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SYNERGY PROFILER AND REPORT WRITER Ver. 2.3 (c) 1991,2,3 Synergy Computing. K. Laing - Programmer Tutorial & Reference Manual Contents - Demonstration & Explanation / Order Form An Introduction to the profile program Hardware and Software Requirements Menu Options 1. Produce student reports A run through using the program with the supplied statements. 2. Look at and print out reports stored on disk. 3. Look at and change statement files. 4. Create a new statement file. 5. Look at and change group files. 6. Create a new group file. 7. Change program defaut settings. Changing the profiles in the statement bank using a word processor Common Problems Licence Agreement Support & Backup Command Reference Section Appendix 1. Backing up your disks 2. Making disks that automatically load. The program on this disk is a shareware version of the SYNERGY PROFILER AND REPORT WRITER Ver. 2.3 (c) 1993 Synergy Computing. K. Laing - Programmer This program is shareware. This means that you are entitled to use it for a period of 30 days for evaluation purposes if you wish to continue to use it after that you must pay the registration fee set out on the order form below and mail it to the author. Before use of the program it is assumed that you have read and accecpted / noted the following terms and limitations: 1. It is not possible to save any of the reports on disk and the utility that displays them and prints them is missing. On registration (see form below) you will recieve these utilities. 2. The manual that accompanies it (either in the file DMANUAL.TXT on the disk - this file - or in a printed form) is a tutorial of the most basic functions in the program and is not intended to be an exhaustive reference text, but merely to give a flavour of the power and usefulness of the program. A full reference and tutorial manual comes with the registered program. 3. The registered version has your \ your departments \ your schools\ your authorities name written on the title screen instead of "Shareware Version". 4. If this is an old copy, or a copy given to you by someone else there may be a more up to date version available. When you register you will receive it. OTHER ADVANTAGES OF REGISTRATION !!!!!!! When you register you will also recieve, extra statement bank files and a utility to change the statements plus notification of improvements to this program and other programs produced by Synergy. Because this is a shareware program you may copy it as many times as you want, and give it to as many people as you want. The only conditions of this are: 1. You do not alter any of the programs on the disk. and 2. All the files on the disk (including this one) are distributed together. We are confident that when you have tried the program you will want buy the full version. Just fill in the form below We can also provide in service training in the use of the program. Please write for details. 66 Trumpington Road, Forest Gate, London E7 9EJ. K. Laing Synergy Computing. SUPPORT THE SHAREWARE CONCEPT - REGISTER NOW ! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Order Form Tick the box(es) you require [ ] Individual Licence - for use of one person at a time (the standard "book" licence) 30.00 [ ] The institution / site licence (can be copied and used by any number of members of staff of a school or college at the same time) 50.00 Please specify name of institution ..................................................................... Format IBM compatible (will also run on RM Nimbus machines (on 286 and later machines ). Size [ ] 5 1/4 " disk [ ] 3 1/2 " disk A different format version can be purchased for only an extra 5.00 with a licence order. Credit (30 days nett) will be given (TO INSTITUTIONS ONLY) for orders of Institution / Site licences. A 10 % discount will be given for settlement within 14 days. If you order on behalf of an institution it is assumed that you are authorised to do so. Please note that by signing the order you are entering into a contract. No software is supplied on a trial basis. Individual licenses may be traded against Institution licences. Copy of the profiler ........... ........extra copies in different format @ 5.00 each (please specify) ........... Postage & packing 4.00 .......... Total ......... Please make cheques payable K. Laing Name .......................... Position in organisation ................................................................... Address............................................................. ..................................................................... ..................................................................... --------------------------------------------------------------------- What is a profile program ? The National Curriculum, and other changes that have happened in education, have created a need for much fuller student reports and records than schools have previously produced. Often these new records need to be criterion based, ie they need to be a list of the students positive achievements. This has placed a very great strain on teachers as the time they have available has not increased to allow for the manual production of these quite lengthy documents. Profile programs work by allowing the teacher to feed in a set of standard statements, which the computer stores. The teacher is then able to produce reports made up of their selected standard statements (the statement