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- Screenfile MAINMENU.SCN Screen# 01
-
- This is the main menu presented when you run PAYUSA.EXE . You can start this
- menu from the DOS Prompt as follows:
-
- C: { OR D: OR WHICHEVER OTHER HARD DISK YOU INSTALLED ON TO }
- CD \PAYPGMS
- PAYUSA
-
- For special applications PAYUSA can be started with parameter strings. Normally
- the type of video card is auto detected and if it is a color card (CGA, EGA,
- VGA), and color has not been suppressed either with the DOS MODE BW80 command
- or from the PAYROLL USA configuration, then the screens will be presented in
- color. If this causes a problem of legibility on your monitor you can either
- access the Configuration menu and change the colors to black and white, or if
- you cannot read the menu's prior to that to get there then try starting PAYUSA
- with the BW parameter, example
-
- PAYUSA BW
-
- If you have a color card you can also suppress the color with the DOS MODE
- command. MODE BW80 should do the trick. Conversely, if you were expecting
- color and got black & white try MODE CO80 before starting PAYUSA - if it is
- still black & white then access the Configuration section and select the colors
- you want. The MODE program will be found on your DOS directory. Most users
- have a path already set up in the environment for DOS so in most cases it will
- execute from any DOS prompt - check your DOS manual in case of problems.
-
- Normally all screen writes are direct to video memory. In fully IBM compatible
- machines this produces much faster slicker screen updates than the official IBM
- method of going through the BIOS. However, if yours is not a fully IBM
- compatible machine, or if you must use the BIOS for other reasons (example, so
- screen updates can be intercepted by a screen to speech attachment for the
- visually impaired) then try starting PAYUSA with the BIOS parameter, example
-
- PAYUSA BIOS
-
- The BW and BIOS parameters can be combined if necessary, example
-
- PAYUSA BW BIOS
-
- We do not have a machine that is not fully IBM compatible to test on, nor do we
- have a screen to speech attachment to test on, so we cannot guarantee that
- everything will work on these devices. Try it and see is all we can say.
-
- As with the other menus in the PAYROLL USA system you can select an item by
- either pressing the appropriate function key or by using the up arrow or down
- arrow keys to move the bright bar marking your choice and then pressing Enter.
- All of the programs are accessible from here and we strongly recommend you run
- them from here rather than running the individual .EXE files directly from the
- DOS Prompt. The PAYUSA.EXE program performs some additional functions when it
- starts up:
-
- First, it checks if multiple configuration files exist, which would be the case
- if you had branch operations in more than one State as you would need to keep
- the employees for each State seperate for the calculation and remittance of
- State Taxes, or if you were an Accountant processing payroll as a service for
- several clients as each clients data would be kept isolated in seperate
- directories pointed to by that client's configuration file. If it finds
- multiple configuration files it asks which one you want and makes that one
- active for use by all the programs that are run from here during that session.
-
- Second, it checks to see if the data directories pointed to by the active
- configuration file contain encrypted files, if they do it prompts you to insert
- the key diskette containing the SCRAMBLE.EXE program then it un-encrypts the
- files and re-encrypts them at the end of that session. The encryption feature
- ensures that your payroll stays private if your computer is accessed by people
- who are not authorised to see payroll. You simply keep the diskette containing
- SCRAMBLE.EXE locked in a desk drawer or in your safe.
-
- Using multiple configuration files and data encryption are both OPTIONAL. You
- have to take special steps to initiate either of them. They are both fully
- described in other documentation files "USING MULTIPLE EMPLOYEE FILES, Printed
- Pages 10-01 on" and "OPTIONAL ENCRYPTION OF FILES, Printed Pages 11-01 on".
-
- Screenfile MAINMENU.SCN Screen# 02
-
- This is the sub menu reached from choice "F5 CONFIGURATION & OTHER UTILITIES"
- of the main PAYROLL USA menu.
-
- Screenfile MAINMENU.SCN Screen# 03
-
- This is the sub menu reached from choice "F6 DOCUMENTATION / SLIDE SHOW / DOS
- SHELL" of the main PAYROLL USA menu.
-
- The Slide Show choices F2 and F3 are the major part of the documentation. This
- screen and text that you are reading now are a part of it. We suggest you take
- a look at the slide show on your computer screen first (Choice F2) then if you
- would like a printed copy of it for reference select choice F3 when you return
- to this sub menu. Special conversion routines allow the screens and
- explanatory text to be printed by any computer printer. They are formatted for
- you onto 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper, each page numbered and with space in the left
- margin for a 3 hole punch so you can file it in a standard loose leaf binder
- and keep it by your computer.
-
- If your hard disk space is at a premium then once the slide show is printed out
- you may delete it from your hard disk if you wish to free up almost a megabyte
- of hard disk space. If you have lots of spare disk space it can be left where
- it is in case you want to refer to it "on line". The slide show is kept in a
- seperate directory with some of the documentation files referenced by "F1 READ
- OR PRINT DOCUMENTATION & REGISTRATION INFO" so be sure you have printed
- whatever you need first from both of choices F1 and F3, then it can be deleted
- from the DOS prompt as follows:
-
- C: { OR D: OR WHICHEVER OTHER HARD DISK YOU INSTALLED ON TO }
- CD \
- DEL PAYSLIDE
- RD PAYSLIDE
-
- Choice "F1 READ OR PRINT DOCUMENTATION & REGISTRATION INFO" has some additional
- textual documentation on specialised topics that could not be included in the
- Slide Show. It also has that all important ORDER FORM which you can return to
- us with your Registration Fee. Don't forget that one !
-
- Choice "F4 SHELL TO DOS (TO EXECUTE DOS COMMANDS)" allows you to do just that
- without leaving PAYROLL USA. Handy if you want to check the contents of a
- directory, or even to run another program, then to return to your place in the
- above Menu just type EXIT at the DOS prompt and press Enter.
-
-