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ING, BUT  NOT LIMITED  TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS   IN-
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                                   TICKLEX
                              TABLE OF CONTENTS


    INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

    BUILDING BLOCKS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

    SETTING UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

    USING TICKLEX  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
       Making an Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       A note about Reminders  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       Editing Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       Editing a Plan  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
       Frequently Scheduled or Recurring Events  . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
       To-Do List  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       Alarms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
       Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
       Omitting Events, Plans and Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
       Hunting for Entries and Preparing Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
          Printed Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
          Custom Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
          Training Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

    MORNING STARTUP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

    LOG MODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

    CAUTION  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

    MESSAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

    APPENDIX A    SHARING DATA AMONG SEVERAL COMPUTERS . . . . . . . . . 35
    APPENDIX B    TICKLEX ON A LOCAL AREA NETWORK  . . . . . . . . . . . 37
    APPENDIX C    TICKLEX JR AND TINY TICKLEX  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
    APPENDIX D    DEPARTMENT/EMPLOYEE GROUPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39



                                    TICKLEX
                                 INSTRUCTIONS




     NOTE:  Please read the CAUTION in Section 7.


     SECTION 1     INTRODUCTION

          TickleX is a member of the ManageX Time & Billing software ser-
     ies.  It may be used independantly or in conjunction with the other
     programs in the series.  Please see the appendix for an overview of
     other programs in the series.

          TickleX is a tickler, scheduler, calendar, and to-do list.  It
     can also be used to track hours worked, expenses, and income.  It's
     unique in that it integrates these facilities with the ability to han-
     dle simple "project management" tasks, such as docket control.  Tick-
     leX can handle up to 8000 Appointments, Deadlines, Trips, Vacations,
     Exercises, Miscellaneous events, and Reminders, all at once.

          An APPOINTMENT is an event scheduled for a particular time and
     day.  A lunch date, for instance, would be entered as an Appointment.
     A DEADLINE is an event for which your firm is responsible.  It's char-
     acter is such that failing to meet it may get you into trouble.  A
     MISCELLANEOUS event, on the other hand, is something which you expect
     to take place, but for which you aren't responsible.  For instance, if
     another office is supposed to answer a complaint by 20 August, you
     would enter that event under the Miscellaneous category.  If YOUR of-
     fice is supposed to answer a complaint by 20 August, you would enter
     it as a Deadline.  If the Deadline is absolutely crucial, it should be
     entered as a GOTCHA (which is a super Deadline).

          An EXERCISE is a test or a period of training.  You might prefer
     to use this category for scheduling an employee's work or some other
     major category of event.

          The TRIP and VACATION categories are self-explanatory.  Multi-day
     events, such as Vacations and Trips, need be entered only once, for
     the date on which the event begins (eg: the beginning date of your
     vacation).  Whenever you need to change something about that recorded
     event, you need edit only one record, the one entered for the event's
     beginning date.  Yet, despite the fact that only one entry is actually
     kept in the data base, your daily schedule for each day of the multi-
     day event will reflect that event.

          It's important that you recognize the importance of Deadlines
     (including Gotchas).  If you occasionally enter an Appointment as a
     Miscellaneous event, or a Trip as an Exercise, there won't be any ser-
     ious ramifications.  But a Deadline should always be entered as such
     (or as a Gotcha).  You see, only Deadlines and Gotchas are deemed im-
     portant enough by TickleX to be brought forward when they're past due.
     In this way, TickleX will continue reminding you of a Deadline, even
     after it's been passed, until you check it off.  If something really
     should be entered as a Deadline, and you instead enter it as an Ap-


INTRODUCTION                         4



     pointment or Miscellaneous event, TickleX won't keep hounding you to
     take care of it after it's scheduled date passes.  In other words,
     that item will be dropped from your "to-do" list after the scheduled
     date.  In most cases this won't cause any problems, but there may be
     times when you'll wish you had entered something as a Deadline, so
     that you'll keep being reminded of it until it's done.

          A REMINDER is an entry reminding you that an Appointment, Dead-
     line, etc., will occur at some time in the future.  A Reminder must be
     set at least one day prior to the event of which you wish to be re-
     minded.  For instance, you might wish to be reminded on Monday that
     you have an important meeting on Tuesday.  Or, you might want to be
     reminded that a report is due in a couple of weeks (the actual due
     date would be entered as a Deadline, and a Reminder could be set a
     couple of weeks prior to the due date).

               Each Appointment, Deadline, etc., may have up to four Remin-
     ders linked to it.  This linking, a TickleX exclusive, is handled aut-
     omatically.  Linking Reminders to the tasks to which they refer is
     advantageous when you need to change the original task.  When such a
     change is made, all the linked Reminders are automatically changed
     appropriately.  Assume, for instance, that you originally scheduled an
     Appointment for 1 September, and made a Reminder for 25 August (remin-
     ding you of the 1 September Appointment).  If you subsequently changed
     the 1 September Appointment to 31 August, TickleX would also automati-
     cally change the 25 August Reminder so that it reflected the Appoint-
     ment's new date (31 August).  The date of the Reminder, itself, would
     also be changed to 24 August, in order to maintain the 1-week interval
     between Appointment and Reminder that had originally been established.

          A PLAN is a special file that lists the expected tasks for a pro-
     ject with which you are involved.  This listing contains the anticipa-
     ted time interval between each task.  When you enter or change a date
     in the Plan, TickleX will automatically change the dates for all rela-
     ted tasks accordingly.  Plans are very useful in planning complicated
     projects, such as lawsuits or training exercises involving plentiful
     milestones.






















INTRODUCTION                         5



     SECTION 2     THE BUILDING BLOCKS

          Before you begin using TickleX, you should first acquaint your-
     self with some basics.  To begin with, make sure your monitor's con-
     trast is set so that the screen can display different shades.  If it's
     not set properly, TickleX's instructions will occasionally seem con-
     fusing.


     Keyboard Entries

          Using TickleX requires you to make data entries at your computer
     keyboard.  When you are asked to `enter' something, you should type in
     the response at the keyboard and then finish your entry by pressing
     RET (the "Return", or "Enter", key).  `Enter', therefore, implies that
     you will complete your entry with a RET.  If you are asked merely to
     `press' a key, you should not press RET after you have pressed the
     appropriate key.  `Press' means that you need make only one keystroke;
     'enter' implies that more that one keystroke is permissible, since all
     entries must end with RET.


     Control characters

          On-screen instructions will frequently instruct you to press
     control characters.  A control character is represented graphically
     as a letter preceded by an up caret (eg: ^A or ^H).  If you are
     instructed to press a control character, you must hold the Ctrl key
     down, while simultaneously pressing the appropriate letter key.  For
     example, to press ^O, hold down the Ctrl key and tap the "O" (or "o")
     key.  Do not actually press the up caret key; the up caret is used
     merely as a graphic representation of the control key.


