AUCTION.EXE was created with a rather limited intent:  to make the annual
gifts and crafts "Time and Talent" auction of the First Reformed Church of
Cary, NC easier to handle.  It's not particularly elegant.  But it achieves
its purpose fairly well...  most of the important functions needed for a
church or charity auction are included, it isn't too difficult to master
and when things go wrong the program usually recovers (or restarts, if
necessary) gracefully and without losing much of its hard-gained data.

There are two executable files, AUCTION.EXE and PRINTLOG.EXE.  The main
program, AUCTION.EXE, will present the user with menu screens to handle
basic auction functions.  It is small, fairly fast and reasonably robust.

The PRINTLOG.EXE file has (so far) never been needed.  It will simply print
out the transaction log recorded by the AUCTION program should that program
become unusable for any reason.

History:  24Aug95 Ver 1.01  First release

          23Sep95 Ver 1.02  Fixed bug in "practice auction"
                            Added FILE_ID.DIZ to ZIP file

The following lines are the text of the FILE_ID.DIZ file that accompanies
the AUCTN102.ZIP file:

(v1.01) Auction Manger - DOS/Database/ZIP

AUCTION v1.01 provides a set of functions to
prepare for an auction, tabulate auction
transactions as the auction progresses, and
print bills of sale and reports of the
auction results.

Shareware (US$ 25.- donation)
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