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+--+ QFE +--+ The Directory Processor for Qmodem SST 4.0 version 4.0 QFE(tm) Copyright 1986,1989 Sunflower Systems. All rights reserved. Sunflower Systems 718 East B Avenue _________ Hutchinson, KS 67501 _____|___ | (tm) (316)662-4445 --| | |----------------- | _____|___ | Association of "QFE" and "The Directory | | |_| Shareware Processor"are trademarks |___| o | Professionals of Sunflower Systems. ------| | |------------------- |____|____| MEMBER The Qfonedit family of software is the product of Sunflower Systems. Contents Copyrights and Trademarks 1 Disclaimer 1 License 1 QFE Support 2 Paying for QFE 2 What is QFE? 3 Keys in QFE and This Manual 4 A "Quick Start" 5 A "Quick Finish" 5 Other Ways to Start 5 QMODEM.EXE, QMODEM.CNF and QMODEM= 6 The On-line Help System 7 Modes in QFE 7 Marking and Using Blocks 8 "Oops" Windows and Worse 9 QFE Commands 10 Duplicating 12 Sorting 14 Appendix A 17 i ----------------------------------------------------------------- Copyrights and Trademarks ================================================================= QFE (c) 1986,1989 Sunflower Systems. All rights reserved. "QFE" and "The Directory Processor" are trademarks of Sunflower System. "Qmodem" is a trademark of The Forbin Project, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer ================================================================= QFE is supplied as-is. Sunflower Systems disclaims all warran- ties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. Sunflower Systems assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of QFE. Use of QFE indicates acceptance of this disclaimer. ----------------------------------------------------------------- License ================================================================= QFE is copyrighted Shareware, not public domain, "freeware," or anything else that does not have to be paid for. License is granted to use QFE for a trial period, to determine its suitability for the user and his or her system. The "trial period" is over when the user has decided whether QFE is useful for his or her purposes. If the decision is that QFE is useful, the user is expected to pay for it. (See "Paying for QFE," below.) Some users find that QFE is a great deal of help to them for a short while after they obtain it, but that they seldom use it afterwards. Those users should note that the duration of QFE's usefulness to them is not a factor in the license. I.e., they should pay for QFE. Anyone may distribute copies of QFE and its documentation, subject to the following restrictions: +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ --QFE.EXE, QFE.HLP, QFE.DOC, and QFE_READ.ME must be distributed as a complete package. --The contents of QFE.EXE and QFE.HLP must not be modified. --The contents of QFE.DOC and QFE_READ.ME must not be modified other than by brief additions such as paragraphs identifying the party distributing the package, etc. --No charge may be made for the QFE package without the written permission of Sunflower Systems. --No charge may be made for any hardware or software package distributed with QFE without the written permission of Sunflower Systems. --An exception to the "no charge" restrictions is that the QFE package may always be distributed with Qmodem under any terms approved by The Forbin Project, Inc., for Qmodem's distribution. However, no additional charge may be made for QFE's distribution beyond that made for Qmodem's distribution. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QFE Support ================================================================= QFE is supported on The Forbin Project BBS (check your Qmodem documentation for the BBS phone number); in the Qmodem Round Table on GEnie; and on CompuServe (73307,3101) in the IBMCOM forum. Sunflower Systems is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the Shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a Shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send a CompuServe message via Easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paying for QFE ================================================================= QFE is $15 for a single copy. Paying customers receive a copy of the most recent release, on diskette; an individual serial number, allowing bypass of some of QFE's prompts and displays; 2 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ mailed notices of major upgrades; and telephone support as- available. Users wishing to pay for QFE using a bank card should order from The Public (software) Library. Call them at (800)242-4775 or (713)665-7017, or write to PO Box 35705, Houston, TX 77235, for details. See Appendix A for a form to order QFE directly from Sunflower Systems. (An unregistered copy of QFE will offer to print out an order form at the end of each session.