     The RET key

          RET (the return key) serves two functions in TickleX.  First, it
     is the key used to end all entries.  And second, if, in response to a
     screen prompt, you press it before you press any other keys, it acts
     to tell the program that you wish to ignore the prompt and retain the
     current response, if any.  If, for instance, TickleX asked you a name,
     you could just press RET, and the program would infer that you wished
     to ignore the question.  Depending upon the circumstances, TickleX
     would then move on to the next question in a series, or it would abort
     the procedure in which the question occurred.  ESC (the Escape key)
     will usually serve to tell TickleX not only to ignore a response, but
     also to abort the procedure entirely.


     Pausing

          When you find the computer in the middle of some lengthy proce-
     dure, such as printing a report, and you want to pause, press the
     space bar.  Doing so will cause the process to stop until you press
     the space bar again.  This use of the space bar will not work in all
     of the program's operational modes, but it will in most.  Pressing
     the space bar may take a few seconds to have an effect, so be patient.


BUILDING BLOCKS                      6





     Aborting

          If, instead of wishing that the computer pause in the middle of
     a procedure, you prefer to abort that procedure altogether, press ESC
     (the Escape key).  As with the space bar, this key may not work in
     all parts of the program, and it may take a few seconds to work.


     Printer Toggling and Sending Reports to a Disk File

          Whenever you are about to have a report printed on the screen,
     and you would prefer that it be printed on your printer, press ALT-P
     before the report preparation begins.  ALT-P is the printing toggle,
     and it turns the flow of data to the printer on and off.  You may al-
     ternatively send the data to a disk file, instead of the printer, by
     pressing ALT-F (in place of ALT-P).  The file created or appended,
     named "TEXT.MX", may then be modified with most any text editor.


     Message Line

          The last line on the display screen will nearly always have a
     message for you.  The message will often contain either instructions
     or an error message.  If you are ever unclear about what you are
     supposed to do next, look at the message line, which will be printed
     in reverse video.  If the intent of the message is not clear, you
     might find an explanation of it in the MESSAGES section of these
     instructions.


     EDITX.EXE

          There are a few files which will need to be created or modified
     by TickleX's text editor, EDITX.EXE, before you can realize the full
     potential of the program.  For instance, you may want to create a
     Template of the course that you think a typical project will follow.

          EDITX manipulates simple industry-standard ASCII code.  You
     may access it from TickleX's menu by pressing ^E (for "Edit").


     Tricking TickleX

          When TickleX asks for some information, NEVER, NEVER try to
     manipulate it by giving false data.  Doing so will almost certainly
     cause errors resulting from TickleX's reliance upon your input.
     Never, for instance, succumb to the temptation to tell TickleX that
     today is any date other than today's real date.  There is no way you
     can anticipate all that TickleX will do with the false data you may
     give it.







BUILDING BLOCKS                      7



     SECTION 3     SETTING UP

          TickleX must be placed into a MANAGEX directory on your computer.
     If you've gone through the automated install routine, that's already
     been handled for you.

          When you first begin using TickleX, you will have to answer a
     series of CUSTOMIZING questions.  Very brief explanations follow:

     -> Drive used for TickleX:  Enter the letter designation (C,D, etc.)
        of the disk on which you want to store TickleX's data.  If there's
        room, you will probably use the same disk for both program and
        data.  A hard disk is highly recommended.

     -> Initials: Enter the initials of each department or employee for
        whom Appointments, Deadlines, etc., will be stored by TickleX.  A
        department/employee is an individual or office that you want to
        track with the program.  Non-registered copies of TickleX may
        track up to five departments/employees.  Registered copies may keep
        up with twenty.

     -> Colors: Press "M" until the main foreground color you want appears.
        Press "S" until the secodary color appears.  Press "B" until you
        have the desired background.  Only computers equipped with color
        video cards will be given the colors options.

     You may come back to this series of questions later if you press ^C at
     the menu.

          There are also a couple of things you can customize at the batch
     file level.  In the TX.BAT file, there is a line that reads, "TICKLEX".
     You may add certain parameters to this line, if you wish.  For ins
     tance, to force TickleX to use 24-hour time, the line should read,
     "TICKLEX x x x 24hr".  Changing to 24-hour time also causes TickleX to
     refer to departments, instead of employees.  If you want 24-hour time,
     but also want employees (not departments), the line should read,
     "TICKLEX x x x 24hr emp".  To have 12-hour time and departments (not
     employees), use "TICKLEX x x x 12hr dep".  A final batch file option
     is the sixth parameter after "TICKLEX".  If the line reads,
     "TICKLEX x x x x x TDY", Vacations will be replaced by Leaves, and
     Trips will be replaced by TDY's.  The 4th and 6th parameters might be
     used in government and military offices.

          Remember, you must always access TickleX by entering "tx" at the
     DOS prompt.  This causes the TX.BAT file to execute.  Never access
     TickleX by entering "ticklex".  It'll usually work if you do so, but
     sometimes it won't.  Don't even rename the TX.BAT file.  TickleX must
     ALWAYS be entered through a batch file called TX.BAT.  If you want to
     access TickleX through an automated menu program, you may do so, as
     long as the the menu program calls TX.BAT (rather than directly cal-
     ling TICKLEX).








SETTING UP                           8



     SECTION 4     USING TICKLEX

          The INTRODUCTION of the instructions contains descriptions of the
     various types of entries that you can make: Appointments, Deadlines,
     Gotchas, Vacations, Trips, Miscellaneous events, and Reminders.  Also
     mentioned there are Plans.

          You may use any of TickleX's three alternate menus: two "calendar
     menus" consisting of a large calendar and a single menu bar at the
     bottom of the screen; and the "full screen menu", which uses the en-
     tire screen to explain each of your choices.  TickleX will default to
     one of the calendar menus each time you enter the program.  If you
     wish to switch to the other calendar menu, press ^A; to switch to the
     full screen menu, press ^A twice quickly.  Whichever menu is last used
     before you exit the program will be the menu to which TickleX defaults
     the next time you load it.

          Most users will prefer a calendar menu, even though it takes a
     while for it to be written to the screen (because the program must
     conduct a lot of research as it's drawing the calendar and filling in
     events).  If you have a relatively slow computer, however, you may
     appreciate the full-screen menu, which takes almost no time to flash
     onto the screen.

          One of the calendar menus displays the types of events scheduled
     for each day.  Each day's box on the calendar contains up to eleven
     a's, D's, etc.  Each of these characters represents an Appointment,
     Deadline, etc., that falls on that date.  The more characters you see
     in a day's box, the more things have been scheduled for that day (to
     save space, reminders, which are items scheduled for FUTURE days, will
     not be represented on the full-screen calendar).

          The other calendar menu displays the blocks of time that have
     been scheduled for each day.  Each day's box contains from zero to
     twenty-four rectangles, arranged in two rows of up to twelve rec-
     tangles each.  Each rectangle represents one-half hour that's already
     been scheduled for that day.  The top row shows which half-hour blocks
     have been scheduled between 7:00 AM and 1:00 PM.  The bottom row rep-
     resents 1:00 to 7:00 PM.  You will also note that there is a vertical
     line marking each hour (on the half-hour) from 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM.
     This calendar will quickly give you a very rough idea of how much time
     has been scheduled for each day of the month.

