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* B O O K L I B R A R I A N *
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* User's Guide *
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* Lemuel D. Turner *
* TurboSystemsCo *
* 3595 Canton Rd, Suite A9-268 *
* Marietta, Ga. 30066 *
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(C) Copyright 1991-1992 Lemuel D. Turner
(C) Copyright 1991-1992 TurboSystemsCo
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LICENSE AGREEMENT
BOOK LIBRARIAN PROGRAM
(C) Copyright 1991-92 TurboSystemsCo and Lemuel D. Turner for this
software, documentation, and user interface. Marietta, Ga. United
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The rights to receive any such financial or other benefit, and to
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Support from users enables us to develop additional features and,
future versions of the BOOK LIBRARIAN product. Your payment of
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This software may not be reversed-engineered or disassembled,
and includes certain trade secrets and confidential information
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Introduction ............................................. 1
Features ................................................. 1
System Requirements ...................................... 2
Distribution Files ....................................... 2
Disk Back-Up ............................................. 2
Getting Started
Installing Book Librarian ................................ 3
Hard Disk System ..................................... 3
Floppy Disk System ................................... 3
Start-Up ................................................. 3
Floppy Disk System ................................... 3
Hard Disk System ..................................... 4
Printer Set-up ....................................... 4
Keyboard and Mouse Usage ............................. 5
Data Entry
Data Entry Screen ......................................... 5
Command Menu .......................................... 5
Edit Keys ............................................. 7
Data Operations ........................................... 8
Adding Records ........................................ 8
Data Entry Fields .................................. 9
Editing Records ....................................... 9
Deleting Records ...................................... 10
Searching
The Find Function ......................................... 10
List Book Window ...................................... 11
The Browse Function ....................................... 12
The Search Function ....................................... 12
Query Screen Fields ................................... 12
Reports
Reports ................................................... 13
Report Type Menu ...................................... 13
List To Menu .......................................... 13
List All .............................................. 14
Sort By Menu .......................................... 14
Spacing Menu .......................................... 14
Report Formatter .......................................... 14
Formatter Fields ...................................... 14
Customer Support .............................................. 15
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INTRODUCTION
BOOK LIBRARIAN is an easy to use book database management system.
It is ideal for managing a personal, professional, church, club,
or business library. You can quickly search your library by Title
Author, Subject or Book type. Can print reports to the screen,
printer or disk file.
FEATURES
- Holds 16 Information Fields About Each Book
-- Title, Author (first & last), Subject, Book Type, Edition,
Pages, Copyright Year, Catalog #, ISBN, Purchase Date, Price,
Publisher, Location, Note1, Note2.
-- A memo field that can hold up to 30 lines of information about
each title.
- Database Management Functions.
-- Next, Prev, Find, Top, Last, Edit, Add, Del, Search,
Report, Browse, Quit
- Reports
-- Eight fixed format reports, plus a self design report.
--- Reports may be printed to screen, printer or disk text file.
--- Can print on continous form 3 X 5 cards.
- Context Sensitive Help
-- Press F1 to bring up a relevant help screen at any point in
the program.
- Mouse Support
- Screen Saver
-- A built-in screen saver activates when the keyboard is not used
at a user customizable interval.
- Browse and Find Windows
-- Moveable, scrollable, resizeable
- Find any Title, Subject, Author or Book Type in approximately 1
second or less.
- Search database on any combination of fields.
- Can hold over 2 billion titles, approximately 900 on a 360k floppy
if memo field is not used. Memo field only uses disk space if the
field is used.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
To use BOOK LIBRARIAN you will require:
IBM PC/XT/AT PS/2 or Compatible.
At least 512k of memory.
Two floppy drives or 1 hard disk and a floppy
A color monitor (CGA,EGA,VGA)
Printer (capable of print in compressed mode to use
all the features of the program).
MS-DOS/PC-DOS 2.1 or higher.
Supports both keyboard and mouse input.
Your CONFIG.SYS file must have the statement, FILES=16. If the
number is greater than 16 that's okay. Refer to your DOS manual
if you are not familiar with the CONFIG.SYS file.
THE DISTRIBUTION FILES
The Book Librarian disk should at a minimum contain the
following files. If all the files listed below are not found
on this disk, please notify TurboSystemsCo of the source of
disk so we can provide them a correct copy of the program.
