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This Documentation created January 21, 1994
Dr. W. Curtiss Priest
Center for Information, Technology, and Society
466 Pleasant Street
Melrose, MA 02176
617-662-4044
Internet: BMSLIB@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
This program was originally posted on Channel 1 in Cambridge, MA
with no DOC file.
Fortunately I recognized one serious bug with the program.
Since it otherwise seems to behave fine, I document a
"work around" for the bug.
When compressing or sorting the file, the last entry is dropped!!!
To get around this:
Always enter a dummy entry using lower case z as the Name
[you might want to enter twenty dummy z entries at once
so you can use the program more quickly, but as soon
as that last one is lost, the next one is your own]
Why? Because z is sorted last, so a sort by name places this
dummy entry at the end -- and then loses it.
[Note: if you want to sort by number it is harder -- March
sorts from low to high, so blank space is the highest entry --
so enter a dummy entry with a blank for the telephone number,
but if you already have entries with blanks (sometimes used
to simply set up Procomm for an alternate baud, etc.) you will
have to be careful -- no printable character comes before
blank, so you can't have a dummy entry beyond blanks]
SO REMEMBER -- EACH AND EVERY TIME YOU USE COMPRESS BLANKS,
SORT BY NAME, OR SORT BY NUMBER -----
YOU MUST FIRST PUT A DUMMY ENTRY AT THE END OF THE LIST
P.S. If you happen to have an entry at 200 in Procomm Plus 1.0
this is your last entry -- so first copy it to an empty spot
using the + (copy) and * (paste) commands in PCPDIR
Other Comments:
Delete entries using Procomm's facility for marking and
deleting entries
Editing an entry in PCPDIR uses the F5 key (or just Enter)
When an entry is highlighted and you haven't moved the
cursor, any typing erases the entire field
So to edit, first move the cursor once
Editing is in insertion mode
Pressing Enter moves you from Name to the Phone Field,
pressing Enter again moves you to the Script field,
pressing Enter again finishes the edit.
Sorting by Name places upper case entries first, then
lower case entries second
You might want to edit the case of the first letter of
each entry to make things consistent.
When sorting by names, any blank items are also removed
To delete an entry, make both the name field blank and
the telephone number field blank by editing and pressing
delete until all characters are gone
The Baud field is displayed, but cannot be edited here
The following is the startup screen of the program.
Mr. March apparently doesn't want to be bothered by phone
because a call to area code 708 tells us that his phone
is unlisted. I did not bother to write.
[I have edited the executable (only in the Text portions) to remind
the user of this edit problem!] The executable is left exactly
as originally compiled.
PCPDIR.COM Public Domain *** Written By Edward J. March Jr. May 5, 1990
Usage: PCPDIR [file] Default file is PCPLUS.DIR
For use with PROCOMM+ Communications Program
This allows you to Edit, Merge, Sort, and Compress PROCOMM's
Dialing Directory File: PCPLUS.DIR
WARNING:LOSES LAST ENTRY ON COMPRESS/SORT
SEE DOC FILE BY CURT PRIEST!
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Edward J. March Jr.
1206 S. Birch Drive
Mt. Prosect, IL 60056
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This program is written in Turbo C 2.0