Re: Using XyWrite as an address book

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 What about using FISH /or/ FISHOUT (same thing) from the U2 file?
 You will not even need to structure the data. It will produce all
 the content that meets your criterion, and then all you do is cycle
 through it. If the criterion is a city name, then that may produce
 a whole lot of content, but if it's a proper name, then you likely
 will hit it immediately, unless it's a name like "SMITH" and there
 a number of SMITHs in the database.

 M. W. Poirier

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On Thu, 10 May 2012, Bill Troop wrote:
> I have been using a plain text file in XyWrite as my preferred address book
> for some time, because it is quicker to search than any known alternative. My
> problem is that it is unstructured, and therefore unsortable.
>
> (That is, the file is just a list something like
>
> John & Jane Doe
> 111 Montmorency Court
> Bowen's Hall
> 01833 566 2980
>
> etc etc)
> Does anyone have any suggestion for structuring the data so that I could at
> least sort by last name? I had thought of trying to do something with XyWrite
> tables, but at the moment, I can't access the menus! I think they used to
> come up by pressing both Alt keys, but nothing seems to bring them up now.
> Any suggestions either for address book or for at least being able to access
> the menus would be most gratefully received.