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- PMPHONE
- A Presentation Manager Utility
- *** FREEWARE VERSION ***
- ver. 1.01 ( 32 bit )
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- ***** IMPORTANT! IF you are upgrading from another ver. read notes below *****
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- PMPHONE
- This PMPHONE version is a FREEWARE version! Please do upload to any
- bulletin boards you wish to!
- PMPHONE is a simple dedicated telephone dialer/database. This version is
- a 32 bit app compiled with C++ for OS/2 by Borland. This version is can
- store up to 50 records. The COMMERCIAL version can store up to 500 records.
- That is the only difference between the two. The COMMERCIAL version is avail-
- able for $15.00 check, cash, or money order at the address below.
- PMPHONE is installed by simply copying the pmphone.exe file to any diret-
- ory and using a template to put it on the desktop. Alternately, you could
- use the migration utility to put it on the desktop or run it from the command
- line.
- When PMPHONE is ran for the first time it creates 2 extra files in the
- directory it was copied to. It creates pmphone.dat which is a data file that
- will hold all the phone numbers, names, and addresses you enter. It also
- creates pmphone.ini which will hold any set-up data and the screen position
- of the program when it is terminated.
- When you activate PMPHONE for the first time, the list box on the main
- window is empty. You should first click on Set Up on the menu bar and con-
- figure it for your desktop. Only two things to choose from. Set your com
- port and check the check box if you have a rotary dial phone. Touch Tone is
- the default setting. If you are not sure what com port your modem is on
- just keep trying until you get it. It will just shut down with a warning
- message if the wrong com port is chosen. After completing the set up then
- press the SAVE button to save it to pmphone.ini.
- Phone numbers ( records ) can be added by pressing the ADD button at the
- bottom of the programs main window. Type in a name and a phone number. You
- should also type in an address or additional information in the third field.
- When you are done press the OK button to save or the CANCEL button to cancel.
- You must put something in the name and phone number fields to save a record
- and you should put something in the address, also. If you don't have any
- data for one of the fields just put NONE or N/A.
- There are also DELETE and DIAL buttons on the bottom. If I really have
- to tell you what these are for then you need to go back to DOS or Nintendo.
- Just highlight the selection you want with the mouse and do what comes al-
- most naturally. Selections can also be dialed by double clicking directly on
- the selection you want.
- If you use Touch Tone you could pick the phone before you dial but ( at
- least on my phone ) with Rotary dial you must let it finish dialing before
- you pick up the phone. With Touch Tone you can click the OK pushbutton as
- soon as it finishes dialing ( if you have the phone off the hook ) or wait
- until the party answers. With Rotary dial you MAY have to wait until the
- party answers. Experiment and find out. It seems to vary on some systems.
- On the Utils menu selection you'll find selections to View, Edit, or Save
- all your records in an ascii file. These seem self explanatory so I won't
- elaborate.
- The Find selection on the menu bar is a search utility. Activate it,
- choose what field you want to search ( default is Name ), check case sen-
- sitive if you want it, then enter what you want to search for. You can enter
- one letter ( or numbers ) or a whole phrase. Then press the OK button to
- start a search. It will ( one at a time ) show you every record that it
- finds that has a match to the entry you made. You can press the CONTINUE
- button after it locates a match to continue the search or the QUIT button
- when you find the record you are looking for.
- *****************
- ****** NEW ******
- *****************
- NEW with this version, 1.01, is the ability to load in records from ascii
- files instead of doing it one at a time with the add button. Just create a
- standard ascii file and adhere to the correct format.
- The proper format for an ascii file should have no empty lines at the be-
- gining. Each record should start with a line for the name, then a line for
- the telephone number, then at least 1 line but no more than 4 lines for the
- address. Each record should be followed by an empty line to separate
- them. The last record should also be followed by an empty line. Sounds a
- lot more complicated than it really is. Below is an example :
-
- ---------------------------------------------- // top of file
- Gary L. Robinson // first line
- 1-800-HELP
- 600 D. Mumford Dr.
- Troy, OH 45373
-
- OS/2 Help Center
- 1-333-3333
- NONE
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- Sherlock Holmes
- 000-0000
- 221 Baker St.
- London, ENG
- Fictional Character
- Author - A. Conan Doyle // no line longer than 28 char.
-
- Bill Gates
- 000-0000
- 1 Microsoft Way
- Redmond, WA
- Busily working on Win-
- dows ver. 4.0
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- Pastry Shop
- 234-5678
- 316 Sugar High Dr.
- Troy, OH 45373
- Best donuts in town
- // last line empty
- ---------------------------------------------- // bottom of file
-
- Generally, you should not have any line over 28 characters long. This
- varies depending on the default font on your system and exactly what charac-
- ters are used. So this is not an entirely hard and fast rule.
- After you have a file ready to load into the PMPHONE database just click
- on the Utils menu, select 'Import file', then type in the full path and file
- name of the text file you have created. If you have formatted the file as
- above then it should work. I say should, because I have no giant staff to
- test my software and while I have tested it many times - you never know. If
- for some reason it does not work properly or you made mistakes in the ascii
- file you had created just erase the file PMPHONE.DAT. Correct any mistakes
- to the ascii file and try again. I would appreciate any information you can
- give me if you find any bugs lurking around in this feature.
-
- ***** UPGRADE NOTES *****
- If you are upgrading from either a shareware version or an earlier com-
- mercial version be sure to save all your records to file before you take the
- old version off your machine! Then erase PMPHONE.EXE, PMPHONE.DAT, and
- PMPHONE.INI This version ( 1.01 ) cannot use the old version's data file but
- if you save all your records to a file, RECORDS.DOC for example, using the
- 'save to file' feature in the old version of PMPHONE then you can use the
- 'Import file' feature to load in all your old numbers to this new version of
- PMPHONE.
- *************************
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- That's all there is to it. Any comments , orders for the commercial version,
- or suggestions for new features may be sent to the address below or posted on
- Genie to : G.ROBINSON13
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- Gary L. Robinson
- 600 Mumford Dr. Apt. D
- Troy, OH 45373
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