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- ZIPKEY, V2.04e Copyright 1991 Eric Isaacson.
- ZIPKEY.OVL Copyright 1989,1990,1991,1992 Eric Isaacson.
- All rights reserved.
-
- Eric Isaacson Software
- 416 East University Ave.
- Bloomington, IN 47401-4739
- (812)339-1811
-
- This diskette contains the ZIPKEY zipcode 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 run ZIPKEY by putting ZIPKEY.EXE and ZIPKEY.OVL into
- your current directory, and typing ZIPKEY to the MS-DOS command
- prompt.
-
-
- What's New In This Version
-
- ZIPKEY V2.04 fixes a few minor bugs.
-
- If you have DOS V3.0 or later, ZIPKEY V2.03 can now find its
- auxiliary files in the same directory from which ZIPKEY was
- invoked, so you don't need to change the current directory
- to install ZIPKEY in memory or run it in non-resident mode.
-
- With V2.00 I added telephone area codes to ZIPKEY's
- database.
-
- Now when you specify a zipcode or a city, you'll also get
- the telephone area code displayed in ZIPKEY's window. You
- can "play back" the area code with the T specifier in your
- hotkey or exit key configuration.
-
- Conversely, you can type a left bracket [ followed by an
- area code to ZIPKEY's window to obtain the location of the
- area code.
-
- 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
-
- If you distribute files in a compressed format, using PKZIP,
- ARC, ZOO, or a similar program, I recommend that the evaluation
- ZIPKEY.EXE file and the manual ZIPKEY.DOC/ZPROG.DOC be packed
- together into one file, and the ZIPKEY.OVL file be provided as
- a second file.
-
- If you are a BBS sysop, with the ability to delete files on
- your BBS, you can maintain the single name ZIPKEY for the
- package. The compressed EXE-and-manual file can have the
- extension (.ZIP, .ARC, etc.) reflecting the compressing program
- used. The OVL file can keep its name ZIPKEY.OVL. ZIPKEY.OVL
- does not need to be compressed-- it's already so compact that
- there is little or no further gain from compression.
-
- If you are uploading to a BBS on which you cannot delete the
- previous version, I suggest that the names contain the version
- information. The EXE-and-manual file should be named ZKxxx,
- where xxx is the ZIPKEY.EXE version number -- for example,
- ZK204.ZIP for ZIPKEY V2.04e. The ZIPKEY.OVL file should be
- stored using a compression program (not for the compression,
- which is minimal, but so that the file will be named ZIPKEY.OVL
- again when it is extracted). The compressed OVL file should be
- named ZKmmyy, where mm is the 2-digit month and yy is the year
- of the ZIPKEY database -- for example, ZK0592.ZIP for the
- May, 1992 version of the data.
-
- Here are sample directory lines for ZIP files, including
- recommended comment lines:
-
- ZK204.ZIP ZIPKEY zipcode dir V2.04 prog/doc,1 of 2
- ZK0592.ZIP ZIPKEY.OVL 05/92 zipcode data, 2 of 2
-
- Note that the data file does NOT contain the program version
- number in its comment line. I release new data files more
- often than new program versions, so that the data file is not
- married to the program version number. People can download new
- data files even if they already have the latest program
- version.
-