          By default, each calendar menu will show events scheduled for ALL
     your departments/employees.  If you wish to see only one particular
     department's schedule, press the F3 key.  Then, tell TickleX which
     department you want shown on the calendar.  If you want ALL depart-
     ments to be displayed, just press RET when TickleX asks you for one.
     An alternate way to change the department being shown on the calendar
     is to simply press the number key corresponding to that department's
     ID number.  For example, pressing "1" results in department 1's being
     shown on the calendar.  Pressing "0" tells TickleX to show ALL depart-
     ments on the calendar.  Of course, this scheme works only for depart-
     ments 1 to 9, so if you want to see a department from 10 to 20, you'll
     have to use the F3 key.

          You can move from day to day with the arrow keys.  When you land


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     upon a day for which you'd like to see more detail, press the RET key.
     When you do, the calendar will be replaced by a screen that fully des-
     cribes each of that single day's events.  To zoom back to the calen-
     dar, just press the RET key again.  Whether you're looking at the
     large calendar or an individual day's events, the arrow keys work
     identically:

                left arrow: go back one day;
               right arrow: go forward a day;
                  up arrow: go back one week;
                down arrow: go forward a week;
                      PgUp: go back one month; and
                      PgDn: go forward one month.

     Also, whether you're looking at the big calendar or an individual day,
     you have the full range of options shown in the same single-line menu
     at the bottom of the screen.

          The long box at the bottom of the large calendar will display the
     first several characters of each of four Gotchas and Deadlines sched-
     uled for the day that is highlighted.  If there are fewer than four
     Gotchas and Deadlines, other types of events may also be shown (remin-
     ders and events tagged for omission, however, will not appear here).

          NOTE:
               If you ever want a printout of the calendar that is
          currently on the screen, press the CTRL-PrtSc key combina-
          tion.  This will work, however, only if you have entered
          into line 2 of the PRNTINIT file (which accompanies TickleX)
          the "escape sequence" needed to utilize your printer's
          character set that includes the IBM graphics characters.
          Instructions for doing so are contained in the PRNTINIT
          file.  Take a look at it with EDITX (press ^E at the menu
          to access EDITX).


     MAKING AN ENTRY

          When you choose the Make option, you will be asked to specify the
     type of entry you are about to enter.  The definitions of most are
     found at the beginning of this documentation.  If you choose to enter
     a new Plan, you will be taken through the straightforward sequence
     discussed in "Editing a Plan", below.

          When you are asked to enter the date, a small calendar may ap-
     pear on the screen.  You have the option of either: 1) entering the
     date at the prompt; or 2) using the cursor movement keys to locate the
     desired date on the calendar and then pressing RET.  The PgUp and PgDn
     keys will change the month displayed on the calendar.

          If you don't know the date you need to enter, but do know that it
     is a certain number of days before or after a given date, enter the
     given date, followed by a plus or minus sign, followed in turn by the
     number of days you wish to add or subtract.  If, for instance, you
     need to enter the date that is 120 days after 2 OCT 89, you should
     enter "2 OCT 89 +120".  TickleX will automatically figure the correct
     date for you.  If you need to move forward or backward a given number


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     of months (instead of days), just highlight the appropriate date on
     the calendar and press the PgUp or PgDn keys appropriately.

          After you enter a date and the department/employee (or depart-
     ment/employee GROUP -- see the Appendix for information about groups)
     affected by the event, the screen will clear.  You'll be presented
     with a summary of all that is already scheduled for that depart-
     ment/employee on that date.  Also, the bottom of the screen will show
     a summary of the event you are presently entering.  If you discover
     that you need to back up to a previous item, just press the left arrow
     to move the cursor to that item.

          NOTE:
               If you don't need to fill in an item, just skip it by
          pressing the RET key.  Never feel compelled to make an entry
          for an item that you don't think is important.  If, for in-
          stance, the department/employee is not important, don't fill
          in that item.  The only items that TickleX requires are a
          date and an event.

          There are two "Time" items.  One is for the beginning time, and
     the other is for the ending time.  If you enter a time that has al-
     ready been "blocked off" for the day, TickleX will remind you of a
     possible conflict and afford you the opportunity to change the entry
     if you need to.

          NOTE:
               TickleX assumes that an event with no ending time (or
         an ending time identical to the beginning time) is not inten-
         ded to be "blocked off".  Hence, you may schedule multiple
         Deadlines for 11:00 (no ending time), without TickleX's re-
         minding you of possible conflicts.  If, however, you have an
         Appointment scheduled from 11:00 to 12:00, subsequent at-
         tempts to enter anything during that period will trigger
         TickleX's time block protection response.

          The item called "Project" (or "CaseNumber", if you are also
     using BillPower or ManageX) contemplates an alphanumeric entry up to
     twelve characters long.  You need not enter anything, but you may wish
     to, since this item may help you to search through the data base
     quickly to find only those events involving a specific project (case,
     job).  If you enter something, you may use the same scheme your office
     has always used to identify each project.  For instance, the project
     for John Smith might be called "8801-JS-1" or "Smith, J", or "SMITJO",
     or anything else.

          After you enter the "Event" item, you will be afforded the oppor-
     tunity to add up to 17 lines of notes to the entry.  Use this capa-
     bility sparingly, only when you are unable to adequately describe the
     entry in the 29 characters allowed in the "Event" item.  TickleX is
     limited to tracking a maximum of 15,000 lines of notes.  That sounds
     like a lot, but if you abuse the program's note-keeping capability,
     you may exceed its capacity.  Ten lines here and five lines there
     WILL eventually add up if you attach long notes to many entries in
     the distant future.  If you ever run out of Note-keeping space, omit
     some entries.  Every time you omit an entry, the notes that were at-
     tached to it are discarded, freeing space for more.


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          NOTE:
               If the time, project/case, or event of the record
          you're presently entering is the same as the corresponding
          item in the preceding record just entered, you can save some
          time by just entering "S".  Whenever "S" is entered for a
          time, project/case, or event, TickleX will pick up that
          item's text from the last record you've just entered.


     A Note about Reminders

          Reminders are created most conveniently at the time you origin-
     ally enter the event to which they refer.  TickleX will automatically
     prompt you to create such Reminders after each Appointment, Deadline,
     etc., has been input.

          Reminders may also be entered subsequent to your entry of an Ap-
     pointment, Deadline, etc.  To do so, you will first be asked the date
     of the event for which you need a Reminder.  Then, TickleX will show
     you the record number of each primary event scheduled for that date.
     You will be expected to use the arrow keys to highlight the specific
     record of which you wish to be reminded (or, if you prefer, you may
     simply enter its record number).  Then, TickleX will flash that record
     to the screen and ask you to enter the date for which you wish this
     new Reminder to be set.


