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PERSONAL RECIPE MANAGER PERSONAL RECIPE MANAGER _______________________ written by Dirk W. Howard COPYRIGHT 1987 Desert Mountain Industries 762 Anderson Avenue Hyrum, Utah 84319 Table of Contents Table of Contents I. License Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II. Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 III. Description of Personal Recipe Manager . . . . . . . . 4 IV. Installation of Personal Recipe Manager . . . . . . . . 4 V. Using PERSONAL RECIPE MANAGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A. Starting Personal Recipe Manager . . . . . . . . . 5 B. Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. Look in a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2. Add a new category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. Rename a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4. Delete a category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. Quit program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 C. Category Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1. Read a recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2. Add a recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3. Delete a recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4. Edit a recipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5. Move a recipe to a different category . . . . 8 6. Page down in recipe titles . . . . . . . . . . 9 7. Page up in recipe titles . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8. Quit category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 D. Editor Functions and Features . . . . . . . . . . . 10 PERSONAL RECIPE MANAGER PERSONAL RECIPE MANAGER _______________________ I. License Statement I. License Statement Personal Recipe Manager is not, nor has ever been "Public Domain". Personal Recipe Manager is not "Free" either. Personal Recipe Manager is copyright (C) 1987, 1988 by Desert Mountain Industries. Non-registered users are granted a limited license to use Personal Recipe Manager to see if it is appropriate for their needs. The usage of Personal Recipe Manager, except for this limited purpose, requires registering the copy(s). Use of non- registered copies of Personal Recipe Manager outside of the limited license is strictly prohibited. No one may modify Personal Recipe Manager for any reason, in any way, including but not limited to, de-compiling, disassembling, or reverse engineering the program. The opening screen must never be modified by any means. You are granted permission to copy Personal Recipe Manager only for the trial usage of others subject to the above restrictions, and also the following: Personal Recipe Manager must be copied in unmodified form, complete with the file containing this license information. The full Personal Recipe Manager documentation must be included. No fee, charge, or renumeration (money) may be accepted or requested. Personal Recipe Manager may not be distributed with any other product, software, hardware, or service. Sysops (Bulletin Board System Operators) may make Personal Recipe Manager available for downloading by their users only if the above conditions are met. Distributors of "Public Domain" and/or User Supported software may distribute Personal Recipe Manager subject to the above conditions only after obtaining written permission. This condition supersedes any and all previous agreements. Refer to the Ordering section for more information on registration. Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 1- II. II. Ordering Information Ordering Information When you register your copy of Personal Recipe Manager, you are granted a license to use the program as often as you wish. There are advantages to registering, besides having a clear conscience. You will be notified through the mail, when a significant enhancement has been made to Personal Recipe Manager. Once you register, all upgrades are made available to you. To register send in a completed "Registration" form and a check for $25 in U.S. funds. We will assume that you already have the program and documentation from another source. We do not provide diskettes or manuals for the $25 registration. If you are unsure and wish to get an evaluation diskette, you can send $10 and receive the latest version of Personal Recipe Manager and documentation. You will not be a registered user with all the benefits. You can also send a self-addressed floppy diskette mailer and disk with $5 to receive a copy. If you want to receive Personal Recipe Manager on the new 3-1/2 inch diskette media, add an additional $5 for each diskette ordered. Please use the following order form when placing an order. Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 2- Remit To: Desert Mountain Industries 762 Anderson Avenue Hyrum, Utah 84319 Qty. Description Amount _______ Personal Recipe Manager Evaluation _________ Diskette (current version) (You supply the diskette and mailer, no registration) $5.00 each _______ Personal Recipe Manager Evaluation _________ Diskette (current version) (Complete program and manual on disk, no registration) $10.00 each _______ Personal Recipe Manager Evaluation _________ Diskette 3-1/2 inch format (current version) (Complete program and manual on disk, no registration) $15.00 each _______ Personal Recipe Manager Registration _________ (Does not include a new diskette) $25.00 each _______ Personal Recipe Manager Registration & _________ New Disk (Registration with program and manual on diskette) $35.00 each _______ Personal Recipe Manager Registration & _________ New Disk 3-1/2 inch format (Registration with program and manual on diskette) $40.00 each Subtotal ________ (Utah residents please add 6% sales tax) Tax ________ Total $ ________ Payment by: [ ] Check [ ] Money Order Name: _____________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________ Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 3- III. Description of Personal Recipe Manager III. Description of Personal Recipe Manager Personal Recipe