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│ (C) Copyright 1991 by Michael J. Riley │
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│ All rights reserved │
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Published by: Michael J. Riley
P.O. Box 1874
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86405
(C) Copyright 1991 by Michael J. Riley. All rights reserved.
No portions of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by
any means without written permission from the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America.
Chapter 1 Introduction
What's on your distribution diskette............................. 1-2
Making a backup of your diskette................................. 1-3
Setting up a hard drive.......................................... 1-4
Chapter 2 Changing Colors With Zinstall
The Zinstall Main Menu........................................... 2-2
Changing the Backdrop Colors..................................... 2-4
Changing the Main Menu Colors.................................... 2-6
Changing the Help Screen Colors.................................. 2-8
Changing the Preference Box Colors............................... 2-10
Changing the Dialog Box Colors................................... 2-12
Changing the Report Colors....................................... 2-14
Saving Your Custom Configuration................................. 2-16
Quitting the Installation........................................ 2-17
Chapter 3 Defining Your Printer With Zinstall
The Custom Printer Setup Menu.................................... 3-2
Picking a Printer From a List.................................... 3-4
Dot Matrix Custom Setup.......................................... 3-6
Laser Printer Custom Setup....................................... 3-8
Manual Override and the Font Selection Panel..................... 3-10
Saving and Exiting the Printer Setup............................. 3-11
Chapter 4 An Overview of Zilch
What Is Zilch ................................................... 4-2
All About The Main Screen........................................ 4-4
The Online Help Facility......................................... 4-6
Chapter 5 Entering Creditor Information
Choosing The Start Month......................................... 5-2
Selecting A Debt Liquidation Plan................................ 5-4
Pledge Money The Added Dimension................................. 5-6
Entering The Creditor Name....................................... 5-8
Entering The Annual Percentage Rate.............................. 5-10
Entering The Starting Balance.................................... 5-12
Entering The Minimum Monthly Payment............................. 5-14
Using The Data Entry WorkSheet................................... 5-16
Chapter 6 Viewing/Updating Creditor Information
The View/Update Screen........................................... 6-2
Updating An Existing Record...................................... 6-4
Adding New Records............................................... 6-6
Deleting Existing Records........................................ 6-7
Changing The Start Month......................................... 6-8
Changing The Plan................................................ 6-9
Changing The Pledge Money........................................ 6-10
Chapter 7 Printing The Zilch Reports
The Report Selection Screen...................................... 7-2
Viewing The Reports On The Screen................................ 7-4
Sending The Reports To The Printer............................... 7-6
Chapter 8 Zilch Data File Operations
Overview Of File Operations...................................... 8-2
Writing Zilch Data Files (Save).................................. 8-4
Reading Zilch Data Files (Load).................................. 8-5
Erasing Creditor Information From Memory (New)................... 8-6
Chapter 1 Introduction
What's on your distribution diskette............................. 1-2
Making a backup of your diskette................................. 1-3
Setting up a hard drive.......................................... 1-4
1-1
What's on your distribution diskette
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A brief look at the files found on your distribution diskette.
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Your distribution diskette contains the following files:
ZILCH .EXE - Debt Liquidation Program
ZINSTALL.EXE - Zilch Installation Program
SETUP .BAT - Batch file for Hard Disk setup
DISTRIB .DOC - Notes for distributors and BBS syops
README .DOC - Latest information
ZILCH .DOC - Zilch users manual
ZILCH.EXE - This is a copy of Zilch the debt liquidation program. This program
is designed to help you get out of debt as quickly as possible. The
financial information you enter can be saved, retrieved and changed as
often as you like. Should you contact the author for any reason make sure
you give your registration number.
ZINSTALL.EXE - This is the installation program for Zilch. With this program
you can customize the screen colors to any of the 16 available colors.
Zinstall displays a scaled down version of the screens you will see in
Zilch. What you see in Zinstall, you will see in Zilch. You also define
you printer. The custom setup is saved in a configuration file called
ZILCH.CFG and this file can be changed as often as you like.
SETUP.BAT - This is a batch file that automatically sets up your hard drive.
It makes a directory called "C:\ZILCH" and copies ZILCH.EXE and
ZINSTALL.EXE to that directory. It does not change your path.
DISTRIB.DOC - This contains special notes for shareware distributors and
bulletin board sysops.
README.DOC - This contains the do's and don't of sharing the programs on your
diskette with others. It also contains the latest information available
on software products from the author. If there have been any changes to
the manual they will be listed here.
ZILCH.DOC - This contains the Zilch users manual. This manual can be printed
by using the DOS PRINT command. It contains page breaks that skip over
the perforations. This file contains graphics characters and boxes. To
get the best results make sure your printer is configured to print
graphics characters. Registered users receive a hard bound copy of this
file.
1-2
Making a backup of your diskette
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Making a working copy of your distribution diskette.
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Before you begin using Zilch make a working copy of your distribution diskette.
For our purposes I am going to refer to the drive that contains your
distribution diskette as drive A.
Copying with 1 disk drive
Have a blank formatted diskette ready for use. Place the distribution diskette
in drive A. Type "diskcopy" and press <Enter>. Your screen should look like
this:
A:> diskcopy
Insert SOURCE diskette in drive A:
Press any key when ready . . .
Your computer will prompt you to replace the source diskette with a target
diskette.
Copying with 2 disk drives
Place the distribution diskette in Drive A and the blank formatted diskette in
Drive B. Type "diskcopy a: b:" and press <Enter>. Your screen should look
like this:
A:> diskcopy a: b:
Insert SOURCE diskette in drive A:
Insert TARGET diskette in drive B:
Press any key when ready . . .
Your computer will notify you when the diskcopy is complete.
Place your original diskette in a safe place and always use the working copy
that you just made. There is a $5.00 charge for ordering a replacement
diskette.
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Setting up a Hard Drive
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Installing Zilch on your hard drive.
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There are two ways to setup a hard drive. The easiest way is to use the batch
file called SETUP.BAT that comes on your distribution diskette. It will create
a directory called ZILCH and copy the necessary files to that directory. It
does not rename your path.
If you wish to do this yourself make a directory called Zilch. At the C:\
prompt type "md\zilch" and press <Enter>. Type "cd\zilch" and press <Enter>.
Place the distribution diskette in drive A and type "Copy a:z*.exe" and press
<Enter>. This will copy ZILCH.EXE and ZINSTALL.EXE to your hard drive. These
are the only files you need. Your screen should look like this:
C:\> md\zilch
C:\> cd\zilch
C:\ZILCH> copy a:z*.exe
A:ZILCH.EXE
A:ZINSTALL.EXE
2 File(s) copied
C:\ZILCH>