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- What is QFE? ================================================================= QFE is a QMODEM.FON processor. What does that mean? It means that you can operate on your Qmodem dialing directory files like you operate on text with a word processor: rearrange the entries, change them like you want to. You can even process two directory files at the same time, copying from each to the other. In the rest of this manual, we'll refer to Qmodem directory files as ".FON files", or just ".FONs", because your Qmodem dialing directory files always have the "extension" .FON. We'll refer to an individual listing in your .FON file as an "entry." QFE makes it easy to do a lot of things with your .FON file: --Clear (erase) entries, leaving just "defaults" for appropriate values. --Duplicate an entry: copy it, or part of it, to other entries. --Find the entry which contains a particular word or number. --Insert blank entries. --Move entries from one place to another. --Pack entries, so that the "empty" ones are at the "bottom", and the others are at the "top". --Sort it. 3 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ Of course, QFE also makes it easy to change the contents of any entry, operating like a word processor: You just type new information into the entry. And QFE protects your .FON files: While a .FON is still in QFE, you can undo recent changes. If disk space permits, QFE will leave your original .FON files on disk, changing their extensions to .BAQ. (The originals don't have their names changed until QFE has written the edited files to disk under a temporary name.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Keys in QFE and This Manual ================================================================= When run together with the name or number of a key, the words Shift, Ctrl, and Alt mean to press the other key while holding down a plain Shift key, a Ctrl key, or an Alt key, respectively. Preceding a number, the letter F means to press the Function key which has that number. The F may be preceded by Shift, Ctrl, or Alt. FKey and FKeys refer to any Function key. Esc, Tab, PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, Ins and Del refer to the keys which usually have those names on an IBM keyboard. Space refers to the space bar. Up, Down, Left, and Right refer to the cursor control keys which move the cursor in those respective directions. Enter refers to the Enter or Return key. You never have to type the " or [] characters shown in many places in the manual. And it never matters whether you use capital letters or lower case ones. Examples: AltH means press H while holding down the Alt key. ShiftTab means press the Tab key while holding down Shift. CtrlFKey refers to any Function key pressed while holding down the Ctrl key. QFE uses the same cursor movement keys that Qmodem does, with some extensions similar to those used in the Borland editors and WordStar. ("WordStar" is the trademark of MicroPro Interna- tional.) For example, Qmodem and QFE both use PgUp to move the cursor an entire page up, but QFE also uses CtrlR for that. See the on-line help for full details. 4 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ ----------------------------------------------------------------- A "Quick Start" ================================================================= The easiest way to start using QFE is to copy the files QFE.EXE and QFE.HLP onto the same disk, in the same directory, as QMODEM.EXE and QMODEM.FON. Make that disk and directory the current one, type QFE and press Enter. QFE should then load QMODEM.FON and let you start editing it. (If you are using an unregistered copy, QFE may prompt you for some additional keystrokes before displaying QMODEM.FON.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- A "Quick Finish" ================================================================= To leave QFE, type X from "Command Mode." If QFE prompts you to save QMODEM.FON, answer yes or no by typing Y or N--or press Esc to continue QFE rather leaving it. (If you are using an unregistered copy, QFE will ask if you wish it to print an order form. Type Y or N, as appropriate. Note that even after you have QFE print an order form, you will still receive this question from your unregistered copy.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Other Ways to Start ================================================================= The general way to command DOS to load and run QFE is to type: QFE [parameters] Enter where "[parameters]" means any or none of these items: filename the name (optionally including drive and path) of the .FON file you want to load. (The extension ".FON" is forced onto the filename.) -B use "Black and white" regardless of QMODEM.CNF colors or DOS colors 5 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ -C use default Colors regardless of QMODEM.CNF colors or DOS colors -S use Slow screen writes to avoid making "snow" on some video adapters -Q be Quiet--don't make beeps Separate parameters by at least one space between each pair. Type them in any order. If you prefer, you can type "/" instead of "-". Some examples of running QFE with parameters: Run QFE loading BBS.FON from the current directory or the Qmodem directory: QFE BBS Enter Run QFE loading BBS.FON from the C:\QM\BB directory, using default colors: QFE C:\QM\BB\BBS -C Enter or QFE -C C:\QM\BB\BBS Enter Run QFE quietly, and suppress screen snow: QFE -Q -S Enter ----------------------------------------------------------------- QMODEM.EXE, QMODEM.CNF and QMODEM= ================================================================= QFE looks for "QMODEM=" in your DOS environment. If found, it is used to locate QMODEM.CNF and your .FON file. (See the Qmodem users' manual and your DOS manual for more information about QMODEM= and the DOS environment.) If QFE does not find QMODEM=, it searches for QMODEM.EXE by looking in the current directory and along the DOS path. (See your DOS manual for more information about the DOS path.) Under DOS versions 3.X and later, QFE looks in the directory where QFE.EXE is. If QFE finds QMODEM.CNF, it reads your choices for colors, baud rate, etc., from that file and uses them to set its own values. If it does not find QMODEM.CNF, QFE relies on preset values and 6 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ rules. For example, in the absence of QMODEM.CNF, QFE sets its screen colors based on what was on the screen when you started QFE. In any case, parameters given at start-up override QMODEM.CNF and QFE's preset values and rules. