Thanks to all the Sysops' and users for their valuable suggestions
here is the brief history of PCBCARDS

Version .5 (PCBC050.ZIP) Original release so nothing to update

Version .6 (PCBC060.ZIP) First official update
   CHANGED - <PGUP> & <PGDN> keys for skipping records.  It was pointed out
                             that many terminal programs use these keys to
                             start uploads and downloads.  The new commands
                             are (P)revious and (N)ext

   CHANGED - the screen display when adding a new record.  It now erases all
             previous information first.  This should decrease some confusion.

   CHANGED - The (P) SYSOP command has been changed to (Z)ap.  This was done
             because of the the new (P)revious user command.

   ADDED   - Record numbers to the screen, format is CARD: 1 of 5.  Let me
             know if your users get confused.  The record number is the
             actual record number.  Since the file is diplayed in NAME order
             these numbers could confuse people, they might see card: 5 of 6
             and then press (P)revious and be told they are at the top of the
             file.

   ADDED   - New data field TYPE, this allows you to enter an entry type
             identifier, for example the BMIX entry is type BBS.  You don't
             have to update your DBF, this field is already in the DBF.   I
             just got around to actually displaying it in this release.  In
             the future I will add a feature to allow browsing and searching
             on this field.

   ADDED   - New Command (H)elp.  This just display a help screen for the
             main user commands.  I'll expand this help if people think it
             is required.

   MISC    - Many other minor enhancements were made to make thing a bit
             neater.  A prompt line was added at the bottom.  The Note
             lines now word wrap, some limited data masking is now done.
             When you enter a phone number only "0123456789()." are allowed
             The State and Type fields are automatically converted to
             upper case.  When editing a field it no longer erases when
             you first type.  If you want to erase the whole field press
             ESC.


09 Jul 1995
Version .61 not released to public

   Change: Screen look while adding and editing.  The screen now restores
           each line to normal colors after you leave it.  This allowed
           consolidation of three seperate procedures into one.

   Change: Entry in help file for search, now informs the user that the
           search is case sensitive.  Until I can come up with a quick
           method to do non case sensitive searches it will probably stay
           this way.  The PPL DBF Index does not allow much flexabilty,
           no multiple keys, no formatting.

   Fix   : The phone numbers were not accepting spaces or periods, now
           they do. Legal entries are "0123456789.( )"
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10 Jul - 16 1995
Version .65 thru .75 Not released to public

           many minor changes mostly to improve screen appearance and system
           performance.  A lot of experimentation on different menu techniques.
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17 JUL 1995
Version .8 (PCBC080.ZIP) released to public ( Last free registration version)

   Change  : Yet another change to the menu.  This will be the last major
             change to the menu.  The menu is now a light bar with a brief
             help line at the bottom of the screen.  Pressing the first
             letter of each menu item will select and execute the option or
             Use the left & right arrow keys to hi-lite a selection and
             then press ENTER to execute.  For backwards compatability you
             can still use the old keypresses for those that have changed.

   Change  : Removed the requirement for the environment variable PCBCARDS.
             PCBCards will check the dir that it was started from and use it.
             IMPORTANT: You must ensure that your entry in the CMD.LST file
             for PCBCARDS contains the COMPLETE drive & directory path or
             your files will be created in whatever directory you started
             PCB from, do not use relative directory addressing
             (..\ppl\pcbcards\pcbcards.ppe) WILL NOT WORK!  use
             (C:\ppl\pcbcards\pcbcards.ppe)

   Change  : Changed the record number display.  This seemed to be confusing
             many people, sysops & users both.  The display now simply says
             Card ID #: XXX.  Remember the card ID is the actual data record
             number for that card.  It's determined by the ebtry order.  All
             cards are indexed alphabetically by Name so the first card in the
             index could be card ID # 50.

   Change  : During edits all fields were changed to white on black and
             remained that way until you were done.  Now as you leave each
             field it is redisplayed in the proper format.  If your users
             complain about a performance hit here, I may make this a
             SYSOP configurable option in version 1.0.  Let me know...