bank) using only a few keystrokes on the computer. The reports, or records, can be further personalized by the addition of the students name and any other comments. It can then be printed out or save to disk in a format that resembles "free text". How does this profile program work ? This program is unique because someone with almost no experience of computing can produce excellent reports at the novice level using a set of statements put in by an experienced user. However a person with computer experience is able to alter the statement bank, create files of students names and customize it to exactly match their own needs. The Novice user Loads the computer with the program. They are then requested to enter the students name and sex, or alternately they can use a preprepared set of students name. When they have done so they are presented with a list of statements that categorize the students ability with regard to a certain aspect of the course. (example below) 1. Her attendance of the course has been excellent. 2. Her attendance of the course has been good. 3. Her attendance of the course has been fair. 4. Her attendance of the course has been poor. The user selects one of the statements by pressing the corresponding number and the RETURN button on the computer. If they do not wish to select any of the options they just press the SPACE BAR and RETURN. If they wish to insert a comment of their own they can do so. They work through each set of statements in this way until they reach the end. The computer then displays the finished text on the screen and if the user is satisfied with it prints it out on the printer or stores it on disk for printing out later or editing and printing out on any word processor. The Experienced User Has all the facilities that the novice user has but is able to add or delete statements or students from the statement bank and group files, as well as changing the formatting of the text output, or editing files saved on disk using any good word processing program or the utility programs provided. Why Is this Program better than other Profiling Programs ? 1. Cheaper No additional expensive equipment required to operate the program apart from a computer and a printer. 2. More adaptable to your needs Some programs only supply a set of fixed statements which can never be changed. Our program allows you to change and adapt the program until it says exactly what you want. 3. Easy to Learn - No need for a Specialist. Some programs are so complicated that only computer specialists can use them. Our program is so easy that a total novice can be using it within half an hour. We hope that this is enough to convince you to fill in the order form over. Hardware & Software Requirements. The program on this disk is intended to run on IBM PCs under MS (and Compac) DOS and all compatible machines. It can run from a single floppy disk drive and has very low memory requirements. It will run on RM Nimbuses (286 or later) without an IBM emulator. 1. A Run through with the Program Using Supplied Statements. IMPORTANT HARDWARE NOTE - THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT USE A MOUSE AND AT SOME PARTS ITS USE CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS ON SOME MODELS - IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT IF YOU HAVE ONE YOU DISCONNECT IT. This is the main profile program. It allows you to select statements from a bank, add your own, and then output them in a format that resembles "free text". You may read the students names from a file or input them from the keyboard. The program will automatically change the sex of the profiles to suit the student. You may print out the files immeadiately if you have a printer connected or save them and print out later using the utility described in 2. or edit change or print from a word processing program. (For convention, in this section, information typed in capital letters and set alone, shows that words have to be typed into the computer. It is assumed that after each instruction you will press the RETURN (or bent arrow) key on the computer). Before you start using the program it is essential that you have a printer plugged in and "on line". Turn on your computer. Load your operating system. When it does put the disk in drive A and type A: Then type DEMPROF The program should now load and you should see on the screen the main menu headed "PROFILE & REPORT WRITER ". A list of the statement files available on the disk are displayed. You are prompted to enter the name of your statement file you wish to load. For this demonstration choose "compute3.stm". Note that it is necessary to type the full name including the file extention (.stm). Type the name and then press RETURN. You will now be asked if you want to input names from the keyboard (K) or from a group file (G). Choose G, a list of group files will now appear. Choose the file 8L.grp. The name and sex of the first student should now appear (Minnie Mouse) on the screen. Press any key to start creating a profile. Five options now appear for you to choose. You may either pick a number that corresponds to the statement that you want and press RETURN, or press the space bar (+ RETURN) to skip the statement or insert your own statement by pressing I and adding your own comments (up to 126 characters). Minnie is an excellent student so press 1 then RETURN . Do the same for the next four groups of statements until you reach the set of statements which