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Cardbox (The Amstrad User) | Cardbox (Amstrad Computer User) | CARDBOX (Amstrad Action) |
As its name suggests, Cardbox sets our to be an electronic equivalent of a box of file cards. As such, it doesn't go in for any calculations on the data in your file, but does provide comprehensive search facilities To set up a Cardbox fi'e you position a cursor on-screen and define the characteristics of each field from there, so you can see the card as it's built up. A menu of different options along the bottom of the screen, together with n number of prompts,ensure that you know what's going on all the time. The record card can be quite large, and you can incorporate simple graphics using; punctuation characters Once you've defined your card and entered your data, you can use Cardbox's versatile selection system to search through it You can select any field from you r record. and pull out cards which have a particular entry ('London' in the 'Town' field, for instance). These cards arc then copied to a new 'level', which is effectively a sub-set of the whole file. You can make a further selection from this level using a different field and contents, and moving up another level. And so on. You can refine your selection up to 99 times, to ensure you eventually arrive at just the records you want. If you forget what rules you used earlier on, Cardbox will display a history for you. and of course you can switch to any of the previous levels and view the cards there. There's no sort routine in Cardbox. although there is one in the later Cardbox-Plus. Why Caxton chose to provide Amstrad Users with the earlier program is a puzzle Perhaps they didn t like to reduce the pricc of :he newer product to an 'Amstrad'level You can print out the screen at any stage or produce a list of cards using any alternative format you care to define. Cardbox is a well-written program ideal as a replacement for a manual card box. If you don't need extra features, particularly calculations, then you'll find it versatile and easy to use.
AMSTRAD ACTION #6 |
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