Here's the new stuff since the last version released 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...