Phone 1.1 build: 9639 released:  compiled with: Java 1.8.0_131 Jet jet12.0-pro-x86/1.8.0_131

Prepare Computer Phone number list.

Copyright: (c) 2008-2017 Canadian Mind Products.

Java application.
Not distributed.

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Notes:

You must install the Java JRE to use this program.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss/jre.html

This program can only be used from the command prompt, (or via an command
line style icon shortcut) e.g. under Windows command.exe or JPSoft
tcmd.exe, formerly called the DOS box. Just clicking the programs in a
directory listing will not do anything useful. Just typing the program
names at the command prompt will not either.

This program requires a manual install! See below.

This program works with vanilla text files, (e.g. ASCII files or UTF-8
Unicode files). You will need a text editor to create and view them, not a word
processor. e.g. notepad, Visual Slick Edit or other suitable text editor
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/editor.html. You must use a monospaced font
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/monospacedfonts.html (aka fixed pitch, aka
programmer font) to view your files, or they won't look properly aligned.

I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD
files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from
anyone.  What's happening?  Does it all just work fine?  It is so
complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it?
It is it useful?  Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the
programs to their liking themselves?  Did you have trouble installing?  Do
I presume you know too much?  I would be happy to hear from you about your
experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements.  A
one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great.

===> Free <===
Full source included.
You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified
in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute.
May be used freely for any purpose but military.
For more details on this restriction, see
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications,
your app too must be labelled non-military use only.
http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html
All Java jars and source code are included. If you need the class files or Javadoc, you will have to build them yourself. To streamline the zip downloads, class files and Javadoc have been removed.

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Prerequisites:

This program runs under any OS that supports Java,
(e.g.W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W2008/W7-32/W7-64/W8-32/W8-64/Linux/LinuxARM/LinuxX86
/LinuxX64/Ubuntu/Solaris/SolarisSPARC/SolarisSPARC64/SolarisX86/SolarisX64/OSX/AIX...)
so long as you have
<><> Java version 1.8 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java).
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details.

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Installing on a PC:

Download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an application.
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
To install, extract the zip download with WinZip
(or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please,
often J:\ --  ticking off the <span class="click">use folder names</span> option.
To run as an application, type:
java.exe %JAVA_OPTIONS -ea -jar J:\com\mindprod\phone\phone.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Installing on a MacIntosh:

Use Safari to download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an application.
Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5)
[or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)].
First install a recent Java JDK or JVM.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html.
You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home.
I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility.
In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen.
If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages.
To run as an application, without parameters, just double click the jar file.

To run as an application with parameters, in bash shell type:
open Terminal.app
cd ~/Desktop
java.exe -ea -jar com/mindprod/phone/phone.jar {put any parms here}

adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.

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Rebuilding:

The zip already contains the necessary jar files, so unless you modify
the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar.
Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are.
Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar.

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Use:

PHONE AND BBS LISTINGS
PHONE.TXT 1997-02-24 last updated by Roedy Green
What is it?
***********
last posted on BIX as PHON9604.ZIP in IBM.PC/LISTINGS
It replaces PHON9612.ZIP.  Ideally, it is updated each month and
posted in IBM.PC/LISTINGS in file PHONyymm.ZIP, where yymm is
the date.  Sometimes I can't find my Round Tuit though.
Phone.Txt is a telephone directory in the form of an ASCII file.
It lists about 5100 phone numbers of various computer-related
companies.  Voice, FAX and BBS numbers are included. http: web
sites, mailto: email addresses and ftp: ftp file transfer
protocol sites are also now included. It is also available
interactively on the web at http://oberon.ark.com/~roedy.
Items marked R.I.P are no longer valid.  I have left them in the
list to prevent people from adding them by mistake as new
numbers.  Items marked with ?? are questionable.  If you can
resolve those items as either correct or incorrect, especially
please let me know.
If you find errors, duplicates or omissions, please report them
to via Internet: Roedy@Bix.com (the Byte Information Exchange).
Or use snail mail:
Roedy Green
Canadian Mind Products
POB 707 Quathiaski Cove
Quadra Island, BC V0P 1N0
Canada
(250) 285-2954 voice
Additions and Corrections
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IF YOU SEND ME UPDATES, IT MAKES MY JOB MUCH EASIER IF YOU USE
THE SAME FORMAT I DO:
-------------------------------x--------------xx-------------------------------------------------
Canadian Mind Products          (604) 684-6529  tech support
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
         1         2         3         4         5         6         7
01,31 company name  e.g. Canadian Mind Products
32,01 space
33,14 telephone     e.g. (604) 684-6529, with parentheses, space and dash!
47,02 two spaces
49,50 description   e.g. tech support, FAX, Voice, BBS
Please no alphabetic phone numbers.  These choke some people's
databases.  They may be easier to remember but they are hard to
dial since the letters on the phone are tiny, and some phones
don't have letters at all.  Here is the conversion:
        ABC -> 2  DEF -> 3  GHI -> 4  JKL -> 5
        MNO -> 6  PRS -> 7  TUV -> 8  WXY -> 9
e.g. (800) WER-BTNA should appear as: (800) 937-2862
I have followed the convention of not keying the words "Inc",
"Ltd" or "Corp" as part of company names, to make uniqueness
more likely.
Credits
*******
Bruce Fagen and Dave Smith did most of the original work
collecting them.  I have incorporated Dave2's printer list and
every phone number I have seen posted on BIX over the last two
weeks.  DSmith scanned my set of numbers on paper which really
pumped up the volume to three times the previous size.  One
batch of updates came from Rick Lafay on BIX cleaned from the
Computer Shopper. He later sent another batch of 60.  Karen
Kenworthy provided another batch all nicely formatted.  Bernie
Vos sent several batches. BarryP sent a dozen items.  Tim
McDonough sent a batch of thirty gleaned from Midnight
Engineering Magazine.  Mike Blaszczak sent in a huge batch.
Steve Grant sent in some corrections.  It turns out a number I
had for Micronics was actually an "adult" number.  I collected a
set of numbers from the April 28 issue of PC Mag.  These were
sources for Windows 3.1 drivers. Evin Gamblin (Evang on BIX)
send a batch of 230. The May batch was mainly the work of Evin
Gamblin again.  He send in about 75 updates.  The July/August
batch was mostly a large let of Microsoft tech support numbers
from Bixen Denryan.  I also had access to an OCR scanner for a
night, so I scanned a bunch from Byte myself. The October 1992
version was largely the work of GBattis. Updates came from Byte
online and from Chuck Kuhlman and Tourville.
Most of the recent tech support updates came from PC Magazine
July 1995.  I now have an HP 3C Scanner and WordScan Plus.  I
hope to do more frequent updates.
Warning
*******
Note if a (415) California area code does not work, try
(510).  That area code was split up.  Similarly try new
California code (310) if code (408) or (213) does not
work.  Similarly area code (201) in New Jersey has split
to (201) for the north, (908) for central, and (609) for
the south.  Similary (360) in Washington is being split
off from (206). In BC, (250) is being split off (604).


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Version History:

 1.0 2008-02-04 set up with ANT.

 1.1 2011-02-08 convert from flat file to CSV input.

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