Skutch Electronics BA-1000 - Manual (Page 4)

Al Sandige Page 4 12/05/01
strip the Local Area Code from all local phone
numbers that have it.
• Dial ‘1’ on Local Calls
This is a check box, you left click on it to
“check” it or “un-check” it. If you check this box,
the program will add a “1” to the start of all local
numbers for dialing (local numbers are 7 digit phone
numbers or numbers with the Local Area Code on
them). If un-checked, the program will strip the “1”
from all local phone numbers that have it.
•
Local Area Code
This box is used to enter the Local Area Code.
The Local Area Code is the area code of the line that
will be used for dialing out; i.e. the phone number
for the line I want to use to call people from is 916-
786-6186, so the local area code is 916.
File Conversion
Run the BA1000 program and it will bring up
the BA1000 TEXT to ZIP window.
• Select the Source File
This box lets you choose the Comma
Delimited ASCII Text file to use for the
conversion; this is the phone number file you want
to convert into a dialer file.
1) Move your mouse cursor over the “Name Box”
(the box with a file name in it, located under the
words SOURCE FILE).
2) Now left click to bring up the Open window.
3) Find the Comma Delimited ASCII Text file
you want to convert.
4) Now left click the “Open” button.
•
Select the Destination File
This pull down box lets you choose which file
the phone numbers, from the conversion, will go to;
i.e. selecting File 0 will put the converted phone
numbers into dialing file 0, File 1 goes to dialing file
1 and so on.
• Find the Phone Number
position
1) Left click the “File Info” button to bring up the
File Information BA-1000 window.
2) Use the “+”/”-“ buttons, in the Field Position
box of the File Information window, to set the
Field Position to 1.
3) Use the “+”/”-“ buttons, in the Field Position
box of the File Information window, to view
the different fields in each record, until you find
the field with the phone numbers.
4) Now left click the “OK” button.
• Convert the Phone
Numbers
1) Change the “START REC” or “END REC” as
needed. Start Rec sets the record number to
start the conversions with. End Rec sets the last
record number to try for the conversions.
2) Insert the ZIP Disk, from the BA-1000, into the
PC ZIP drive.
3) Left click the “Convert” button to convert the
phone numbers and store them on the ZIP Disk.
4) The program will show the conversion progress
as it converts the numbers.
5) When finished, a Convert Summary window
will open to show: Source File, Total Records
Converted, BA-1000 File, Total Records in
File, Start Record and End Record.
The Total Records Converted number tells you
how many valid phone numbers were actually
found.
The Total Records in File number tells you
how many records were counted in the Source
File.
6) Left click the “Continue” button to close the
Convert Summary window.
7) Close the BA-1000 TEXT to ZIP window.
8) Take the ZIP Disk out of the PC and put it into
the BA-1000.
9) Now the BA-1000 is ready to go with the
numbers on the disk.
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