Manager is a program designed to edit, file, and print your personal recipes. It is organized much like a box of index cards with dividing cards. In a recipe card file each category is labeled on a dividing card, with recipes that fit into that category placed behind the dividing card. Personal Recipe Manager has the equivalent of 30 dividing cards, or categories, and the potential of 105 recipe cards behind each dividing card, or category. This makes for a file with a total of 3,150 recipes. IV. Installation of Personal Recipe Manager IV. Installation of Personal Recipe Manager Two disk drive systems: Two disk drive systems: Format a blank disk to be used by Personal Recipe Manager as a working disk. Copy the files named PRM.EXE and PRMPREP.EXE onto the working disk. Place the working disk into the default drive and run PRMPREP.EXE. This will initialize the files needed for the program. Delete PRMPREP.EXE from the working disk. The Personal Recipe Manager working disk is now ready to use. Hard disk systems: Hard disk systems: Create a sub-directory for the recipe files to reside in. A suggested name is PRMFILES. Use the command MD \PRMFILES to create this sub-directory. Copy the files named PRM.EXE and PRMPREP.EXE into the directory for the recipe files. As an alternative, you can copy the two files into a directory on the hard drive that has a search path set to it. (i.e. If you placed the files named PRM.EXE and PRMPREP.EXE into C:\BIN, then the path should contain C:\BIN. ) Change directory into the recipe files directory. For the suggested sub-directory use CD \PRMFILES. Run PRMPREP.EXE to initialize the needed files. Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 4- Personal Recipe Manager is now ready to use on your hard disk system. ╔══════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ WARNING ║ ║ ║ ╔══════════════════╩══════════════╩══════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ Running PRMPREP.EXE after entering recipes will ║ ║ cause the loss of all recipes. Make sure that ║ ║ you are running PRMPREP.EXE on a blank disk, or ║ ║ empty sub-directory. ║ ║ ║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ V. Using PERSONAL RECIPE MANAGER V. Using PERSONAL RECIPE MANAGER A. Starting Personal Recipe Manager A. Starting Personal Recipe Manager Two disk drive systems: Two disk drive systems: Place your working disk into the default drive and run PRM.EXE. This will start the Personal Recipe Manager program. Hard disk systems: Hard disk systems: Change directory into the recipe files sub-directory. Run the program PRM.EXE. This will start the Personal Recipe Manager program. B. Main Menu B. Main Menu When you start Personal Recipe Manager you will be placed at the main menu. This will give you a list of thirty possible categories. These categories are displayed in alphabetical order. The first time that you run Personal Recipe Manager, you will not have any categories set up for you. In the main menu you can select any one of five functions. These functions are: Look in a category Add a new category Rename a category Delete a category Quit program We will take a look at each one of these functions. Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 5- 1. Look in a category 1. Look in a category When you select this option you will be asked for the number of the category to look in. You will then enter the category number. If you enter an invalid number you will be returned back to the main menu. If you enter the number of an existing category, you will be shown the first fifteen recipe titles in the category, and you will be place at the category menu. The recipes are displayed in alphabetical order. The category menu has the following choices: Read a recipe Add a recipe Delete a recipe Edit a recipe Move a recipe to a different category Page down in recipe titles Page up in recipe titles Quit category We will talk about each of these a little later. 2. Add a new category 2. Add a new category When you select this option, you will be asked for the name of the new category. You can enter any name you choose. A name can have spaces, numbers, letters and punctuation in it. It can be up to 25 characters in length. Once you have entered the name that you want, just press the return and the new category will be created, and you will be returned to the main menu. 3. Rename a category 3. Rename a category When you select this option, you will be prompted for the number of the category that you wish to rename. If you enter an invalid category number, you will be returned to the main menu. Once you enter a valid category number, you will be asked for the new name for the category. Once you have entered the new category name and have pressed the return key, you will be place back into the main menu. 4. Delete a category 4. Delete a category Selecting this option will allow you to delete an entire category and the recipes that the category may contain. Once you delete a category, you cannot retrieve any of the recipes that it may have contained. After selecting this option you will be asked for the number of the category that you wish to delete. If you enter an invalid category number, you will be returned to the main menu without any further action. If you enter a valid category number, the program will display the name of the category and ask you if you really want to delete the category. If you answer Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 6- "Y" or "y", then the category will be deleted. If you press any other key the category will not be deleted. After this you will be returned to the main menu. 5. Quit program 5. Quit program Selecting this option will cause you to exit from the Personal Recipe Manager, and return to DOS. C. Category Menu C. Category Menu When you enter an existing category, you will be shown the first fifteen recipe titles in the category, and you will be place at the category menu. The recipes are displayed in alphabetical order. The category menu has the following choices: Read a recipe Add a recipe Delete a recipe Edit a recipe Move a recipe to a different category Page down in recipe titles Page up in recipe titles Quit category These functions will be used to create, modify, delete, read, and print recipes. 