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- Book Librarian
- Version 2.0
- by
- Lemuel D. Turner
- Member Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP)
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- (C) 1991-1993 By Lemuel D. Turner and TurboSystemsCo
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- Mailing Address: TurboSystemsCo
- P.O. Box 965368
- Marietta, Ga. 30066
- 404-516-8575
- FAX 404-591-4988
- Registration Price: $34.00 + 4.00 S/H (US), $8.00 (Non-US)
- To INSTALL : Type - INSTALL (Requires a hard drive or 720K+ floppy)
- To Start: Type - BL
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- NOTE: The file format is not compatible with earlier versions. A
- conversion program is provided with the registered version to update
- old files to the new format.
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- PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
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- BOOK LIBRARIAN is an easy to use book database management system.
- It is ideal for managing a personal, professional, church, club,
- or business library. You can quickly search your library by Title
- Author, Subject or Book type. Can print reports to the screen,
- printer or disk file.
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- SPECIAL FEATURES
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- - Holds 25 Information Fields About Each Book
- -- Title, Author (first & last), Subjects(3), Book Type, Edition,
- Pages, Copyright Year, Catalog #, ISBN, Purchase Date, Price,
- Publisher, Location, Note1, Note2, Borrower (first, last),
- Record/Accession#, Condition, Tag, Value, Due Date
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- -- A memo field that can hold up to 60 lines of information about
- each title.
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- - Database Management Functions.
- -- File Next, Prev, Find, Top, Last, Edit, Add, Del, Search,
- Report, Quit
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- - Reports
- -- Thirteen fixed format reports, plus a self design report.
- --- Reports may be printed to screen, printer or disk text file.
- --- Can print on continous form 3 X 5 cards or laser 3 x 5 cards.
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- - Context Sensitive Help
- -- Press F1 to bring up a relevant help screen at any point in
- the program.
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- SPECIAL FEATURES - cont Book Librarian
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- - Mouse Support
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- - Screen Saver
- -- A built-in screen saver activates when the keyboard is not used
- at a user customizable interval.
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- - Find/Browse Windows
- -- Moveable, scrollable, resizeable
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- - Find any Title, Subject, Author or Book Type, Record#, Catalog# or
- Tag in approximately 1 second or less.
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- - Search database on any combination of fields.
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- - Can hold over 2 billion titles, approximately 600 on a 360k floppy
- if memo field is not used. Memo field only uses disk space if the
- field is used.
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- SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
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- (1) 512K RAM (2) Printer (3) Hard drive or 720K+ floppy
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- SERVICES PROVIDED TO REGISTERED USERS
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- (1) The latest version of Book Librarian without the shareware
- registration screens.
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- (2) A printed manual.
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- (3) Customer Support by phone or mail by a member of ASP.
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- (4) Advisement of upgrades which are provided at low cost.
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- (5) Catalog of addtional products and discounts on additional
- product purchases.
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- (6) The ability to edit/change the report headings.
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- REGISTRATION PRICE: $34.95
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- DISTRIBUTION PERMISSION
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- Permission is granted to shareware vendors, users groups and BBSs to
- add Book Librarian to their libraries and distribute the program
- as long as the shareware concept is explained, ie this software is not
- free and continued use pass the evaluation period requires payment of
- a registration fee to the author.
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- PRODUCT HISTORY
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- Version 1.5 Released Jan 29 1992
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- Changes: (1) Added memo report - prints memo contents.
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- (2) Added printer selection to utility menu..dropped
- printer driver database program DBPRINST.EXE
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- (3) Fixed bugs in custom report field selection.
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- (4) Fixed bug that caused query screen selection criteria
- to be ignored when printing reports.
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- Version 1.52
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- Changes: (1) Added the ability to flush data stored in the DOS buffers
- to disk by pressing the F3 function key.
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- Version 1.53 Released Dec 26, 1993
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- Changes: (1) Added installation program
- (2) Added Printer Driver for Cannon BJC-600 printer.
- (3) Added Printer Driver for HP Deskjet 500/550C
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- Version 2.0 Released Nov 7, 1994
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- Changes: (1) Allows datafile switching from within the program.
- (2) Added the following new fields, Borrower (First and
- Last names), Record/Accession#, Condition, Due Date
- Value and Tag.
- (3) The capacity of memo field double from 2400 (30 lines)
- to 4800 characters (60 lines).
- (4) Size of Title and Author Fields increased.
- (5) Allows 3 subjects per title.
- (6) Can search for data in the memo field.
- (7) Pop-Up calendar added.
- (8) Tag records for printing.
- (9) Three new indexes added - Record#, Catalog# and Tag
- (10) Primarily index user selectable.
- (11) Improved error trapping during printing.
- (12) Direct edit of any field including the memo field
- (13) Support for laser/inkjet type index cards.
- (14) Five new reports added.
- a. Subject 2
- b. Library Cards
- c. Borrowers
- d. Overdues
- e. Labels
- (15) Memo report modified to allow multiple records per page.
- (16) Program order.exe eliminated from distribution disk. Order
- Screen can now be accessed from Book Librarian program by
- Pressing the [F6] function key.