DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING ZIP CODE, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING ZIP CODE RETRIEVAL PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING ZIP CODE DICTIONARY DATA

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently find out a target recording medium by retrieving the attachable and detachable recording medium, on which a zip code to be converted is recorded, from an inputted zip code and displaying in when performing zip code retrieval. SOLUTION: A control part 6 loaded into the memory of the computer as a program recorded on the computer readable recording medium such as an FD, CD-ROM or memory card controls a keyboard 1 or display part 3, for example, as the hardware configuration of a computer. In a zip code dictionary, these dictionary data are distributedly recorded on floppy disks 5a-5d. Thus, even when the zip code dictionary data are distributedly recorded on the plural attachable and detachable recording media, in the case of performing zip code retrieval, the attachable and detachable recording medium recording the zip code to be converted can be retrieved from the inputted zip code and displayed.