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The On-line Help System ================================================================= Press F1 or AltH to get on-line help with QFE. Press Esc to leave the help system. QFE's help is "context sensitive," meaning that the help text display depends on what QFE was doing when you requested help. For example, if you press F1 while sorting the .FON, the first help screen presented will deal with sorting. Help text is sometimes too lengthy for display on just one screen. Up, Down, PgUp and PgDn will move you through the full text. Every topic in the help system is linked to at least one other. From one to six topics are listed at the bottom of the help screen. One of them is always highlighted. Pressing Enter leaves the currently displayed topic and displays the one that was highlighted. Tab, ShiftTab, Right, Left and Space move the highlighting from topic to topic. Help topics also have two links which do not appear in the list (unless they duplicate a listed topic). Rather than highlighting, these topics are selected with FKeys: press ShiftF1 for the most recently displayed topic, or AltF1 for help about the help system itself. Note that the help text is stored in the file QFE.HLP. On-line help is available only if QFE can find, open and read QFE.HLP. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Modes in QFE ================================================================= QFE operates in either of two "modes". 7 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ In "Command Mode", the letters you type are interpreted as commands. For example, typing "S" in Command Mode tells QFE to sort. In Command Mode you cannot type in new entries or type modifications of existing ones. In "Edit Mode", the letters you type are taken literally: Typing "S" in Edit Mode puts the letter S into the "cursor line" (the entry at the cursor location)--if "S" is an acceptable character there. To go from Command Mode to Edit Mode, type R, for Revise, just as in Qmodem. To return from Edit Mode to Command Mode, press Esc. An upper line on the screen will state whether QFE is in Command or Edit Mode. For users who dislike modes, QFE can be operated from Edit Mode just as if there were no Command Mode. In Edit Mode, all of the commands must be given with the AltKey equivalents of the Command Mode keys: Sort would be invoked with AltS rather than just "S". However, the rest of this manual and all of the help text ignore the use of AltKeys in Edit Mode. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Marking and Using Blocks ================================================================= Most QFE commands "need" to "know" which entries to operate on. Some commands, such as Load and Quit, operate on the entire .FON. Others, such as Find, start at the entry after the cursor line. Commands which need to be "told" which entries to operate on get that information from "marking" of "blocks" of entries. Marked entries usually appear in a different color than unmarked ones, and always have the Qmodem marking character to their left. To mark a block, move the cursor to the "first" entry in the intended block. (The first entry is the one with the lowest entry number.) Press F3. Move the cursor to the "last" entry (the one with the highest entry number) in the intended block. Press F4. To mark the entire .FON as one block, just press F6. When a block is marked, an upper line on the screen will say that marks are "on" and which are the first and last marked entries. When marks are on, pressing F3 makes the cursor line the new first line in the block; pressing F4 makes the cursor line the new last line. The existing marks will be extended, truncated, or 8 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ cleared as required; you will see the displayed entries marked or unmarked accordingly. To unmark a block, removing the marking characters and restoring normal colors, press F2. Some QFE commands need to know both a marked block and some other entry. For example, the Move command moves a marked block to the cursor line. Thus, to move the block you must first mark it, then move the cursor to the intended destination, then give the Move command. Some other commands act on a block if one is marked, but act on the cursor line alone if not. For example, the Clear command erases the entries in a marked block, but it erases only the cursor line if no block is marked. If a marked block comprises only complete pages (pages where the marked entries include both the page's "top" entry and its "bottom" one), and more than one such page, some commands will prompt whether to operate on the entire block as a unit, or on a page by page basis. Type P for page, B for block, or Esc to quit the prompt without performing the operation. If the command is performed by page, all entries will stay on their original pages; if by block, some entries may be moved to different pages than their original ones. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Oops" Windows and Worse ================================================================= If QFE cannot carry out a command, it will open an "oops window", explaining its problem and possibly suggesting how to fix the problem. Suggestions for better oops windows are always welcome. You may, under very unusual circumstances, be presented with a window announcing "an embarrassing, terminal failure". That does not mean that your disk is threatened, or that your .FON file is in danger. It means that the QFE programmer did not foresee some problem that arose. QFE will not save your .FON file if a terminal failure occurs. However, all that will be lost will be the changes made in that session. Nothing on the disk will be changed. A terminal failure leaves some information on the screen, with a request to report it. Please record that information. (Press ShiftPrtSc to copy it to your printer, if possible.) If you report the information, together with a copy of your AUTOEXEC.BAT 9 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ and CONFIG.SYS files and any other relevant information, it may be possible to avoid that failure in future QFE releases. And you will receive the programmer's nearly undying (but embarrassed) thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------- QFE Commands ================================================================= Unless noted otherwise, QFE commands are given by typing a letter from the command name, while in Command Mode. In this section, the letter to be typed is capitalized in the command name. Again: Repeat a Find command, starting at the entry after the cursor line. You must have previously done a Find command to do an Again command. Clear: Erase the entries in a marked block; erase the cursor line if no block is marked. Erasing a line clears the Name, Number, and Script fields to all blanks, and sets other fields to default values. Duplicate: Copy selected fields from the cursor line to all entries in a marked block. (Duplicate is explained in more detail in a later section.) Exchange: Exchange the entries in a marked block with those in an equal-sized block starting at the cursor line. The cursor line must not be within the marked block, and must not be too close to the end of the .FON for the exchange to occur. Find: Locate an entry containing values you specify. If a match is located, the entry with the match will become the cursor line, and the screen will display the field where the match occurred. Find and Again start with the entry after the cursor line, so they cannot operate with the cursor on the last line of the .FON. They search all fields--not just Name and Number. Insert: Replace the entries in a marked block with "blank" entries; replace the cursor line with a blank entry if no block is marked. Blank entries look like those produced by the Clear command, with all blanks in the Name, Number, and Script fields. The entries in the marked block, or the cursor line, are actually moved "down" (toward the higher-numbered end of the .FON) during an insert; blank lines from farther down are moved into the vacated places. No entries are lost during an insert. If there are not enough blank entries farther down, an oops window will open. 10 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ Kopy: Copy the entries from a marked block in one .FON to another .FON, starting at the cursor line of the second .FON. QFE must have two .FONs loaded at once for Kopy to work. The block is copied from the .FON which is not displayed to the .FON which is. The entries in the displayed .FON are lost, overwritten by the copied ones. If only one .FON is loaded, or the cursor is too near the end of the displayed .FON, an oops window will open. Load new .FON: Load another .FON file, optionally quitting (and possibly saving) the currently displayed one. QFE will prompt for name of a file to load. Edit the displayed name and press Enter to load the new .FON, or Esc to leave the prompt without loading it. QFE will ask whether to keep the currently displayed .FON. Note that QFE can have two .FONs loaded at once, but no more. If you already have two .FONs loaded, you must quit one of them in order to load a new one. See the section on "eXit QFE" for a discussion of saving .FON files. Move: Move the entries in a marked block to a new location which starts at the cursor line. Such a move rearranges more entries than just those in the marked block; the results are sometimes not what was intended. See the section on Undo. Other info: Switch between display of the Number through the Script fields, and display of the Password through the D fields. Pack: Move the blank entries in a marked block to its bottom (nearer the highest numbered entry), moving the rest of the entries to its top. Quit .FON: Quit the currently displayed .FON, optionally saving changes to disk. Do not confuse "Quit" with "eXit QFE": Quit will leave you in QFE, editing the remaining .FON. You can only quit a .FON if two of them are loaded; otherwise an oops window will open. The primary purpose of Quit is to make more RAM available by freeing that used for the currently displayed .FON file. See the section on "eXit QFE" for a discussion of saving .FON files. Revise: Change from Command Mode to Edit Mode. (To return from Edit Mode to Command Mode, press Esc. See the section on "Modes in QFE".) While in Edit Mode you can revise entries as you might with a word processor. Cursor keys and other keys act as you probably expect. See the on-line help for specific details. Sort: Sort the entries in a marked block. The sort can be made on up to eight fields. Each field