Contact Version 2.0 Readme file -------------------------------- With this package, you should receive: - the User Guide for Contact 2.0 / CalcKey 1.3 - a registration card - a disk called "Contact2.0" (see "Latest News" for the reason) - on disk: - the program Contact 2.0 - a drawer of ARexx scripts for use with Contact - the program CalcKey 1.3 - see "Latest News" below for any additional information The front cover of the package is original artwork copyright © Piers Goodhew. Exclusive license granted to Desktop Utilities and CMF Software for distribution/promotion. The image of the earth was generated by DrawMap. The author of DrawMap is Bryan Brown; DrawMap is on Fish Disk 485. Let us know how you are using Contact, and what you would find useful in the next version, bearing in mind the need to keep the code reasonably small. One way of adding features without increasing the size of the program is to use ARexx. If you send in an ARexx script that gets included in the next release of Contact, you'll be entitled to a free upgrade! Some of our current 2.0 users were upgraded in this way. Send one in if you think it's a winner. Contact is Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1992 Craig Fisher The User Guide is Joint Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1992 Craig Fisher and Desktop Utilities Produced by: CMF Software P.O. Box 686 Woden ACT 2606 AUSTRALIA Published by: Desktop Utilities P.O. Box 3053 Manuka ACT 2603 AUSTRALIA Phone +61 6 239 6658 Fax +61 6 239 6619 BBS +61 6 239 6659 LATEST NEWS CHANGES: As of Version 2.0t, Contact includes refinements which will enhance its performance and reliability, and has had some cosmetic improvements for both Workbench 2.0 and Workbench 1.3. MERGE: On the Project menu, "..." on the Merge menu has been replaced by ">>", and the A-m keyboard shortcut has been moved from Merge to Merge Other. SCROLLING: Keyboard shortcuts have been implemented for scrolling in the List window: Shift-Cursor scrolls up or down a window at a time; Ctrl-Cursor moves to the top or bottom of the list. These follow the convention which is now widely observed in Amiga text editors and word processors. AREXX PATH: ToolTypes on the distribution disk assume you have a path of Rexx:rx to give commands for ARexx and that the text reader "More" is in your Sys:Utilities drawer or directory. Users with rx in Rexxc: who wish to run the scripts from the icons should change ToolTypes accordingly. AREXX SCRIPTS: There are amendments to some of the ARexx scripts, including: - Minor changes to Contact.rexx, GetRec.rexx, Select.rexx, CreateFile.rexx - Checkholiday which now comes in Australian, US and International forms - Holidaylist files are provided (in root directory) for each of these - New script CreateFile2 which generates a subset of the actual data file - New script CreatePPMergeFile which makes a ProPage CSV mailmerge file. "SELECT" COMMAND: The Contact ARexx command "SELECT" has been changed to "GOTO". If you have already written any scripts using it, you will need to replace this command where it occurred. This was the reason for the change in the script Contact.rexx. DISK NAME: The distribution disk is now called "Contact2.0". You should install Contact on your work disk (e.g. hard disk in "Contact" directory) and make an assign to this (e.g. "Assign Contact: dh0:Contact"). It is not recommended to rename the distribution disk to "Contact", as this would then override your assigned Contact directory when it is in a drive and your own data may get written to it instead of to the proper directory. EDIT NOTES: Edit Notes requires a text editor or word processor which understands a file name as a command line argument. It seems that QuickWrite 1.0 does not. We have asked New Horizons to clarify whether the more recent release of QuickWrite supports a command line argument. AREXX PRINT COMMANDS: The following have been added in Version 2.0: COLUMNS x - set the number of label columns COLUMN1 x - set the position of column 1 COLUMN2 x - set the position of column 2 COLUMN3 x - set the position of column 3 COLUMN4 x - set the position of column 4 PCOLUMN1 x - set the pos of Postscript column 1 PCOLUMN2 x - set the pos of Postscript column 2 PCOLUMN3 x - set the pos of Postscript column 3 PCOLUMN4 x - set the pos of Postscript column 4 PITCH PICA - set the pitch to pica PITCH ELITE - set the pitch to elite PITCH FINE - set the pitch to fine QUALITY DRAFT - set the print quality to draft QUALITY LETTER - set the print quality to letter QUALITY POSTSCRIPT - set print qual to P'script LABEL_LINES x - set # of lines/label AREXX NEW FILE MANAGEMENT COMMANDS: SORT - sort the database NEW_DATABASE filename - create a new database AREXX RECORD SELECTION COMMANDS: 'DESELECT ALL' - Make all records unselected. 'DESELECT CURRENT' - Make the current record unselected. 'SELECT ALL' - Make all records selected. 'SELECT CURRENT' - Make the current record selected. 'SELECT string' - Selects all records which contain the specified string. Records which do not contain the string are deselected. 'SELECT_AND string' - Deselects all records which do not contain the specified string. (Leaving only those records which were already selected and contain the specified string as selected.) 'SELECT_OR string' - Selects all records which contain the specified string. (Leaving those records which were already selected or contain the specified string as selected.) 'TOGGLE ALL' - Toggle the selection state of all records. 'TOGGLE CURRENT' - Toggle the selection state of the current record. NEW SUPPLIED DATABASE: At the suggestion of a reviewer in Megadisc, a new database has been included on the distribution disk summarising the format and function of AmigaDOS commands and providing an example of each. The Find gadget can be used to go directly to information on the required command. The user can, of course, add further notes on each command as desired. INDENT: The command line flag and tooltype for indent are no longer relevant because up to four label positions are supported. Selections should be made via Preferences/Printer Settings and saved using Save Preferences. The entries for Indent in Appendix A and Appendix B in the manual should be deleted. LINE LENGTH: The maximum line length in Contact records at present is 80 characters. SELECTED RECORDS: The number of selected records is displayed in the title bar. If there are 605 records and none are selected, this will be shown by [0/605]. If 20 of these records are selected, the display will read [20/605]. STARTUP WINDOW: This now stays on display for about 10 seconds, unless clicked on. This gives ample time to read the information including the current hotkey. It can be closed immediately by clicking on it. COPY/MOVE RECORDS: When specifying a file to copy or move records to, the path defaults to Contact: unless otherwise specified. If the file already exists, the records will be appended to that file.