There may be additional files added by the distributor.
BL.EXE README.DOC SAMPLE.K3 REPORT.DSW ORDER.EXE
BL.DBW SAMPLE.BLF SAMPLE.K4 REPORT.DSH OPWIN.DSW
BL.DBH SAMPLE.K1 DBLANG.LAN QUERY.DSW FORM1.DSW
BL.DOC SAMPLE.K2 PRINTER.PTR QUERY.DSH FORM1.DSH
DB_UTIL.IWF EPSON.CFG
DBPMENU.MEN IBMPRO.CFG
VENDOR.DOC HPII.CFG
BACKUP YOUR PROGRAM DISK
Please make a backup copy of the program disk. If required,
please refer to your DOS manual for back-up procedures.
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INSTALL BOOK LIBRARIAN ON A HARD DISK
Before continuing we remind you again to make a backup copy of
the program disk. Refer to your DOS manual for back-up pro-
cedures if required.
We suggest you set up a directory specifically for Book Librarian.
From the "root" directory normally "C:\":
Enter the DOS command:
MD\BOOK (Press RETURN)
Next set the default to the new sub-directory by entering the
DOS command:
CD\BOOK (Press RETURN)
With your working copy disk in drive A; enter the DOS command:
COPY A:\*.* (Press RETURN)
INSTALLING ON A FLOPPY DISK SYSTEM
If you are using Book Librarian on a dual floppy disk system, then
all that is required is to make a backup (copy) of the Book Librarian
program disk and use the backup (copy) as your working disk. You'll
also need to format a blank floppy disk to hold your data files.
START-UP
This section describes how to load and start-up Book Librarian.
Also see README.DOC file on the distribution diskette for the
latest info.
DUAL FLOPPY SYSTEM
You need your working copy disk of Book Librarian and a blank
formatted disk. To enter Book Librarian, (1) boot your system with
your DOS disk, (2) place your working copy in drive A, and
your blank formatted disk in drive B, (3) at the A> prompt type
VLB and press RETURN, and the shareware notice screen will be dis-
played, (4) after the shareware notice screen is displayed, press
the space bar to continue and the file selection screen is dis-
played. Use the cursor to select a data file. All Book Librarian
data files have the extension .BLF. If you select a file with the
extension .BLF the file will be displayed on the main data entry
screen.
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DUAL FLOPPY SYSTEM - Cont
To select a data file on a different drive, press the control key
and the drive letter. For example to select a data file on drive
B, press the control key and the letter B together. To create a
data file press the F2 function key, enter a name for the file up
to eight characters long. Do not enter an extension, the extension
.BLF will be added.
HARD DISK SYSTEM START-UP
To enter Book Librarian, (1) start your system if not already start-
ed, (2) at the C> prompt, type CD/BOOK or the name of the subdirect-
ory you copied the Book Librarian master disk files, (3) type BL
and press the ENTER/RETURN key and the program will load. To select
a data file see section under Dual Floppy Start-Up.
PRINTER INSTALLATION
The first time you use Book Librarian or if you change printers,
you must install your printer for use with Book Librarian. To
install your printer, select U)til from the Main Menu. Then
select S)elect Printer from the next menu. The menu will display
five selections. (1) Epson and Compatibles, (2) IBM Proprinter and
Compatibles, (3) HP Laser Series II and Compatibles, (4) Generic
and (5) TSC Printer.
To select a printer, select the highligted letter or use the arrow
key to move the cursor over the printer and press RETURN/ENTER.
Most non-laser and some laser printers are compatible with the Epson
or IBM ProPrinter. If your printer is not an Epson or IBM Proprinter
check your manual, it is probably compatible with one or both.
Select the appropiate printer. If you have a laser printer, select
the HP Laser printer.
If your printer will not work with any of the first three selections
then you should select the Generic Printer. When you use the Generic
printer printer control codes are sent to your printer. You will
not be able to print the Comprehensive and Index Cards unless you
manually place your printer in compressed mode prior to starting the
report. Also the headings will not be printed in bold.
