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- ------- PSA Cards 2.3 Beta for Windows NT 3.5 ------
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- VERSION 2.3 WILL READ FILES WRITTEN BY EARLIER VERSIONS.
- EARLIER VERSIONS WILL NOT READ VERSION 2.3 FILES.
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- PSA Cards is an easy to use address program. It looks
- like a card file and it works like a card file. Just
- click on a divider tab or card to open or close it.
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- PSA Cards is also an OLE 2.0 container application.
- This means that you can link or imbed objects
- (pictures, maps, documents, sound and video clips)
- created in other programs in your Cards entries.
-
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- PSA Cards features:
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- * Print Rolodex cards, envelopes, mailing labels, and
- address booklets
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- * Dial phone numbers
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- * Reminders for birthdays, anniversaries, or appointments
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- * Merge two PSA Cards files, keeping latest modifications
-
- * Search any field for a text string and dated fields for
- a date or range of dates
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- * Import data from an ASCII file or Microsoft CardFile
-
- * Export names and addresses to a file or the clipboard
- for use in a word processing program
-
- * Object Linking and Embedding (OLE 2.0) container app
-
- * Create groups of entries for organizing various types
- of lists. These lists can be used to address Christmas
- cards, invitations, and to export addresses for mail merge
- in a word processor.
-
- * No inherent limits on the number of entries or lengths
- of fields other than those imposed by Windows itself.
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- * On-line, context sensitive help
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- * 3-D controls
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- * Written in C++
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- * Windows 3.1 and Windows NT versions available
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- NEW FEATURES AND CHANGES
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- Tool tips for toolbar buttons
- Dockable toolbars
- Double click an entry to edit it
- Shipping labels
- Fix bugs relating to phone numbers in ASCII import
- User selectable screen font
- Searching all fields, including dates
- Type letter key to open a divider tab
- Install program
- Separate dialog boxes for business entries
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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS - FROM A FLOPPY DISK
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- Run the install program, install.exe from the Program
- Manager.
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- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS - FROM A DOWNLOADED PSACARDS.EXE
- FILE
-
- 1. Extract the program and help files by running
- psacards.exe from the command prompt. There are
- six PSA Cards 2.22 files: cards.exe, cards.hlp,
- register.txt, readme.txt, convert.exe, and cardfile.msc.
- There are three system libraries (the *.dll files) which
- will be copied to your system directory by the install
- program.
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- 2. Run the install program, install.exe
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- LOADING A DATA FILE ON STARTUP
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- After running PSA Cards and saving your first data
- file, you can set up the PSA Cards program item to read
- the same file each time it is executed. Use the Program
- manager "Properties" command to put the data file name
- after the program name (cards.exe). Be sure to leave a
- blank between the program name and the file name.
- Putting the file name after the program name will cause
- the data file to be opened automatically when PSA Cards
- is executed from its program icon.
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- REGISTRATION
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- To become a registered PSA Cards user, and to receive
- notification of new releases of PSA Cards, send $25.00
- to:
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- William L. Rogers
- PSA Software
- 1319 Silk Oak Drive
- Fort Collins, CO 80525-5597
-
- Colorado redidents please add 3% sales tax. Fort
- Collins, Colorado residents please add 6% sales.tax.
- You will receive a registration code by return mail.
- Registering will also entitle you to upgrades at
- reduced cost. The file register.txt can be printed
- and used as a registration form.
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- COMPUSERVE USERS
- If you are a CompuServe user, you can also register
- using CompuServe's Shareware Registration service.
- The registration ID for this program is 4620. The
- fee is $25.00. After CompuServe notifies me of your
- registration, I will e-mail your registration code
- and follow up with US mail.
-
- Registered users enable me continue to improve PSA
- Cards and implement your suggestions. The income also
- pays for the computer and software I use to do this.
- If you use PSA Cards on a regular basis and find it
- useful, please register. This version of PSA Cards
- allows you to update your data file 20 times before
- registering. After the 20th update you will still be
- able to access your data, but will not be able to save
- changes to the file until you enter your registration
- code using the Registration command in the Help menu.
