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DOCTOR DATA Label(tm) v5.1
This is the addendum to the v5.0 manual for v5.1 of DOCTOR DATA
Label. The following will explain the additions and/or changes
made in DOCTOR DATA Label v5.1. There are not enough changes to
merit a new manual at this time.
1) There are a few places in DOCTOR DATA Label where you are
asked to enter a path to look for certain files or to export
files. Some PC's would not accept a path that was in fact a
correct path. This has been fixed and will now accept any correct
path entered.
2) Filenames no longer have to start with an alpha character.
3) After selecting a database the insert mode is automatically
turned on. From within the EDIT/ADD RECORDS command it may be
turned off by pressing <Ins>. Before this version the insert mode
would always be turned on when entering the EDIT/ADD RECORDS
command. This no longer happens. It stays where it was the last
time it was set until changed.
4) After selecting a database in earlier versions the marked
records would be counted thereby slowing down the selection of a
database as the database grows larger. This has been changed. The
number of marked records are now saved in the definition file.
One precaution that should be taken is that if you access the
database with another dBASE III compatible product you DO NOT
MARK any records for deletion.
5) When checking for duplicate records, pressing <Alt>-Q was
supposed to quit the process, returning you to the RECORDS sub-
menu. This has now been fixed. You are also now asked if you are
sure you want to quit before quitting.
6) Zippy, our zip code database, will now also insert the city
and state on already existing records by pressing <Ctrl>-Z. You
will first be prompted for the zip code in the zip code field and
then upon pressing <Enter> the city and state will be inserted
into their appropriate fields.
7) Definition files are now automatically saved for each database
created and selected for use.
8) Erasing, Renaming, and Copying files under the FILE MNGMT
command was not working correcting on some machines. This has
been fixed. The commands in the sub-menu has also been renamed
and two new commands have been added.
9) Printer codes may now be renamed. They are named, by default,
just as they were in version 5.0 however now the names can be
changed. Remember that if you do change the names of the printer
codes you must also change the names of any printer codes you
have entered into any templates.
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10) Two new commands have been added to the TOOLS sub-menu as
mentioned above. They are DELETE FIELDS and VIEW ASCII FILE.
DELETE FIELDS allows you to delete unwanted fields from an ASCII
delimited file before importing. In version 5.0 and earlier these
unwanted fields had to be imported into fields that were not
going to be used. This was a problem if there were more unwanted
ASCII fields than there were extra fields to dump them into when
importing.
The ASCII delimited file to be converted must have a ".TXT"
filename extension in order to be selected from the directory
file list. After the file is selected you are asked to enter the
number of the fields to delete pressing <Enter> after each number
entered. When finished press <Enter> on "0" to start the
conversion process. A new file, CONVERT.TXT, will be created to
hold only the fields that were not deleted. The original file is
not changed. Before using this command you may want to use the
VIEW ASCII FILE command to make note of the fields you wish to
delete. You may also want to use this command to view the
CONVERT.TXT file to be sure the conversion was done properly
before importing.
IMPORTANT: BEFORE RUNNING THIS PROCEDURE YOU MUST REMOVE ANY
COMMAS FROM THE ASCII DELIMITED FILE EXCEPT FOR THE COMMAS
SEPARATING THE FIELDS.
The second new command VIEW ASCII FILE will allow you to view the
first five records in an ASCII delimited file to make note as to
the order in which the fields appear from left to right. This is
needed when importing ASCII delimited files in order to import
the fields into the right place in the DOCTOR DATA Label
database. In earlier versions you had to exit to DOS to view the
file.
11) You now have a choice of deleting duplicate records
automatically or manually as before. It is recommended that they
are deleted manually because not all records that have the same
record content in one or two fields will have the same record
content in the remaining fields. This feature was added for those
who would rather delete perhaps a few records that they would not
normally delete but do not want to take the time to delete
duplicates manually. The original method of duplicate checking is
explained in the manual.
IMPORTANT: BEFORE RUNNING THIS PROCEDURE IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT
YOU CREATE A BACKUP OF THE [FILENAME].DBF AND [FILENAME].DBT
FILES IN CASE OF SOME MISTAKE.
Upon executing the CHECK DUPLICATES command in the RECORDS sub-
menu you are asked if you want to automatically delete duplicate
records. By the way, the field(s) used for determining whether or
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not a record is a duplicate is the field(s) the currently
selected index is indexed on. If you answer "Y", you will be
informed if there are any currently marked records in the
database. If there are any marked records in the database they
will be deleted along with the duplicate records. You may at this
time exit and unmark any records that you do not want deleted
and then return back to this command. After the duplicates have
been marked you will be informed of the number of records being
deleted from the database as it is packed (same as the F6=Pack
command in the EDIT/ADD RECORDS command).
THIS CONCLUDES THE CHANGES MADE IN VERSION 5.1 OF DOCTOR DATA
LABEL(tm)
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