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- ADDENDUM TO DDFILE v6.0 MANUAL
-
- The following is the contents of the readme file on disk. These are
- changes and/or enhancements made to DDFile since the manual was
- printed (Page 9).
-
- Installation - When DDFile is installed to a hard drive, it is placed
- in a directory called DDFILE. To run DDFile after it has been
- installed, type GODOC <Enter> or CD\DDFILE <Enter> then DDFILE <Enter>
- (Page 11-12).
-
- New for version 6.05
- --------------------
-
- 1.) Zippy users - you now have a choice of either upper/lower or all
- upper case input of the city name into the city field. To select
- one or the other, first select "L) General Setup" in the main
- menu then "D) Field Assignment". Next, select "City" and then the
- field to be used as the city field. At this time you will be
- asked if the City should be entered in upper/lower case. Answer
- "Y" for upper/lower case (cap first character of each word, lower
- case rest) or "N" for all upper case (Page 65).
-
- 2.) <Alt-F>ield Macro (chapter 6) - The "*" has always been used to
- trim empty spaces off the end of a field when printed. The
- macros: {prefix} {first} {last} on a line would normally print
- "Mr. John Doe" for example. Using the "*" as in {*prefix}
- {*first} {*last} would then print "Mr. John Doe". This worked
- fine unless any of the fields were empty. If the {*prefix} field
- was empty, it would print " John Doe" or if the {*first} macro
- was empty, it would print "Mr. Doe".
-
- Now you can use the "$" instead of the "*" to eliminate this from
- happening in instances like this. To use the "$" in the above
- example fields, replace the "*" with the "$" and remove the
- spaces between the macros as in {$prefix}{$first}{$last} (Page 43).
-
- 3.) When printing a date field (chapter 6), you can now specify an
- "!" at the end of the field macro to convert "01/01/93" date to
- "January 1, 1993".
-
- For example, if your date field is called REC_DATE, the field
- macro used for printing this field would be {REC_DATE} to print
- 01/01/93 or {REC_DATE!} to print January 1, 1993. If the date
- field is empty, nothing will be printed (Page 43).
-
- 4.) When modifying an existing database, any field assignments set
- will need to be reset after selecting the database for use (Page
- 57).
-
- 5.) As of March 21st of 1993, 11 digit Delivery Point Barcodes are
- required for POSTNET bar code discounts on letter mail.
-
- Zip+4 is still accepted for Zip+4 mailings without barcode or
- Zip+4 barcodes on "Flats".
-
- The extra 2 digits are the last 2 numbers in the street address.
- These can be assigned by you, the USPS, or other software. See
- the Anomaly rules from your post office for instructions on doing
- this. The 2 digits may be put in a field of it's own (as explained
- below) or added onto the end of the zip code field.
-
- Barcodes are printed using the 'special' bar code macro within a
- printing template. When specifying the barcode macro in a
- template, there are a few requirements that must first be met: 1)
- The zip code field must be assigned as such (Page 66), 2) the zip
- code field length must be either 12 or 10 (Page 57). If 10,
- another character type field with a length of 2 must be assigned
- as a Delivery Point field (Page 66) and have the 2 character
- delivery point in it to make an 11 digit bar code and 3) a Bar
- Code Printer must be selected (Page 67). If these requirements
- are not met, a bar code will not print.
-
- 6.) Because of the new 11 digit Delivery Point Barcodes as stated in
- #5 above, the following changes have taken place when printing
- Bulk Labels or Bulk Reports (Page 39-41, 48-49):
-
- 1) When printing regular bulk labels or report, you are asked if
- you want to include records with 9 and 11 digit zip codes.
-
- 2) When printing zip+4 bulk Labels or reports, if the assigned
- zipcode field is 12 characters in length or you have another
- character type field assigned as the Delivery Point field, you are
- asked if you want to include records with 9 digit zip codes.
-
- 7.) Bulk labels and reports can now be done for 2nd class as well as
- 3rd class mailings. The only difference is that a 3rd class
- mailing is in groups of 10 or more of any 5 digit zip, 3 digit
- zip, or state, and a 2nd class mailing is in groups of 6 or more
- pieces for the same groups. The choice is given in a sub-menu
- containing "A) Sort for 3rd class" and "B) Sort for 2nd class"
- before printing bulk labels or reports (Page 39-41, 48-49).
-
- 8.) When adding a new template, the current template is copied over
- to the new template. If you do not want a copy of the current
- template, simply delete the lines in the template by pressing
- <Ctrl-Y> (Page 36).
-
- 9.) The <Alt-L> command that was available from within the memo
- fields and templates to change the line length has been disabled.
- The reason for this is because one template might be set for a
- line length of 50 and another set for 80 but then when reentering
- the template set at 50 it would be formatted to 80. In the future
- we hope to add the ability for each memo field and template to
- store it's own line length setting (Page 24).
-
- 10.) Barcodes can now be printed on a laser printer in landscape
- mode. To do this, insert a "1" after the word BARCODE in the
- barcode macro as in {@BARCODE1} (Page 44).
-
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