The Thank Yous : I am going to take this chance to thank all the people involved with the development (directly and indirectly) of this software. Philip Moore Wayne Ashworth Perry Jordan And a special THANK YOU to Tim Dowell Pure Energy BBS Home of Fido # 1:151/907 Scanner Frequency Manager (919) 786-5549 24 Hours/4 Gig/USR 16.8 DS Bill Cheek Hertzian Intercept BBS Home of the HB-232 Fido # 1:202/731 (619) 578-9247 6pm-1pm PST Even after my imposing many alphas, betas, and gammas upon them, bouncing many ideas off them, hours of messages back and forth, and all generously given out of their buzy schedules. At a time when they probably wanted to tell me to forget the whole thing, they have agreed to carry the latest Scanner Manager and related files on their BBSs They have made this software what it is today. If you like what you see here ... its because of all their efforts and time. The License : I don't know if Scanner Manager is partially Freeware, Shareware, or Crippleware. Here's the license agreement, call it what you will. The Scanner Manager Release 5.0 program, all related programs, and documentation are hereby and herein refered to as the "software" : You are free to use this software under *NO* obligation to register, donate, or purchase. You are free to distribute this software as long as you distribute this software unmodified. You may NOT charge the consumer for the software nor the distribution of the software without express written permission from the author. You are hereby granted license for the private use of this software. This license is for personal use ONLY. Any business, institution, government, or none personal uses MUST register the copy of the Software that is in use. This software is copyrighted and the author retains all rights and ownership of the software. There are two (2) features in Scanner Manager that are not available in the Freeware version. These disabled features are the translate module and the query module. If you decide to register your copy of this software, then you will receive a registration code that will enable these features, also you will receive the latest version of the software, and other supporting software products as they become available. Use of this software signifies agreement to this license. Scanner Manager Release 5.0 Page 1 The Warranty : Every attempt has been made to make the Scanner Manager a stable and safe program to use. However, the author, nor any related parties assumes NOR may be held liable for any losses and/or damages arising from the use of this software. The consumer ( you ) assumes ANY and ALL responsibility for any losses. In other words... I ( the author ) nor anyone else ( except You ) is liable for whatever this software does. System Requirements : IBM PC, XT, AT, EISA, MC or compatible with 512 K ram free. MSDOS 2+ Generic Information : Pressing F1 displays Help information relating to the current screen when the key is pressed. Pressing F8 allows the user to change the colors of the current to a combination of their choosing ******************************************************************** Scanner Manager 5.0 MUST have be able to open 23 files under MS-DOS. If you receive an '????????: TOO MANY FILES OPEN' error message, then check the FILES=## line in your CONFIG.SYS file ( where the ## is a number between 1 and 99 ). If you do not have a FILES=## line, then add it with the ## being 40. If you already have a FILES=## line, then increment the ## number by the quantity in the table : If the ???????? is then add ------------------ -------- SCANLIST 20 INFOFILE 15 CALLCODE 15 SCANNERS 10 SCANFREQ 10 SCRNCLRS 5 ******************************************************************** Frequency : Frequency Generic Information : While a listing is displayed : F2 will display a listing of the Call Codes for the highlighted Licensee and Type of Service. Pressing INS allows the user to add a record. Pressing ENTER allows the user to edit the highlighted record. Pressing DEL allows the user to Delete the highlighted record. Scanner Manager Release 5.0 Page 2 Frequency Displays a listing of all records in order of frequency. Licensee Displays a listing of the records for a