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      Appendix A                                        The CONFIG.SYS File
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      If you are using a floppy system, you should have a CONFIG.SYS file
      on your boot-up DOS disk. If you are using a hard drive, your
      CONFIG.SYS file should be located in your root directory. If you do
      not have this file, you will need to create it with a text editor or
      word processor in DOS text mode. This file needs to contain the
      following two statements on separate lines by themselves:

                             FILES=20
                             BUFFERS=8

      If you are using DOS version 3.30 or later, set the FILES statement
      to 30 instead of 20.

      To check the FILES statement, select General Setup in the main menu,
      then System Information in that sub-menu. If the FILES setting can
      not be found in DOS or it is not set to 20 or greater, you will not
      be able to select a database. You can edit the CONFIG.SYS file from
      within DDFile using "opy/Rename/Delete/Edit Files in the main menu.
      See "File Management" in the on-line documentation.

      The FILES statement is placed on a line by itself towards the top of
      the file. Simply type FILES=20 or FILES=30 then save and exit the
      file. You will need to quit DDFile and then reboot your machine in
      order for DOS to read the updated CONFIG.SYS file to set your system
      up accordingly.


      Appendix B                                          Direct output to:
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      At several areas in the program you will be prompted with "Direct
      output to:" in order to print or send the output to a text fiile.  To
      direct output to the default printer port PRN you can leave this
      blank and press <Enter>. To direct the output to ports LPT1, LPT2,
      LPT3, COM1, COM2, COM3 or COM4, type the appropriate port. If going
      to a COM port, you may need to first initialize the COM port with the
      DOS MODE command. This is done at the DOS prompt by typing MODE
      COMx=9600,N,8,1,P <Enter>. The x after COM is the COM port number.
      The MODE command is also used to redirect standard PRN or LPT1 output
      to a serial COM port. See your DOS manual for more on using the MODE
      command.

      To direct output to a text file, type a filename without extension
      and press <Enter>. A filename extension of PRN will automatically be
      assigned to the filename. This feature is useful for:

      1) Sending the output PRN text file via modem to a remote location.
      2) Creating ASCII SDF or ASCII Delimited files
      3) Assisting in the creation of merge files for word processors.

      Following are the various messages and reasons for them that you may
      get in response of your direction.

      "A file name was not specified.  Press any key..."
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      You may have specified a drive and/or directory, but did not specify
      a filename.

      "Do not specify a file name extention.  Press any key..."
      ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
      A period was found which means that a filename extention was
      specified. This is not allowed since the extention of PRN is
      automatically assigned.

      "File already exists.  Overwrite? (Y/N)"
      ────────────────────────────────────────
      A filename with the PRN extention already exists in the specified
      drive and/or directory. If you answer Yes, the file will be
      overwritten.

      "Specified port is not present.  Press any key..."
      ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
      The printer port specified is not present on your machine. (If you do
      not specify anything and leave it blank, the output is directed to
      the PRN port.)

      The following possible messages are self-explanatory.

      "Cannot determine status of printer.  Press any key..."
      "Printer is off-line or not turned on.  Press any key..."
      "Printer is off or not connected.  Press any key..."
      "Printer is out of paper.  Press any key..."
      "Printer is not connected.  Press any key..."

      If any of the above messages appear and your printer does not seem to
      be having the stated problem, you may over-ride and print anyway by
      pressing <Alt-O>. If a message appears at the top of your screen
      stating "...printer not ready    Retry (Y/N)" and you answer No, the
      current database will be closed and the program will quit. If you
      ready the printer and answer Yes, the program will continue pending
      the printer was in fact made ready.

