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- This program will provide a membership list for the average club.· It also
- provides for Printing File Cards and Addressing Envelopes, Folders and
- Labels at 6 lines per inch on an ASCII Printer.· The program also Prints or
- Prints to Disk a Membership List that includes all file information.· The
- program will create files called CLUBNAME.REC and MEMBER.REC when started up
- the 1st time and read these files each time you start up thereafter.· After
- the 1st time, member records you enter won`t be saved unless you save them,
- this allows you to make changes for just one printing.· To revise or delete
- a record you must KNOW the RECORD NUMBER.· Records are RENUMBERED EACH TIME
- you DELETE a record or SORT the file.· The record number is shown on the
- display screen.· All fields except "Dues" & "Select" (T or F) are character
- fields and any ASCII character may be entered. Phone numbers allow 13, the
- normal form is (xxx)xxx-xxxx.· Zip codes allow 10 in the form xxxxx-xxxx.
- Street Address allows 30.· City allows 20. State allows 4. Title allows
- 15. Each Name field allows 15, but the TOTAL of the 3 MUST NOT EXCEED 30 or
- labels won`t print correctly.· Both Dates & Committee allow 8. · Comment
- allows 40. Use the ? for a Wild Card when choosing. The maximum number of
- records per file depends upon the free RAM in your computer and is shown on
- the bottom of the Path Selection screen.
- CLUBNAME.REC
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- The information you enter at the initial start-up goes into the file
- CLUBNAME.REC and is used each time you start up thereafter. The information
- is also used to print return address labels. To change this data just erase
- the file and start over.
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- Files Included
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- Name Length Date
- ================= ======== ========
- MEMBER.DOC 35122 11-14-91
- *MEMBER.EXE 36416 11-14-91
- *MEMBER.HLP 8480 11-14-91
- *MEMBER.OVR 99283 11-14-91
- ROLODEX.FMT 10660 06-14-91
- ==== ========
- Total 5 221251
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- * Include on same disk and/or in same subdirectory preferably in the
- DOS PATH.
- Sorting
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- Starting with Version 7.0 a separate Sort procedure is provided which allows
- you to sort on any field. A separate Save procedure is also provided so
- that you can decide to save your records in whatever order you wish. This
- is IMPORTANT be sure to SAVE YOUR RECORDS anytime you ADD MEMBER(S). There
- is no need to sort when you make changes unless you change the Sort Field
- nor is it necessary to sort when you delete a record. Sorting takes time on
- big files! On my XT compatible which runs Norton's SI at 2.0 it takes 5
- seconds to sort a "worst case" file of 100 records while to sort 2000 "worst
- case" records takes 55 minutes. The "worst case" means exact matches in the
- file; I took a 70 record file and copied it almost 29 times until I had 2000
- records, then sorted this file on Last Name (Last Name+First Name+Middle
- Name) which means 70 records that matched character for character 29 times
- each. Some more XT times on a 2000 record file: LOAD 36 seconds, SAVE 2
- minutes 35 seconds, PRINT TO DISK 2 minutes. The same tests on my 8 mhz
- PCAT which runs Norton's SI at 8.0: Sort 2000 "worst case" records, 17
- minutes 25 seconds. Load 2000 records, 19 seconds. Save 2000 records, 21.3
- seconds. My 20 mhz 386 does these much faster. The save times are greatly
- affected by the speed of the disk drive. Floppies are much slower.
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- Choose Procedure
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- In addition to sorting the records on any field you are given the
- opportunity to choose to operate with only records chosen for some
- particular attribute. ie city, state, zip code, etc. One new feature of
- the Choose procedure not noted on the screen is the use of an asterisk (*)
- in choosing names. If you enter an asterisk when asked for Last Name you
- can sort for first and middle name only, further, if you also enter an
- asterisk when asked for First Name you can choose only a particular middle
- name. You can also enter just one letter or number to choose all records
- who's field starts with that letter or number. For instance you might have
- your records sorted by last name and choose to print all records with zip
- codes starting with 0. This would print east coast addresses in
- alphabetical order. You might want to print address labels for these and
- then repeat the process and export a mail merge for your word processor.
- This is particularly useful when printing folders for mailing, as you can be
- sure of getting the letters and their addresses on the back in the same
- order.
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- Mail Merge and Exporting Files
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- The Membership List produces three types of mail merge, two of which serve
- as data export files. The types are; Standard Mail Merge or Comma Delimited
- (Other delimiters may be specified), System Data Format (SDF) or Fixed
- Length and Separate Line Format (SLF). The first two are used to export
- data to other programs while the SLF is used exclusively for Mail Merge.
- All three are output in the order shown above from top to bottom. The SLF
- file substitutes "Dues are Paid" or Dues not Paid" for the Dues Logical and
- "Selected" or a blank line for the Selected Logical. The other files use a
- T or an F for these values as required by most database programs.
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- Importing Files
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- The Membership List imports the three formats mentioned above, and also the
- MEMBER.REC format used by the program. All are added to your current record
- but do not have to be saved. This means you can import another list just
- for one time use, sort it as you wish, make output files and then exit
- without saving the records. Of course you can save them if you wish to. To
- Import or Export press I at the main menu.
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- Formatted Output
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- The Membership List allows, the creation, storing, editing and use of
- formatted (.FMT) files. This allows you to develop files to fill in forms,
- develop your own forms to fill in or even to use a special size of label not
- directly supported. Included on the program disk is one such file
- ROLODEX.FMT that I have used. I also developed one for tow envelopes one to
- the member from the club and the next one from the member to the club. The
- second had a place for the member to sign and as you can guess it was for an
- election. Some of these things can also be done with a word processor and
- mail merge, so you should consider both and decide which is best for your
- application.
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- Shareware Concept
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- Shareware is Copyrighted Commercial Software! You are allowed to try before
- you buy, and freely give copies to your friends to try before they buy.
- Only distributors authorized by the author may make any charge for copies of
- Shareware programs. Anyone who finds the program useful is required to send
- payment for use of the program to the author or his listed agent. The
- Membership List and Mail Label program is the sole property of Lloyd C.
- Bowen Jr. The registration fee for the use of this program on one computer
- is $20.00 and should be mailed to:
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- Lloyd C. Bowen, Jr.
- 2213 Peach Tree St.
- Amarillo, Texas
- 79109-1922
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- Please reference "Member Version 7.0" with your registration.
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- The Records use 230 Bytes each of RAM or Disk Space.
- MAXIMUM of 2000 Records per File! Lloyd C. Bowen Jr 11/11/91