begin "Even though English is a second language ...". Minnie, although she is American, is not regarded as an ESL student and so we want to skip these statements. To do so press the space bar and then RETURN. You have not included any of these in Minnies profile. The next section is an example of how sentences can be divided and combined with insertions to provide "natural" text. It consists of one statement "She has gained". Press 1 to select it. Before the next section press I (for insert) and type "five" (RETURN). Now choose statement 1 of the next section "good work books." You have added to the profile the phrase "She has gained five good work books." Note that using I for insertion has the effect of either replacing a statement or inserting it before a statement. The option does not exist to place it after a statement. Choose 1 for all the further statements. You are now presented with the final profile. if you are happy with it you can either save it on disk and / or print it out. To save it press S. The computer offers the file name Minnie.rpt. To accept this you just press RETURN. If you want to change it (for example if a file of that name already exists) type a new name and press RETURN. the computer will automatically add the file extention .rpt. The work is now saved. If you want to print out press P now (please note, if you are printing into a preprepared form it is unlikely that the progrms default settings (line length and feed in are correct) experiment with utility 7 to get what suits you. Press ESC (escape) to start a new profile (John Major). Skip him by pressing the space bar and start Joan of Arc. However at the first statement you decide that you have done enough work for todya and press A for abandon which takes you back to the main menu. Inputting students names form the keyboard. Now examine some of the other statement files, try inputting from the keyboard. Note that you may change the sex of the student by pressing s and then RETURN when asked for the students name. Multipart statements. Note in the statement file statemnt.stm the multipart statement heralded by the blue flash on the bottom window ("Independant, directed etc..."). This type of statement allows you to select more than one statement and interperse it with punctuation. So 1 RETURN , RETURN 2 RETURN 3 RETURN . RETURN E RETURN Produces a statement that says "Johnny (students name) works well on his own, with a teacher and in groups." Note how the punctuation is added to this. 2. Look at and print out reports stored on disk (not on the demonstration version). This is a simple utility that allows the user to look at profiles created by the profile program that are stored on disk. Unless you have changed the file extention all reports so saved have the extention to their name of .RPT. It is important to note that the layout that the files have been saved in is that defined by the default settings when the program was run, this means that what appears on the screen is how the profile will print out. The only way that the layout can be changed is by rerunning the main program with different line length and "feed in" settings (see 5. Changing the program default settings - Using the configeration utility) or by editing the saved file in a word processor or text editing program (see "Using word processors to change saved profile files"). Run through using supplied profiles. From the the main menu PRESS 2. The program should display a list of files available. Type in the name of the file you require (including its extention eg ANN-MARI.RPT). The contents of the file should now appear on screen. You have the option to now either; Print the profile out (PRESS P). Look at another profile (PRESS A). Leave the program (PRESS ESC) which will return you to the main menu. If you wish to print out make certain that you have the printer turned on, on line and that the paper is square in the carridge. The profile should now print out. Now look at another profile by pressing A. When you feel you have examined enough of the stored profiles press ESC to return to the main menu. 3. Look at and change statement files Not included on the demonstration disk. 4. Create a New Statement File This utility enables the user to write their own set of statements for both themselves and other members of their department to use with the profile program. This can be done on a word processor and experienced computer users may find this easier (see later). It is recommended that you draft the statements out in rough before hand. It is important to note that if you require the compute to perform a sex change operation on the statements when they are used with the profile progam they must be written in the male gender. From the main menu. Press 4. Then type in the statement file name (up to 8 letters). In this example type "form1". You will be asked if you want to have section headings. Press "Y" for yes. You now have to chooseif you want to start the section with the students name. Press "N" for name, and then "C". You are now invited to type the section heading. use the cursor keys to edit and RETURN to finish. Type Attendence You ar now invited to type the first statement (up to 250 characters). Type in the following statements 1. 