     EDITING ENTRIES

          When you choose the Edit option, you will be asked to enter the
     date of the item you wish to modify.  If you want to edit an entire
     Plan, instead of an individual item, enter "P".


     Editing Individual Items

          If you want to edit an individual item, you should enter the date
     on which the event you wish to edit occurred.  If you aren't sure
     about the date, guess.  If you wish to edit only events that apply to
     a particular department/employee, you will next be allowed to enter
     the appropriate ID number (if you don't care which department is in-
     volved, just press RET when asked for the ID).

          Next, all events scheduled for the date/department combination
     specified will be listed.  You will be asked to enter the Record num-
     ber of the event you wish to edit/examine.  If you don't see the one
     you're looking for, you've probably guessed incorrectly about the
     date.  Use the arrow keys to change the date and display a different
     set of events.  When you finally find the event you want to edit, en-
     ter its record number.

          The selected record will then appear on the screen, and you may
     modify it as you wish.  Press F6 when you're done.  If the record just
     changed is referenced by any Reminders, they will be automatically
     updated to reflect the changes you made.  Then, if one of the changes
     you made was to the event's date, you'll be shown all of its Remin-


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     ders, so that you can confirm the changes automatically rendered by
     TickleX.


     Editing a Plan

          When you choose to work with a Plan, you'll be shown a listing of
     all Plans presently on the hard disk.  Then, you'll be asked to choose
     one of them.  Before we go any further, however, let's discuss exactly
     what a plan is and how it's set up.

          A Plan is a file that may be used to chart the course that a pro-
     ject (or case) is expected to follow.  An individual Plan may be based
     upon a general Template file set up with EDITX.  You may establish a
     separate Template for each general category of project your firm
     handles.  A real estate project, for instance, might use a "REALTY"
     Template.

          Each Template contains a listing of the tasks that usually take
     place in the type of matter covered by the Template.  Each line in the
     Template file consists of an task, an abbreviation for that task, the
     type of task (eg: Deadline or Appointment), and notes about that task.
     Also included is the interval (expressed in days) that is expected
     between that task and the preceding one, as well as the date by which
     you expect that task to be completed.  If an item is completely un-
     related to the preceding one, the interval item should be left blank.
     The notes item may also be left blank, if you wish, but every line in
     the file MUST have both an abbreviation and a description.  The Tem-
     plate file may have no completely empty lines.

          TickleX comes with a sample Template file called "SAMPLE".  Take
     a look at it with EDITX.  Note, as you view it, that no actual dates
     are filled in.  Never fill in Plan dates with EDITX.  Enter Plan dates
     ONLY in the main TickleX program.

     BRIEF EXAMPLE OF A PLAN:

     ABB  -------DESCRIPTION-------  INT   TYP  DATE  ---NOTES-------------

     INJ  Injury                            -
     CMP  File complaint                    -
     ANS  Expect answer              30     M
     SL   Stat Of Limitations runs   730    D         inj\

          The first line reflects the injury.  Remember, this is a Tem-
     plate, not an actual project Plan.  Therefore, no date information is
     filled in.  The next line is for the filing of the complaint.  It has
     no interval item because the date on which it is to take place is not
     necessarily related to the date of the injury.  The third line ref-
     lects that an answer is expected 30 days after the complaint is filed.
     The last line indicates that the statute of limitations will expire
     730 days after the injury takes place.  The "inj\" in the notes item
     ties the SL interval to the first line, which begins with "INJ".  Were
     in not for the "inj\" notation, the last line's interval would be as-
     sumed to be tied to the immediately preceding line (the "ANS" line).

          When you set up a Plan for a project, it will initially consist


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     of an exact copy of the Template from which it was copied (assuming
     you didn't write an original Plan "from scratch" in EDITX).  No dates
     will actually be filled in.  Extensive changes to the body of the Plan
     must be made in EDITX (by pressing ^E at the menu).  Filling in dates,
     however, is handled by pressing P if you're using the calendar menu or
     by pressing E if you're using the full-screen menu.  This "P" (or "E")
     option is the one to choose if you want TickleX to fill in dates for
     related tasks automatically.  The "^E" option (EDITX) won't allow you
     to fill in dates.

          If you want to fill in some Plan dates, press "P" (or "E" if
     you're using the full-screen menu), and  you'll be shown a listing of
     all Plans presently on the hard disk.  Then, you'll be asked to choose
     one of them.  If you wish to create a new one, enter a name for it.
     TickleX will then remind you that it doesn't exist and show you a lis-
     ting of the Templates from which the new plan can be copied.  If an
     appropriate template exists, type in it's name, and it'll be copied
     verbatim into the new Plan you've chosen to set up.  If an appropriate
     Template does NOT yet exist, you'll have to press ESC and go to
     EDITX (by pressing ^E at the menu) to create a new Template (or the
     actual plan you want to set up) "from scratch".  New Templates (as
     well as all Plans not copied directly from Templates) must be set up
     in EDITX.  How to accomplish this will be discussed in a while, but,
     first, let's quickly cover how to edit an established Plan.

          Once a Plan has been created, filling in the dates is a simple
     matter.  First, specify which Plan you wish to edit.  Then, select a
     task for editing by using the arrow keys to highlight that task (or
     optionally, just entering the task's abbreviation).

          Each time you select a task, you'll be taken through the same
     series of prompts (date, time, etc.) that appear when you (M)ake an
     event.  Anytime you don't need to fill in a particular item, just
     press RET to move on to the next.

          After TickleX has accepted all the information for a task, it
     will search the plan for subsequent tasks whose intervals are related
     to the date of the task just entered.  As it encounters subsequent
     related task, its date will be automatically assigned, and you'll be
     given the opportunity to enter any other information you wish.

          When you're finished making changes to the Plan, press the ESC
     key to return to the menu.

          NOTE:
               Note that TickleX moves through the Plan from beginning
          to end; it cannot be forced to go backward.  But if you ever
          need to calculate earlier dates from later ones, TickleX
          will still accomodate you.  When you're asked to enter a date
          for the earlier task, simply highlight the date of the LATER
          task on the little pop-up calendar; then type "-XX" (where XX
          is the number of days you wish to subtract from the later date).


     Frequently Scheduled or Recurring Events

          In addition to scheduling events item by item, TickleX has the


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     ability to automatically log events that take place on a regular
     basis.  For instance, if you have a staff meeting every Tuesday at
     1200, you need not go to the trouble of setting each and every such
     event.

          To tell TickleX the events of which you would like to be reminded
     regularly, select (^E)dit in the menu.  You'll be transferred to
     EDITX, where you can set up a file containing your regular events.
     When EDITX's menu appears, select "(F)requently Scheduled or Re-
     curring Events".  This will take you into the RECUR.DAT file, where
     you may enter up to 200 lines, each containing one event.  Note that
     you may use the tab key to align the cursor at the correct spot on
     each line to make an entry.

