GENLABEL vs. 2.8 Fri 01-27-1989 GENLABEL.EXE is a less common, but useful mailing label generator for those who need a number of identically addressed mailing labels. Ideal for returning those monthly bills, the ones which come without return envelopes. Simply run off a group of twelve or more addresses and place the group in your desk, ready for attachment when needed. Through the use of Windows you will find this program is, for all practical purposes, self-documenting. Although quite easy to use, the following few paragraphs may help in getting started. If you find the documentation confusing or not clearly written, please accept my apologies and, if you have some spare labels ready, go ahead and run the program. It's really much easier to run than to explain. GENLABEL.EXE or Bob's Little Label Maker, presents the user an opening menu consisting of four items. The first, Print Test Labels, is selected when you wish to align the labels in your printer. Selection of this item will open an explanatory window from which you may elect to print one or more "test" labels. The testing labels consist of five full lines of characters. Please note that ONLY 30 characters may be used on any single line. Using the Escape Key at this point will bring you back to the Menu. The Second selection from the Opening Menu is "Print a Set Of Labels". When you are satisfied that your label adjustment is correct, this entry may be used to Create the desired label. Another window will open in which you may enter up to five lines. Please remember that each line must be limited to no more than thirty characters, as indicated by the "spacing arrows" which will appear as you move down the screen. The last two lines carry the headings "Comment Line One" and "Comment Line Two". You may use these for the Zip code or any other comments which you may wish to place upon the label. It is not necessary to fill out any more lines than you wish. Upon completing the entries, two additional windows will open, one showing you a "preview" of your label, and the other requesting an answer as to whether it is correct or not. If you respond with an "N" , you will be returned to the Edit Label Window where you may select the line to be corrected. First, use the arrows to select the desired line, then press the ENTER or CR key which will again provide "spacing arrows" for your correction guidance. Completion of the line is indicated by pressing the ENTER or CR key once again . The Preview Window will indicate the correction, and when you are satisfied that all is as you wish, entering an "X" will lead you directly to the Label Print Window. The Label Print Window will also ask how many labels are desired as well as whether you wish to print continuously or pause after each label. This pause option may appear again during printing. ( NOTE: Selecting a zero will permit a return to the Menu without printing any labels. ) If your printer is not "ON LINE" you may appear to have a system lockup. Either put the printer on line, or wait approximately 30 seconds after which time the Disk Operating System will cause an exit from the program with an error message indicating the printer or output device was not ready. GENLABEL vs 2.8 - Page two Version 2.8 includes an added window, one which will open in order to permit an additional number of labels to be added without the necessity of re-entering the original information. This has been included by request of several users who, after printing, realized they needed several additional labels. This is the major difference in the two versions. Returning to the Main Menu, you will note "Change Default Colors". This has been added to provide the ability for those who do not care for the default colors, to choose from a rather complete selection. Feel free to play with these changes at will, for they will Not be saved in permanent form until you so respond. Your selected colors are saved in a file which MUST be named: GLBLCLRS.CNF. This Is Important. Also Important is the need for this "configuration" file to be located with (in the same directory) the main program "GENLABEL.EXE". Each time you run GENLABEL.EXE it looks to see if the file GLBLCLRS.CNF is present. If so, it loads the colors which you saved previously, otherwise GENLABL will come up in it's own default colors. The Archived Program GENLBL28.ARC, as issued by the author, includes two sets of files: Monoscr1.Bat and MonoScr2.Bat which work in conjunction with two files called Mono1.Cnf and Mono2.Cnf. Either may be used, as each pair work together to create a configuration file for use by those without color monitors. Running Monoscr1.Bat or Monoscr2.Bat will create another file: GLBLCLRS.CNF which should be suitable for this use. Those without color monitors will want to retain both sets of Monoscrn.Bat and Mono.Cnf so they may freely experiment with "Change Default Colors" while maintaining the ability to return to the default provided by this set of files ( MONOx.CNF & MONOSCRx.BAT ). No Liability is assumed by the Author, The program is run at the users option. I hope you find this program a useful utility. If you find the program of use, please send a registration fee of five dollars to: Rob Forrest 110 Windward Lane Roswell, Ga. 30076 To date, those registering GenLabel have been sent upgraded and/or "personalized" copies, wherein their name, as indicated in the received material, replaces mine on the opening screen. Hopefully the constraints imposed by my studies in Computer Science will not cause me to change this informal modification for those Registering Users. Therefore, if you wish a specific name in this line, please so indicate when registering the program. I will do my best to incorporate the request. Thank you, money received will be used to help offset my college expenses.