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- ZIPKEY, V3.09e Copyright 1995 Eric Isaacson.
- ZIPKEY.OVL Copyright 1989--1994 Eric Isaacson.
- All rights reserved.
-
- Eric Isaacson Software
- 416 East University Ave.
- Bloomington, IN 47401-4739
- (812)339-1811
- GO ZIPKEY on CompuServe
- 71333.3154@compuserve.com
-
- This diskette contains the ZIPKEY zipcode-areacode-timezone
- directory and keyboard enhancement program. Please feel free
- to distribute the files by uploading them to bulletin-board
- systems, and by copying and distributing the diskette to anyone
- interested.
-
- You can setup ZIPKEY on your hard drive by typing either
- A:INSTALL or B:INSTALL (depending on whether the diskette is in
- the A or B drive) to your DOS prompt. You should run INSTALL
- even if you have already copied the files to your hard drive --
- it will set ZIPKEY to your tinezone, and create a handy
- ZIPS.BAT file for you.
-
-
- What's New In This Version
-
- Versions since 3.00 have incorporated minor bug fixes, and
- changes to accommodate the new area-code format, which allows
- area codes with a middle digit other than 0 or 1.
-
- ZIPKEY version 3 adds time zones to the database (43000+ time
- zone records occupying a grand total of 273 bytes!). Now when
- you type in a zipcode or a city name, ZIPKEY will tell you what
- the city's time zone is, and show you the current time there.
- There are also specifiers for playing back timezone codes as
- keystrokes, should you wish to do so.
-
- I have also added an INSTALL program, to make ZIPKEY much easier
- to set up and use. INSTALL will copy the ZIPKEY files to your
- hard drive, set up a ZIPS.BAT file for easy invocation from any
- DOS prompt, and, if you wish, modify your AUTOEXEC.BAT to
- include the line that installs memory-resident ZIPKEY. INSTALL
- can also print out the manual, and make copies of this
- evaluation diskette for you to give to your friends.
-
- Of course, the data itself is updated every month. The
- evaluation data is constrained to be at least six months old,
- so that you're now getting the data provided to registered
- users six months ago.
-
-
- File Name Conventions for BBS Uploading
-
- I have abandoned a previous request that the program-and-manual
- be in a separate file from the data. It has proved to be too
- confusing, and with inexpensive 14400-baud modems available, it
- isn't burdensome to download everything at once.
-
- So I recommend the distribution file name be either ZIPKEY, or
- ZIPKEYym, where y is the last digit of the year of the data,
- and m is the month of the data (1=Jan, ... , A=Oct B=Nov
- C=Dec). The extension of the file will, of course, reflect the
- compression program used.
-
- Examples: ZIPKEY52.ZIP will be the PKZIPped version containing
- the 2/95 data. ZIPKEY6C.ARJ will be the ARJ-compressed file
- containing the 12/96 data. If you prefer not to have version
- information in file names, you can use just ZIPKEY.ZIP.
-