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- ZIPKEY, V1.0e Copyright 1989 Eric Isaacson.
- All rights reserved.
-
- ZIPKEY.OVL for September 1988 Copyright 1989 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 program by
- uploading it to bulletin-board systems, and by copying and distributing
- the diskette to anyone interested.
-
- You can run the program by putting ZIPKEY.EXE and ZIPKEY.OVL into
- your current directory, and typing ZIPKEY to the MS-DOS command prompt.
-
-
- 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 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 ZKxx, where xx is the ZIPKEY.EXE
- version number -- for example, ZK10.ARC for ZIPKEY V1.0e. 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, ZK0988.ARC for the September, 1988 version of the
- data.
-
- Here are sample directory lines for ARC files, including recommended
- comment lines:
-
- ZK10.ARC ZIPKEY zipcode dir V1.0 prog/doc, 1 of 2
- ZK0988.ARC ZIPKEY.OVL 09/88 zipcode data, 2 of 2
-
- Note that the data file does NOT contain the program version number
- in its comment line. I will be releasing new data files more often
- than new program versions, so that the data file is not married to
- the program version number. People will be able to download new data
- files even if they already have the latest program version.