Thanks to all the Sysops' and users for their valuable suggestions here is the brief history of PCBCARDS Version .5 (PCBC050.ZIP) Original release so nothing to update Version .6 (PCBC060.ZIP) First official update CHANGED - & keys for skipping records. It was pointed out that many terminal programs use these keys to start uploads and downloads. The new commands are (P)revious and (N)ext CHANGED - the screen display when adding a new record. It now erases all previous information first. This should decrease some confusion. CHANGED - The (P) SYSOP command has been changed to (Z)ap. This was done because of the the new (P)revious user command. ADDED - Record numbers to the screen, format is CARD: 1 of 5. Let me know if your users get confused. The record number is the actual record number. Since the file is diplayed in NAME order these numbers could confuse people, they might see card: 5 of 6 and then press (P)revious and be told they are at the top of the file. ADDED - New data field TYPE, this allows you to enter an entry type identifier, for example the BMIX entry is type BBS. You don't have to update your DBF, this field is already in the DBF. I just got around to actually displaying it in this release. In the future I will add a feature to allow browsing and searching on this field. ADDED - New Command (H)elp. This just display a help screen for the main user commands. I'll expand this help if people think it is required. MISC - Many other minor enhancements were made to make thing a bit neater. A prompt line was added at the bottom. The Note lines now word wrap, some limited data masking is now done. When you enter a phone number only "0123456789()." are allowed The State and Type fields are automatically converted to upper case. When editing a field it no longer erases when you first type. If you want to erase the whole field press ESC. 09 Jul 1995 Version .61 not released to public Change: Screen look while adding and editing. The screen now restores each line to normal colors after you leave it. This allowed consolidation of three seperate procedures into one. Change: Entry in help file for search, now informs the user that the search is case sensitive. Until I can come up with a quick method to do non case sensitive searches it will probably stay this way. The PPL DBF Index does not allow much flexabilty, no multiple keys, no formatting. Fix : The phone numbers were not accepting spaces or periods, now they do. Legal entries are "0123456789.( )" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Jul - 16 1995 Version .65 thru .75 Not released to public many minor changes mostly to improve screen appearance and system performance. A lot of experimentation on different menu techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 JUL 1995 Version .8 (PCBC080.ZIP) released to public ( Last free registration version) Change : Yet another change to the menu. This will be the last major change to the menu. The menu is now a light bar with a brief help line at the bottom of the screen. Pressing the first letter of each menu item will select and execute the option or Use the left & right arrow keys to hi-lite a selection and then press ENTER to execute. For backwards compatability you can still use the old keypresses for those that have changed. Change : Removed the requirement for the environment variable PCBCARDS. PCBCards will check the dir that it was started from and use it. IMPORTANT: You must ensure that your entry in the CMD.LST file for PCBCARDS contains the COMPLETE drive & directory path or your files will be created in whatever directory you started PCB from, do not use relative directory addressing (..\ppl\pcbcards\pcbcards.ppe) WILL NOT WORK! use (C:\ppl\pcbcards\pcbcards.ppe) Change : Changed the record number display. This seemed to be confusing many people, sysops & users both. The display now simply says Card ID #: XXX. Remember the card ID is the actual data record number for that card. It's determined by the ebtry order. All cards are indexed alphabetically by Name so the first card in the index could be card ID # 50. Change : During edits all fields were changed to white on black and remained that way until you were done. Now as you leave each field it is redisplayed in the proper format. If your users complain about a performance hit here, I may make this a SYSOP configurable option in version 1.0. Let me know...