's attendence is good. (followed by A (for another statement)) 2 's attendence is fair. 3 's attendence is poor. Now press "S" to end section. The next statement is multipart so press "M" followed by "C". Now type Participation followed by 1. He has participated in school life by 2. singing in the school choir 3. being a 4. prefect 4. games captain 5. in a school sports team do not put full stops or commas at the end of each statement as being multipart they can be added later. End the paragraph now (Press "P") then press "C" for continue. Now enter Section heading: "Overall" 1. He has had a good year. 2. He has had a fair year. 3. He has had a poor year. Now press "F" to end file and you have finished your first (small) statement file. 5. Look at and change group files The group file changer enables the user to add and change the details of students stored in group files. You may need to use this utility to add and delete students from a group, to change the class name or to create sub option groups from an original group file. To run this utility press 5 from the main menu. The computer will present you with a list of file names available, for the puposes of this demonstration choose "8L.grp" then press RETURN. (Please note it is necessary to type the full file name including the extention (.grp)). You will then be presented with the name of the group. To accept it press RETURN twice, to overwrite it type the new name then RETURN. In this example we are going to keep the old name (8L) so press RETURN twice. The name of the first student will now appear. Press Y to accept the details or N to delete them. On this occasion we will accept so press Y. The student (Minnie Mouse (female)) is copied to the new group file you are creating. The action window at the bottom now invites us to press A (to read another students details from disk) or N (to insert another students details from the keyboard). Press A. The details of a student named Major appear on the screen. His name has been changed by depoll to Minor, so we press N to indicate that we will not accept details. We now press N to insert a new students details and type the details First Name: John Second Name: Minor Male or Female (M or F): M as required. Accept the next two students (Joan of Arc and Billy Bunter, by pressing Y and A). Now press N to add a new student to this (very small !!!) class group. Add your own name and sex when requested. Now press E to exit and save the file. You will now be requested for a new group file name. You do not need to type in the file extention (.grp) the computer will add it automatically. You have 2 choices: a) to choose the same name as the old file (8L.grp) in which case the computer wipes out the original file and replaces it with a new one. b) to choose a completely new name, in which case you now have two files. This enables you to add to or to create new group lists from existing groups - facilitating option groups. Please note - if you choose a filename that is already on disk but not the original file name the program will not allow you to save it. 6. Create a new group file. This utility allows the user to make new class lists that can be read automatically by the profile program. In a school situation it saves the time of each teacher having to insert the pupils name / sex indivually and also allows for an "authorised" version of names to be distributed. From the main menu. Press 6. You will be asked "What do you want to call the group file". For this example type in "7g" (Please note - this is waht the file will be called at the operating system level. It cannot be more than 8 letters long). You are now invited to add the name of the group / class. Type again "7g". You will now be repeatedly asked to type in the first name, second name and sex of each student. Enter the following students. First Name: Jane John Sonic Bugs Second name: Smith Brown Hedgehog Bunny Male or female (M or F): F M M M After each one you can choose to accept the details (Y) or not (N). If you do not you may type them again. After the final student has been entered press N when you are asked if you iwsh to enter another student. The file is now saved under "7g.grp" and ready to be used by the Profile and Report Writer. 7. Changing the program default settings by using the configeration utility. When you recieve the program it is set with a default line length of 60 characters and a top margin of 6 lines. This is reasonable if you have A4 paper and wish to leave only a minimal margin at the top of the page. Of course many schools will have different requirements including that of placing the text in a box that may be some way down the page. The use of this utility enables you to change the line length and the number of "feed in" lines at the top of the profile to correspond with your own requirements. When you use it, it is important to note the following facts - 1. It does not change how the profile looks on screen while the actual profile program is run. It only changes the layout of the printout and how it is saved as a text file if you choose to do so. 2. The line length utility is not quite technically correct, unless a space falls exactly on 60 characters the line will break at the end of the next full word after 60 characters. A Crash Course In different Profile Types. 1. Summative - given at the conclusion of a course for the pupil to take away. Normally these are positive and often Criteron based. 2. Formative - given during the course and offer not only what the pupil has done but also the improvement that s\he could make. (Diagnostic is a more specialised form of formative.) 