may be individually selected to be sorted in either order: ascending or descending. (Sort is explained in more detail in a later section.) Undo: Undo restores the .FON file, the display and various other things, to a previous state. Note that Undo is invoked with CtrlU, as in Qmodem, rather than just the letter U. Undo is only available if QFE currently has one or more "internal backups" stored. If Undo is available, the displayed command list will 11 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ include "^U" to the left of "Undo", and the number of available backups to the right. If Undo is not available, only the word "Undo" will appear in the list. QFE tries to make an internal backup before executing any command which modifies the .FON. For example, QFE tries to make a backup before doing a sort, but not before turning marks on or loading a new .FON file. Whether QFE can make an internal backup, and how many are available, depends on available RAM. QFE will make and keep as many internal backups as available RAM permits. When RAM is required for other purposes (such as loading a new .FON file, performing a sort, or making a current internal backup), QFE disposes of the oldest backups, until sufficient RAM is available or all backups have been disposed of. You may see the displayed number of available backups decrease--or disappear--when you have not commanded Undo. sWitch .FONs: Change the display from the currently displayed .FON to the one not displayed. QFE must have two .FONs loaded for sWitch to operate. eXit QFE: Return to DOS, optionally saving the currently loaded .FON files. Before saving and/or returning to DOS, QFE will prompt to be sure you want to exit. Answer Y to return to DOS, or N or Esc to continue in QFE. Note that QFE will not prompt to save a file if it is sure that no changes have been made. If QFE does prompt, answer Y to save the file, N to exit without saving, or Esc to continue in QFE without saving the file or returning to DOS. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Duplicating ================================================================= Duplicate is a general purpose copy command. Although Duplicate may appear complex at first, it is easily mastered and allows any fields in one entry to be copied over a marked block. Uses for Duplicate include changing baud rates en masse, deleting passwords, reassigning script files, etc. To prepare for duplication, select one entry to serve as the master from which the duplicates will be made. Edit it so that the fields of interest contain what you want. (You may need to go into Edit Mode to do this.) Don't worry about the other fields-- only the fields you select will be duplicated. When the master entry is ready, and a block is marked, press D in Command Mode. (Note that the master entry may be within the marked block.) 12 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ The Duplicate window will open, showing all of the fields from the master entry. It will look something like this, with the Name field highlighted: +============== Duplicate an Entry ==============+ | | | Name | | Forbin Project--Home of Qmodem | | | | Number COM Script | | 1 319 233 6157 2400-8-N-1 FORBIN.SCR | | | | Password LastCall Total P D | | brouhaha 07-04-88 590 Z F | | | +================================================+ Pick the fields which you do not want to copy, using Tab and ShiftTab to move the highlighting from field to field. When a field is highlighted, you can prevent it from being copied by pressing AltB (for Blank). The field contents will be replaced by a series of # characters. The # characters will not be copied over the block; instead, Duplicate will leave the "blanked" fields untouched. If a field is blanked, but you wish to duplicate it, highlight it and press AltB again. The contents from the master entry's field will be restored. When you have selected all fields which are to be blanked, and only the fields you want to duplicate are left, press F10. If you decide to close the Duplicate window without doing the copy, press Esc rather than F10. Suppose you were copying a .FON file for a friend who had a 1200 baud modem. One way to do that is to use Duplicate to blank the private fields or those which might just be wrong for your friend, like this: copy the Name, Number, Protocol and Duplex fields as they are; blank the Script, Password and LastCall fields; set the COM field to 1200-8-N-1, and zero the Total field. To do this: Mark the entire .FON using F6. Press R to enter Edit mode. Edit one entry so that the COM, Script, Password, LastCall and Total fields are like you want them. That will be your master entry. Press Esc to return to Command Mode. Press D to bring up the Duplicate window. Use Tab and/or ShiftTab to move to the Name, Number, P and D fields. In each one of those, press AltB to fill the field with #. Here's how the Duplicate window would look: 13 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ +============== Duplicate an Entry ==============+ | | | Name | | ########################### | | | | Number COM Script | | ################### 1200-8-N-1 | | | | Password LastCall Total P D | | 0 # # | | | +================================================+ Then press F10. That's all there is to it. Does it seem like quite a lot? Well, you will find that Duplicate quickly becomes easy to use. If needed, on-line help fully explains this command. