This episode features Data Manager XL, released in 1985 by Antic Publishing. It was programmed by William Bartlett.

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Data Manager XL in ActionBooting and Main Menu

  • Data Manager Module

  • Data Module menu

  • Add menu
  • Entering field data (one field at a time on the screen)
  • Summary of data entered, OK to save it?
  • Setting default values for a field
  • Search (and replace)
  • This will cause an error as the new length is greater than the old length.

  • Told you. Index Manager Module

  • Index Manager Module menu

  • You can only have 1 index at a time.
  • Summary of the current index. Insightful isn’t it! OK to delete it?
  • Start defining a new index
  • No field names represented until after they are selected. Keep your database structure handy.
  • Insightful summary of the new index.

  • Creating a new database from a subset of another. Print Manager Module

  • Print Manager Module menu

  • Browsing (finding) a record to print
  • A valid search query! You MUST know how your index is built, keep it handy!
  • Found the matching “0101” record!
  • Printing a report
  • A few parameters for printing
  • Selecting the report definition. Use “IA Episodes” report?
  • Ruh Roh!

  • Printing using a form. None defined at the moment. File Manager Module

  • File Manager Module menu

  • Create menu. Choose the type of file to create.
  • Creating a database file.
  • Entering the database fields label data.
  • Creating a report.
  • The reports parameters for page formatting.
  • Describing the fields that will appear on the report. Shown is the 4th (and last) defined field for this report.
  • You can delete too.
  • Ruh Roh!

  • Whoops! This error occurred during a redefinition of the database structure. Tool Manager Module

  • Tool Manager Module menu.

  • Showing the database Status, with an option to print.
  • Packing a database.
  • Status of the packing process. Make sure you rebuild the index afterward.
  • Import from DML (Diskette Mailing List).
  • Disk drive RPM speed check. Sure, why not?
  • Speed looks about right.

  • Formatting a disk. Are you sure? Documentation

  • Menu

  • Viewing on screen.

  • Files

  • Files from main program (side A).

  • Files from documentation (side B).
  • Contents of the sample database.
  • Hex dump of the sample index. Appears to be 8 letters of last name and 4 letters of first name fields.
  • The catalog description of the database. Unsure what “1” in the data represents. “7” represents the number of fields.
  • The catalog description of the Inverse ATASCII episode database.
  • Hex dump of the report definition for the Inverse ATASCII episode report. ManualS7E02-prt-docDownloadPrint OutputSingle record, all fields:

S7E02-prt-3-1-04-printDownloadAll records, all fields. Note the summary data added automatically:

S7E02-prt-3-1-04-print-mulitDownloadDatabase statistics:

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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.

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