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- Documentation - The Ultimate Scanner Database - John P. Corea -2/93
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- Version : BETA
- Requires 640K RAM and LIM EMS (3.2 or higher)
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- DISCLAIMER : By using this program you agree to assume all risks involved.
- While I have taken every reasonable effort to make sure this program is
- working perfectly, I assume no responsibility for any damages which may
- occur as a result of the use of this program !
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- USD.EXE , as it's name implies, is the Ultimate program for
- managing all those freqs you have programmed in your scanner. With
- today's scanners , which have up to 1000 channel memory (or even more)
- you really need a good program to keep track of everything. USD fills
- this need wonderfully ! It will track up to 5000 records (I could make
- the limit higher, but I feel 5000 is more than anyone will ever use so
- why use up more EMS than necessary). BTW, to use USD you MUST have
- LIM EMS (3.2 or higher). Without EMS this program will just crash !!
- The great feature of USD is that all the data is loaded and stored in
- EMS for super fast retrieval. You wont find another program of it's
- type that retrieves data faster! You dont really need a hard drive with
- USD as using it on a floppy will only effect performance when it is
- first run (when it's loading the data) . Once the data is in memory
- it doesn't matter whether you have a hard disk or whether you're using
- a floppy, it's SUPER FAST !! USD uses assembly language search and sort
- routines which are the fastest possible !
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- USING USD :
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- Using USD can't be any easier. In fact, no docs are required.
- There is a message window (just below the entry window) which tells
- you what to do at all times ! Just read the prompts and you cant go
- wrong.
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- F1 = Enter - Press F1 to enter new data into the database.
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- STATION = is the station you are entering. In many
- cases the Station may be just the location. For instance
- if I were entering a freq for the Brick Police, the station
- would be BRICK. In other instances, STATION could be
- PAN AM or Channel 16, etc. Enter whatever you like.
-
- SERVICE = The type of service. When you are in this field
- a window will popup in which you can select one of the services
- listed or if you press enter on the blank selection you may
- enter a new service. After you enter a new service it will
- automatically appear in the SERVICE list the next time you
- enter a SERVICE. There are 9 default services which cover
- most of the service types you would enter into a scanner. You
- may enter others as you choose.
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- FREQUENCY = Obviously this is where you enter the frequency.
- Example : 46.710 , etc...
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- CHANNEL = This is the channel number on your scanner. Of course
- you can enter data that's not in your scanner and leave the
- CHANNEL field blank. You can always edit anything you enter at
- a later time.
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- BANK = This is the BANK in your scanner. As with channel, you may
- leave this empty if the data you're entering isn't in your scanner.
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- COMMENT = You may enter a 30 character comment here.
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- F2 = Search
- When you press F2 to search for data a window will pop up
- with the following criteria to search:
- STATION = select this if you want to search for all occurences
- of a particular station .
- SERVICE = Selecting this will bring up another window from which
- you select the service for which you want a list .
- FREQUENCY = Selecting this will allow you to search by Frequency
- BANK = Select this to search by Bank.
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- After selecting the search criteria , all items matching that
- criteria will be presented in list form. You may scroll through
- the list and if you desire, you may edit any itme on the list
- by pressing return . Press ESC to exit the list without editing.
- IF you do edit an entry, make sure to press F1 after you finished
- editing to validate the change (save the change).
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- F3 = LIST
- Press F3 to view a list of ALL entries ! You may scroll through
- the list item by item (cursor up/down) or page by page (page up
- /down) or you may go back ro forward 500 records (cursor left/
- right). As with the search function, you may edit any item by
- pressing return. Press ESC to exit without editing.
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- F4 = Sort
- Press F4 to sort all the data by the desired criteria.
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- F5 = WRITE LOG
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- Press F5 to write an ascii text file of all the data. The name
- of the file will be "USB.TXT". The file will be written with
- the sort criteria which is displayed on the screen. In other
- words, if you want a text file of all data in frequency order
- you would first press F4 to sort and select FREQUENCY as the
- criteria and the press F5 and the ASCII file USB.TXT will be
- created.
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- F6 = Quit
- Quits the program
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- That's all there is to it. Simple to use, but powerful, that's
- my first rule of programming ! If you have any suggestions for
- improvement please let me know. Also, if you like USD and you use
- USD then please register ! FIll out REGISTER.TXT and send it in
- along with the mere $5.00 registration Fee !! Thanks
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-
- BTW, I have included a small sample data file. It contains valid
- frequencies and the channel and bank numbers have been left blank
- so you can fill them in with the appropriate info. The data file
- used by USD.EXE is USD.DAT . You can erase USD.DAT if you dont
- want the sample data.
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