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July 1991
The FAME Program, Version 6.1
1.0 INTRODUCTION
FAME is a database program for poets and writers that runs on MS-DOS
compatible computers. The program keeps track of the poems/stories/
manuscripts that you write, the publishers that you send them to, and
the status (result) of the submission. It also lets you know which
poems/stories/manuscripts are available for submission to a
particular publisher, factoring in whether or not the publisher
accepts simultaneous submissions. It even writes submission,
withdrawal, and query letters. FAME has the capacity to handle 198
poems/stories/manuscripts and 162 publishers. Note: in the rest of
this description, the word "poem" will be used, but it means poem,
story, or manuscript depending on your choice during initialization.
Fame also stores up to 20 "reminders."
In addition to allowing you to update the status of your poems, the
program has a series of pre-established queries that provide many
types of summaries.
The program is menu driven and very user friendly. The main menu is
shown in table 1.
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Table 1. FAME Main Menu
P R O G R A M O P T I O N S
DATABASE UPDATES
A --- Add Poem
B --- Change or Delete Poem Data
C --- Add Publisher
D --- Change or Delete Publisher Data
E --- Change Poem Status or Related Data
F --- Change or Display Reminders Screen
G --- Modify FAME Generated Publisher Summary data
QUERIES (Display Option Listed First, Print Option After /)
H/I - Poems (Sorted by Date)
J/K - Alphabetized Poems
L/M - Alphabetized Publishers
N/O - Poems Submitted To Selected Publisher
P/Q - List of Publishers That Were Sent Selected Poem
R/S - Summary of Poems For Each Status
T --- Status Of Selected Poem For Selected Publisher
U/V - Publishers For Whom Poems Are Outstanding or Published
W --- Overall Status Summary
X/Y - Candidates for Submission (Based on a Poem or a Publisher)
Z --- Print Letters
1 --- Create Publisher Mailing Label File
EXIT TO DOS --- Esc Key
ENTER LETTER OF OPTION
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When entering an option, either a lower case or upper case letter may
be used. It is not necessary to use the ENTER key.
If you want to print out this file, make sure that the README file
1.
is in the default subdirectory. Then enter:
copy README lpt1:
at the DOS prompt. If using a laser printer, set it for 66
lines/page.
2.0 DATA FILES, PROGRAM INITIALIZATION, AND PROGRAM OPERATION
If you are running FAME for the first time, read section 2.1 and then
run the FAMEI intialization program as described in section 2.2. If
you have already been running FAME version 6.0 and want to change the
configuration, the name on the front screen, your signature, your
address, or the publisher categories, rerun the FAMEI program as you
did the first time, and choose the appropriate option(s).
If you have been using an earlier version of FAME (5.0 or 5.1), you
will have to modify the data files as described in section 2.3.
2.1 The FAME Initializaiton Program (FAMEI)
Before using the FAME program, you must first initialize six data
files (NAME.DAT, POEM6.DAT, PUB.DAT, PUBAMP6.DAT, remind.dat, and
STAT.DAT) using the FAMEI program. The FAMEI program allows you to
define your computer and printer configurations and tailor the front
screen to show your name and select if you want to use the word
"poem", "story" or "manuscript." It also allows you to define up to 7
publisher categories on which you can filter data when using the FAME
program. In addition, it creates the data files need by the FAME
program and puts one test poem, one test publisher, and one test
reminder in the data files so that you can try out the queries. After
putting in real data, delete the test data using the Database Update
routines. The FAMEI main menu is shown in table 2.
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Table 2
FAMEI Main Menu
This is the FAME Initialization Program, Version 6.0, written by HSS.
It initializes the files needed by the FAME Program, Version 6.0.
The first time you must do a full initialization.
Select an initialization option. Your choices are:
A --- Computer Configuration
B --- Printer Configuration
C --- Author's Name and Address
D --- Tailor FAME Screens to You Needs
E --- Data Files
F --- Full Initialization
ESC Key - Exit
Enter letter of choice.
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When defining printer configuration (option B), you will be asked two
questions that control how certain things look when you use FAME to
write letters to publishers. The first asks if you want to use
italics; this affects how your name and address appear at the top of
the letter. The second asks if you want the names of publishers
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contained in the body of the letter to be bold or enclosed in quotes.
The FAME program generates commands to the printer for turning on and
off italics and bolding, using commands that are compatible with most
standard dot matrix printers. For other printers these commands may
be ignored or may be misinterpreted. For example, one popular laser
printer misinterprets the FAME generated "turn off bold" command as a
"start new page" command, incorrectly splitting the letters into two
pages. If these commands cause problems with your printer, rerun the
"Configuration" portion of the FAMEI program and select the "No
Italics" and/or "Quotes Instead of Bold" options.
The procedure you follow when running FAMEI depends on your computer
configuration as discussed in the next section.
2.2 Running on Different Computer Configurations
2.2.1 Hard Drive
2.2.1.1 Initialization
If you have a hard disk and want to operate FAME from it, create a
subdirectory for the FAME program and copy the files from the FAME
PROGRAM disk into the subdirectory. Make that subdirectory the
default and then run the FAMEI program.
2.2.1.2 Running on a Hard Drive
To run the FAME program, make the FAME subdirectory the default and
then enter "FAME".
2.2.2 Floppies
2.2.2.1 Initialization
If you do not have a hard disk drive (or want to operate FAME
from floppies), place the FAME PROGRAM disk in the default drive and
run the FAMEI program. The program will prompt you to enter
information about your "floppy" configuration. The NAME.DAT file
will be created and put on the FAME program disk.
If your floppy disk holds only 360K bytes of data, you will need a
second disk to hold the other FAME data files. You will be prompted
to place a blank formatted disk in the default drive and continue the
FAMEI program. The other four files will be created and stored on
this new disk. This disk should be labelled the FAME data disk.
2.2.2.2 Running With One Floppy Disk
If all the files are on one floppy disk, make the floppy drive the
default, place the FAME PROGRAM disk (with all the data files you
have initialized on it) in the drive and enter "FAME."
2.2.2.3 Running With Two Floppy Disks, One Drive
If you have two FAME disks (a PROGRAM disk and a DATA disk), place
the PROGRAM disk in the drive and enter "FAME." You will be prompted
when to replace the FAME PROGRAM disk with the FAME DATA disk.
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2.2.2.4 Running With Two Floppy Disks, Two Floppy Drives
If you have indicated this configuration when running the FAMEI
program, make the "B" drive the default drive. Place the FAME
PROGRAM disk in drive "A" and the FAME DATA disk in drive "B". Enter
"B:FAME" to run the FAME program.
2.2.3 Exiting FAME Program
The PUBAMP6, REMIND, and STAT ".DAT" files are updated immediately
when you change them. However, to save running time the POEM6 and PUB
".DAT" files are only updated in the computer RAM until you exit the
program, at which time any updated files are automatically written to
disk. Therefore exit the program before turning off the computer.
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