3. Criterion based - a list (normally of practical subject based) skills that the student has acquired - note that students can either do one of these (and has the relevent statement included on the profile) or not - there tend to be no negative statements. (Check before you create a profile bank as a criterion based one - they can make very boring reading. Eg Joyce can identify a design need. She can conceptualise a finish product. She can care for and look after tools. She understands the importance of safety regulations. Continued on page 60 ...) 4. Positive statements - if you a creating a summative / or criterion based file this means only mentioning things a pupil can do and not what they cannot. So an able student has a very long report and a pupil with very little ability has a very short report. If you are creating a formative file it means couching information in a roundabout way eg "She never brings her equipment to the lesson" becomes "She would improve her performance if she were to bring her equipment to the lessons". Changing the Report / Statements and Group files & Creating your own Statement Bank using a Word Processor. General Introduction Although a utility is provided to create and edit statement files / reports / group files if you are an experienced user of computers you may find it easier to use a word processor to do so. However if you do you and you intend to have the results read by the Profiler & Report writer you 1. MUST save the results as an unformatted ASCII or text file. 2. MUST have the layout of the files (.stm, .grp, .rpt) exactly as below. If you do not the program may well refuse to accept the files or produce rubbish. The program will only work properly if the statement file is saved in a unformatted or ASCII mode. Most modern word processors and text editors come with this facility and on the following pages we have attempted to give examples of how to load and save using the most common ones. If yours is not included please consult your manual. A text editor is not included with this program but we felt that so many existed on the market today that to add one more would be a waste of time. If you have not already copied your disk it is vital that you do so now as the process of adding to the text file will have the effect of writing to the disk and so the potential for messing it up exists. The tutorial section only refers to the word processors \ text editors actions in generic terms but at the end of the section we have explained loading and saving text on some of the more common programs. Tutorial Load the file from the disk called START.STM into your word processor or text editor. This is a small example file consisting of only 3 sections. It is reproduced below with comments {they are enclosed in curley brackets like these}. Add at least 3 or 4 more sections of your own not forgetting to end each section with a *Section ending and finish the entire file with *Done. The statements must be written in the masculine if you have a mixed school. The program will automatically change all the common male nouns etc to female (eg him to her, he to she etc>. If you have a single sex school just write them in the sex of your school. However you must note that the program will not convert some of the more obscure male / female conversions and you may have to include them as statement options. (We would like to state that the decision to make the file male was a syntactical rather than a sexist one. Boys have more words - isnt it just like them !!) Then save the file as an unformatted text file. (On some word processors (Lotus Works for example) you will find that you also have to specify the maximum print width (probably 255 characters). When you do your own statement file do it right at the end before you save it or you will have trouble reading the writing as it "falls off" the screen. Now run the profile program and load your new statements by typing in START.TXT when requested for the filename. *Header {Shows that the first statement of each section eg in this first section "Attendence", is to be read as a heading and not as one of the profile statements.} *Name {Shows that the program must automatically insert the pupils name here.} Attendence 's attendence of this course has been excellent. 's attendence of this course has been good. 's attendence has been interrupted and so areas of the course have not been covered in the detail they should have been. joined the school mid way through the year and has so not covered the full scope of the course. *Section {This tells the computer that it has reached the end of a section} Timekeeping and Equipment She arrives on time and is well prepared for the lesson. She generally arrives on time and is prepared for the lesson. She could improve her performance by arriving at lessons on time. She could improve her performance by better planning and organisation of equipment and tasks. She could improve her performance by better timekeeping, planning and organisation of equipment and tasks.