The final selection (5) TSC, is used to load a custom driver for your
printer created by TurboSystemsCo. If none of the first three
will work with your printer then contact TurboSystemsCo. We may be
able to construct a driver for you. Please provide the manufactuer
and model number.
If you selcet one of the printers and the reports don't print
correctly, always reset or turn your printer off then back on
prior to trying another selection.
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DATA ENTRY
After the File Selection Screen is displayed, the Main Data Entry
Screen is displayed. The screen contains 16 data entry fields, 1
memo field and the Command Menu.
The Command Menu provides Book Librarian with a selection of easy to
use database management functions. Each menu item can be selected by
pressing the highlighted letter, or by using the arrow keys to place
the cursor over an item and pressing ENTER, or by using the mouse.
The function of each menu item is provided below:
ITEM FUNCTION
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Next Displays the next book title in alphabetical order.
Prev Displays the previous book title in alphabetical order.
Find Use this feature to rapidly locate any Title, Author,
Subject, or Book Type.
Top Displays the first book in Title index order.
Last Displays the last book in Title index order.
Edit Edit the book currently displayed on the screen.
Add Add a new book to the library file.
Del To delete the book displayed on the screen.
Search Displays the Search Selection Screen. Search the lib-
rary file using multiple selection criteria. Matches are
displayed on the Data Entry Screen.
Browse Allows you to display the book records in tabular for-
mat in a browse window, scroll through the records
indexed by Title, Author, Subject or Book Type.
Rpt Displays the report selection screen.
Quit Exits Book Librarian.
F1 Displays context sensitive help about menu items or data
entry fields. The F1 key is not displayed.
Alt+'V' Pressing the ALT key and pressing 'V' will display a
screen to alter the delay before the screen saver.
Valid entries are 5 to 600 seconds. Enter 0 to turn
screen save off.
ESC The same as Quit, also Alt+'X' has same function.
Copy Add a new item, but copy fields currently displayed.
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EDIT KEYS
The edit key listed below are in effect when entering data into the
Main Data Screen and other screens where data can be entered.
KEY FUNCTION
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F1 Displays help screen.
F2 Displays file name field on Data File Selection Screen.
F5 The field is deleted from the cursor position to the end
of the field and the cursor is placed back at the left
margin of the field.
F10 The key is used to end editing. If on the main data entry
screen, the data is written to a data file. On other
screens, control will be returned to the menu.
ESC Key is used to exit from data entry while using the Add
or Edit functions. The changes made to the data entry
screen are canceled.
ENTER Pressing ENTER/RETURN while in a data entry field ends
edit of the field and moves the cursor to the next field.
BACKSPACE Causes the cursor to move to the left and erases the char-
acter to the left.
INS Toggles between insert and overwrite of characters.
DEL Deletes the character under the cursor.
UP ARROW Moves the cursor to the previous field if not in the first
field.
DN ARROW Moves the cursor to the next field on the screen.
L ARROW Moves cursor to left within a field. Does not delete
characters.
R ARROW Moves cursor to right within a field. Does not delete
characters.
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE USAGE
Book Librarian can use both the keyboard and a mouse or a combi-
nation of both. There are three direct equivalences between the
mouse and the keyboard.
* The left mouse button is exactly equal to the ENTER key.
* The right mouse button is exactly equal to the Esc(ape) key.
* The left and right button pressed together, (or the middle
button in a three button mouse) is exactly equal to the F1 Key.
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DATA OPERATIONS
This section describes how to add, edit and delete records.
* ADDING RECORDS
Adding a record is the process of typing information into blank data
entry fields.
To add a record to your book file select Add from the Command Menu
by pressing A, or by using the mouse or arrow keys to highlight Add
and pressing left mouse button or pressing the ENTER/RETURN key.
Data entry begins with the Title field (top left) and proceeds left
to right, top to bottom. At the bottom of the screen is the
Memo area.
You can enter up to 30 lines of information in the memo field. The
This is a memo field is like a mini-wordprocessor, all edit keys
work and words are automatically wrapped at the end of a line.
NOTE: The memo field only uses space in the database if you enter data
in it. The program allocates space in increments of 255 bytes.
Saving the book information to disk is accomplished by pressing the
F10 function key. If you press ESC or the right mouse button while
in any field, the information is erased and is not stored on disk.