          The first item on each line is the Event's description.  Enter up
     to 37 characters.

          The next item is the Month in which the event regularly occurs.
     Enter the month as a number (1=JAN, 2=FEB, etc.).  If the event occurs
     EVERY month or if this item is not applicable, leave it blank.

          Then comes the day of the month.  If this item is not applicable,
     leave it blank.

          The time of day items are next.  If not applicable, leave these
     items blank.  Time should be entered without colons.  If the time
     you're entering is not within the standard working day (7AM-7PM), ap-
     pend an "A" or a "P" to the time ("930" and "930A" both mean 9:30AM,
     whereas "930P" means 9:30PM).  You can avoid possible AM-PM confusion
     if you use 24-hour time (9:30PM = 2130), as in the example below.

          The time of day is followed by the type of event.  Enter "M" for
     Miscellaneous, "D" for Deadline, "A" for Appointment, etc.  Center
     your entry below the "Y" of "TYP".

          The department/employee to whom this event applies should be
     entered next.  Use only the appropriate ID number, NOT initials.
     Start the entry under the "M" in "EMP".

          The next several items correspond to the days of the week, Sunday
     through Saturday.  These items are used if the regular event you are
     entering occurs on a specific day of the week, rather than on a speci-
     fic date in the month.  If the event always occurs on a Wednesday, for
     example, you would make an entry directly below the "W".  The entry
     you make should be a number between 0 and 6.  If the event always
     falls on the first Monday of the month, enter a "1" beneath the "M".
     If it falls on the third Friday, enter a "3" below "F".  If it occurs
     EVERY Wednesday, enter a "0" under the "W".  If an event occurs on the
     second and fourth Mondays, you should enter two separate lines identi-
     cal in every way, except that one should list a "2" below the "M",
     while the second should list a "4" below the "M".  Remember, a "0"
     indicates an occurrence on the SAME day every week.  A "6" indicates
     an occurrence on the LAST specified day of the month.

          Take a look at the following example:

     -FREQUENT OR RECURRING EVENT- MO DA TIME- TIME TYP EMP  S M T W T F S


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     Julie's Birthday              1  17             M
     Staff Meeting                       0900  1000  M           0
     Bowling Club Meeting                1900  2000  M   1           1
     Bowling Club Meeting                1900  2000  M   1       3
     Rotary Club Meeting              15 1930  2100  M   2
     !! JIM'S DAY OFF !!                             M   3             0
     !! MEMORIAL DAY !!            5                 M         6

          The first line reminds you of Julie's birthday on 17 January.
     The second indicates a staff meeting that takes place every Tuesday
     from 9:00 to 10:00 AM.  The third and fourth lines remind employee 1
     that the Bowling Club meets at 7:00PM every first Thursday and third
     Tuesday of the month (don't combine these entries, trying to have one
     line handle both a Tuesday and a Thursday).  The fifth line is a Re-
     minder for the Rotary Club meeting scheduled for the 15th of each
     month from 7:30 to 9:00 PM.  The last line notes that Memorial Day
     falls on the last Monday in the fifth month (May).  The last line also
     demonstrates that the LAST weekday in a month -- which may be either
     the fourth or fifth such weekday -- is denoted by a "6" under the ap-
     propriate day, not by a "4" or a "5".

          Once you've entered all the frequent and recurring events you
     wish, press F6 to save the file.  That's all there is to it.  TickleX
     will take over from there, referring to this file each day to check
     for items that should be included in your schedule.  Whenever you
     prepare a schedule printout in the (H)unt routine, these items will
     appear at the appropriate places (assuming that you don't do a "Quick
     Hunt", discussed below in the discussion of the (H)unting).

          Remember that Frequent and Recurring Events can be changed or
     omitted only in EDITX (by selecting ^E in the menu).  Don't try to
     find them with the (E)dit routine.


     Holidays

          Holidays are special types of recurring events.  When you enter
     one into the RECUR.DAT file, you should begin its description with an
     explanation point.  Doing so will allow the program to recognize the
     event as a holiday.  Hence, when you attempt to schedule an Appoint-
     ment or Reminder for that day, you will be reminded that it is a holi-
     day and asked whether you really wish to procede with the entry.  You
     are similarly reminded of Saturdays and Sundays.  If you wish to also
     be reminded of some other special event (such as your anniversary)
     whenever you try scheduling an Appointment for that date, you should
     enter it into this Frequent Events file (RECUR.DAT) with a leading
     explanation point.  See the final two lines of the example in the pre-
     ceding section.


     To-Do List

          TickleX doesn't keep a "to-do" file, per se.  Instead, it moves
     all past-due Deadlines to today's schedule.  After all, a to-do list
     is merely an itemization of things that need to be done (Deadlines).
     You want to continue being reminded of these Deadlines until you
     "check them off".  In moving past-due Deadlines to the current date,


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     TickleX keeps reminding you to take care of them.  Whenever you look
     at today's list of events, you'll see EVERYTHING that needs to be
     done, including things originally scheduled for today, as well as
     Deadlines from the past that haven't been checked off yet.

          ALL DEADLINES THAT APPEAR ON TODAY'S SCHEDULE ARE, IN EFFECT,
     YOUR TO-DO LIST.  A single report, therefore, contains both your
     schedule and the equivalent of a to-do list.

          NOTE:
               The only past-due Deadlines not automatically moved
          forward to the current date are those that may have been set
          in the "Frequent & Recurring Events" file.  The items in that
          file are generally not of a "to-do" nature.

          At the beginning of a new day, the program will search for each
     past-due Deadline, display it for you, and ask whether you want it to
     be marked for omission.  If your answer is negative, that Deadline
     will be added to today's schedule and will pop up the next day, too.
     If, however, you want the past-due deadline to be marked for omission,
     TickleX won't bother you with it in the future (in other words, it'll
     be dropped from the "to-do" list).

          Anytime you want to add something immediately to your "to-do"
     list, simply enter a Deadline for TODAY.  That Deadline will pop up
     tomorrow and the next day, and the next ... until you tell TickleX to
     mark it for omission.  It couldn't be easier.


     ALARMS

          To set an alarm for today, TickleX's memory-resident alarm, "B-
     Beep", must already be loaded into memory (see the "Memory-resident
     Alarm" section below).

          Enter the time and message for each alarm you wish to set.  Times
     may be entered without colons, `AM' or `PM' (eg: 1:30PM may be entered
     as "130").  When the time for each alarm is reached, the computer's
     speaker will sound, "beep-beep", and your alarm message will appear on
     the screen.  The message will stay on the screen until you press the
     appropriate key, at which point you will be returned to whatever you
     were doing before the alarm sounded.

          Up to twenty alarms can be set automatically by the program at
     the beginning of each day.  These alarms will correspond to the new
     day's entries that were scheduled days or weeks ago.  Any entry sche-
     duled for this new day at a specific time will be picked up for an
     alarm if that entry's "Event" item begins with `@xxxx' (where xxxx
     indicates the time (remember, no colons) that you wish the alarm
     to sound).  For example, an event entered as "@700 meeting with boss"
     will result in an alarm going off at 7AM on whatever date was set for
     the event.

