NADR 1.0
         (Yet another name and address program for the Amiga.)
                  Copyright 1989 - Griff Jackson

Yes, another name and address program for the Amiga.  I guess there are
some things you just can't have enough of, and name and address programs
must be one of those things. 

What's included with the archive:

NAdr            - the program.
NAdr.info       - the icon.
NAdr.cfg        - a configuration file (more on this later)
NAdr.doc        - you have probably already figured out what this is.

If you care to distribute the program, please keep all of these files
together, and you're allowed to freely distribute the program as long as
all of these files are kept together.

PSUEDO-LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO

On the off-chance that anyone would like to depart with their
hard-earned dollars for using this program, I hereby declare that
NAdr1.0 is being released as SHAREWARE.  That means if you like the
program, use it and want to promote this method of software
distribution (SHAREWARE) and feel really guilty about all of the blood,
sweat, toil and tears that went into the program's development, then send 
me money, quick.  Ten dollars, I think, would not be out of the question,
but then any amount ( > $1 ) would do.  Also, I feel compelled to add 
that no one is allowed to make money off of this program except me.

A Disclaimer:

The author accepts absolutely no responsibility for any harm to your
computer equipment or data that this program might cause.  Now, will 
it cause any harm?  I don't think so, but on the very remote chance 
that something wierd should happen, you're on your own. 

HOW TO USE:

1)  Click on the icon.  (Wow!)

2)  Type "NAdr" from the CLI.

The rest is just about self-explanatory, but I'll attempt to explain it
anyway.  Assuming you've done 1) or 2) of the above:

You get an almost 1 quarter-sized window.  It says "NAdr 1.0" at the
top.  If you don't get that far, then you can stop reading now.  I
don't know what's wrong.  Could be you are out of memory.  NAdr 1.0
requires about 100 kilobytes of free memory.

Okay, just start keying all of your friend's, acquaintance's, family's,
people whom you hardly even know addresses, names, etc...  You'll find
that the up, down, right, left cursor keys work, as well as most of the
rest of the keys that have Phoenician symbols embossed upon them, i. e.
a-Z and 0-9, among others.  (I thought of creating a totally new character
set, but I decided that what English has been using for several hundred 
years was ok with me.)  Some of the keys won't do anything, and that's 
just as well - you shouldn't be pressing them anyway.  Why are you doing 
that?

All of the fields have a preset length (after all this is not some sort
of cheapo Superbase), and you'll figure out how long they are, and the
field lengths usually make sense - except where I imposed my own
preferences.  Also the maximum number of names and addresses that the 
program will maintain is 500.  Hope that's enough.  

Once you've keyed-in the information, you can save it to disk.  This
program only works with the new CD-read/write laser disk so if you
don't have one of these, you'll have to go buy one to use the program.
If you can find one, it'll only cost you about $5,000.  I hope that's
okay.  (Just kidding)  Click on the SAVE gadget to save your
information.  Your disk drive should then spring to life with one red
or green threatening eye.

Later on, if you want to find out that address for that long-lost
friend, you can just start up the program and then click on the SEARCH
gadget, and guess what?  Something resembling a file requester will
appear in a separate window on your screen with all of your friends'
names appearing in the window.  If nothing happens when you click on
SEARCH, then you probably have not saved anything yet.  (Why go to the 
trouble of displaying a window when there's nothing to put in it?)
You can move the list up and down by placing the mouse pointer
over the proportional gadget (do you speak Intuition?).  Place the mouse
pointer over one of the names and click once.  (Actually, you can click 
as many times as you like.  You can click yourself silly for all I care.) 
The name appears in reverse video.  Okay, now click on SELECT.  Voila! 
The requestor window disappears, and your friend's name, address, etc 
appears in the other window.  Now you can modify the name or whatever 
and save it again.  Always click on the SAVE gadget if you actually 
want to save whatever you've keyed - otherwise the program thinks you 
just don't care.

The ABOUT gadget just causes a requester to appear giving you a little
information about the program.  Once the requester is displayed, click 
on the OKAY gadget to get rid of it.

That's about all there is to it.  You can also set up a configuration
file that will tell the program where your files containing the name and
address info reside.  Just key in the path name using the normal '/'
and ':' as appropriate, and the program will save the data there.
The path name defined in the .cfg file must end with a '/' or a ':'.
Otherwise it just won't work, and that's the way it is.  Oh, by the 
way, the configuration file must be in the same directory as the
program (NAdr).  NAdr uses two files NAdr.ndx and NAdr.dat.  You
probably don't want to delete either of these files.  If you just have
to delete one of them, then please delete both of them - otherwise I
can't be held responsible for what might happen.  Since this is a
computer program, it would be a single specific thing, but I don't know
what that might be - having never tested deleting just one of the NAdr
files. 

For anyone who might be interested:

I used the Benchmark Modula-2 Software Construction Set by Leon 
Frenkel to develop this program.  Source code is available if you
really want it.  Of course, we'd have to discuss the terms.

Griff Jackson
2205 17th Street
Plano, TX 75074
214-424-3762 (voice)

PEOPLELINK: OCS180
COMPUSERVE: 73447,3615 

You know, I might even consider fixing bugs or making enhancements 
if you tell me about them. 

September 1989