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Membership List and Mail Label Program
Copywrite 1988 Lloyd C. Bowen, Jr. All Rights Reserved.
Requires IBM PC, PCXT, PCAT or PS/2 or close compatible.
with at least 192K RAM
This program will provide a membership list for the average club. It
also provides for Printing File Cards and Addressing Envelopes, Folders
and Labels at 6 lines per inch on an ASCII Printer. The program also
Prints or Prints to Disk a Membership List that includes all file
information. The program will create files called CLUBNAME.REC and
MEMBER.REC when started up the 1st time and reads these files each
time you start up thereafter. The member records you enter won`t be
saved unless you save them, this allows you to make changes for
just one printing. To revise or delete a record you must KNOW the
RECORD NUMBER. Records are RENUMBERED EACH TIME you DELETE a record or
SORT the file. The record number is shown on the display screen. All
fields except "Dues" AND "Select" are character fields and any ASCII
character may be entered. Phone numbers allow 13, the normal form is
(xxx)xxx-xxxx. Zip codes allow 10 in the form xxxxx-xxxx. Street
address allows 30. City and Title allow for 15 each. State allows 4.
Each Name field allows 15, but the TOTAL of the 3 MUST NOT EXCEED
30 or labels won`t print correctly. Dues and Select are True or
False. The "Dates" and Committee allow 8 characters. Comment allows
40. Use the ? for a Wild Card when sorting. All fields may be sorted on
and used for other than the named purpose, for instance Title may be
used for a Type field such as "Relative" or "Friend" and either date
could be birth date. Zip Code has been used for foreign country. Select
allows you to select a group of members for addressing etc. which have
no other field exclusively in common. The mail labels supported are all
standard Nebs sizes; Singles are 3.5 x 15/16, 4.5 inch carrier; 2 across
are 4 x 15/16, 9.5 inch carrier; 3 across are 2.75 x 15/16, 9.5 inch
carrier. The envelope printing is set for 3.5 inches between
envelopes an the tractor feed, use Post Card for narrow envelopes . I
usually use the Folder option, I print my bulletins or form letters
all at once then tear them off, turn them over and reinsert, address
them using the Folder option, then fold, staple, stamp and mail. I
use the Special Label procedure to print Diskette labels, and the Card
option to print ROLODEX cards. The routine for formatting Cards takes a
while to learn, but the formats can be saved and re-used at will. Note
that if you don't like the sizes listed you can pick your own! The
Format(.FMT) files take 820 bytes of disk space per line, that is a 4
inch wide ROLODEX Format takes 10660 Bytes for 13 lines and an 8 inch
wide by 5 inch long record card Format take 24600 Bytes for 30 lines - a
66 line Format would take 54120 Bytes and this is the longest supported.
The Maximum of 2000 records per file depends on the amount of memory
available in the computer (RAM) and is shown on the bottom of the path
selection screen. 609344 Bytes free RAM = 2000 Records! The
maximum for your computer will appear at the bottom of the path
selection screen. Directly booted with PC-DOS 3.1, PC-DOS 3.2 or
MS-DOS 3.2 I get 2000 for the maximum. The disk file MEMBER.REC will
be 230K with 1000 records. If you have more than 100 members on a
floppy disk computer you should keep your records on a separate
diskette and leave the space on the program disk for format(.FMT)
files. Remember list(.LST) files take as much space as your records!
Page 1 ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR FILES!
Membership List and Mail Label Program
Copywrite 1988 Lloyd C. Bowen, Jr. All Rights Reserved.
This is IMPORTANT be sure to SORT and SAVE YOUR RECORDS anytime you ADD
MEMBER(S). There is no need to sort when you make changes unless you
change the name nor is it necessary to sort when you delete a record.
Sorting takes time on big files! On my XT compatible which runs
Norton's SI at 2.0 it takes 5 seconds to sort a "worst case" file of 100
records while to sort 2000 "worst case" records takes 55 minutes. The
"worst case" means exact matches in the file; I took a 70 record file
and copied it almost 29 times until I had 2000 records, then sorted
this file which means 70 records that matched character for character
29 times each. Some more XT times on a 2000 record file: LOAD 36
seconds, SAVE 2 minutes 35 seconds, PRINT TO DISK 2 minutes. The same
tests on my 8 mhz PCAT which runs Norton's SI at 8.0: Sort 2000 "worst
case" records, 17 minutes 25 seconds. Load 2000 records, 19 seconds.
Save 2000 records, 21.3 seconds.
Hard disk users can have several different lists, just copy the member
programs into one subdirectory, path to that subdirectory, and then
create separate subdirectories for each list. You will create a
MEMBER.REC And a CLUBNAME.REC for each subdirectory. You should also
copy MEMBER.HLP to each subdirectory if you want to use the help file.
If you have EMS expanded memory the program will use it to store the
overlays and run faster.
If you have any suggestion for improvememts, let me know.
Shareware Concept
Shareware is Copywrited Commercial Software! You are allowed to try
before you buy, and freely give copies to your friends to try before
they buy. Only distributors authorized by the author may make any charge
for copies of Shareware programs. Anyone who finds the program useful
is required to send payment for use of the program to the author or his
listed agent. The Membership List and Mail Label program is the sole
property of Lloyd C. Bowen Jr. The registration fee for the use of this
program on one computer is $20.00 and should be mailed to:
Lloyd C. Bowen, Jr.
2213 Peach Tree St.
Amarillo, Texas
79109-1922
Maximum of 2000 Records per File Lloyd C. Bowen Jr 7/21/88
1 File per Path 2213 Peachtree St.
Minimum of 192K RAM Required Amarillo, Texas 79109-1922
Page 2 ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR FILES!