Sabre Soft
48k Disk
After Word processing, Databases are the most popular of the serious
applications available for computers and for programmers and others
keeping track of your disks and producing mailing labels ranks high
amongst priorities. Sabre Soft has brought out a product that
effectively covers both of these requirements. Both programs are for
the XL/XE/400/ 800 range and, requiring BASIC are available on a
double sided disk.
SABRE LABEL has three sections, Address Labels,
Binary Labels (Disk Directory) and Miscellaneous Labels.
Booting up the program takes you only a minute, through the title
screen onto a menu using an altered character set which is quite
readable. Selecting any one of the above sections will take you
through a well planned and trapped procedure. The address section
for instance will allow you to create a label of up to forty
characters wide and five lines deep. Editing facilities are
available at all times with verification on many points. Any number
of labels from 1 to 100 can be printed using a range of different
print styles. Labels can be saved to disk for future use and merged
with a word processor if required.
Of the other two options, Binary Label function will
read a DOS 2 or 2.5 disk directory with or without your choice of
title and disk number and Miscellaneous Labels gives you eight lines
to type in your own detail or any kind. All labels may be saved to
Disk and the program will accept printer codes inserted into the
label area to configure individual lines of text to for mixed print
styles.
SABRE
BASE is a menu driven system to read data from your program disks or
catalogue Binary or Multi boot type disks. The main menu is made up
of a number of items which allow you to input data, store, sort,
search, retrieve and print data, create data disk, delete data, send
data to text file and set up RAM disk. Up to four different data
file names may be held on each disk.
Without going into too much detail, this program will
take all the hard work out of creating and maintaining a database of
your programs on disk. With full sort, both numerically and
alphabetically and a comprehensive search facility, the program even
has printer control. Sabre base will allow you the luxury of
'listing' the database to disk in an ASCII format suitable for
merging into most word processors.
The label program worked well indeed, giving a range
of printer styles and control. I found the program well trapped and
friendly to use. Sabre Base unfortunately proved to be difficult to
load, my review copy could only be loaded through DOS. It actually
took a couple of minutes to boot up, unfortunately I have no idea
whether this was a design fault or the disk being corrupted however
the program was well trapped and easy to use. The sort feature was a
little slow, it took two minutes to alphabetise thirty-five entries
but the Search facility was much faster taking only five seconds on
average to find your selection.
Overall I thought the program was good value for
money at only £4.95 for a double-sided disk with a surprisingly well
written 34 page manual. Available by post only from Sabre Soft of
Cambridge.
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