specific Licensee in order of Frequency City Displays a listing of the records for a specific City in order of Frequency County Displays a listing of the records for a specific County in order of Frequency State Displays a listing of the records for a specific State in order of Frequency Query Under the Frequency Module ... You'll find a query menu option. This allows the user to query the frequency database for any combination of information. The Frequency fields are limits upper and lower ... inclusive, all other fields are EXACT matches. If a fields is left empty ... then it is not checked in the query. To display a list of valid entries enter a ? ( or any invalid identifier ) and a table of valid entries will pop up for each field, ( except the two frequency fields). Once the Queried table is displayed ... F9 will generate a Fixed Record Length or Comma Delimited ( Your Choice ) ASCII file of all records in the Frequency File that match the Query .... suitable for sharing. F10 will generate a printed report of all records in the Frequency Database that match the query. This Query module is EXTREMELY SLOW, it is doing a comparison of every entered field in the query against every field of every record in the file. Call Codes From the main menu Displays a listing of all the call codes in the file By pressing F2 on a displayed listing of Frequencies Displays a listing of the Call Codes for the highlighted Licensee and Type of Service. Scanner Manager Release 5.0 Page 3 Maintenance The maintenance module allows you to add, update, or delete specific tables of information. Such as Licensees, Scanner Names, Cities, Counties, Types of Service, Area of Service, or any of the eight user definable tables. If you want to change the name of one or more of the user definable tables then perform the following steps : At the Main Menu select Maintenance When the system prompts you for the Table Identifier to modify make sure the entry field is empty and press Enter The system will display a listing of tables within the system Highlight One of the user defined tables and press CTRL+ENTER. This is to press the CRTL key and hold it while pressing the ENTER key. A screen will pop up allowing you to change the name of the table. Scanners This option will display a listing of table of scanners. Highlighting a listed scanner and pressing F3 will display a table of the scanner's channels and their programing. Highlighting a listed scanner and pressing F9 will generate a comma delimited ASCII file ready for downloading into the scanner via the HB-232 interface. For more information on the HB-232 Computer / Scanner interface .... Contact Bill Cheek at the Hertzian Intercept BBS Translate This module allows Importing and Exporting of selected files to an ASCII structure. When the system imports a file ...... it WILL ADD a record for every CR / LF combination it finds in the import file. If the import files are NOT in the proper format. Then a lot of garbage will be added to your file. So it is a good idea to make a BACKUP copy of your datafiles prior to importing any imformation into them. When the system imports a file ..... it will generate the "internal" identifiers for the fields. If the user does not like the internally generate ids, then the user can be change the id in the Maintenance module. When an identifier is modified, the system will maintain the file referential integerity automatically. Scanner Manager Release 5.0 Page 4 When an identifier is deleted under Maintenance .... the referential integerity is * NOT * maintained. I did not feel this was a good idea, due to the fact that this ability could possibly delete master records that were not intended to be deleted. The Fixed Length record structures are : Frequency File Start Length ( Due to ASCII 254 Length limit ... I was unable to include the User definable fields 5 through 8 in this structure. Also, to maintain compatibility between structure types, I left the same fields out of the Comma-delimited structures. ) Frequency 1 9 Licensee Name 10 20 City 30 20 County 50 20 State 70 20 Call Sign 90 9 Usage Level 99 5 Type of Service 104 20 Area of Service 124 20 User Field 1 144 20 User Field 2 164 20 