You can use the up/down arrow keys and or the mouse to revisit any
field and edit the information prior to pressing F10 or ESC. If in
the memo field, you must press CTRL+PAGE-UP to exit the memo field
and move back up to the note field.
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* DATA ENTRY FIELDS
Each record in the book file contains the following fields.
Field Contents
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Title Holds the book title, up to 43 characters. This
is the primary index field. The first 20 characters
are indexed.
Edition Enter the book edition number, 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.
Subject Enter the general subject of the book, mathmatics,
computers, etc. An index field.
Type Enter the type of book, Childrens, Medical, Text,
How To, Catalog etc. An index field.
Pages Enter the number of pages contained in the book.
Author(last) Holds the last name of the author, an index field.
Author(first) Holds the first name of the author.
Copyright Enter the year the book was copyrighted.
Price Enter the price paid for the book or current value.
Pur Date Enter the date the book was bought or obtained.
Cat # Enter Dewey Decimal system #, or your own numbering
system to identify book.
ISBN Enter the 14 digit ISBN.
Publisher Enter the name of the books publisher.
Location Enter the location of the publisher or can hold the
physical location of the book.
Note1 Can hold miscelleaneous information.
Note2 Sames as note1.
MEMO 30 line scrollable memo area. Can be used to enter
a synopsis, review or other information.
* EDITING RECORDS
To edit a record select Edit from the menu by pressing E or by using
the arrow keys or the mouse. This function allows you to make changes
to the record displayed on the screen.
After you completed making changes to a field or fields, press F10
and the changes are saved to your book file.
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* EDITING RECORDS - cont
If you decide while editing the record that you don't want to save
the changes, press the ESC key and the changes will be erased and the
old information restored.
* DELETING RECORDS
To delete the record displayed select the Del function from the com-
mand menu. A prompt is displayed to confirm deletion of the record.
Answer Yes to delete the record.
SEARCHING
There are two methods provided in the program to search your data-
base, the FIND key and the SEARCH key. The BROWSE key also lets
you look at your database in tabular format and is also explained
in this section. The FIND function is quicker and easier to use
but the Search function allows more complex searches.
* THE FIND FUNCTION
The FIND key rapidly locates a book by Title, Author(last name),
Subject or Book Type.
When you select FIND from the command menu a pop-up menu with the
following choices is displayed: Title, Subject, Type, Author.
Select one of the choices from the menu or press ESC to return to
the Command Menu. If you select Title, the following prompt is
displayed:
Enter Title To Find or ENTER/RETURN For All _________________
A similar prompt is displayed for the other choices if selected.
The prompt above allows you to specify a string to search for, or
just press ENTER/RETURN. If you press ENTER/RETURN key without
entering a search string, then the data file is displayed indexed
by the selected choice in the List Book Window. The cursor will
be placed at the beginning of the file.
If a search string is entered, the data file is displayed in the
List Book Window and the cursor is placed on the first record
that matches the search string. If the search string is not found
then a prompt displays saying An Exact Match Not Found and the
cursor is placed on the record that comes closest to matching the
string entered.
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*FIND FUNCTION - Cont
When using the FIND function the data base is displayed in a pop-
up List Book Window. You can use the arrow keys, mouse, Tab and
Page-Up and Page Down keys to scroll through the data base. The
Tab key moves the cursor right 10 characters, Shift+Tab moves the
cursor left 10 characters. The Page Up and Page Down keys move the
cursor up and down 10 lines respectively.
A unique way to move through the data base or find a particular
record is to type a letter or word from the keyboard while the
List Book Window is displayed. For example if the you typed the
letter C then the cursor will move to the first entry or closest
entry that starts with C. To move the cursor to another location
in the C list type another letter, for example U which would disp-
lay CU in the left lower corner of the window. The cursor would
move to the CU location in the data base. If Author was selected for
the index and you typed CRUISE, the cursor would move to Cruise in
the data base. To erase the letters displayed in the lower left
corner of the window press the Delete or Backspace key to erase the
characters. You can enter other characters to move about the data
base. For example enter the letter A to move to the top of the
data base, then press Delete to erase the character and enter Z to
move to the end of the data base.
There are several options available to change the List Book
Window. The options are displayed at the bottom of the window.
