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- Outgoing FAXES:
- Generating & Transmitting FAXES from this program
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- Overview:
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- This methodology will illustrate the three steps necessary for creating ì
- outgoing FAXES from routine correspondence and then transmitting them. It ì
- presumes that you have a FAX board inside your PC that will convert an ì
- ASCII file into the graphical format of the FAX board.
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- This program will create this 'routine correspondence' internally and will ì
- then pass it to the subdirectory where your FAX software resides. Since the ì
- printing cycle is bypassed, the outgoing FAXES will have a higher ì
- resolution than if you print the letters, then feed them back into a ì
- traditional FAX machine for immediate transmission.
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- While creating this correspondence within the program, you can branch into ì
- your FAX software, run its ASCII-to-FAX conversion software, then transmit ì
- the FAX. Once finished, you branch back into the program and pick up where ì
- you left off. By using the FAST RUNNER [TM] option, you can run up to 20 ì
- large application programs, such as your FAX conversion software, in the ì
- 'background' without ever leaving the program.
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- /--------------------------\
- | Step 1: |
- | Using Quick Memo [TM] |
- \--------------------------/
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- While creating an activity record, branch off to the Memo Options Menu. In ì
- this menu, Selection 8 will create a Quick Memo [TM] for you. Once ì
- selected, Option 8 will have created the heading of the top of a routine ì
- piece of correspondence, after which you will enter the text necessary to ì
- complete the letter. For a greater understanding of Memo options, see ì
- these appendices in PROGRAM.DOC/PROGRAM.REF:
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- Overview of Memo Options:
- Every Client and activity record has its own word processor!
- Client Memo..........................................Appendix K-I
- Activity Memos........................................Appendix K-II
- Quick Memo [TM].......................................Appendix K-III
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- /--------------------------\
- | Step 2: |
- | Entering Text in the Memo |
- \--------------------------/
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- At the Memo Option Menu, observe selection 1:
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- è "1) Edit the existing memo or create a new one"
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- Once you select option 1, enter your text below the heading created by ì
- Quick Memo [TM]. Once you have finished entering the body of your letter, ì
- save your text with a Control-W as per the Edit Screen Codes on the bottom ì
- of your screen, then exit back to the Memo Options Menu.
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- Optionally, you could append large blocks of existing text into the bottom ì
- of Quick Memo [TM] using the methodology outlined in Appendix A-8 in ì
- PROGRAM.DOC/PROGRAM.REF:
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- An Alternate Strategy for creating Invoices or Proposals
- from memos in the Activity files:.....................Appendix A-8
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- /---------------------------\
- | Step 3: |
- | Outputting to the FAX card |
- \---------------------------/
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- At the Memo Options Menu, observe selection 2:
- "2) Output the memo to a text file"
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- Let's say you have a subdirectory called '\FAX'. After you select option 2 ì
- at the Memo Options Menu, the program will ask you this question:
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- "Enter the file name here that you want your text file saved under."
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- If you want to name it 'TEST1' and send it to the '\FAX' subdirectory, you ì
- would enter this qualified name:
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- \FAX\TEST1 <============= enter this
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- '\FAX' sends it to the '\FAX' subdirectory, then names the ASCII file ì
- 'TEST1'.
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- At this point, you invoke 'Background' Options with the 'F1' function key. ì
- On the 'Background' Options Menu, you invoke Fast Runner [TM] to branch ì
- into your FAX card software, convert 'TEST1' into a FAX format, send it out ì
- using the FAX card, then return to the program. Fast Runner [TM] remembers ì
- where you were and returns you to that exact point.
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- For a clearer understanding of how these options work, see these appendices ì
- in PROGRAM.DOC/PROGRAM.REF:
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- 'Background' Options.......................................Appendix A-12
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- Fast Runner [TM] Options...................................Appendix A-13
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