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- C.A.R.S. 2.5 CYBERNETIC SOFTWARE Registration $ docs
- MISC JUL91 CARS INVENTORY AUTOMOBILE REPORT
- FILE cars25.sdn
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- Welcome to C.A.R.S., the Complete Automobile Reporting
- System. With this package, you can track your vehicle
- expenses over 26 user defined categories, and watch your
- milage and costs. It allows for the logging of business
- and/or personal trips. And, most importantly, it provides
- totals for tax or accounting purposes. C.A.R.S. will provide
- this facility for any number of vehicles, the limiting factor
- is disk space.
-
- Now for a brief explanation of the workings of the two main
- components of this system.
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- There can be up to 26 categories, labeled A through Z, kept
- in a file, CARS.CTL, which can be updated from the category
- maintenance selection of the Main Menu. There are seven
- predefined categories that are supplied with the system:
- Accessories, Fees, Gas, Insurance, Maintenance, Purchase, and
- Repairs. These have purposely been given the same letter
- designation as their initial. This is not mandatory, but you
- may find it is easier to remember that way. You may add,
- change or delete from this group as you choose. The one that
- refers to fuel, be it Gas, Petrol, Diesel, Fuel,
- Motion-lotion, or Zoom-stuff, must be defined when you create
- a car file. (More on this subject later.)
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- Car Files
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- Information on each vehicle is kept in a separate file. It is
- called by a name of from 1 to 8 characters. When operating on
- a specific car, the file must first be opened, or selected.
- Each file has a descriptor record which contains a 25
- character description of the car, the category it will use
- for fuel, an indicator of whether the odometer reading is in
- miles or kilometers, and an indicator of whether the fuel is
- to be measured in gallons, imperial gallons, or liters. (All
- of these items can be changed in the data edit routines.)
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- Data in the car file is of two different types:
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- The first type is the expense record. This record contains
- the odometer reading, date, category, cost and description of
- any expense item. If the entry is for the purchase of fuel,
- it will also contain the amount of fuel purchased and the
- cost per unit of purchase.
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- The second type is the travel log. This record contains the
- odometer reading and date for the start of any trip, an
- indicator to tell if the trip was business or pleasure, the
- number of miles for the trip, and a brief description. As
- with the descriptor record, any item in the data record can
- be changed in the edit routines.
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