The options are (1) Brief, (2) Zoom (3) Resize and (4) move. The
options are explained below.
List Book Window Options:
(1) Brief - Limits display to only key fields. Can speed that rec-
ords are accessed when paging around data in the find window.
Press ALT 'B' to activate and deactivate.
(2) Zoom - List Book Window expands to full screen. Press ALT 'Z'
to activate and deactivate.
(3) Resize - Allows you to change the size of the window using the
arrow keys or mouse. You can only change the position of the bottom
and right side of the window. To activate press ALT 'R'.
(4) Move - Allows you to move the window using the arrow keys or
mouse. Press ALT 'M' to activate.
Note: If only one record in the Database matches the search string
entered then the record is displayed on the main data entry screen
and not in the find window.
Also pressing ENTER/RETURN when the cursor is over one of the records
in the List Book Window will display the book on the main data
entry screen.
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THE BROWSE FUNCTION
The browse function works identically to the FIND function except
you can not enter a string to search for. The function lets you
browse through you database indexed by Title, Subject, Author or
Book Type. You should use this function if you just want to page
through your data without looking for a particular item.
THE SEARCH FUNCTION
The FIND function can only perform searches on one of the key fields.
The search function can perform searches on up to 10 fields, while
setting up specific search criteria using logical operators. When
the Search menu selection is chosen, the book Query Screen is
displayed along with the menu choices Edit, Recall Quit.
Edit allows you to fill-in the book Query Screen, Recall will
display previously saved selections and allows you to load them from
disk and fill in the book Query Screen. Quit will return you to
the main data entry screen.
QUERY SCREEN FIELDS
There are four fields on the screen used to set up the search cri-
tiera: Field, Comparator, Value and LogOp.
Field Press ENTER/RETURN to pop up a pick list of fields
that can be tested. NOTE: There are 4 fields for Author,
Author_F, Author_L, and Author. For example you would
use Author_L if looking for a last name only match, ie
"Simon". Use Author to match a first and last name, ie
"Burt Simon".
Operator Press ENTER/RETURN to pop up a pick list or type in one
of the seven operators. This field defines the type of
test you want to make.
Value Enter the value to be compared/tested.
LogOp Select AND/OR from the pop up list to enter additional
selection criteria. Enter "END" and/or press F10 to
stop entering data.
The combination of a Field, an Operator and a Value forms the basic
selection criteria. When two basic criteria is joined together by
a LogOp, this forms a selection pair.
The program evaluates each selection pair separately and combines
them progressively from top to bottom to determine if each record
meets the selection criteria. You can enter up to five selection
pairs on the screen.
A screen identical to the data entry screen is displayed with the
prompt "****** Searching ******" at the bottom of the screen.
When a match is found the following menu is displayed: "Next, Edit,
Quit". The mouse does not work with this menu. Next starts the
search process again to find the next match. Edit functions the
same as on the data entry screen. Quit stops the search process
and returns to the data entry screen.
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REPORTS
The report screen appears when Rpt is selected from the command
menu. On the screen is five menus which determine the type of
report, where to list the report, whether to list all or some of
the books, the index to use, and line spacing.
Upon arrival at the screen, the following menu is displayed:
Edit, Continue, Quit. Edit allows updating of the screen, Continue
will cause the report to be listed, Quit returns you to the data
entry screen.
REPORT TYPE MENU
Title A pre-formatted report that can be listed to the
screen, printer or text file. Report lists Title,
Author and Subject.
Author A pre-formatted report that can be listed to the
screen, printer or text file. Report lists Author,
Title and Subject.
Subject A pre-formatted report that can be listed to the
screen, printer or text file. Report lists Subject
Title, and Author.
Book Type A pre-formatted report that can be listed to the
screen, printer or text file. Lists Book Type,
Subject, Title and Author Last Name.
Valuation A pre-formatted report that can be listed to the
screen, printer or text file. Lists Title, ISBN,
Catalog#, Purchase Date, and Price. Totals value
of all books.
Comprehensive A pre-formatted report that can be listed only, to
a printer or text file. The report list all fields
in the database except for the memo field.
Index Cards Report listed on 3 X 5 continous form index cards.
Can not be listed to the screen. All fields are
listed except for memo field.
