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- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
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- This disk contains the four programs of the Medlin
- Accounting Shareware System:
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- PC-GL Double Entry General Ledger
- PC-AR Accounts Receivable
- PC-PR Payroll Writing
- PC-AP Accounts Payable
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- The requested fee is $35 for each program and entitles you
- to telephone support and a configuration program to change
- several parameters of the program. Send a check to:
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- Jerry Medlin
- P.O. Box 357
- Napa, CA. 94559
-
- You may use the order form at the end of this manual, or to
- charge using Master Card or Visa, call (707) 255-4475 between
- the hours of 8AM to 6PM, Pacific time.
-
- The programs are the files with an extension of EXE. So
- the file named PC-GL.EXE is the General Ledger program and the
- file named PC-AR.EXE is the Accounts Receivable program. If you
- have been using earlier versions of the programs with COM file
- name extensions, you should erase them from your program disk or
- subdirectory. The new programs will use the data created by the
- old programs.
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- INSTALLING THE PROGRAMS ON A FLOPPY DISK
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- You may run the programs on the supplied disk to try them
- out, but eventually you will want to install the programs
- properly to give yourself more disk space for data. If your
- business is small, you can use the same disk for program and
- data, but most applications will require a data disk and a
- program disk.
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- Installing the programs requires making a program disk and
- a data disk and then copying the programs to the program disk.
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- Create a data disk by putting your DOS disk in drive A: and
- a blank disk in drive B: and type:
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- FORMAT B:
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- Then, create a program disk by putting another blank disk
- in drive B: and type:
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- FORMAT B:/S
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- Next, move the formatted program disk to drive A: and put
- this disk in drive B: and type:
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- COPY B:*.EXE A:
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- If you are running PC-GL for the first time, you should
- also copy the standard chart of accounts to your data disk. Put
- the data disk in drive A: and this disk in drive B: and type:
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- COPY B:PC-GL.COA A:
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- To run any program, place the program disk in drive A: and
- the data disk in drive B: and type the name of the program
- followed by B:. IE. type PC-GL B: to run the PC-GL program or
- PC-AR B: to run PC-AR. If you have the configuration programs,
- you may use them to permanently set B: drive as the data drive
- and it will then be unnecessary to type the B: after the program
- name. A configuration program is provided to registered users
- of each program.
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- IMPORTANT ! If you have been using earlier versions of PC-
- GL, PC-AR, PC-PR or PC-AP, you must erase the old versions of
- the programs from your program disk. Put the program disk in
- drive A: and type:
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- ERASE A:PC-*.COM
- ERASE A:??CONFIG.COM
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- INSTALLING THE PROGRAMS ON A HARD DISK
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- To install the programs on a hard disk, you must create a
- subdirectory and copy the programs to the subdirectory. You can
- call the subdirectory anything you wish, but I will use the name
- ACCT for this example. If you wish to use another name, just
- substitute it for ACCT in these directions.
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- First place this disk in drive A: and in response to the
- C:> prompt type:
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- CD\
- MKDIR ACCT
- COPY A:*.EXE \ACCT
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- If you are running PC-GL for the first time, you should
- also copy the standard chart of accounts to your data disk. Put
- the data disk in drive A: and this disk in drive B: and type:
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- COPY A:PC-GL.COA ACCT
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- To run a program, first change to the subdirectory by
- typing: CD \ACCT and then type the program name. IE. type
- PC-GL to run PC-GL or PC-AR to run PC-AR.
-
- IMPORTANT!! If you have been using earlier versions of PC-
- GL, PC-AR, PC-PR or PC-AP, you must erase the old versions of
- the programs from your hard disk. To do this type:
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- ERASE \ACCT\*.COM
- ERASE \ACCT\??CONFIG.COM
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- INTEGRATING THE PROGRAMS
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- With the exception of PC-AP, the programs are not
- "integrated". That means to get the sales totals from the
- Accounts Receivable program to the General Ledger program you
- must make a journal entry. Likewise, the payroll totals should
- also be entered each month into the general ledger program.
- Once you are familiar with the programs this takes only a few
- minutes per month and is more convenient than having all of the
- sales and payroll detail transferred to the general ledger
- program automatically. The PC-GL manual includes a section on
- posting payroll and sales data to the General Ledger.
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- ADDING COLORS
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- The configuration program available to registered users
- will allow you to specify a data path and colors for each
- program. You may also specify the desired data path and colors
- by adding them to the command line separated by blank spaces.
- The commands should be in the following order: DATA PATH,
- BORDER COLOR, DATA COLOR, PROMPT COLOR AND BACKGROUND COLOR.
- For example, if you run PC-GL by typing:
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- PC-GL B: 3 14 10 1
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- That will tell the program to look for data on the B: drive and
- use Cyan borders, Yellow data, Light Green prompts with a Blue
- background.
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- THE KEYBOARD
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- The programs make liberal use of the PC's ten key pad for
- both numbers and commands, so your Num Lock will be turned on
- automatically at the beginning of each program. You should
- leave the Num Lock on all the time even when using the arrow
- keys for commands. If you should turn the Num Lock off for some
- reason, the 5 key on the 10 key pad will not work on some
- computers. Just turn the Num Lock back on to correct this
- problem. Your Num Lock will be turned off when exiting the
- program.
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- These programs have been developed and refined over a
- period of five years. I'm sure you'll find them better than
- anything else available. So, relax, take a deep breath and get
- your books in order.
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-
-
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- MEDLIN SHAREWARE ACCOUNTING Remit to: Jerry Medlin
- ORDER FORM P.O. Box 357
- Napa, CA. 94559
-
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- PC-GL General Ledger Program ($35) ________
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- PC-AR Accounts Receivable Program ($35) ________
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- PC-PR Payroll Writing Program ($35) ________
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- PC-AP Accounts Payable Program ($35) ________
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- Total Enclosed ________
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- Name: ________________________________________________________
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- Company:________________________________________________________
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- Address:________________________________________________________
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- City: __________________________ State _______ Zip ___________
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- Payment by: Check _____ MC _____ VISA _____
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- Card no.: _____________________________________________________
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- Expiration:________________
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- Cardholder
- Name ______________________________________________________
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- Cardholder
- Signature _____________________________________________________
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- Where did you get our program?__________________________________
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- Sorry, no CODs or Purchase Orders.
- Latest version of all four programs and configuration programs
- for registered programs will be mailed by First Class Mail.
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