          As suggested above, you can schedule alarms many weeks, months,
     or even years in advance.  To do so, simply (M)ake an entry for any
     date in the future.  Be sure to give the entry a Time and, when you
     fill in the "Event" item, begin it with a "@", immediately followed by


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     the time you want the alarm to go off.  For instance, if you are hav-
     ing lunch with Bob at 1:00PM on 12 May 1989, and if you need thirty
     minutes to get to Dino's restaurant, your Time entry would be "100"
     (or "100P" or "1300"), and your Event entry might be "@1230 Lunch with
     Bob at Dino's".  When 12 May rolls around, an alarm will automatically
     be set for you at 12:30PM, reminding you of the 1:00 Appointment.  If
     you need no preparation time at all, begin the Event item with just
     "@".  For instance, if the Event were entered as "@ Lunch with Bob at
     Dino's", the alarm would be set for 1:00PM (of course, "@100 Lunch
     with..." would accomplish the same thing).  Even Frequent or Recurring
     Events can have alarms imbedded, as shown below:

     -FREQUENT OR RECURRING EVENT- MO DA TIME- TIME TYP EMP  S M T W T F S
     Julie's Birthday              1  17             E
     @850 Staff Meeting                  0900  1000  E           0
     Bowling Club Meeting                1900  2000  E   1           1
     Bowling Club Meeting                1900  2000  E   1           3
     @1845 Rotary Club Meeting        15 1930  2100  E   2

     The second line will cause an alarm to sound every Tuesday at 8:50AM,
     reminding you of the 9:00 staff meeting.  The last line will, on the
     15th of every month, give employee 2 a 6:45PM Reminder of the 7:30
     club meeting.  The 24-hour formats used for time entries in this ex-
     ample are merely illustrations; you may use whatever format you like.


     Memory-resident Alarm

          Because TickleX is designed to be as solid a product as possible,
     it does not have a built-in memory-resident function.  In order to
     work their "miracles", all memory-resident programs have to "play
     tricks" on your computer, which was not designed for memory-resident
     software.  These tricks may occasionally cause the computer to mal-
     function.  If, however, you're willing to live with the risk of using
     memory-resident software, you might want to try B-BEEP, which accom-
     panies TickleX.  B-BEEP uses about 50K of memory and will hold 20 al-
     arms for the current day simultaneously.  An alternative is to use the
     more powerful (but also more memory-hungry) TickleX Jr., available for
     $15 when you register as a TickleX user.  TickleX Jr. is discussed in
     the Appendix.

          To use B-BEEP, make sure that it is located in the same directory
     as TickleX (the MANAGEX directory).  Then, whenever you wish to enter
     the TickleX program, enter "TX B", instead of just "TX".  "TX B" will
     cause B-BEEP to be installed just before TickleX is loaded.  Note that
     if you attempt to use B-BEEP in any directory other than the one con-
     taining TickleX, you may run into trouble, since it attempts to share
     a few files with TickleX.

          If B-BEEP is installed, any alarms you set in TickleX will be
     automatically picked up by B-BEEP (and vice-versa).  Any time you want
     to enter an alarm, you may do so in the appropriate module of TickleX.
     You may also access B-BEEP directly from within any other program sim-
     ply by pressing ALT-B.

          In addition to the 20 alarms B-BEEP will hold, it will also beep
     at you on the hour or on the half-hour, assuming that you've installed


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     it appropriately.  To cause it to beep every hour, enter "TX B HOUR"
     at the keyboard. To cause beeping every half hour, enter "TX B HALF".

          It is recommended that you make a habit of ALWAYS entering Tick-
     leX as soon as you turn on your computer.  This will insure that
     alarms needing to be automatically set (such as those set days or
     weeks in the past) WILL be set.

          Remember, B-BEEP is memory-resident, and, as is the case with
     other such programs, it may sometimes cause your computer to lock up.
     B-BEEP cannot be loaded after certain other memory-resident soft-
     ware, such as Sidekick.  Therefore, you may have to modify your auto-
     exec.bat file, so that it will cause B-BEEP to be executed before
     some other programs (if you do so, take the B-BEEP instructions out
     of TX.BAT).


     Calendars (locating any day in the next forty years)

          This option will allow you to see a calendar for any month you
     desire within the next forty years.  Simply press `C' when the menu is
     on the screen.  The current month will appear at the top-center of the
     screen.  The preceding month will appear to its left, and the next
     four succeeding months will appear to its right and below it.  If you
     wish another month to be centered at the top, enter at the prompt any
     date during that month.

          This option is particularly useful if you would like to see the
     day of the week on which a particular date falls or if you need to
     know the number of days between two dates.  Assume, for instance, that
     you want to know the day of the week for the date 55 days from now.
     Press `C' to select this option.  Then enter today's date, followed by
     "+55" (eg: "12 DEC 88 +55").  The desired date will be displayed high-
     lighted in the small calendar at the top center of the screen.  To
     find the number of days between two dates, enter the first date, then
     a dash, then the second date (eg: "1 Jan 89 - 12 Mar 89").

          To return to the main calendar menu, press either ESC or RET.  If
     you press ESC, you will return to the exact point at which you left
     the main calendar menu.  If, however, you press RET, the date high-
     lighted on the main calendar menu will be the last date you used while
     you were in this mini-Calendar routine.  Another possible use of this
     routine, therefore, is to quickly skip several years forward or bac-
     kward and press the RET key.  Whatever date you last use in this rou-
     tine will be the date you will find when you return to the main calen-
     dar menu (unless you use the ESC key).


     Omitting Events, Plans, and Projects

          This mode allows you to omit scheduled/logged events, Plans, or
     Projects that are no longer of any use.  After pressing ^O, you'll be
     asked whether you want to omit (S)cheduled/logged events, (P)lans or
     (L)isted projects.  Simply press either "S", "P" or "L", depending
     upon which you wish to eliminate.  Logged events are discussed in the
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          If you press "S", you'll receive more instruction on the screen
     before you proceed.  In order to keep the main TickleX data file from
     growing too large, you should periodically (^O)mit old entries.  Each
     month, for instance, you should select the (^O)mit option.  You will
     be asked the date before which you wish all entries to be omitted.
     All events (other than Deadlines not yet met) falling before that date
     will be omitted, WHETHER OR NOT they have been tagged for omission.
     All other events tagged for omission and falling after that date will
     also be omitted at this time.

          NOTE:
               An individual event may be tagged for omission by
          pressing ^O while examining it in the (E)dit routine.

          Deadlines are a special matter.  Because you may occasionally
     miss Deadlines whose subjects you do not want to forget, TickleX will
     continue to hold all Deadlines not specifically tagged for omission
     in the (E)dit routine.  Hence, Deadlines will always be preserved (to
     continue to remind you to do things) until you make a conscious ef-
     fort to omit them.  You'll have to be diligent in tagging Deadlines
     that have been met; otherwise, they'll just keep piling up.