Custom You select the fields to place in report. Select-
ions are made using the Report Format Screen des-
cribed later.
Memo Prints all fields, plus the contents of the memo
field on a single sheet of paper.
LIST TO MENU
Screen When selected the report is listed to your monitor.
Printer When selected the report is listed to your printer.
Disk When selected, you are prompted for a filename for
the text file. Do not add an extension. The pro-
gram adds the extension .TXT. The file created can
be edited by any wordprocessor capable of reading
ASCII text.
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LIST ALL
Yes List all books in the data file.
No When selected, you will set-up selection criteria using
the Query Screen to list the desired books.
SORT BY MENU
Select the sort order in which you want your report listed. Choices
are Title, Author, Subject and Type. Selecting Title would cause
the report to be listed in alphabetical order by book title.
SPACING
Select Single or Double to print the Title, Author, Subject, Type,
Valuation and Custom reports with single or double line spacing.
Spacing has no effect The Index Card and Comprehensive Reports.
REPORT FORMATTER
When Custom report is selected from the Report Type Menu, the Report
Formatter screen is displayed after completing the current screen.
From this screen you select the fields to be included in your report
and how you want the fields formatted.
REPORT FORMATTER FIELDS
Print Field Enter the name of the field you want printed. Press
ENTER/RETURN while the field is blank for a pop up
list of fields to select from. Selecting Author
from the list will print last name, first name of
each. Choose L-MARGIN to set the size of the left
margin.
Field Width This is a display only field and you can not edit it.
it displays the number of characters the selected
field occupies.
Print Width This field allows you to specify the width in charac-
ters that you want the field to occupy on a line.
The number is added to the Line Width displayed at the
bottom of the screen.
Wrap(Y/N) Select YES(Y) when the Field Width is greater than the
Print Width and you want all the field information
printed. The extra characters will be wrapped to the
next line. The field information can occupy up to
three lines if wrap is used.
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REPORT FORMATTER FIELDS - Cont
Wrap(Y/N) If you select NO(N) and the Field Width is greater
than the Print Width, the extra characters are deleted.
Selecting either YES or NO when the Field Width is
less than or equal to Print Width has no effect on
the printout.
Line Width Display only field. The field displays the width the
line will occupy as each Print Field and Print Width
is selected. NOTE: If the Line Width exceeds 79 for
screen reports or for standard carriage printers, the
report will not be formatted properly when listed. If
you have a wide carriage printer, the reports can be
up to 129 characters wide. The program prints the
reports in regular print and not in compressed print.
If you want to print long lines, I suggest you list
the report to a disk, and import the report into
your wordprocessor, format and print it out.
Wrap Example
This is a demonstration of the use and non use of Wrap on the Title
field. The Field Width for Title is 43, the selected Print Width is
25. The first line of the example below is with YES for Wrap and the
second is with NO for Wrap.
Title Author Subject
-----------------------------------------------
1. Logistics Engineering And Blanchard Management
Management
2. Logistics Engineering And Blanchard Management
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
TurboSystemsCo has a strong commitment to customer support. We
provide technical support only to registered users. However if
you should experience problems getting the program to run on
your systems prior to registering, we will attempt to resolve
those problems.
Lemuel D. Turner the owner and president of TurboSystemsCo and
the author of Book Librarian is a member of the Association of
Shareware Professionals. While we don't think you'll ever need
it, by Mr. Turner's membership in the Association of Shareware
Professionals, registered users have an additional avenue to
resolve customer support disputes if they can not be resolved to
the registered user's satisfaction. See statement below:
Lemuel D. Turner is a member of the Association of Shareware
Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware
principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a share-
ware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting that mem-
ber directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help
you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not
provide technical support for member's products. Please write the
ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon Mi. 49442-9427 or send a
Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
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║ (c)Copyright 1992, PC-SIG, Inc. ║
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README.DOC
Book Librarian
Version 1.5s
by
Lemuel D. Turner
Member Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP)
(C) 1991-1992 By Lemuel D. Turner and TurboSystemsCo
Mailing Address: TurboSystemsCo
P.O. Box 965368
Marietta, Ga. 30066
404-516-8575
Registration Price: $34.00 + 4.00 S/H (US), $8.00 (Non-US)
To Start: Type BL
_______________________________________________________________________
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
_______________________________________________________________________
- Holds 16 Information Fields About Each Book
-- Title, Author (first & last), Subject, Book Type, Edition,
Pages, Copyright Year, Catalog #, ISBN, Purchase Date, Price,
Publisher, Location, Note1, Note2.
