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WEDDING ORGANIZER
v. 2.0
By Chris Irwin
(C) Copyright 1990-1991
PROGRAM FEATURES:
* COMPREHENSIVE INVITATION MANAGER
* BUDGETING SPREADSHEET
* TO-DO LIST
* VENDOR NOTEBOOK
* SEX LESSON
* ALL COMPLETELY MENU-DRIVEN
WARRANTY:
Wedding Organizer is distributed on an "AS IS" basis without
warranty, expressed or implied. Considerable testing of the
program has been done, but the user assumes full risk as to the
results of using this program. Any liability of the author will
be limited exclusively to product replacement. In no event shall
the author be liable for any consequential damages arising from
the use, or inability to use this program.
The INVITATION MANAGER Automatically:
* Alphabetizes guest lists
* Tallies RSVP's
* Tracks gifts and thank you's
* Sorts and prints guest lists
(Plus MANY MORE features)
The BUDGETING SPREADSHEET Lets You:
* Create a budget, with up to 45 expense categories
* Compare actual costs vs. budget
* Keep track of who paid what
* Keep track of vendor contracts and what needs to be paid
* Easily add and change category names to suit your needs
* Print out a copy of the spreadsheet
The TO-DO LIST:
* Preset with all standard wedding tasks
* Edit, add and delete tasks
* Print lists of your tasks
* Change your wedding date without making a mess of your
to-do tasks
The VENDOR NOTEBOOK is made to:
* Keep track of all the vendors (florists, caterers, etc.)
that will be involved in your wedding.
* Besides contact names, addresses and phone numbers, you
can also enter free-form information on cost estimates,
promises made, or anything else you want.
The SEX MANUAL Lets You:
* Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the birds and
the bees, more or less
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
* 512K or more
* All monitor types (mono, CGA, EGA and VGA) are supported
* A hard drive is recommended. This program will run from
a single 360K floppy drive, but if you will be entering
more than 300 invitations, you will definitely need a
larger storage drive
INSTRUCTIONS:
At the DOS prompt, type WEDDING and press your ENTER key.
The entire program uses menus and help screens that make it
easy to know what you are doing. I programmed it that way so
that you don't have to keep referring to a instruction file.
P.S. Don't forget to back up (make copies) of this program
and ALL of its ancillary files on a daily basis. If your hard
drive crashes, you'll be mighty glad you had all of your
information safely copied, believe me.
A MOMENT ON MONITORS:
I did my best to write Wedding Organizer to work perfectly well
with all monitor types. However, if your computer gives you
fits when you enter the SPREADSHEET section of the program, it
is probably due to incompatibility between the software and your
computer's graphics board. Specifically the Wedding Organizer
senses you have an EGA or VGA monitor and tells it to get fancy
and shift to 43 or 50 lines of text per screen, instead of the
normal 25. In 95 percent of the cases, that's no problem.
However, for the five percent of you for whom your graphics card
refuses to switch to the higher-resolution mode, your screen
goes blank and the system locks up. Fret no further. Simply
start over, go into the SETUP section at the main menu, and
choose your monitor from the choices given.
DISTRIBUTION:
You may freely copy this program to friends and bulletin boards
so long as at least six files (WEDDING.DOC, WEDDING.EXE,
WEDDING.X01, WEDDING.X02, WEDDING.X03 and WEDDING.X04) are
included unmodified.
Since most of the files store user-inputted data, they will
change with use. To check this, when at the DOS prompt, type DIR
and make sure all file creation dates say 1-17-91 (for version
2.0). If they don't all show that date, then the Wedding
Organizer program has been used before and probably doesn't have
all of the important preset information (list of to-do tasks and
budget categories) that are on a virgin copy of the program.
In any event, try running the program. If you like what you see,
then send in your registration fee immediately and I will mail
you a virgin copy of the most recent version. Do this before you
start entering any data that you will want to use for your wedding.
