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ZIPKEY, V1.0e Copyright 1989 Eric Isaacson.
All rights reserved.
ZIPKEY.OVL for October 1988 Copyright 1989 Eric Isaacson.
All rights reserved.
Eric Isaacson Software
416 East University Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47401-4739
(812)339-1811
This diskette contains the ZIPKEY zipcode directory and keyboard
enhancement program. Please feel free to distribute the program by
uploading it to bulletin-board systems, and by copying and distributing
the diskette to anyone interested.
You can run the program by putting ZIPKEY.EXE and ZIPKEY.OVL into
your current directory, and typing ZIPKEY to the MS-DOS command prompt.
File Name Conventions for BBS Uploading
If you distribute files in a compressed format, using PKZIP, ARC,
ZOO, or a similar program, I recommend that the evaluation ZIPKEY.EXE
file and the manual ZIPKEY.DOC be packed together into one file, and
the ZIPKEY.OVL file be provided as a second file.
If you are a BBS sysop, with the ability to delete files on your BBS,
you can maintain the single name ZIPKEY for the package. The compressed
EXE-and-manual file can have the extension (.ZIP, .ARC, etc.) reflecting
the compressing program used. The OVL file can keep its name ZIPKEY.OVL.
ZIPKEY.OVL does not need to be compressed-- it's already so compact
that there is little or no further gain from compression.
If you are uploading to a BBS on which you cannot delete the previous
version, I suggest that the names contain the version information.
The EXE-and-manual file should be named ZKxx, where xx is the ZIPKEY.EXE
version number -- for example, ZK10.ARC for ZIPKEY V1.0e. The ZIPKEY.OVL
file should be stored using a compression program (not for the compression,
which is minimal, but so that the file will be named ZIPKEY.OVL again
when it is extracted). The compressed OVL file should be named ZKmmyy,
where mm is the 2-digit month and yy is the year of the ZIPKEY database
-- for example, ZK0988.ARC for the September, 1988 version of the
data.
Here are sample directory lines for ARC files, including recommended
comment lines:
ZK10.ARC ZIPKEY zipcode dir V1.0 prog/doc, 1 of 2
ZK0988.ARC ZIPKEY.OVL 09/88 zipcode data, 2 of 2
Note that the data file does NOT contain the program version number
in its comment line. I will be releasing new data files more often
than new program versions, so that the data file is not married to
the program version number. People will be able to download new data
files even if they already have the latest program version.