FON

This account describes a program that keeps your phone numbers for you
in much the same way that the little pad does that is by your phone.
The advantage of this is that if you remember only a portion of the
persons name or the company or any thing about the person, you can
still locate the phone number.  The available commands are listed
below:
FON NAME  - Give the phone number and address of the desired person.
FON CHA   - Make a change in this person's name, address, or phone number.
FON IN    - Add a new name to the list.
FON XX    - Delete a name from the list.

If you key in any combination of characters other than CHA, IN, or XX, it
assumes you are looking up the phone number for that person.  Any portion of
that person's name or address will enable that name to be selected.  For
example, if all you remember about a person is that his first name is John, key
in the command FON JOHN  You may use either lower case letters or upper case
letters.  The computer will list all names you have in your file who have the
name John.  Assuming you don't have hundreds of John's in your list, you should
be able to pick out the one you want and you will have his full name and
address.  Likewise, if all you remember is the company that he works for or the
city, you have enough information to pick out the name you want.

For the other commands, such as FON CHA, give the command.  It will then ask for
the name of the person you want changed.  Give any portion of his name.  When it
finds a match, it will ask you if this is the right one.  If you enter 1 for
yes, it will then expect you to rekey in the name, phone number and address.

A small data file with only my name and phone number has been included to get
you started with your list.  I suggest you add at least one name before deleting
my name from the list.

The program specifies the UIC where the data file is stored.  Edit the program
and put in whatever UIC you want the file to be in.  Since the program is
installed and designed to be used from any account that you might be in at the
time, be sure the data file is given status so that the world has read, write
and extend status. Also the directory in [0,0] for that UIC must have privilege
status so that the world can read or write to it.  For example, assuming it is
stored in the account [150,2], give the command:
PIP [0,0]150002.DIR/PR/WO:RWE
There are no special instructions for compiling the program other than the fact
that you will get several error messages to the effect that an index variable
might change.  Ignore those messages. Before task building, you may want to edit
the file FON.CMD and delete the reference to the fortran resident common region.
Then task build, giving the command: TKB @FON  Now install it using the command
INS FON

There is one limitation to the program.  Since it is designed to allow you to
enter first name, etc. as the name of the person desired, the program must scan
through every name in the list.  Once the number of names gets into the
hundreds, it begins to take longer than one would like for the name to be found.
The alternative is to alphabetize the names and always use the last
name when entering a name.  I preferred to keep it small.