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!PENNIES-A GENERAL ACCOUNTS APPLICATION
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**************************IMPORTANT************************************
ArcFS version
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To run the !Pennies Demo all you need to do is double click over !ArcFS and
then over !RunDemo, this will run !Pennies with a set of demonstration
data loaded. !Pennies will run from a compressed state so will take
slightly longer to access data and start up than in it's normal state.
To uncompress it for your own use see DISC SPACE AND COPYING at end of
this text.
If you get the message "File '<Penny$Dir>.!Sprites' not found" then
you have not loaded !ArcFS correctly.
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!PENNIES
This version of !Pennies is a cut down version of the full
application, it works correctly and any data created within it is
entirely compatible with the full application. However, there are a
number of facilities such as PRINT missing from this version and some
restrictive limits on the amount of new data that it will accept,
these limitations are explained fully in the 'Technotes' help text
(from !Pennies icon bar menu).
GUIDE AND HELP
The 'Guide' text will take you through a tour of !Pennies and describe
how to start your own accounts. The full version of !Pennies is
provided with a manual and set of 2 tutorials which provide a more
complete guide to the application. Both versions include full on line
help in the form of help texts available from within each window and
support for Acorn's Help application. To start the tour double click
over 'Guide' to load the text and then follow the instructions.
DISC SPACE AND COPYING
!Pennies will run from a single 800k floppy. In this version with all
the texts and demonstration data as well as it's own data !Pennies
will not fit onto one floppy - hence it is compressed to start with.
To make use of !Pennies for your own data you will need to uncompress
it by moving it to another location on floppy or hard disc. To do this
open the DemoRun directory to reveal !Demodata and Pennydemo, now open
Pennydemo and drag !Farthing (the small version of !Pennies) to
another location either on another floppy or your hard disc. To use
!Farthing for your own data merely double click over the !Farthing
icon and it will load and run with no accounts loaded.
***WARNING***
!Farthing will happily load and run from the compressed state if you
double click on it's icon, however because it cannot then write to
it's internal data store (because you have the Read Only version of
ArcFS) it will then hang and you may not be able to quit
satisfactorily. CTRL-Break/Reset/On-Off may then be needed to restore
your machine. This will not damage the program in any way but it is
very annoying so please decompress !Farthing by copying it before
using it for your own data.
This does not happen with the demonstration data because the directory
!Demodata is not compressed.