* *Section Written Work Her written work is of a consistantly high standard in both content and presentation. Her written work is of a reasonable standard in both content and presentation. Her written work is of a good standard in content but she needs to pay more attention to the presentation. She puts considerable effort into her written work but finds their satisfactory completion quite difficult. She would profit from putting more effort into submitting written work by the deadlines set. *Para {This tells the computer to put a new paragraph inbetween these sections} *Multi {This allows the user to pick more than one option from the list of profiles} Events and Activities She has this year participated in a trip to the Science Museum a day trip to France the Annual Fete a gymnastics display *Done {This tells the computer that it has reached the end of the statement file} Example statement files included on disk for you to use; Statemnt.stm - a lower school history report. Compute3.stm - Lower school computer appreciation. Creating Statement Files using Different word Processors Lotus Works (c) Lotus Development Coporation. Move the cursor to "WORDS". Press RETURN. Answer y for YES to "Open new service?". Press F7. Press "R" for Retrieve. Type A:\START.TXT (or just start typing if you are creating your own statement bank. When you have finished typing the profile bank go to the begining of the document and press F4 (layout), choose R for ruler, then D for define, then choose R for Right and choose 255 (you must do this each time you change a file). Now choose U for USE and select layout A. the effect of this should be to create lines of text that extend way off the screen. Now Export the document by pressing F7 and then type E. Now type A:\START.TXT or whatever you have choosen to call the file. Microsoft Word (c) Microsoft Load the program. Load the statement file by pressing ESC then T for transfer, then L for load. Now type the name of your file eg A:\START.TXT. Work on the file. When you are ready to finish do the following. Press ESC, press T for transfer, press S to save, press the TAB key to toggle between formatted and unformatted (choose unformatted) then either type the filename and press RETURN or just press RETURN if the filename already appears. Locoscript PC (c) Locoscript Load the program at the Disk Manager press F4 (Tree). Select "Show all drives". Move to the A drive (or which ever drive you have the statement file in using CTRL and the cursor key). Press F2 (Disk) Choose "(Re)Display this drive)" Select the document you want eg START.TXT (or start a new document by choosing c to create) Make the changes you want. Press F10 Then choose "Finish Edit". At the disk manager screen choose F9 - Then Export document - Then convert to ASCII - Then follow the instruction (You will find that you need to change the name of the file.Trouble Shooting Common Problems The Profile wont print out - Check the printer is plugged in, turned on, and on line. - Check the printer is plugged into the parrallell socket on the computer. We do supply serial verions on special request. The Program is unable to read the statement file or produces unpredicable results (this is only likely to happen if you have not used the utility programs provided and created files using a word processor). - Check the file has been saved in an unformatted (ASCII) form. - Save the file in maximum width format (normally 255 character) - Check the syntax against that in the command reference section for any errors. - Check that all the star (*) options start with a capital letter. - check that all star (*) commands are outside the body of actual profile statements Double amounts of punctiation appear in multi part statements - remember that if you include punction in statements you do not need to use it in the selection Statements dont "change sex" Possible reasons - you have done them in female (this is an easy mistake to make if you work in a single sex girls school). Solution - change them to male and the sex change will work. - you have done one immeadiately followed (or preceeded) by a piece of punctuation (eg a comma or a full stop) Solution- seperate the "sex" word by a space and it should work. - you have chosen a more obscure (or not obvious) gender word, Solution - include it as a statement option or choose a neutural word (eg chairperson). Large white gaps appear unpredictably in the middle of your printed report / profile - You have left blank spaces (ie pressed the space bar) at the end of your statements instead of pressing RETURN and starting a new line immeadiately after Licence Agreement. This is a shareware program and until you have paid a licence fee you have none of the licence "rights" as described below. Your paid up version of this program is covered by one of three licence agreements as set out below. Because the licence owner is quoted on the opening screen of the program and registered with us if you resell the program in order to gain the benefits of the licence agreement the new owner must reregister the program in his / her name with us. A nominal administration charge is levied for this. For this you receive the most up to date version of the program with your / your institutions name on the opening screen and all the facilities / back up with regard to the program below pass to the new owner. Individual Licence - for use of one person at a time (the standard "book" licence- ie it may be copied on to as may computers as you wish - but only one may be used at a time) Institution / Site licence (can be copied and used by any number of members of staff of a school or college at the same time) Protection and Security. The customer agrees not to provide or otherwise make available the Synergy Profiling Program to any persons other than those laid down in licence agreement above. Limitation of Liability Although every effort is made to provide a