User Field 3 184 20 User Field 4 204 20 Example : 15.3 FORTIS CORPORATION KING Stokes + North Carolina KFC-735 Business County Wide Service + Test 11 Test 12 Test 13 Test 14 24.15 PILOT FREIGHT CARRIEWINSTON-SALEM Forsyth + North Carolina KA-65430 Local Radio + Test 22 25 REISENWEAVER COMMUNIWINSTON-SALEM Forsyth + South Carolina KNEB-276 Business + Test 33 25 CAROLINA COMMUNICATIWINSTON-SALEM Forsyth + KNES-452 Business + Test 44 27.43 HELMS, FLOYD MONROE Union + Some Where KYY-703 Business + Test 51 Scanner Manager Release 5.0 Page 5 Call Codes File Start Length Call Code 1 10 Code Description 11 30 Licensee Name 41 20 Type of Service 61 20 Example : 10-55 DWI Driver SURRY, COUNTY OF Local Government 10-50 Accident SURRY, COUNTY OF Local Government Scanners File Start Length Scanner Id 1 20 Channel Number 21 3 Frequency 24 08 Licensee Name 33 20 Type of Service 53 20 Receive Mode 73 3 Delay 76 1 Lockout 77 1 Comments 78 25 Example : Bearcat 500 XL 1 15.3 FORTIS CORPORATION Business + nfmYNScanner Comments Field Bearcat 500 XL 2 158.745 SURRY, COUNTY OF Local Government + am NN Bearcat 500 XL 3 155.28 SURRY, COUNTY OF Special Emergency + nfmNN Bearcat 500 XL 10015.3 FORTIS CORPORATION Business + wfmYY The Comma Delimited record structures are : Frequency File ( Due to ASCII 254 Length limit ... I was unable to include the User definable fields 5 through 8 in the fixed file structure. Also, to maintain compatibility between structure types, I left the fields out of the Comma-delimited and the Tab-delimited structures. ) *** Note - Frequency is NOT enclosed in quotes *** Frequency,"Licensee Name","City","County","State","Call Sign", "Usage Level","Type of Service","Area of Service","User Field 1", "User Field 2","User Field 3","User Fields 4" Example : 15.3,"FORTIS CORPORATION","KING","Stokes","North Carolina","KFC-735","",+ "Business","County Wide Service","TEST1","","","" 24.15,"PILOT FREIGHT CARRIE","WINSTON-SALEM","Forsyth","","KA-65430","",+ "Local Radio","","","","","" 25,"REISENWEAVER COMMUNI","WINSTON-SALEM","Forsyth","","KNEB-276","",+ "Business","","","","","" 25,"CAROLINA COMMUNICATI","WINSTON-SALEM","Forsyth","","KNES-452","",+ "Business","","","","","" 27.43,"HELMS, FLOYD","MONROE","Union","","KYY-703","","Business","",+ "Test 51","","","" Scanner Manager Release 5.0 Page 6 Call Codes File "Call Code","Code Description","Licensee Name","Type of Service" Example : "10-55","DWI Driver","SURRY, COUNTY OF","Local Government" "10-50","Accident","SURRY, COUNTY OF","Local Government" Scanners File ( Due to ASCII 254 Length limit ... I was unable to include the User definable fields 5 through 8 in the fixed file structure. Also, to maintain compatibility between structure types, I left the fields out of the Comma-delimited and the Tab-delimited structures. ) *** Note Channel Number and Frequency are NOT enclosed in quotes *** "Scanner Id",Channel Number,Frequency,"Licensee Name","Type of Service", "Receive Mode","Delay","Lockout","Comments" Example : "Bearcat 500 XL",1,15.3,"FORTIS CORPORATION","Business","nfm","Y","N",+ "Scanner Comments Field" "Bearcat 500 XL",2,158.745,"SURRY, COUNTY OF","Local Government","am","N",+ "N","" "Bearcat 500 XL",3,155.28,"SURRY, COUNTY OF","Special Emergency","nfm","N",+ "N","" "Bearcat 500 XL",100,15.3,"FORTIS CORPORATION","Business","wfm","Y","Y","" One final note ... Scanner Manager 5.0 uses a "single file overlay" method of conserving RAM. What this means is that, not all of the SCANMNGR.EXE file is loaded into RAM at the same time. As modules are needed by the program, they are loaded into RAM. The program with not properly execute as a compressed executable. I realize that this a short manual, but the Scanner Manager Release 5.0 has been designed for easy use. I've tried to display all the available features for each screen on that screen. Enjoy ..... I ask one thing of you ... Please drop me a line with your ideas. I want to know what you like, dislike, and/or what you would like to see added to the program. If you wish to "register" your copy of the Scanner Manager, then send a Check for $25.00 (US) to Mike Thompson 316 Forest Knoll Drive Mount Airy, North Carolina 27030 Scanner Manager Release 5.0 Page 7