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- ZIPKEY UNDER WINDOWS
-
- I have received some success reports for Windows 3. You can access ZIPKEY
- from a non-Windows text-mode application running under Windows: to do so, you
- must tell the Windows PIF editor that your application is text mode, and that
- it should use the full screen.
-
- You can also get the ZIPKEY 2 window to run as a Window within the graphics-
- mode desktop! For this, you need Windows running in 386 Enhanced Mode. Click
- on the "MS-DOS Prompt" icon, then invoke ZIPKEY 2 just as if you were in
- normal DOS (first changing directories if necessary to find the ZIPKEY
- program). When you've got the ZIPKEY window, type Alt-Space to shrink the DOS
- task to be a part of the graphics desktop. You can then drag on the borders
- and use the scroll bars to get the display to cover only ZIPKEY's window if
- you wish. There's probably some way to automate all this, but I'm not enough
- of a Windows "jock" to know how to do so.
-
- If your application is graphics mode and/or a "For Windows" program, you
- will not be able to use ZIPKEY alone to feed its results back to your
- application within Windows. But I do have good news: another author has
- developed an "add-on" product that you can use with ZIPKEY for such
- situations. To quote his literature:
-
- "ZK-Shell is a true Windows application that can access the popular DOS TSR,
- ZIPKEY, from within Windows.
-
- "As you type in the state and city, the program immediately starts to display
- all of the possible cities. ZK-Shell narrows down the selection until you
- select one or finally end up with the last and final selection."
-
- (His literature forgets to mention that you can also type the zipcode to
- ZK-Shell, just as you can with ZIPKEY.) Continuing:
-
- "The Paste and Minimize button will pass the city, state, and zip into the
- clipboard for insertion into your application.
-
- "Includes macros for attaching to your favorite Windows word processor.
-
- "A DLL is available for programmers that want to add zip code lookups to their
- programs (call ZPAY for information on DLL)."
-
- You can get ZK-Shell by sending $20 (plus sales tax if you live in Florida)
- plus $5 S+H to
-
- Paul Mayer
- ZPAY Payroll Systems, Inc.
- 2526 69th Ave. South
- Saint Petersburg, FL 33712-5631
-
- You can phone him at 1-813-866-8233 during business hours. Visa/MC accepted.
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