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H O U S E C A T
by Robert B. Cook
HOUSE CAT is a card file program for cataloging your household
furnishings, collectables and credit cards. When running HOUSE CAT for the
first time you'll receive the message 'File not found on disk'. Not to
worry, this only indicates that you have no catalogue file saved to disk,
yet.
REVISING THE MENU
The menu allows ten catalogue categories. Because the majority of the
people that will be using this program are not programmers, and probably
not even familiar with the BASIC language, I have included a method of
easily revising the names of the categories. Using the CRSR keys, move the
white cursor bar to 'Quit/Save/Revise' on the menu and press RETURN. Then
select REVISE MENU by pressing 'R'. Move the yellow cursor bar to the
category name you wish to edit and select it by pressing RETURN. Enter the
new category name and press RETURN. The menu names will be saved along
with the catalogue file.
ENTERING DATA
Using the CRSR keys, move the white cursor bar to a category of your
choice on the menu and select it by pressing RETURN. The following options
will be available to you:
+ - VIEW
You may peruse your cards forward and backward with the + and - keys.
Of course you can't do this until you've filled in some cards.
F1 EDIT
This allows you to add a new card to the file or edit an existing
card. Note the numbers at the top of the card, 'n of n'. The first number
is the card number that you are editing, the second is the number of cards
in the present category. When the card number is higher than the number of
cards, it indicates that the card is a blank, or new card. There are five
places for entries. The first two lines are for the item name and
description of the item. Next line is for the serial or identification
number. Third line is for the purchase date or expiration date. Last is
for the cost or value of the item. Press F1 again to enter the card into
memory or ESCape if you wish to exit without changes. If you are editing
an existing card you'll exit from the EDIT mode, otherwise the number of
cards will be incremented by one and another blank card will be displayed
for editing.
The maximum number of cards for each category is determined by the
variable MAX which is initially set at 100. If you don't plan on using all
the categories you may change this to a higher number and save the program
to preserve it. There is room for about 275 cards if each card is
completely filled in. But, since you'll probably be filling less than half
of each card, you should have 550+ cards available. You'll receive the
message, 'No more cards available' if you should attempt to use more cards
than the maximum.
F3 SORT
There are two ways to sort each card category; by ITEM or by DATE. In
order for the SORT to work properly your entries should be consistent. For
example, if you intend to sort by item, your entries for 'Living Room'
might look like this:
Lamp, floor; Lamp, table; Lamp, desk; etc.
This would group together all your lamps. SORT is case sensitive, if
you use capital letters in one entry use them in similar manner in all
entries. For the date SORT to work properly the entries must have two
digits for each number and any type of separator. Examples, 01/08/91,
06-23-91, 12.05.91. An exception is made when there is no purchase or
expiration date. In that case an entry such as 'None' will place these
cards at the end.
F5 SEARCH
Another reason for keeping your item entries consistent is to enable
the SEARCH command to find similar items. The search string may be up to
ten characters long and these characters may occur anywhere in the item
name. SEARCH is also case sensitive. Pressing RETURN with no entry will
display the blank (new) card for editing.
F6 DELETE
Deletes a card from memory and reduces the quantity number by one.
F8 PRINT
Press 'P' to print all the cards in the current category. You can
send control codes to you printer by pressing 'C'. Enter the code as a
number from 1 to 255 or a letter from a to z, lower case only, then press
RETURN to send it to the printer. Exit by pressing the ESCape key.
F7 MENU
Returns you to the main menu. Choosing 'Quit/Save/Revise' and then
pressing 'S' will save the card file as CATALOGUE and also create a back-up
file, CATALOGUE.BAK. If, for some reason, the CATALOGUE file cannot be
read, scratch the CATALOGUE file and rename the CATALOGUE.BAK file to
CATALOGUE. If you attempt to quit the program without saving your edited
card file you'll be asked if you want to save first.
RBC
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