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sorting ================================================================= QFE's Sort is the most powerful and general .FON file sorting feature available anywhere. To Sort a marked block, press S in Command Mode. The Sort window will open, showing the fields on which the sort can be made and the two directions. If you have previously sorted during a session, the window will display values from the most recent sort. The Sort window will look something like this: +===== Select Sort Fields ======+ | | | Asc Des | | Name | | Number | | Area Code | | Exchange | | Baud | | Total Calls | | Last Call | | Script | | Password | | | +===============================+ The first time the Sort window opens, the cursor will be on the Name line, in the Asc column. The Enter, Tab, ShiftTab and Space 14 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ keys, as well as the cursor keys, will move the cursor among the lines and columns. To select a field for sorting, move the cursor to the line that field is on. Put the cursor in the Asc column if you want that field to be sorted in ascending order (where 'A' comes before 'Z'), or the Des column to sort in descending order. When you have the cursor in the right place, type a number from 1 to 8. Field number 1 would be the most important one in the sort; a field numbered 8 would be the least. (Don't worry about skipping a number or using the same number twice. QFE will fix it.) If you decide not to sort on a field which has already been numbered, move the cursor to that number and type a space. Notice how the Area Code and Exchange fields are indented under the Number field. Sorting on Number includes the contents of the entire Number field, so sorting on Area Code and/or Exchange would be redundant. Similarly, sorting on Area Code and/or Exchange could be messed up if also sorted on Number. QFE won't let you choose Number unless both Area Code and Exchange selections are blank, and it won't let you choose either of them unless the Number selection is blank. When you have selected all the fields for the sort, press F10. If you decide to leave the Sort window without performing the sort, press Esc. Suppose you wanted sort a .FON file so that entries with the highest baud rate were first in the file, followed by those with the next highest baud rate, and so on to the entries with the lowest baud rate. You might also want the entries grouped by area code within the baud groups, and by name within the area code groups. To do this: Press F6 to mark the entire .FON. In Command Mode, press S to open the sort window. In any sequence, move the cursor to put the number 1 across from Baud, under Des; the number 2 across from Area Code, under Asc; and the number 3 across from Name, under Asc. If the Sort window displays fields number higher than 3, then either ignore them (as irrelevant to your sort), or else move the cursor to them and type a space. Here's how the Sort window would look: 15 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ +===== Select Sort Fields ======+ | | | Asc Des | | Name 3 | | Number | | Area Code 2 | | Exchange | | Baud 1 | | Total Calls | | Last Call | | Script | | Password | | | +===============================+ Press F10 to start the sort. At the "Page or Block" prompt, press B to treat the entire .FON as a single block. Sorts by Area Code and/or Exchange only work properly if you maintain the numbers in a particular format. If the number "1-900-555-1212" were entered just like that, with the "1212" in the four rightmost columns in the Number field, then QFE's Sort would interpret "900" as the Area Code and "555" as the Exchange, just as it should. The format "19005551212", however, would not be interpreted correctly. QFE expects numbers to be in the general format xxxxxxxAAAxEEExxxxx where "AAA" is the Area Code, "EEE" is the Exchange, and "xxxx" can be anything. 16 +-+ QFE v. 4.0 -- for Qmodem SST 4.0 +-+ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix A ================================================================= Number #FOR QFE 4.01 Registration QFE is $15 per copy, shipped prepaid on diskette in the US or to Canada. Orders from other countries require an additional $5 for shipping. Purchase orders (written) are accepted only from government agencies and schools. (There is a $5 surcharge for invoiced orders.) Payment must be in US dollars. Except for bankcard orders (see next paragraph) or American Express money orders, payment must be in cash or with instruments drawn on US institutions. (Payment in US funds with instruments drawn on foreign institutions will not be accepted.) QFE may be ordered from The Public (Software) Library at (800)242-4775 (orders only) or (713)665-7017 (orders or information), PO Box 35705, Houston, TX 77235-5705. The Public (Software) Library accepts MasterCard and Visa. Sunflower Systems 718 East B Avenue Hutchinson, KS 67501 (316)662-4445 Name & Title : .................................................. .................................................. Address I : .................................................. Address II : .................................................. City, ST zip : .................................................. Telephone : .................................................. For corporate registration, the name and title should be those of the person to be notified of updates, etc. Source of your copy of QFE : .................................... Remarks : ....................................................... ................................................................. 17