This episode features File-Fax, released in 1982 by tmq Software (TradeMark of Quality). It was developed by Omniware.

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File-Fax in ActionBooting

• Boot splash.

• Main menu. Run Application

• Select it and load up the disks!

• Application menu
• Data entry help
• Data entry
• Writing the new record to disk
• Got some data entered!
• Changing a record starts with a search
• Is this the one to change?
• Change record search navigation help.
• Displaying record.
• Querying
• Wildcards galore!
• Match found
• Running a report. Report menu.
• Special sort needed?
• Where to send the report?
• Displaying report to screen.
• No reports defined properly caught!
• Starting a report to query by range.
• Enter lower bound of query.
• Enter upper bound of query.
• Where to send the report?

• To the screen! Define System Characteristics

• Selecting the application.

• Setting the details for the applications behaviour. Custom for each application.

• Catalog A Disk

• Wrong disk! Print An Application

• Cant print it until its defined! Disk Copy

• Create An Application

• Give it a name.

• Application screen editor. Clean slate.
• Editor help.
• Defined application screen.
• Setting field attributes.
• Field attribute help.
• Attributes on a numeric.
• Application summary before creation. Over 7K records for 4 disk drives! Wow!

• Make sure all disks are inserted before continuing. Create A Report

• Creating a new report.

• Report designer.
• Selecting field to place on report.
• Starting to come together.
• Adding some totals.
• Help!
• Modifying a report. Much like creating, except the initial screen. Files

Relocated VTOC, whats on the disk?

• ManualThere is a link in links section to a copy on the Internet Archive.

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S8E03-prt-D-PrtDownloadShow Links* AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-file-fax_28136.html * Internet Archive Manual: https://archive.org/details/file-fax-manual/File_Fax_Reference_Guide/ * Wikipedia ICOM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICOM_Simulations * Zojo, LLC: https://www.zojoi.com/ * Wikipedia Dave Marsh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Marsh_(game_developer) * Inverse ATASCII S1 E12 LJK Data Perfect: https://inverseatascii.info/2015/03/10/s1e12-ljk-data-perfect/

Intro music is an excerpt from a chip tune by Wizwars named 8 Bit Raceway. It is used under Creative Common license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States.