          If you choose to omit Plans, instead of Events, you'll be shown a
     list of all the Plans available on your machine.  Enter the name of
     the one that you want to omit, or press RET to eliminate a general
     Template, instead.

          If you choose to omit Listed projects, you'll be shown a list of
     your projects.  After you select one for omission, you'll be asked
     whether you want to tag for omission all events linked to that pro-
     ject.  After all, do you really need to keep those events in your data
     base if the project to which they refer is no longer there?  If you
     choose to tag them for omission, remember, they'll only be TAGGED, not
     actually omitted.  To actually eliminate them, you'll need to visit
     this ^Omit routine again.

          NOTE:
               Don't forget that you can "UNTAG" any of them before go-
          ing through the ^Omit routine.  The easiest way would be to
          conduct a "Full-Screen" Hunt for everything in the database
          pertaining to a specific project.  As each event pops up onto
          the screen, press ^O to tag/untag it.


     Hunting for Entries and Preparing Reports

          If you press "H" while in the menu, you will be taken to a
     Hunt Gates display.  Here, you are to select the gates you want to
     apply to the search through the calendar file.  The Hunt Gates allow
     passage of only those records which contain information consistent
     with the Hunt Gate parameters you select.  For example, if you wanted
     to find all the events that involve a certain department/employee,
     you would place the appropriate ID at gate C.  To find all events bet-
     ween certain dates, place the beginning date at gate E and the ending
     date at gate F.  You may search for specific events by filling in gate
     B, while filling in gate A will result in a report listing only those
     events that apply to a specific Project (or Case, if you're also using


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     BillPower or ManageX).

          The more gates you fill in, the more discriminating the hunt
     through the records will be.  If you leave the gates in their default
     conditions, ALL of today's events involving ALL departments/employees
     and ALL projects will be reported.

          Hunts for projects (or cases) and events be made on the basis of
     partial entries.  For instance, if you wished to find all events in-
     volving the "Smith-1" and "Smith-2" project, you would need to enter
     only "Smith" at item A.  All events tied to projects containing the
     character string, "Smith", would be shown to you.  Included among the
     events reported might also those involving the "J. Smith" and "Black-
     smith" projects.

           Following the above example, you could also have chosen to
     search for projects (or cases) containing "ith".  If you had done so,
     in addition to all the projects mentioned above, you might also have
     come across the "Ithica" and "Lithe Forms" projects.

         NOTE:
               Suppose you elect to enter "SMITH" at the Project (or
         Case Number) gate.  If there were more than one project con-
         tain that sequence of characters, they would all pass
         through that gate.  Hence, SMITH, SMITH-J, BLACKSMITHJ,
         etc., would all be selected by TickleX for the hunt report.
         If, however, you wanted only SMITH to pass through the gates
         (to the exclusion of SMITH-J and BLACKSMITH), you would have
         to tell TickleX.  You would do this by ending your "SMITH"
         entry with ^E (for "Exact match"), instead of the usual RET.
         If a Project/Case gate is set up for an exact match, a note
         will appear to the right, saying, "* exact *".  If no such
         note is displayed, then ALL projects whose designations contain
         matches for the entered character sequence will pass through
         the gate.  If the "* exact *" note is shown, then only the
         project that exactly matches that character sequence will be
         reported.

          Remember, any gate that is left blank will be considered to be
     open, allowing ANY record to pass through.  In other words, each
     record will be deemed to meet that gate's criterion, and, assuming
     that all the other gates' criteria are also met, will be displayed
     during the  hunt.

          To you don't want Deadlines reported to you, make gate G "NO" by
     pressing the F key.  If you press the G key again, you'll change it
     back to "YES".  The same principle applies to Appointments, Reminders,
     etc. (gates H to M).

          The METHOD in which TickleX conducts its hunt depends upon how
     you have set Gate N, which toggles among "Quick Hunt" and "Chronolog-
     ical Hunt".  Normally, you will want a chronological hunt, so that the
     reported events appear in the correct order.  However, if you're look-
     ing through a large range of dates, you may find that a chronological
     hunt is too slow for you.  If you want to speed things up, press the N
     key to select a Quick Hunt.  If Quick Hunt is in operation, TickleX
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     you're looking for quickly.  This feature is particularly valuable if
     you're looking for a Deadline sometime in the distant future, but you
     aren't sure of even the year that it was scheduled.  To do so, simply
     select a Quick Hunt, and be sure to fill in the other Hunt Gates op-
     tions as well as you can (to narrow the search, keeping too many un-
     wanted events from appearing on the screen).  But remember that Fre-
     quent or Recurring dates will not appear during Quick Hunts.

          The TYPE OF HUNT produced depends upon how you have set Gate O,
     which toggles among several choices.  A "Continuous Hunt" quickly goes
     through the data base and reports what it finds.  It may go so fast
     that you can't follow it (unless you press the space bar to pause).
     An alternative is the "Day-By-Day" hunt which steps through the data
     base on day at a time, automatically pausing after each day's activi-
     ties are reported.  Pressing the down arrow will cause the next day's
     events to print.  The up arrow causes the prior day's activities to
     print again.  The "Day-By-Day and Department-By-Department" hunt is
     like the "Day-By-Day" hunt, except that it breaks the hunt down even
     further, reporting a single department's events for a day, and then
     pausing until you press the up or down arrow.  A final type of hunt is
     "Event-by-Event", and it will be selected automatically by TickleX if
     you have chosen either a "Full-Screen Edit" (discussed below) report
     or a "Quick Hunt".

          The TYPE OF REPORT produced depends upon how you have set Gate P,
     which allows you to toggle among "Standard", "Full Screen Edit", "Time
     Scheduled", and "Printed Calendar" each of which is discussed below.

          Once the Hunting process begins, you will be shown the data for
     each record conforming to the Hunt gates you have established.  If
     you have chosen to display a "Standard" report (gate P), data for
     each conforming record will appear on a single line.  The program will
     then automatically search for the next conforming record, display it,
     then look for the next one, and so on.  You may make the program
     pause in its searching by pressing ^S or the space bar.  Pressing ESC
     will abort the hunting process.

          If you have chosen the "Full-Screen" report (gate P), the data
     shown for each conforming record will appear on a screen identical to
     that used in the Edit mode.  Only one conforming file's data will be
     displayed on the screen at one time.  Unlike the Standard report rou-
     tine, this one will not search for the next conforming file unless you
     press F6 to indicate that you wish to move on.  If you want to abort
     the Hunt routine, press ESC instead of F6.

          If, while in the Hunt mode's Full-Screen summaries display, you
     see some information that should be changed, you may edit it as if
     you were in the Edit mode. There will be a few limitations on your
     ability to edit directly from the Hunt mode, but don't worry about
     them; TickleX will call your attention to them only if you attempt to
     violate them.

