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!AWOct91/Goodies/CardBase/Manual
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Archimedes World » AW-1991-10.adf » October91 |
| Filename: | !AWOct91/Goodies/CardBase/Manual |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0618 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
!CardBase
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Version 0.2 March 1991
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Various bug fixes and additions
Does not crash now if over ten fields are used
Printer online detection now works correctly
Warning and error messages segregated
When setting up a new file selecting create a second time is now queried
Longer line width allowed on output window
Extra line feed given at end of printout
Windows now scroll when cursor keys move caret outside visible region
Line length in output window has been increased
New option on output is headings this prefixes file and printer
output with:
filename
date of printout
date of file creation
file size in records
options set
search string used
output line settings
Placing fieldlist (lowercase) in the search string will cause
the field descriptors to be printed to printer or file.
Version 0.31 March 1991
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Various bug fixes and additions
Problems of trying to access a locked, missing file now largely solved
Icon shading in mode 15 on fields window now corrected
Improved error messages
Improved syntax checking of output and seach string
Searching for a date now requires the date in square brackets
eg birthdate = [16:11:78]
the separator can be any of \/:'; etc
Holding down select whilst outputting to screen cause a halt when a match is found. Adjust (with select still held) causes next record to be displayed.
If you find any errors or omissions please let me know.
Adrian Lane
3 Lansdowne Gardens
Hailsham
East Sussex
BN27 1LQ
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Adjus| 00000560 74 20 28 77 69 74 68 20 73 65 6c 65 63 74 20 73 |t (with select s| 00000570 74 69 6c 6c 20 68 65 6c 64 29 20 63 61 75 73 65 |till held) cause| 00000580 73 20 6e 65 78 74 20 72 65 63 6f 72 64 20 74 6f |s next record to| 00000590 20 62 65 20 64 69 73 70 6c 61 79 65 64 2e 0a 0a | be displayed...| 000005a0 49 66 20 79 6f 75 20 66 69 6e 64 20 61 6e 79 20 |If you find any | 000005b0 65 72 72 6f 72 73 20 6f 72 20 6f 6d 69 73 73 69 |errors or omissi| 000005c0 6f 6e 73 20 70 6c 65 61 73 65 20 6c 65 74 20 6d |ons please let m| 000005d0 65 20 6b 6e 6f 77 2e 0a 0a 41 64 72 69 61 6e 20 |e know...Adrian | 000005e0 4c 61 6e 65 0a 33 20 4c 61 6e 73 64 6f 77 6e 65 |Lane.3 Lansdowne| 000005f0 20 47 61 72 64 65 6e 73 0a 48 61 69 6c 73 68 61 | Gardens.Hailsha| 00000600 6d 0a 45 61 73 74 20 53 75 73 73 65 78 0a 42 4e |m.East Sussex.BN| 00000610 32 37 20 31 4c 51 0a 0a |27 1LQ..| 00000618
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