Conference 7.286::atarist

I use one that works fairly well, it will dial numbers, print a phone book.
But the only way to enter data is via the keyboard.

	Ray

    The old HABADEX works reasonably well. Unfortunately, the disk  is copy
    protected requiring one to execute the program from a floppy. The data
    files, I believe, can be on HD. It works like an index book. Alan Glick
    kept all his AtariFest stuff on it. The advantage is that it has a
    built in phone dialer.

    
    There's a PD program called "Streetfinder" somewhere in the net.
    I copied it some time ago (is it in your directory, Ray?).
    It works both as an accessory as well as a *.PRG. You may type in
    the addresses, search and print them and also the datafile is in
    ASCII-format to add or edit addresses with e.g. Wordplus.
    
    Bernd
    
    

STFINDER sounds interesting, I will hunt around for it.  A copy
protected address book program would be incredibly inconvienent, so
Habba can eat dust.

    That's why HABA is no longer in business. Most of the stuff they
    produced was garbage, and some of the better stuff was a pain to use
    because of the copy protection. 
    
    I recently wrote a program to extract data from HABADEX. HABADEX does
    not have a way to export the files. You might want to check with Dave
    Sheibley, our librarian. We may have STfinder on one of our pd disks.
    If I have it at home, I'll bring it in and email it to you.

    They're still in business. They write software for the PC and the MAC.
    

After enterying .1 I realized that it didn't matter if the program had a
mechanism for reading a file, as long as it's data file format was easily
reproducible. So I checked and sure enough it is just an ascii file.

The program is ADDRSSBK and can be copied from -
	OLDTMR::$1$DUA8:[WALLACE.PUBLIC.ST]ADDRSSBK.ARC


The file format is straight forward and any ascii address list you have could
easily be converted with a simple uEmacs keyboard macro. The data file
consists of -
	A number of records all terminated with CRLF.

	Each field in a record is enclosed in double quotes.

	All fields of a record are upper case and are seperated by a comma.

	A field can not have a comment in it (the program converts commas
	to slashes).

	The first record in the file has one field which is the number of
	records in the rest of the file.

	All subsequent records contain seven fields, NAME, ADDRESS, CITY,
	STATE, ZIP CODE, PHONE NUMBER, and COMMENT in that order.

Example file -
"2"<CR><LF>
"R WALLACE","23 6TH AVE","LEOMINSTER","MA","01453","555-1212","MODERATOR"<CR><LF>
"FIRST LAST","7 MY ST","NOWHERE","MA","01752","555-1313","NOT REAL"<CR><LF>


For maximum lengths of fields just run the program once and look at the fields
on the screen.

	Ray

    
    
    Jeff, I you haven't found Streetfinder yet, I'll upload it this
    afternoon to
    
    MUNEDI::$1$DUA3:[FALKENSTEIN.ATARI.ADDRESS]*.*
    
    The default path on the original was set to A:\ for the datafile.
    I changed this in the uploaded version to C:\. If you need another
    default path, take a diskmonitor which may select files and search
    for the string "st_find.dat" through the ADDRESS.PRG or ADDRESS.ACC.
    Then you can change the path with the diskmonitor.
    
    Bernd
    

	I have tried both the address books mentioned in this note but, sitting
here at my office desk, I cannot remember which is which...However, the one that
looks like a real address book, with turning pages, seems very good but is
written for a high resolution screen and I lose the lower third(?) off the
bottom of the screen (including the command windows, etc.)...Is there any fix
for this?