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- WAMPUM.EXE version 3.0 dated November 9, 1986 adds the capability to adjust
- the fields which display when the user has set Browse Mode ON using the
- S - Select Utilities option from the Main System Menu. It also permits keyed
- access to generate form letters using the T - Form Letter Menu option.
-
- Ordinarily, when Browse Mode is set ON, WAMPUM displays however many fields
- will fit within 79 characters beginning with the first field in the data base
- structure and continuing in order through the data base structure.
-
- If you are not satisfied with this field display, you may identify the fields
- to be displayed so long as they will fit within the same 79 character display.
- You cannot display memo fields.
-
- To alter the Browse field display, select F - File Select option and enter
- EDIT as the name of the file to be used. When the Main System Menu redisplays,
- select E - Edit a Record and specify 1 for the record number. If the file is
- empty, then select A - Add a Record to add a new record 1. When the first
- record displays, make certain the EDITTEST field contains the name of the file
- you want to work with IN ALL UPPER CASE LETTERS with no file extension. Then
- move to the ERRMSG field and type an asterisk (*) as the first character. Then
- identify the fields BY NUMBER that you want displayed in Browse mode. Make
- certain that each field number is preceded by at least one space and that field
- numbers lower than 10 are preceded by TWO spaces. Assuming you wanted the
- first, fifth, ninth, twelfth, and twenty-first fields displayed, your ERRMSG
- should look like this:
-
- ERRMSG * 1 5 9 12 21
-
- Then save the entry by pressing CTRL-W and ESCape from WAMPUM to DOS. Restart
- WAMPUM and the Browse field list will take effect whenever the file specified
- in EDITTEST is edited, displayed, or printed.
-
- KEYED ACCESS TO FORM LETTERS - Ordinarily form letters generated with the
- T - Form Letter Menu option print a single form letter for each record in the
- existing Record Selection Criteria. Beginning with this version, it also is
- possible to print a single form letter for the first matching key in the lead
- index. If no selection criteria are in effect when a form letter is chosen
- for production, you will be prompted to enter the key value to find using the
- primary index then in effect. WAMPUM will search for the first key matching
- the value entered and will print a single form letter for that record. The
- typical access time to find the matching record is under 1 second whereas
- using record selection criteria requires a full pass of the data base. When
- one form letter is desired for a specific entry in a very large data base, this
- new option should prove helpful.
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