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- The CONNECT Business Information Retrieval System
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- Version 1.0 -- March 01, 1993
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- Copyright 1993 CONNECT/Soft Publishing Co.
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- All Rights Reserved
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- CONNECT/Soft Publishing Co.
- 4247 Bingham Ct.
- Stone Mountain, Georgia 30083
- United States of America
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- Sole Proprietor:
- John S. Ward
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- CONNECT is distributed as shareware, meaning that users are encouraged,
- within the restrictions described in the License Agreement, to share
- copies of this program with others, and to upload it to bulletin board
- systems. Distribution of registered copies of CONNECT is strictly
- limited.
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- All copies of CONNECT that you distribute must include all of the
- original distribution files.
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- To get an idea of what CONNECT is about, just type INSTALL. The
- installation is easy. Follow the instructions. After a successful
- installation you may run the CONNECT package in the same directory as
- the CONNECT distribution files. Just type in the name of the city for
- which CONNECT was configured. It will run you through a bare-bones
- implementation, but you will want to be sure to read the full
- documentation to learn about the more advanced features. A brief list
- of features follows the text of this file.
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- If you decide to purchase CONNECT, be sure to use the order form
- included (order.doc)
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- Thanks!
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- CONNECT Features
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- - Professional look and feel for a better first
- impression.
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- - Comprehensive environment detection, including minimum
- CPU, floating point processor, installed RAM, and MS-Dos
- version.
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- - Supports VGA/EGA 50/43 line text modes if detected.
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- - CONNECT is designed with user friendly Function keys that
- allow you to have access to POP-UP HELP screens. Help screens
- are available for each Menu panel.
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- - Allows employers to be selected based on Industry, Size
- and Annual Revenues using Relational database techniques.
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- - Each company may be reviewed by pressing the ENTER key to
- move forward or the function key F3 to view a company
- previously viewed.
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- - Printing of selected businesses may be accomplished by placing
- an "S" for Select or "D" for Delete in the option field.
- This will generate a special queue of businesses to be printed.
- Foregoing the selection process will utilize all businesses
- chosen using the Relational database selection options.
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- - Each business has a CONTACT field for the name of the individual
- you wish to contact.
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- - Each company comes equipped with a contact phone number for
- employment.
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- - A Fax phone number field has been provided for each business.
- This, when used in conjunction with an INTEL FAX board, is
- capable of faxing memos to selected businesses.
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- - Each company maintains data fields for the number of people
- currently employed and the Gross Annual revenues generated
- for the previous year.
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- - Each company has a four line brief description of the functions
- they provide.
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- - A Note screen is available for every business in the data
- bank. The DOS operating system date is extracted in
- preparation for the current note. A maximum of four notes
- may be kept for each business.
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- - 3D bar charts are used to pictorially depict the number of
- businesses in each Industry, Size category and Annual Revenues
- category.
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- - Additions, modifications, and deletions may be made to the
- Job bank database.
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- - A separate relational database is maintained for personal
- addresses.
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- - A bare-bones text editor is provided to allow you to write a
- memo or resume that may be mail merged with selected businesses
- from the Job bank. If a more advanced text processor is needed,
- CONNECT allows you to shell out of the package into another
- text editor. Upon termination of the text editor, control is
- passed back to the CONNECT package.
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- - Several print formats are available:
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- 1) You may print envelopes with your Return address and selected
- business addresses.
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- 2) You may make mailing labels for selected businesses.
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- 3) You may print mail merged memos for selected businesses.
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- 4) You may print a report of all selected businesses.
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- - Any selected print format may be sorted in ascending or
- descending order by company name, city, state, or zip code.
- You may specify primary and secondary sort fields.
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- - A generic title or department may be merged with all selected
- business addresses.
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- - Robust error handling, including a custom critical error
- handler that won't scare the dickens out of you.
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