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- ** MENU KEYS ** Page 1
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- KEY FUNCTION COMMENT
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- N Next Movie The next movie in the library file alphabetized
- by title will be displayed.
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- P Prev Movie The previous movie in the library file alpha-
- betized by title will be displayed.
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- F Find Movie This key allows you to rapidly find any movie
- in the library file by title, star, co-star,
- director or tape number.
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- T Top Movie The first movie alphabetized by title in the
- library file is displayed.
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- L Last Movie The last movie alphabetized by title in
- the library file is displayed.
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- E Edit Movie Allows you to edit the data fields of the dis-
- played movie.
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- ** MENU KEYS cont ** Page 2
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- KEY FUNCTION COMMENT
- A Add Movie Allows addition of a new movie to the file.
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- D Delete Movie Deletes the displayed movie from the file.
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- S Search File Allows you to search the library file using up
- to eight search criteria.
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- R Report Screen Displays SELECT TYPE OF REPORT LISTING screen.
- Allows you to select the type of report, where
- you want the report listed, how you want it
- sorted and whether you want all or some movies
- listed. See Page 5 for more details.
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- C Change File Allows you to switch to another file created
- by Video Librarian or to create a new file.
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- U Utility Menu Displays utility menu -- see Page 14.
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- Q Quit to Dos Exit Video Librarian and return to Dos.
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- ** EDIT MODE KEYS ** Page 3
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- F1 Abort This key may be used to Abort the Edit or Add
- functions from the main screen. The library
- files are not updated. May be used to abort
- from other screens or prompts requiring data.
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- F5 Delete Field Deletes the field from the cursor position to
- the end of the field and the cursor is placed
- at the left margin of the field.
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- F9 Done This key is used to end editing. If using the
- Edit function, the movie is written to the li-
- brary file.
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- Return Key End Field Edit Pressing this key will end editing in the cur-
- rent field. The cursor is moved to the next
- field.
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- BS Key Backspace Moves the cursor to the left and erase the
- character to the left.
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- Del Del Char Deletes the character under the cursor.
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- Up Arrow Field Up Moves cursor to previous field.
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- Down Arrow Field Down Moves cursor to the next field.
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- ** SELECT TYPE OF REPORT LISTING ** Page 5
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- This screen allows you to (1) select one of four report types, (2) specify one
- of three output devices for the report, (3) decide whether to list all of
- the movies or just some of the movies in your file, and (4) decide how you
- want your report sorted.
- 1. Report Type:
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- A. Tape labels Prints labels for VCR cassettes. Five choices for type
- of label. 1. Regular 2. VHS Top 3. VHS Spine
- 4. BETA Top 5. BETA Spine. See Appendix A.
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- B. Small Report Prints out a formatted report to the screen, printer
- or a disk text file. The report contains the follow-
- ing data fields: Title, Star, Category, Year, Rating,
- Tape#, Starting counter #, and Time.
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- C. Large Report Prints a formatted report to the printer or a disk
- text file. The report contains the following data
- fields: Title, Star, Co-star, Cast, Director, Cat-
- egory, Year, Rating, Tape#, Starting counter #,
- Time and Recording Speed.
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- ** SELECT TYPE OF REPORT LISTING ** cont Page 6
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- D. Custom Report You design this report. You select the fields
- and the length of the fields you want included in
- your report.
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- 2. List To:
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- A. Screen The report will be listed on your monitor screen. The
- large report and tape labels can not be listed to the
- screen.
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- B. Printer The report will be listed to your printer. All reports
- can be listed to your printer.
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- C. Text File If you select this item, you will be prompted for a
- file name to store the listing on a disk file. All
- reports except tape labels can be listed to a text
- file.
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- ** SELECT TYPE OF REPORT LISTING ** cont Page 7
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- 3. List:
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- A. All Movies All movies in your library file will be listed to the
- output device previously selected.
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- B. Some Movies Only those movies that meet the selection criteria you
- specify later on the MOVIE SELECTOR screen (Page 10)
- will be listed to the output device selected.
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- 4. Sort By:
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- A. Title Report will be listed sorted alphabetically by title.
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- B. Star Report will be listed sorted alphabetically by the
- star's last names.
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- C. Co-Star Report will be listed sorted alphabetically by the
- co-star's last names.
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- D. Director Report will be listed sorted alphabetically by the
- director's last names.
