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- PC/Computing October 1991 CONTACT.DOC
- David Rygmyr Page 306
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- A Do-It-Yourself Database Courtesy of QBasic
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- Locate information about contacts even when you can't
- remember their names.
-
-
- CONTACTS.BAS, a simple QBASIC program, records names and
- phone numbers in a file named CONTACTS.TXT. It also lets
- you search through the database file for information you've
- already entered, by either first or last name; when it
- finds a match, it displays the record (or records, if it
- finds more than one).
-
- To use CONTACTS.BAS, you'll need a copy of QBasic, and if
- you haven't yet moved to DOS 5.0, here's another incentive:
- The upgrade includes QBasic and its development environment.
-
- The simplest way to use CONTACTS.BAS is to create a
- CONTACTS.BAT batch file containing this command:
-
- QBASIC /RUN CONTACTS.BAS
-
- This assumes you're starting the program from the directory
- that contains both CONTACTS.BAS and CONTACTS.TXT. If
- they're in another directory, you should begin the batch
- file with a line that changes to the directory containing
- those files. Otherwise, you might findf yourself with
- several copies of CONTACTS.TXT on your disk instead of one.
- (CONTACTS.BAS opens or creates CONTACTS.TXT in the current
- directory.
-
-
- Material in this document may not be reproduced in any form
- without permission. Written requests for permission should
- be addressed to Chantal Lavelanet, Ziff-Davis Publishing
- Company, One Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
-