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- ─────────────══════════════ The Book Keeper! ════════════─────────────
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- Welcome to The Book Keeper!, a small sorting program.
- This program was designed as a school project. What this program
- does is it sorts a list of books by either Author, Title, or Price.
- It uses C's many text features, including text windows. This
- program has proved to be a major learning expierience for the
- author :) .
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- Now, to operate the program, just type "keeper" at the
- dos prompt, and the main menu will appear. Since this program
- was designed with ease of use in mind, you can virtually follow
- the prompts. But here is a summary of the commands available
- from the main menu:
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- ─══─ Option <1>:
- Press '1' to enter into the main part of the
- program. Pressing this will bring up the "sorting"
- window, and you will be immediatly prompted to
- enter the title of your first book. Enter the
- title and press <ENTER>, then the program will
- prompt you for the author, so enter that in, and
- press <ENTER>, and finally, you will be prompted
- to enter the price, so type in the price, and
- press <ENTER>. Then you will be prompted for the
- title of the next book. Simply repeat the process,
- and when you are done, type 'q' when it asks you for
- the next title.
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- Now, simply follow the prompts. It will display
- a list of every entry you've inputed so far.
- Then you will be prompted as to how you wish to
- sort them, press <1> to sort alphabetically by
- title, <2> to sort alphabetically by Author, and
- <3> to sort from least to greatest in Price.
- It will then show you a list of them in order.
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- Finally, you will be prompted whether you want
- to save the sorted list to a disk. If you say yes,
- then you will be asked what you wish to call the
- file, (8 characters or less), simply typt the
- name in, and then the program will automatically
- save the sorted list for you in an ASCII text file
- with the extension '.TBK'. to view this file, load
- up any text editor, and then load the file into
- it. Finally, press any key to return to the Main
- Menu.
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- ─══─ Option <2>:
- Pressing '2' brings you to a small help screen,
- that tells you a very condensed version of what
- is in this file, and refers you to here for more
- information.
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- ─══─ Option <3>:
- Pressing '3' shows you a window displaying
- information about the author and the program
- itself.
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- ─══─ Option <4>:
- Pressing '4' brings up a small window prompting
- you to confirm your exiting, simply press '1' to
- exit, or '2' to return to the program.
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- I hope this has explained everything about the program, if
- it hasn't, please let me know. Thank You, and enjoy the program.
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- - John Clemens
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