HOW TO PAY:
Please mail your check or money order for $20 (U.S. currency) to:
Chris Irwin
P.O. Box 4295
La Mesa, CA 91944
Registered users will be mailed a disk with the latest version
of Wedding Organizer, which I plan to upgrade continually.
LICENSE:
Wedding Organizer is copyrighted software that is being
distributed as shareware. It is NOT in the public domain.
By using or distributing this package, you agree to the condi-
tions presented herein. If you find it useful, you are request-
ed to pay a registration fee of $20. You are granted a limited
license, valid for seven days, to use this package for evalu-
ation purposes. If you continue to use this package, you must
pay the registration fee.
DEDICATIONS:
First of all, to my own new bride, Kathy, thank you for enduring
the past six or seven months of being a "computer widow" while
I sat fidgeting and fretting in front of my computer.
Second, a tip of my hat to the folks at Microsoft for creating
QuickBasic 4.5, the language I wrote the program in.
Third, my unending gratitude to Crescent Software, who wrote
QuickPak Professional, used extensively throughout Wedding
Organizer. Their set of software tools for QuickBasic program-
mers is like a dream come true.
The last thank you goes to you, the user. Your support of the
shareware concept will justify the hundreds of hours I spent
(and continue to spend) working on this program. You can also
help me spread this program across the U.S. (and perhaps beyond).
Please make copies for your friends who are getting married,
and if you have a modem, upload it to your favorite bulletin
boards.
REVISION HISTORY
v 1.0 released April 12, 1990
-Initial release
v 1.1 released April 18, 1990
-Fixed bug that locked up program if user tried to FIND an invi-
tation before any had been ADDed.
-Fixed bug that made calendar disappear if user changed the
wedding date.
-Fixed typo in wedding quotes.
v 1.2 released May 4, 1990
-Added help screens to program.
-Enlarged zip code area to accept zip + 4 and Canadian postal
codes.
-Changed most of the files' extension names.
-Fixed another typo in wedding quotes.
v 1.3 released June 5, 1990
-Fixed bug that wouldn't allow some machines access to the guest
invitation module.
-Enabled proper use of PGUP, PGDN, HOME and END keys while scrol-
ling through To-Do tasks and while using Invitation's FIND com-
mand.
-After BROWSING through To-Do tasks, the highlighted task now
remains on the screen, ready for EDITing.
-Time on main menu is now displayed in am/pm format, rather than
24-hour format.
-Fixed yet another typo in wedding quotes.
v 1.4 released July 15, 1990
-Fixed bug that would occasionally display some garbage char-
acters (Martian poetry) on the "To-Do" EDIT and ADD screens.
-Added prompt allowing user to "chicken out" when deleting TODO
tasks.
v 1.5 released August 13, 1990
- Added option of printing spreadsheet data.
- Now each time Wedding Organizer starts, if the available disk
space is below 50k, the user will be alerted and given the
option of having all program files copied to another disk, or
continuing with the program.
- Fixed bug in main menu that displayed 12:00 p.m. to 12:59 p.m.
as a.m. times.
- Fixed bug that put garbage on screen if during the first time
you ran the program you EDITed an invitation that had just
been ADDed.
- Fixed bug that fouled things up if you included a quote mark
(") in the bride or groom's names.
v 1.6 released September 29, 1990
- Fixed bug that put garbage on the screen if, the first time you
ran the program, you consecutively read several of the TODO
help screens.
- Fixed typo in the SPREADSHEET help menus.
- Added SETUP section to the main menu, giving users the option
of specifying their monitor type if they are so inclined.
- Users can now exit the program at the main menu with the ESC key.
v 1.6a released October 1, 1990
- Added SETUP option of turning off and on WEDDING MARCH music.
v 2.0 released January 17, 1991
- Added VENDOR NOTEBOOK section. Whew!
- Added a check so that the program won't start if the computer's
internal date shows January 16, 1991 or earlier. User is instructed
to use the DOS DATE command to enter the real date. This keeps the
TODO section from presenting weird information.