Notes: A public domain program, INVENT does only the basics in inventory control. It lets you add items along with their price and the desired reorder point, then keeps track of them for you. If you remove items from inventory ("Use"), it decrements the stock on hand count. If that count falls to or below the reorder point, the program displays an asterisk by the reorder point value for that record.
The program operates in conjunction with the file INVENT.DAT which is assumed to be present on the same disk. If this file doesn't exist, INVENT will create the file and fill it with 200 empty records. INVENT is set up to handle an inventory of a maximum of 200 records. Each record contains four fields: a Description of up to 20 characters, a Price, the number On Hand, and a Reorder level. In addition, each record is assigned an Item number which is used to identify it.
In general, the screen can display only a portion of the inventory, 16 items. If there are more than 16 records in the inventory, the screen will display a row of dots indicating the presence of more data above or below (or both) the displayed portion. The total number of items in the inventory is displayed at the bottom of the record display. The total inventory value is displayed at the bottom of the inventory listing; this number is recalculated whenever any operation is executed that changes its value.
The program is completely menu-driven and includes the following commands: APPEND, MODIFY, USE, RESTOCK, DELETE. SORT, PRINT, QUIT.
The INVENT program really is a good one, but it has a flaw if you're not careful: when you first start building your data base, be sure to use the Append command to add a new item, *NOT* the Modify command, at least until you have three or more items in your inventory. After that, you can use Modify as you desire. Otherwise, when you try to run the program, you'll get a file error message and you'll lose your
