This episode features Data Manager XL, released in 1985 by Antic Publishing. It was programmed by William Bartlett.
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Imagery
Advertising
Antic November 1988 The Catalog advertisement. Note the limited availability:
Disk
Image of the diskette sleeve:
Data Manager XL in Action
Booting and Main Menu
Data Manager Module
Data Module menu 
Add menu 
Entering field data (one field at a time on the screen) 
Summary of data entered, OK to save it? 
Setting default values for a field 
Search (and replace) 
This will cause an error as the new length is greater than the old length. 
Told you.
Index Manager Module
Index Manager Module menu 
You can only have 1 index at a time. 
Summary of the current index. Insightful isn’t it! OK to delete it? 
Start defining a new index 
No field names represented until after they are selected. Keep your database structure handy. 
Insightful summary of the new index. 
Creating a new database from a subset of another.
Print Manager Module
Print Manager Module menu 
Browsing (finding) a record to print 
A valid search query! You MUST know how your index is built, keep it handy! 
Found the matching “0101” record! 
Printing a report 
A few parameters for printing 
Selecting the report definition. Use “IA Episodes” report? 
Ruh Roh! 
Printing using a form. None defined at the moment.
File Manager Module
File Manager Module menu 
Create menu. Choose the type of file to create. 
Creating a database file. 
Entering the database fields label data. 
Creating a report. 
The reports parameters for page formatting. 
Describing the fields that will appear on the report. Shown is the 4th (and last) defined field for this report. 
You can delete too. 
Ruh Roh! 
Whoops! This error occurred during a redefinition of the database structure.
Tool Manager Module
Tool Manager Module menu. 
Showing the database Status, with an option to print. 
Packing a database. 
Status of the packing process. Make sure you rebuild the index afterward. 
Import from DML (Diskette Mailing List). 
Disk drive RPM speed check. Sure, why not? 
Speed looks about right. 
Formatting a disk. Are you sure?
Documentation
Menu 
Viewing on screen. 
Files
Files from main program (side A). 
Files from documentation (side B). 
Contents of the sample database. 
Hex dump of the sample index. Appears to be 8 letters of last name and 4 letters of first name fields. 
The catalog description of the database. Unsure what “1” in the data represents. “7” represents the number of fields. 
The catalog description of the Inverse ATASCII episode database. 
Hex dump of the report definition for the Inverse ATASCII episode report.
Manual
Print Output
Single record, all fields:
All records, all fields. Note the summary data added automatically:
Database statistics:
Show Links
- AtariMania: http://www.atarimania.com/utility-atari-400-800-xl-xe-data-manager-xl_27168.html
- Inverse ATASCII S7 E1 – Data Management System:
- https://inverseatascii.info/2023/01/22/s7e01-apx-data-management-system-supplement/
- My GitHub Action! Library: https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8ActionLibrary
- My GitHub C Library: https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8CLibrary
- My GitHub Pascal Library: https://github.com/Ripjetski6502/A8MadPascalLibrary
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