Telephone for Windows NT
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Telephone is a simple telephone number look-up utility.  It uses a data
file which is simply lines of the form
        <name>,<number>
and the first line of the file contains the number of records in the
file.  NB the name must be < 48 characters and the number < 16
characters long.  Although originally intended for telephone numbers
and suitable data could be used.

When you start the program you can specify the name of the data file
on the command line.  If you leave the command line blank, then if an
instance of Telephone is already running that instance will be brought
to the top.  If Telephone is not already running then Telephone will
look in the [Telephone] section of Win.Ini for

  DataFile=<telephone data file>

or failing that it will prompt you for the data file.  It is done this
way so that a hot-key set up to run Telephone can be used to restore
a current but minimised instance.

To use Telephone, just type the code or area to search for and click
the SEARCH button or press return.  You can truncate search
strings, and use the usual * and ? wildcards.  If you truncate a
search string then clicking the NEXT button or pressing the down arrow
returns the next match.  The up arrow returns the previous match; there
is no button equivalent of this.  Pressing escape minimises the window.

Two data files are supplied, STD.DAT which has British Std codes and
INTERNAT.DAT which has international dialing codes.  You can create
your own data files; the layout is just names and numbers separated
by a comma.  The first line of the file must contain just the number
of name,number entries in the file.  NB names must be < 48 characters
and numbers < 16 characters.  Telephone will flag an error if these
limits are exceeded.

Telephone has simple editting facilities via the system menu.  To alter
or add an entry put the entry as a name,number string in the results
edit control then use the appropriate system command.  The system menu
also has a command to change the font.

Telephone is Courtesyware, you are free to use it, copy it etc, but
if you do please drop me a line to say thank you.  I can be contacted
on Cix as jrennie@cix.compulink.co.uk, or by snail-mail to

John Rennie
18 Shaftesbury Avenue
Vicars Cross
Chester
CH3 5LQ
United Kingdom