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- Zip Code & Area Code look up features:
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- -- Reduce data entry time, while increasing accuracy --
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- Starting in April, 1991, this program has a built in U.S.A. zip code and
- area code look up table.
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- ACS will provide you with the data file that makes this functional at no
- extra charge, with this understanding:
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- 1) The upgrade will be provided to you in a 1.2 meg, 5 1/4" format only.
- If your machine can read only 360 kb disks, then it will not work since
- the upgrade is too large to fit on this size floppy.
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- 2) Once uncompressed from the distribution disk, the data files and
- associated indexes consume 4,000,000 bytes of space on your hard drive.
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- 3) Neither ACS, Paul Sax, nor Juskovitch Corporation can guarantee the
- accuracy of the zip codes, cities, or area codes.
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- Logic of look up:
- Adding new records for a person or company:
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- Case 1:
- City, State entered, without zip code
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- If you enter the name of a city and a state but leave zip code empty, then
- the program will look up the zip code for that town. If only one exists in
- the file, then it will place that value into the zip code field. If more
- than one exists, then this program places all of them into a stack for you
- to browse through with a 'light bar'. On the top of this stack, this
- program has counted the number of zip codes contained within this city.
- Regardless of whether it contains 3 or 80, this program will adjust the
- length of this stack for you to examine. At any time in this stack, you
- can select the zip code underneath the 'light bar' just by pressing the
- 'Enter' key. To accept the default value of the first zip code in the
- stack, press the 'ESC' or 'Escape' key at any time.
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- As this program performs its look up, one of these two messages is
- displayed to the right of the zip code field:
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- "[Zip code found for city ]"
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- "[Zip code not found ]"
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- If a City/State match is found, then the area code for that zip is
- identified and moved into the area code field.
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- Case 2:
- Zip code entered, with or without City, State
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- If you enter a value into the zip code field during data entry, then this
- program will attempt to find the city and state the correspond to it. If
- successful, it displays:
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- "[City and state found ]"
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- If the search is unsuccessful, it displays:
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- "[City and state not found ]"
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- As in case one, if the search is successful, then the relevant area code is
- identified and moved into the area code field.
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- Logic of look up:
- Editing existing records for a person or company:
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- The look up logic for editing a record is similar to adding a new one, with
- one exception. When you edit an historical record, the program will not
- modify the area code while it does its look ups.
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- Forced edit:
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- Given the multiplicity of zip codes, overlapping municipalities, and margin
- for error in this kind of look up, the program assumes that you wish to be
- in an edit mode after it has performed its look up more than three times
- for any one record. This 'forced edit' appears whether in an Add or Get
- screen in the main person file.
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- Once the 'forced edit' occurs, this message is displayed to the right of
- the current record:
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- "[Zip code look up disabled]"
- "[Now in edit mode. ]"
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- Creating a state-specific Zip code file:
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- Observe the "Other Custom Options" Menu, selection G):
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- "G) Reduce Zip code file"
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- With this selection, you can reduce the size of the zip code file by making
- it specific to a state or a number of states.
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- Once selected, you can indicate the number of states you wish to be
- included in your new zip code file. If you wish only one, then you would
- enter '1', though you could enter up to '50'.
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