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SC Volume 2609 Cardex (Rolodex System)- XWORD text formatter
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CARDEX creates an rotary index card file on IBM PC computers and compatibles.
It is the equivalent of a ROLODEX (tm) for storing addresses, phone numbers,
and misc. information of persons or companies. CARDEX is a visual facsimile
of a rotaty index card file, with the added feature that the names and phone
numbers of the three preceeding entries and three following entries are
visible along with the full information on the current card.
All 10 function keys are utilized. The opening screen lists their functions.
The CARDEX screen summarizes the functions of the 6 most frequently used keys
in the lower right portion of the screen, with the PRINT key selecting a
sub-menu of the 4 print commands. 3 of these print commands are directly
available without having to select the PRINT sub-menu first.
The up and down cusor keys, the PgUp and PgDn and Home keys are also active
and allow the user to "spin" the CARDEX file (select preceeding/following
cards). The HOME key advances the CARDEX to the first card. The End key ends
use of the current data file and prompts the user for a new data file. The "M"
and "T" keys are used to transfer (copy) data from one data file to another.
The Esc key exits the CARDEX program, saving the data to disk file if changes
have been made during the current CARDEX session.
CARDEX reads data from an external file (floppy or hard disk) and stores
all the data from the file in memory. The data is accessed via pointers.
Upon exit, the data in memory is read back onto the disk (if the data file was
changed). If the data file to be read from (specified from the opening screen)
does not exist, CARDEX initializes with the author's name and address as the
first card. If additional entries are made, the file name specified is created
and written to. After entering a second card, the user may delete the author's
card from his data file, but is encouraged to maintain this entry. Should the
user need to contact the author, this information can always be accessed by
specifying a data file that does not currently exist when promted in the
opening menu or when selecting a new data file using the END key.
Besides presenting information on the screen, CARDEX can print the contents of
a single card, or the contents of all cards, and can print an address label of
a single card, or of all cards. Mailing lists can be kept on CARDEX and
address labels printed with a single keystroke. Labels are printed using 3
lines per label for the name and address with 3 additional lines spacing to
the next label. Suggested set up is using 6 lines to the inch printer advance
and 1 inch by 3.5 inch or wider labels. Pressing the Esc key aborts the
printing of a list of card contents or address labels.
X W O R D is a user supported program by Ronald Gans, 350 West 55th Street
New York, New York 10019
XWORD is a general file format transformer; that is, it converts files
from one format to another. Selections are made from two menus, "FORMAT
CONVERTERS" and "LOGICAL AND BIT OPTIONS."
I have made some arbitrary decisions regarding what XWORD does to files.
Sometimes it is not possible, or not possible without great difficulty,
to preserve print options between different word processing formats. In
some of these cases, I have elected to eliminate them and let the user
re-input them anew. For those word processors which require a line
length embedded in the files, I have chosen one arbitrarily, based on my
own experience.
XWORD appends a 1AH to the ends of files under certain options. Those
options that convert files to ASCII format all append a 1AH to the file.
This is not required for MS/PC-DOS, but it necessary in CP/M, to which
ASCII files can be ported.
NON-MS-DOS ORIGIN FILES
A growing number of people are converting files from non-MS-DOS format
to MS-DOS format. Some of these files come from Apple or from dedicated
wordprocessors like the Wang or CPT. Even when these files are
converted into ASCII, frequently the conversion is not like that in the
MS-DOS environment in that the carriage return-line feed sequence is not
the same. Usually, instead of a CRLF, there is just a CR. Currently,
the ASCII to WordPerfect conversion of XWORD will handle either the CR
or CRLF format (you don't have to know which one you have). However, be
careful that when the file was converted in ASCII, other formatting
characters were not included which would make no sense (or have a
different meaning) in the MS-DOS format. For instance, the soft hyphen
in CPT format is, I believe, the same as the ">" character in MS-DOS
ASCII. You will have to weed out these characters in your file.