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- E. Tape # Reported will be listed sorted alpha-numerically by
- tape number.
- *** Notes ***
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- 1. If you select (A) Tape labels for report type, you can only
- select (B) Printer for list to and (E) Tape # for sort by.
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- 2. The Large Report cannot be listed to the screen.
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- 3. Your selection for Sort By may be overridden if you have selected (B)
- List Some Movies. If you selected List Some Movies, you will go to
- the MOVIE SELECTOR screen after completing the current screen. If one
- of the fields you list to search on is a key field (ie title, star, co-
- star, director or tape#), the first key field you list will become the
- default Sort By selection. By doing this, the search of the library
- file is rapidly speeded up.
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- ** SELECT TYPE OF REPORT LISTING ** cont Page 9
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- KEY FUNCTION COMMENT
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- E Edit Allows you to edit the selections you previous-
- ly entered.
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- C Continue After you completed your selections this key
- allows you to have your report listed or
- will take you to the next screen if required.
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- Q Quite This key will return you to the main screen.
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- H Help Displays these help screens.
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- ** MOVIE SELECTOR ** Page 10
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- The MOVIE SELECTOR screen is displayed if you choose just to display some
- movies from the SELECT REPORT TYPE LISTING screen or if you choose to create
- a Sub-File from the UTILITY screen. The purpose of this screen is to allow
- you to selectively choose the movies you want included in your report or
- Sub-File. Selections of the movies that you require from the library file
- are made through entries in four fields.
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- 1. Field Enter the field name on which you wish to restrict output.
- In addition to the 15 field names displayed on the screen,
- you may use three additional field names, STARF for the
- star's first name, COSTARF for the co-stars first name,
- and DIRECF for the director's first name. Using the field
- names STAR, COSTAR and DIRECTOR are for their last names.
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- 2. Comparator Requires entry of one of the comparators listed in the
- screen window.
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- 3. LogOp Requires entry of one of the logical operators (and -- or).
- The word END is type in this field if the column is not
- filled, to end data entry on the screen.
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- 4. Value Enter a constant against which you want the comparison made.
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- ** Examples **
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- LogOp Field Comparator Value
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- YEAR GE 1985
- AND RATING EQ PG
- AND TIME LE 100
- END
- This example would select those movies in your library file that were made
- on or after 1985, that were rated PG and had a running time of 100 min or less.
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- STAR EQ EASTWOOD
- OR STAR EQ REYNOLDS
- AND CATEGORY EQ A
- This example would select those movies in your library file that starred
- either Eastwood, or Reynolds that were in the Action category.
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- ** REPORT FORMATTER ** Page 12
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- This screen allows you to select the fields you want included in your report.
- You select the fields to include, the width you want the field to occupy and
- select whether to truncate or wrap a field if the actual field width exceeds
- the width you selected. The screen displays five fields, three of which re-
- quire you to make entries. Two of the fields display information only and
- cannot be edited.
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- Print Field Enter the field you want printed in this field.
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- Field Width Display only field, shows the width the field occupies in
- the library file.
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- Print Width Enter the width in characters, you want the field to occupy.
- The minimum is six.
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- Wrap (Y/N) Yes - if the field width of the field to be printed is
- greater than the print width you selected, then the remain-
- ing characters will be printed on the next line -- if No
- the remaining characters will be truncated.
- See Example on the next page.
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- ** Wrap Example **
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- 1. You enter TITLE for Print Field.
- 2. The screen would display 40 for Field Width.
- 3. You enter 20 for Print Width.
- 4. You enter Y for Wrap.
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- The movie title ' Star Trek III: The Search For Spock ' would print out as
- follows with 'Y 'for Wrap:
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- Star Trek III: The
- Search For Spock
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- If 'N' was entered for WRAP the title would be truncated as follows:
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- Star Trek III: The
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- ** UTILITY MENU ** Page 14
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- Key Function Comment
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- D Set Date Sets the system date. The date you enter will be
- displayed on the main screen.
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- T Set Time Sets the system time. The time you enter will be
- displayed on the main screen.
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- M Merge Files This function will enter the movies from a file
- previously created by Video Librarian into the
- current movie library file.
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- C Create Sub-File This function will create a fully functional sub-
- file of the currently selected file. After this
- function is selected you will be sent to the
- MOVIE SELECTOR screen where you will set up the
- selection criteria for the movies to be included
- in the new file.
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