-- A memo field that can hold up to 30 lines of information about
each title.
- Database Management Functions.
-- Next, Prev, Find, Top, Last, Edit, Add, Del, Search,
Report, Browse, Quit
- Reports
-- Eight fixed format reports, plus a self design report.
--- Reports may be printed to screen, printer or disk text file.
--- Can print on continous form 3 X 5 cards.
- Context Sensitive Help
-- Press F1 to bring up a relevant help screen at any point in
the program.
______________________________________________________________________
SPECIAL FEATURES - cont Book Librarian
_______________________________________________________________________
- Mouse Support
- Screen Saver
-- A built-in screen saver activates when the keyboard is not used
at a user customizable interval.
- Browse and Find Windows
-- Moveable, scrollable, resizeable
- Find any Title, Subject, Author or Book Type in approximately 1
second or less.
- Search database on any combination of fields.
- Can hold over 2 billion titles, approximately 900 on a 360k floppy
if memo field is not used. Memo field only uses disk space if the
field is used.
______________________________________________________________________
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
______________________________________________________________________
(1) 512K RAM (2) Printer (3) Color Monitor Recommended
______________________________________________________________________
SERVICES PROVIDED TO REGISTERED USERS
______________________________________________________________________
(1) The latest version of Book Librarian without the shareware
registration screens.
(2) A printed manual.
(3) Customer Support by phone or mail by a member of ASP.
(4) Advisement of upgrades which are provided at low cost.
(5) Catalog of addtional products and discounts on additional
product purchases.
REGISTRATION PRICE: $34.95
______________________________________________________________________
FILES ON THIS DISK
______________________________________________________________________
BL.EXE README.DOC SAMPLE.K3 REPORT.DSW ORDER.EXE
BL.DBW SAMPLE.BLF SAMPLE.K4 REPORT.DSH OPWIN.DSW
BL.DBH SAMPLE.K1 PRINTER.PTR QUERY.DSW FORM1.DSW
BL.DOC SAMPLE.K2 EPSON.CFG QUERY.DSH FORM1.DSH
DBPMENU.MEN DBLANG.LAN HPII.CFG
VENDOR.DOC IBMPRO.CFG DB_UTIL.IWF
______________________________________________________________________
Please refer to the VLB.DOC file for information on installing Video
Librarian on your system and complete operating instructions.
NOTE:
Your CONFIG.SYS file must have the statement, FILES=16. If the
number is greater than 16 that's okay. Refer to your DOS manual
if you are not familiar with the CONFIG.SYS file.
VENDOR.DOC
Book Librarian
Version 1.5s
by
Lemuel D. Turner
Member Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP)
(C) 1991-1992 By Lemuel D. Turner and TurboSystemsCo
Mailing Address: TurboSystemsCo
P.O. Box 965368
Marietta, Ga. 30066
404-516-8575
Registration Price: $34.00 + 4.00 S/H (US), $8.00 (Non-US)
To Start: Type BL
_______________________________________________________________________
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
_______________________________________________________________________
BOOK LIBRARIAN is an easy to use book database management system.
It is ideal for managing a personal, professional, church, club,
or business library. You can quickly search your library by Title
Author, Subject or Book type. Can print reports to the screen,
printer or disk file.
______________________________________________________________________
SPECIAL FEATURES
_______________________________________________________________________
- Holds 16 Information Fields About Each Book
-- Title, Author (first & last), Subject, Book Type, Edition,
Pages, Copyright Year, Catalog #, ISBN, Purchase Date, Price,
Publisher, Location, Note1, Note2.
-- A memo field that can hold up to 30 lines of information about
each title.
- Database Management Functions.
-- Next, Prev, Find, Top, Last, Edit, Add, Del, Search,
Report, Browse, Quit
- Reports
-- Seven fixed format reports, plus a self design report.
--- Reports may be printed to screen, printer or disk text file.