1. Read a recipe 1. Read a recipe When you select this option of the category menu, you will be prompted for the number of the recipe that you wish to view. If you enter a number that is not a valid recipe number, you will be returned to the category menu. After you select a valid recipe number, that recipe will be displayed to you one page at a time. When you reach the bottom of the recipe, you will be given the opportunity to print the recipe if you desire. If you select the print option, you will be asked whether to print directly to the printer, or to send the recipe to a DOS file. If you select the printer option then you will need to make sure that your printer is on and the paper is set at the top of the page. Once your printer is ready, press any key to start the printing. If you select the file option, you will be prompted for the name of the file to place the recipe into. After you have done this, a copy of the recipe will be placed into the named file. One reason for the ability to place a recipe into a file is to allow you the chance to include recipes into a word processor. After you have finished with reading and printing a recipe, you will be returned to the category menu. Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 7- 2. Add a recipe 2. Add a recipe When you select the add option you will be prompted for the name of the recipe you want to add. After you have entered the recipe name you will be placed into the editor with a blank page to place your recipe into. Your recipe can be up to 76 lines in length. Once you have finished entering and editing your recipe, you will press the F1 key to save the recipe. After you save the recipe, you will automatically be returned to the category menu. See the section "Editor Functions and Features" for more information on the editor. 3. Delete a recipe 3. Delete a recipe This option will allow you to delete an unwanted recipe. After you select this option, you will be prompted for the number of the recipe that you wish to delete. If you enter an invalid recipe number, you will be returned to the category menu. Once you select a valid recipe number the name of the recipe will be displayed, and you will be asked if you really want to delete the recipe. If you answer 'Y' or 'y', then the recipe will be deleted. Otherwise, the recipe will not be deleted. 4. Edit a recipe 4. Edit a recipe Selecting this option will allow you to make corrections to an existing recipe. When you make this selection, you will be prompted for the number of the recipe that you wish to edit. If you enter an invalid recipe number you will be returned to the category menu. Once you enter a valid recipe number, you will be given the name of the recipe. At this point you can make changes to the name if it is needed. Once you enter the name, you will be placed into the editor with the recipe you wish to modify. Make any changes you wish, and press F1 to save the recipe and return to the category menu. See the section "Editor Functions and Features" for more information on the editor. 5. Move a recipe to a different category 5. Move a recipe to a different category Selecting this option will allow you to move a recipe to a different category. This feature allows you to arrange your recipes in different ways as you add and remove recipes. When you make this selection, you will be prompted for the number of the recipe that you wish to move. If you enter an invalid recipe number, you will be returned to the category menu. Once you select a valid recipe number the recipe will be removed from the current category. You will then be shown the list of categories and asked to enter the number of the category to move the recipe to. Once you enter the category number, the recipe will be placed in that category. Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 8- 6. Page down in recipe titles 6. Page down in recipe titles Recipe titles are displayed in alphabetical order, fifteen recipes at a time. If you have more than fifteen recipes, this option will allow you to move down through the titles, fifteen titles at a time. You will only be given this option when you can move down a page through the titles. 7. Page up in recipe titles 7. Page up in recipe titles Recipe titles are displayed in alphabetical order, fifteen recipes at a time. If you have more than fifteen recipes, this option will allow you to move up through the titles, fifteen titles at a time. You will only be given this option when you can move up a page through the titles. 8. Quit category 8. Quit category This option will take you out of the category menu and return you to the main menu. Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 9- D. Editor Functions and Features D. Editor Functions and Features The Personal Recipe Manager editor is a full screen editor with word wrap capability. The editor consists of 76 lines distributed on four screens. The editor is in insert mode at all times. Movement through a recipe is made by using the arrow, PgUp and PgDn, the Home and the End keys. To delete characters from the recipe you can use the Del and Back Space keys. Tabs are permanently set at multiples of five. (5,10,15,...) Below is a summary of the editor function keys. Up Arrow Moves the cursor up one line in the editor. Down Arrow Moves the cursor down one line in the editor. Right Arrow Moves the cursor right one space in the editor. Left Arrow Moves the cursor left one space in the editor. Home Moves the cursor to the beginning of the present line. End Moves the cursor to the end of the current line. PgUp Moves up one screen in the editor. PgDn Moves down one screen in the editor. Del Deletes the character under the cursor. Back Space Deletes the character to the left of the cursor. F1 Saves the current recipe and returns to the category menu. Copyright by Desert Mountain Industries -Page 10-