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- ZIPKEY V1.08 Eric Isaacson REGISTRATION $ 30.00
- DATA MAR90 ISAACSON ZIPKEY ZIP ZIPCODE
- FILES: zipky108.sdn
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- Update
-
- This is an experimental version of ZIPKEY, preliminary to the
- V1.1 release. I have added the ZIPKEY 7 command to uninstall
- ZIPKEY from memory, a zip-from-last keystrokes option to
- allow usage within graphic programs, and I have corrected
- some incompatibilities with other programs.
-
- ZIPKEY is a complete city-level directory of 5-digit United
- States zipcodes, combined with a keyboard enhancement
- program. The goal of ZIPKEY is to provide enough power and
- flexibility so that no one with an IBM-PC (or
- hardware-compatible computer) will ever again have to
- manually type in the name of a United States city or town (at
- least not one big enough to have its own zipcode).
-
- When run as an ordinary program, ZIPKEY allows you to
- instantly access any of the 43000+ zipcodes in the directory,
- searching by zipcode, state-and-city, or city-only. If you
- want to use ZIPKEY just to occasionally look up a zipcode,
- you simply choose main-menu option 2 and follow the prompts.
-
- ZIPKEY achieves its full power when installed permanently in
- memory. In this "memory-resident" mode, you can invoke
- ZIPKEY from within any other program (a word processor, a
- data-base manager, etc.). You can type just a 5-digit
- zipcode, and ZIPKEY will fool the program you're running into
- thinking that you have typed any or all of the following: the
- city name, the state name and/or abbreviation, the zipcode,
- and any other combination of fixed keystrokes. This
- "keystroke output" can be in any format that you wish.
-
- ZIPKEY is completely configurable. You can specify any
- combination of keystrokes (the "hotkey") that will invoke
- ZIPKEY when you're running another program. You can also
- specify alternate hotkeys to allow differing sources of
- zipcode specifications (repeat the last zipcode, use a fixed
- sequence of first digits, or get the zipcode from your
- screen), and/or a differing format when ZIPKEY feeds the
- city/state/zip back through your keyboard. You may have up
- to 99 different hotkeys. Your configuration is stored in a
- disk file, which is automatically read by ZIPKEY whenever it
- is invoked.
-
- ZIPKEY has a sophisticated abbreviation algorithm, allowing
- you to specify a limit to the length of the city name, so
- that it will fit into a fixed field.
-
- ZIPKEY's database is based on data from numerous sources,
- including the U.S. Postal Service. It has been extensively
- cross-checked to ensure accuracy and consistency. The data
- is highly compressed, so it won't occupy very much space on
- your disk or in memory. The compression method was
- custom-designed for this database, providing for maximum
- compaction while retaining instant access. It occupies less
- than 128K bytes (less than 3 bytes per entry), small enough
- to allow installation of the data base in either LIM-EMS or
- main memory. But access to the data is fast enough so that
- it is perfectly reasonable to leave the database on your hard
- or RAM disk.
-
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