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Fred's Checkbook! specs as of April 1989
A commercial quality, single entry, personal or small
business expense and income tracking program.
Fred's Checkbook! and Financial Consultant have been around since
1984 and this is version 4.0. The following is a list of things
that the program does including most of the new features.
This program has proven to be so easy to use that many people
don't even use the manual (included) because of the on line help
screens and logical layout of the program.
Experienced computer users certainly won't need the
documentation but, might find page 27 interesting.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Fred's Checkbook! runs on IBM personal
computers and compatibles. DOS version 2.1 or higher, and 384k
(256k available memory) are required.
Specifications
o Supports up to 99 accounts with 10,000 entries each.
o Up to 250 separate income/expense categories.
o Check printing for most any check format or printer.
o Current balance of account and balance at cursor is always
displayed as you move through your entries.
o Super easy checkbook balancing.
o User chooses the display colors.
o Reports can be produced by selecting any combination of
categories from 1 to 250 between any dates.
o Powerful search features allow you to work with groups of
entries.
o Store up to 500 payees along with their addresses, phone
numbers, ID codes and account numbers.
o Speed searching for your lists of payees, accounts, and
expense definitions by just pressing a letter.
o Sort entries by check number, date, amount, ID or
combinations quickly and easily.
o Highlight bar selection windows that use either the up and
down arrow keys or, for speed, you can press the first
letter of the selection.
o Built in calculator and calendar.
o Print out of check register between any two dates, which
most accountants prefer.
o Backups are easy to make when you finish the program. This
allows you to use a RAM disk for speed then quickly make
backups just as you quit the program.
o Reports are created in memory, so you can view them using
the cursor control keys and when you are happy with the
report, you can print it or save it as a disk file.
o You can view, print or copy previously saved reports from
your disk.
o You can switch .DTA and .BAK files for more versatility.
o Get program info. feature lets you see your system and
program status.
o Shell to DOS. (Lets you do DOS stuff and come right back.)
o Set report margins and headings easily and view the
results before printing.
o File structures are now provided for those of you who want
to write your own programs to access Fred's data files.
Those were the highlights, now let's see what users say about the
program. The following are some of the comments users have made
about Fred's Checkbook!
" I think this is a GREAT piece of software. Thanks for the
hard work." RL Chino, CA
" Dear Fred, FC is a great program. I'm using it with a new
Zenith ZX 181" DB Annandale, NJ
" Your program has worked flawlessly for me, and I am very
pleased with it." DHK Slidell, LA
" Excellent program, thanks" RWC Abilene, TX
" Thanks for writing the program I was going to write so my
wife can handle the books." MM West Chester, PA
" I enjoy your program. I have a small business and I use it
to keep our records in order." CRN Dallas, TX
" Your checking account program is the best I've ever seen!
How refreshing to be able to talk directly with a software
author (on Sunday no less!). Dr. RLF Ohio
" I am one of your users in New South Wales, Australia. I
have finished last years books and printed a report for my
accountant (which amazingly balanced). I found FC3 quite
simple and hassle free." AW N.S.W. Australia
" Here's some well deserved shareware funds. Hope future
upgrades come my way." Dr. SMB Alberta, Canada
" Congratulations on an excellent tool at a fair price. I've
been well served." GEH Consulting Engineer
" The ease of setting it up and using it and its features
makes it my favorite of all the programs I have tried." RB
Monterey, CA
" I tried and looked at more than a dozen programs including
Money Counts and Quicken. I found them cumbersome to use,
slow to execute, and overpowering in complexity.
Fortunately I came across Fred's Checkbook! Thanks for
developing a great product." FP Dryden, NY
" I bought Peachtree (a couple hundred bucks) and found it
was akin to using a howitzer to eradicate gophers in a
yard. Then I found your program. It's exactly what I
wanted and does a great job for me." JL LaCrosse, WI
" Enclose find a cheque for $40 for the copy of Fred's
Checkbook which I have tested and like very much."
Port Arthur Collegiate Institute, Thunder Bay, Ontario
These are excerpts from only a few of the letters I've received
regarding past versions of Fred's. I think they speak well of the
program. It doesn't do everything but what it does it does well.
After downloading the program FC4.ARC you will need to unpack it
using the command:
ARC x FC4.ARC <Enter>
The program, various support files, and doc files will take up
about 230K of disk space.
To print the documentation use the command:
COPY FC4.DOC PRN <Enter>
Or you can view the documentation while running the program by
using the "Get an old report" option from the reports section,
found by pressing function key F4 from the main entry screen.
I have tried to make this program FUN as well as USEFUL. I
sincerely hope you enjoy it.
Jon Kolstad