User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS EXTRACT 2.16

[. . . ] No part of this publication or accompanying software may be copied, transferred, or distributed to any person without the express written permission of Firstlogic, Inc. Introduction to the Extract utility Save disk space, improve performance Extract is free to Windows users who receive the national ZIP+4 directory on CD. If you're a local, statewide, or regional mailer, you may be using only a fraction of the national ZIP+4 directory. Yet that directory takes up half a gigabyte of disk space. Because you use only a fraction of the directory, a lot of disk space may be wasted. [. . . ] It is not necessary to list ZIP Codes or ranges in numerical order. However, you must type ranges from lowest to highest--for example, type 54601 54603, not 54603 54601. To specify an entire 3-digit ZIP Code area, specify a range of 5-digit numbers. For example, type: 54601 54699, not 546. Be sure the very first ZIP in your list is a valid ZIP found in the ZIP+4 directory. Otherwise, Extract will fail and return an error message. Other than the very first ZIP in the list, Extract does not check ZIPs. If you set a range a little too broadly and it happens to cover some unused ZIPs, that won't cause an error. When you name the file, use the same base name that you will give to your custom directory, and be sure to use the file extension LST. For example, if you're going to extract a Hawaii directory, we recommend naming your file zip4hi. lst. Then your directory itself should be named zip4hi. dir. You'll need your ZIP list file each time you receive a CD update. ACE users should store it in the pw\adm directory. Postalsoft DeskTop and Business Edition users should store the file in C:\ Firstlogic\Postalsoft\Extract. · · Specifying the area of your custom directory 3 List of ZIP Code ranges With Extract, we deliver a file named read. me, which contains the ZIP Code ranges for each state. A table of ZIP ranges also appears on page 9, for your convenience. However, the information is subject to change. For current ZIP ranges, please rely on the read. me file. 4 Extract User's Guide ACE users Installing Extract Extract is on the CD along with the postal directories. Before you can run Extract, you must install it to hard disk. You need to do this with each directory update. On the CD, the Extract files are located in a directory named Extract. Copy all files from the Extract directory on the CD to the pw\adm directory on your hard disk. Running Extract To extract directories from a particular CD, you must use the Extract software that came on that CD. If you use an older version of Extract, then the Extract process might fail or produce unintended results. [. . . ] A configuration file provided by Firstlogic. Do not alter or move it. comm. cfg 4. After Extract finishes, type exit to close the Command Prompt window. The time it takes to extract depends on the amount of data extracted. Postalsoft DeskTop and Business Edition users 7 Setting up Postalsoft to use your custom ZIP+4 directory You need to tell Postalsoft where to look to find your national and custom ZIP+4 directories. [. . . ]