoexec.bat file:
set npa_data=c:\npa
Of course, the NPA executable itself must reside in a directory
that's on the path in order to be located - but the data can go
anywhere if you use the 'npa_data' environment variable. There's
more detail on this in the documentation file NPA.DOC.
I have received reports that NPA takes anywhere from four to
fifteen seconds to initialize on some 8086 and 80286 based machines.
Therefore, I compiled a version of NPA (dubbed "NPA286") that runs
faster on these machines. An unfortunate side effect of this special
compilation is that there is reduced internal program data space. As
a result, you may receive a "runtime error 14" from NPA when states
with very large cities (such as NY) are processed. If this happens,
simply rerun using "NPA" instead of NPA286. In the great majority of
cases, NPA286 will function fine. This note is for your information.