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Suggestive remarks!

Mike Kerslake kicks off a new series designed to encourage programmers to 
run with the ball...

How many times have you wished there was an easy-to-use GEM utility to 
help you with a particular task? The aim of this series is to encourage 
programmers to develop ideas into a fully-working program. As part of its 
ongoing commitment to promote the Atari platform the ACG is interested in 
finding suitable projects and support and develop.

Here's a few ground rules:
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* Programs must use the GEM interface
* Multi-tasking aware
* Resolution independent
* Colour depth independent (from mono to 256 colours minimum)
* Desktop accessories or CPXs are fine
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Here's an idea for an email address notebook which would allow users to 
keep a record of email addresses.

Most on-liners are big writers of emails, and most of us keep in regular 
contact with other on-liners, therefore we usuallly have a recent email 
posting available which we can use as a 'reply to' template. However, as we 
trawl through magazines or newspapers there are often email adresses 
printed for further info etc, so we rapidly end up with loads of scribbled 
Post-It notes and desktop chaos.

It be nice to have an address book which can be used to jot down email 
addresses, along with perhaps a name and a few extra details and then be 
able to manipulate these details into producing an alphabetical list by 
name, or by Internet Service Provider (ISP), or even by type of address - 
*.com, *.co.uk, *.edu and so on. Options to output the lists onto paper 
for easy reference and to send electronically directly to the correct 
fields in applications would be vital.

Email addresses are built up in stages and routines to analyse and sort 
addresses using the '@' and '.'(dot) separator symbols could be developed 
to sort them into lists in any desired format. Here's the general idea:

Mike Kerslake - publish@zetnet.co.uk 
Atari Computing - ataricomputing@cix.co.uk 
Titan Designs Ltd - 100345.2350@compuserve.com 
Roy Goring - rgoring@zetnet.co.uk

By ISP order 
ataricomputing@cix.co.uk 
100345.2350@compuserve.com 
publish@zetnet.co.uk 
rgoring@zetnet.co.uk

By real name order 
Atari Computing - ataricomputing@cix.co.uk 
Mike Kerslake - publish@zetnet.co.uk 
Roy Goring - rgoring@zetnet.co.uk
Titan Designs Ltd - 100345.2350@compuserve.com

Okay programmers, that's the idea now take it away, send us the goodies 
and we'll do something with it.

If you have an idea for a program and can't understand why it hasn't been 
developed already send it to us and we'll either be able to point you 
towards an existing program or maybe print in here for the attention of 
all the programmers out there.

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Look 'n See includes a module to sort text files alphabetically - but it 
doesn't understand email addresses