PMCARD

Jeff Prosise                                     October 30, 1990 (Utilities)

Purpose:        An OS/2 Presentation Manager utility that stores and retrieves
names, addresses, and telephone numbers.  The program can search its data file
for a specified string and, if a modem is connected, it can dial the phone.

Format:   PMCARD [filename]

Remarks:        PMCARD (short for CardFile for Presentation Manager) can be
given a card data [filename] either on the command line or in its Settings
menu.  If you run the program for the first time without specifying a
filename, it will present a blank card.  Information can be entered in any
form, up to six lines per card.  New blank cards can be inserted at a
particular position by selecting Insert Card with the mouse or by pressing F4.
The clipboard commands can be used to copy information to additional cards and
to exchange information with other PM applications.  Phone numbers may include
hyphens, spaces, commas, and parentheses; two phone numbers listed on the same
line must be separated by at least one other character than these.

        There are three ways to search for user-specified text strings: click
on the Srch button, select Search from the Options menu, or press F5.  You can
specify whether searches should be case sensitive or not by checking or
unchecking the case sensitive box in the Search dialog box.  The default
communications parameters are COM1, 1200 bps, no parity, 8 data bits, and 1
and hang-up command strings from the Settings menu.  Thereafter, if you
connect a modem, you can call a number by using the Dial button or F9.  The
number you wish to  call is displayed in the dialog box entry field and may
changed or entered manually.

        The major CardFile mouse-selectable commands, together with keyboard
alternatives, are shown below:

	COMMAND	    KEY	        DESCRIPTION
        =======     ===         ===========
        FILE
        Save        F3          Save the card stack
        Save As...              Save the card stack under a
                                new filename
        Open...                 Clear the card stack and open a
                                new file
        New                     Clear the card stack without
                                opening a new file
        Exit                    Quit the program

        EDIT
        Cut         Shift+Del   Delete the currently-selected
                                text from the card and copy it
                                to the clipboard
        Copy        Ctrl+Ins    Copy the currently-selected
                                text to the clipboard
        Paste       Shift+Ins   Paste the clipboard contents at
                                the current cursor position
        Clear       Del         Delete currently-selected text
                                without copying to clipboard
        Insert Card F4	        Insert new (blank) card at the
                                current position in the stack
	Delete Card Ctrl+F4     Delete the current card from
                                the card stack
        Undo Delete Shift+F4    Insert the last card deleted at
                                the current stack position

        OPTIONS
        Search...   F5          Specify a search string and find
                                the first card that contains it
        Find Next   F6          Find the next higher-numbered
                                card containing the specified
                                search text
        Find Prev   F7          Find the next lower-numbered
                                card containing the specified
                                search text
        Goto...     F8          Go to a specified card number
        Dial...     F9          Dial a phone number
        Memory...               Profile memory usage
        Settings...             Set CardFile's default
                                configuration parameters

        HELP
        About CardFile...       Display program information