The following instructions will put a copy of the mailing list on a diskette that you can give to a mailing house. The file is an ASCII file with each field delimited with quote marks and separated with comma’s. The first line in the file defines the order of the fields.

From the Main Menu, choose Reports, Customer Mailing Labels.

Choose any combination of criteria such as Zip Code, Customer Type, etc. At the very least it is useful to restrict the Zip Code range to 01000->99999 to ignore those customers with no zip code.

Choose Start Printing Labels, choose the Sort method you want (Zip Code or Last Name) When you are prompted to choose 1, 3 or 4 across labels, choose instead the \MERGE1.JS option. This sends the results to a file on the hard drive called \MERGE1.JS (in the root directory)

When this has finished, exit the Jewelry Shopkeeper and go to the COMMAND MENU.

If you don’t automatically go to the Command Menu when you exit the Jewelry Shopkeeper, go to the DOS prompt for the driver where the Jewelry Shopkeeper is installed and type JS and press Enter.

At the Enter Your Choice--> Prompt, you can view the contents of the file by typing:

VIEW \MERGE1.JS

To copy the file to a diskette, at the Enter Your Choice--> Prompt, insert a blank (formatted) diskette into the A: drive (or substitute B: below for the B: drive) and type:

COPY PKUNZIP.EXE A:

PKZIP —a A:CUSTLIST \MERGE1.JS

(After this has finished, it will show you the percentage by which it compressed the customer file — something like (75%), done)