product that is appropriate and efficient Synergy Computing cannot be held responsible for the suitability of this software for a particular purpose nor will they be held liable for consequential damages that result from the use of this computer software. We are interested to hear your statements and suggestions for improvements to the program. Please write with ideas. + Support and Warranty. Synergy computing will replace any software and manuals that are faulty. Original copies with the labels and user numbers must be returned to the address below. Postage will be refunded with the new disks. Registered users will be informed of upgrades and given the opportunity to purchase them at a discount. Command Reference Section. THE PROFILE PROGRAM. Ctrl + Break (at any time) - takes the user back to the main menu A + RETURN - (during main profile program). Takes the user back to the begining of the program. Statements accumulated within the current profile are lost. SPACE BAR & RETURN (during the statement selection process) - causes the statement to be skipped. , . & (in a multipart statement) - are valid punctuation. i - allows you to add your own comment, either instead of the one supplied (by just typing i), or in addition to by typing i and the number of one of the statements. EDITING THE STATEMENT BANK This is important if you use a text editor / word processor to change the statements rather than the supplied utilities. (Note that "Star commands" cannot be put in the main body of the profile statements and they must always begin with a capital letter) *Header - Causes the program to read the first sentence of each section as a heading. *Name - Causes the program to automatically print the students name. *Para - Causes a paragraph break to occur in the finished profile. *Section - Marks the end of each section (Is not used if *Para or *Done are used). *Done - Marks the end of the statement file. *Multi - Allows more than one choice from the section and the use of punctuation. Appendix. 1. Making Back Up Disks We advise that before you use the Profiling Program you make copies of the disk(s) that you were supplied with in order that if a disk does go faulty you have an immediate replacement. For those of you new to computing this a common industry practice and in no way reflects on the quality of the program you have purchased. Before you copy the disks WRITE PROTECT the originals so that the original program is not wiped out by accident. Turn on the computer. If you have a hard disk fitted to your computer - wait for the system to boot and when you get to C> go to your utilities directory, or if you have the utilities stored in the root directory type DISKCOPY A: B: If you have a machine that runs on floppy disks - Take your SYSTEM AND UTILITIES disk that came with the computer and put it in drive A and wait for the system to boot. When you get to A> type DISKCOPY A: B: Then press RETURN. Now take your SYSTEM AND UTILITIES DISK out of drive A and put in the PROFILING PROGRAM MASTER DISK. 5 1/4 " disk users Place a small sticky label over the niche cut in the side of the body of the disk. 3 1/2 " disk users Move the black slider on the top of the disk so that the hole in the disk is open. If you have a double disk drive machine. Put the original disk in drive a (normally the right hand side) and a blank unformatted disk in drive b (normally the left hand side) and follow the same procedure. Making a "Self Booting" disk for Many users have found it convenient to create a disk that automatically loads when you turn on the machine. The instructions for creating this below are written to apply to a single drive machine. Place your system and utilities disk in drive A. Type FORMAT A:/S The disk will now format with a system on it. Now put your program disk in the drive and type COPY *.* B: It will request that you insert the disk for drive B:, put your blank formatted disk in when it requests this. You will have to do one or two more disk switches as it copies all the files onto your formatted system disk. When you have copied all the files put your new system \ program disk in the drive and at the A> type COPY CON AUTOEXEC.BAT MENU (or DEMPROF if you are using the demonstration program) now press CTRL Z and then RETURN the screen should now say "One file copied". When you put the disk in drive A of the computer it should now automatically load the profile program. Files that should be on the disk or are created by the program. Menu.exe (full version) demprof.exe (demonstration version) - Menu that loads other parts of the program. profile.exe(full version) prof.exe (demonstration version) - Profiler and report writer (produces files with the extention ".rpt" if save option chosen). reporter.exe - program to view and print files with extention ".rpt" statemk.exe - program to create statement files (produces files with extention ".stm"). changest.exe - Program to change statement files (produces files with extention ".stm"). makegrp.exe - Program to make group files (Produces files with the extention ".grp"). config.exe - program to change config.pro file. config.pro - file that holds default formatted output values. You may reproduce without permission any files with the file extentions .stm, .rpt, .grp. If you hold an individual licence you may only copy the other files enough to make ligitimate backup copies. (C) K. Laing 1992 Synergy Computing 66 Trumpington Road, Forest Gate, London E7 9EJ