-
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- DISCLAIMER
-
- Although PSA Cards has been carefully written and
- tested, no claim is made as to its reliability and
- freedom from bugs. This software is provided "as-is"
- without warranty of any kind. In no event shall PSA
- Software be liable for any damages whatsoever arising
- out of the use or inability to use PSA Cards.
-
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- INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONVERTING MICROSOFT CARDFILE FILES
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- Importing data from a program like Microsoft CardFile
- poses a problem. PSA Cards has specific data fields for
- each type of information that it stores. That is, it
- makes a distinction between say a street address and a
- phone number. CardFile does not. There are only two
- fields in CardFile -- the index line and text.
- CardFile data can be converted to input for PSA Cards'
- ASCII import function if the information on each card
- is in a consistent order and the file contains no
- imbedded objects (remove all OLE stuff).
-
- There is a grubby little DOS application in this
- package called convert.exe. Convert reads a CardFile
- file and attempts to find the appropriate places for
- field delimiters in the card and writes an output file
- for the import function in PSA Cards:
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- CardFile file -> Convert.exe -> PSA Cards ASCII
- import
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- Convert uses the following rules to insert field
- delimiters.
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- * Newlines (carriage return, line feed) are replaced by a
- delimiter.
-
- * Multiple newlines only generate one delimiter.
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- * A comma followed by a blank is replaced by a delimiter.
- This can be turned off (option c-).
-
- * If comma-blank is being replaced by a delimiter, the
- index line will always generate two fields. The second
- field may be empty.
-
- * A single blank after a letter followed by five digits
- will be replaced by a delimiter. This is assumed to be the
- ZIP code. This can also be turned off (option z-).
-
- Convert writes a field definition record as the first
- line of the output file. It assumes that the delimiter
- is ! and that the fields are in the following order:
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- !lname1 fname1 street city state zip phone1
- comment
-
- If your CardFile has a different order or different
- fields, the first line of the output file will have to
- be edited. Use the DOS editor, or Notepad. Be sure to
- use "No conversion" if you must use Write. You may
- also have to fix up individual records if your input
- file is not consistent enough or you encounter
- situations not handled properly by the above rules.
- You can also edit individual cards once they have been
- imported to PSA Cards.
-
- See the on-line help for PSA Cards for more details
- about the file import function in PSA Cards.
-
- Convert has been tested with files written by the
- CardFile in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows NT.
- I can only assume that the same program is used in
- Windows 3.1. There is an example CardFile file
- included. It is called cardfile.msc. If you turn on
- Convert output to the screen (/s+) you can pipe your
- output to "more". To see how Convert works, type the
- following command in DOS or a DOS window while in the
- PSA Cards directory:
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- >convert /s+ cardfile.msc imptcard.adr | more
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- Then run PSA Cards from Windows and use the "Import..."
- command (File menu) to read imptcard.adr.
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- KNOWN PROBLEMS
-
- * The Equation Editor for Microsoft Word does not always
- work properly with OLE 2.0 container applications. This
- version of PSA Cards will not recognize the Equation
- Editor. Word itself and its other associated OLE
- servers work OK.
-
- * The Help buttons in the OLE dialog boxes for Change
- Icon and the OLE File Browser do not do anything.
-
- * Context sensitive help for the Object command in the
- OLE menu does not link to the correct help topic.
-
- These bugs are related to OLE 2.0 components supplied
- by Microsoft. I will attempt to resolve them in a
- future release of PSA Cards.
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- BUG REPORTS AND FEEDBACK
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- Please send bug reports, and suggestions for new
- features to CompuServe User ID 72064,1437, or
- Internet: billr@Linden.FortNet.org or US mail to me
- at the above registration address. I can't fix bugs
- or add new features if I don't know about them, so let
- me hear from you. If you send me an idea for a new
- feature that I have not thought of, and I use it, I
- will send you a free update to PSA Cards when the next
- release ships.
-
- I don't log on to CompuServe on a regular basis, so
- please be patient if I don't get back to your E-mail
- right away. I do check for mail at my Internet address
- more often.
-
- I hope that you find PSA Cards useful.
-
- Bill Rogers
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