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PAGE ONE 17JUN80 INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LOADING: AS THE PROGRAM IS IN BASIC, THE USER MUST FIRST GET THE COMPUTER INTO THE BASIC INTERPRETER. THE EASIEST WAY OF DOING THIS IS <ESC-D>. AFTER BASIC HAS FINISHED SIGNING ON, HIT THE <AUTO> KEY, THIS WILL LOAD AND RUN THE MENU PROGRAM. AT THIS POINT, YOU HAVE THE CHOICE OF EITHER CREATING A NEW 'SKELETON' FILE, OR OPERATING UNDER AN ALREADY EXISTING FILE. CREATE: THIS PROGRAM GIVES THE USER THE FACILITY TO CREATE A NEW SKELETON FILE ON ANY DISK. (NOTE-ONLY ONE DATA FILE MAY BE KEPT ON ANY SINGLE SIDE OF A DISK) IT ASKS THE OPERATOR TO SUPPLY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: FILE NAME => STOCK FILE NAME # RECORDS => MAX # ITEMS COMMENT => 15 CHAR. COMMENT THE PROGRAM WILL THEN CHECK TO ENSURE NO OTHER STOCK FILES EXIST ON THIS SIDE OF THIS DISK, THEN IF ALL IS OK, IT WILL WRITE DATA FOR A NEW FILE. IN THE FCS DIRECTORY, THE FILE WILL ALWAYS BE CALLED INVFIL.RND;01. THIS ENSURES THAT THE COMPUTER CAN ALWAYS BE SURE OF FINDING ONLY THE RIGHT FILE ON ANY DISK. THE FILE NAME SPECIFIED BY THE OPERATOR IS STORED WITHIN INVFIL.RND, AND IS ONLY USED BY THE SYSTEM DURING PRINTOUTS OR LISTINGS. THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DATA RECORDS PER SIDE OF EACH DISKETTE IS APPROX 780 - THIS BEING WITH ***** NO OTHER DATA ON THAT SIDE AT ALL ****** THE USER CAN USE ANY RECORD WITHIN THE FILE OTHER THAN RECORD NUMBER '0' , AS THIS IS USED BY THE CONTROL PROGRAM TO STORE POINTERS AND OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF THE DATA.