Welcome to the first issue of EXTENSIONS, an unofficial and irregularly printed newsletter for PRO/FILE 2068 owners. As of now I have another issue planned which will feature an update routine. The routine will permit you to change the data on any line to different data. For example: On line 6 you list a product code for your line of Whiz-bang pliers. All your needle-nose pliers have a code starting with N but your company wishes to change this to NNP. With the update routine this would be done automatically in every appropriate file! Also planned is a more versatile EDIT TO NEXT routine, repetitive file additions, starting a search from any point in your files, and more. Anyway, that’s in the next issue which is now available for $6.00. Now on with this issue.
The changes which follow sometimes require that you have previously added options from the manual or added the machine code sort routine from Tom Woods’ BREAKTHROUGH newsletter (I strongly suggest you get it). I recommend that you add all the improvements from the manual (you don’t need to add the ALPHABETIZE MORE THAN FIVE CHARACTERS or the DISABLE AUTO REPEAT routines if you don’t want to or the additions for a full size printer). If you do everything listed in the manual and the BREAKTHROUGH newsletter as well as everything in this newsletter and my next one, you will still have all the capacity of the original version for your files!
Also, keep copies of old versions with data for a while since you may make an error when making these changes and the resulting bug could result in the permanent loss of data.