--- Can print on continous form 3 X 5 cards.
- Context Sensitive Help
-- Press F1 to bring up a relevant help screen at any point in
the program.
______________________________________________________________________
SPECIAL FEATURES - cont Book Librarian
_______________________________________________________________________
- Mouse Support
- Screen Saver
-- A built-in screen saver activates when the keyboard is not used
at a user customizable interval.
- Browse and Find Windows
-- Moveable, scrollable, resizeable
- Find any Title, Subject, Author or Book Type in approximately 1
second or less.
- Search database on any combination of fields.
- Can hold over 2 billion titles, approximately 900 on a 360k floppy
if memo field is not used. Memo field only uses disk space if the
field is used.
______________________________________________________________________
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
______________________________________________________________________
(1) 512K RAM (2) Printer (3) Color Monitor Recommended
______________________________________________________________________
SERVICES PROVIDED TO REGISTERED USERS
______________________________________________________________________
(1) The latest version of Book Librarian without the shareware
registration screens.
(2) A printed manual.
(3) Customer Support by phone or mail by a member of ASP.
(4) Advisement of upgrades which are provided at low cost.
(5) Catalog of addtional products and discounts on additional
product purchases.
REGISTRATION PRICE: $34.95
______________________________________________________________________
FILES ON THIS DISK
______________________________________________________________________
BL.EXE README.DOC SAMPLE.K3 REPORT.DSW ORDER.EXE
BL.DBW SAMPLE.BLF SAMPLE.K4 REPORT.DSH OPWIN.DSW
Bl.DBH SAMPLE.K1 PRINTER.PTR QUERY.DSW FORM1.DSW
BL.DOC SAMPLE.K2 EPSON.CFG QUERY.DSH FORM1.DSH
DB_UTIL.IWF HPII.CFG
DBPMENU.MEN DBLANG.LAN
VENDOR.DOC IBMPRO.CFG
______________________________________________________________________
DISTRIBUTION PERMISSION
______________________________________________________________________
Permission is granted to shareware vendors, users groups and BBSs to
add Book Librarian to their libraries and distribute the program
as long as the distribution fee does not exceed $10.00. If your dis-
tribution fee exceeds $10.00, you must write for written permission to
distribute Book Librarian.
______________________________________________________________________
PRODUCT HISTORY
______________________________________________________________________
Version 1.5 Released Jan 29 1992
Changes: (1) Added memo report - prints memo contents.
(2) Added printer selection to utility menu..dropped
printer driver database program DBPRINST.EXE
(3) Fixed bugs in custom report field selection.
(4) Fixed bug that caused query screen selection criteria
to be ignored when printing reports.
Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #3183
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
BL DOC 45344 2-10-92 11:49p
BL EXE 85128 1-28-92 5:29p
BOOK DBH 2619 1-28-92 5:29p
BOOK DBW 440 1-28-92 5:29p
DBLANG LAN 7776 1-28-92 5:29p
DBPMENU MEN 11375 1-28-92 5:29p
DB_UTIL IWF 9923 1-28-92 5:29p
EPSON CFG 416 1-28-92 5:29p
FORM1 DSH 1052 1-28-92 5:29p
FORM1 DSW 209 1-28-92 5:29p
HPII CFG 520 1-28-92 5:29p
IBMPRO CFG 416 1-28-92 5:29p
OPWIN DSW 1559 1-28-92 5:29p
ORDER EXE 19022 1-28-92 6:05p
PRINTER PTR 34 1-28-92 5:29p
QUERY DSH 2437 1-28-92 5:29p
QUERY DSW 745 1-28-92 5:29p
README DOC 4447 1-28-92 5:29p
REPORT DSH 1916 1-28-92 5:29p
REPORT DSW 1266 1-28-92 5:29p
SAMPLE BLF 6375 2-10-92 8:35a
SAMPLE K1 2098 2-10-92 8:35a
SAMPLE K2 1522 2-10-92 8:35a
SAMPLE K3 1018 2-10-92 8:35a
SAMPLE K4 1450 2-10-92 8:35a
VENDOR DOC 5741 1-28-92 5:29p
GO BAT 31 6-04-92 2:25a
GO TXT 770 10-02-92 1:36p
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