          If you have chosen a "Time Scheduled" report (gate P), each line
     will contain a date and a series of D's, A's, etc.  Each letter cor-
     responds to a 15-minute block of time during which an event is sched-
     uled.  Here's an example:



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     Date          7...8...9...10..11..12..1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8
     FRI 3 FEB 89  ....AA....AA........EEEE..AAAAAAA....................
     TUE 7 FEB 89  ........AAAA........AAAA..........EE.................
     WED 8 FEB 89  .....................................................
     THU 9 FEB 89  ....................AAAA.............................

     Here, you can see that there are things scheduled on 3 February in the
     8:00-8:14 and the 8:15-8:29 blocks.  9:30 to 9:59 also has something
     scheduled, as do 12:00-12:59 and 1:30-3:14.  Note that the dates be-
     tween 4-6 Feb are not listed.  Skipping dates occurs when those dates
     contain no scheduled events that meet the parameters specified by Hunt
     Gates A-H (filled in before the hunt began).  Note also that, though 8
     February is listed, nothing appears on its line.  A date's line will be
     blank if there is SOMETHING scheduled for that date, but nothing that
     requires blocking off time.  A Deadline that has no beginning or end-
     ing times is an example of an event that would not cause a D to appear
     on the line.

         NOTE:
               TickleX assumes that an event with no ending time is
         not intended to be "blocked off".  Hence, you might have sev-
         eral Deadlines scheduled for 11:00 (no ending time), without
         TickleX's recognizing that those events should be blocked
         off.  Only if an ending time is different from a beginning
         time will TickleX block off time for that event, and only in
         that case will the "Time Scheduled" report display an A, D,
         etc., for that event.

          The last thing printed on a "Time Scheduled" report will be a
     department-by-department breakdown of the total hours hours scheduled.
     The only time blocks included in this breakdown will be those that
     were included in the preceding report.  If you have set your Hunt
     Gates to be extremely selective, the breakdown totals will probably be
     small.  This breakdown may be useful to find how many hours you've
     scheduled someone to work over a given span of days or weeks.  If you
     consistently schedule work (and ONLY work) as an Exercise and you
     set the Hunt Gates to include only Exercises, the breakdown summary
     will tell you how many hours have been scheduled for only Exercises
     (which, in this case, substitute for "work scheduled").


     Printed Calendar

          This report consists of a calendar printed on a sheet of paper.
     In order for this report to be properly prepared, you must make sure
     that lines 1 to 6 of the PRNTINIT file have been customized for your
     specific printer.  If PRNTINIT hasn't been customized, this "Printed
     Calendar" option may not even appear.

          The calendar prepared with this option will look like a standard
     paper calendar.  The minimum period for which a calendar will be
     printed is one week.  Each day's block will already be filled in with
     whatever events are stored in the data base for that date.  In order
     to conserve space for as many events as possible, only one line of
     each day's block will be devoted to each event for that day.  The am-
     ount of space for each event will, therefore, be limited by the width
     of each day's block.  If you have a wide-carriage printer and are us-


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     ing compressed type, each event will consist of up to 31 characters.
     If you have a printer with a standard-width carriage, each event will
     be limited to 16 characters.

          The width limitation discussed above will result in the trunca-
     tion of some information, but enough will almost certainly be printed
     to give you an idea of what is scheduled for that day.  If you plan to
     make heavy use of this "Printed Calendar" routine, you should "plan
     ahead" when you initially enter each event in the (M)ake mode.  Always
     try to be as brief as possible when entering a description of the
     event.  Use abbreviations.  Don't assign times or employees unless
     absolutely necessary, because these items will take up precious space
     in the "Printed Calendars".

          To edit the PRNTINIT file, use EDITX (press ^E at the menu).
     That file, itself, contains instructions on how it is to be filled in.


     Custom Reports

          There is a fifth report option not discussed above: Custom Re-
     ports.  If you select gate P two or three times, you'll cycle through
     the Standard, Full-Screen, and Time Scheduled report choices.  Pres-
     sing "P" again tell TickleX that you want a Custom Report prepared.
     The screen will clear, you'll be shown a list of all the Custom Re-
     ports presently on the disk, and you'll be expected to enter the name
     of the particular Custom Report you want to prepare.  If you don't
     want a Custom Report, just press RET, and gate P will revert to
     another type of report.

          Custom Reports are useful for such things as preparing training
     schedules and work plans.

          When you just start using the program, the only Custom Report
     present will be one called "SAMPLE".  Though this report's primary
     purpose is to act as an example for others you may develop, it may
     also actually be used.  To set up other report templates, use EDITX
     (by pressing ^E at the menu).

          In EDITX, you'll be afforded the opportunity to create as many
     Custom Report templates as you like.  Each time you create a new one,
     the contents of SAMPLE will be initially copied into it, so that
     you'll have some guidance.  You'll note that a report template con-
     sists of many lines, some beginning with "{", and some not.  Those
     that begin with "{" are comment lines and MAY NOT BE ALTERED.  If you
     change a comment line in any way, the resulting report may not print
     as you expect.  The only lines you may alter are the data lines, those
     that do NOT begin with "{".

          A data line consists of spaces, characters, words, and/or tilde
     codes.  Pressing the F1 key will give you a listing of what each av-
     ailable tilde code means.  There's one for an event's beginning time,
     one for it's ending time, one for the event description, and so, on.
     There are also a few that represent the hunt gates you've selected.
     For instance, wherever  ~s  appears in the report template, TickleX
     will substitute the beginning date of the hunt in the actual printed
     report.  ~u will cause TickleX to print the department ALL of whose


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     events are being sought in the hunt, while ~o will tell the program to
     print an INDIVIDUAL event's responsible department.

          Let's now look at your data line options.  First, you should note
     that, SAMPLE is only an example.  You need not stick blindly to it's
     format (except for those lines that begin with "{").  You may even
     erase entire data lines if you don't want their contents to appear on
     the report.

          The data line for PRINTER INITIALIZATION allows you to enter an
     escape character sequence for your printer.  This might be useful to
     move the margin over, to alter the printer's type style, or to turn on
     graphics.  If you want to use this line, get the appropriate code from
     your printer's manual and enter it as a CHARACTER sequence, not as a
     numerical code.  If, for instance, the code you want to enter is
     "ESCAPE o", you should enter the escape CHARACTER, followed immediate-
     ly by an "o".  Don't type in "ESC o".  To enter any control character
     (ESCAPE is a control character), press ^P (that's control-P) and then
     press the control character you want to enter.  For instance, to enter
     the escape character, you actually press ^P, and then press the escape
     key.  After you do so, a funny character (such as a left arrow) will
     appear on the screen.  Just pressing the escape key won't work.  Don't
     dispair -- this sounds more complicated than it is.

         NOTE:
               If you utilize the PRINTER INITIALIZATION data line,
         your printer will maintain that setting until it's reset or
         turned off.  If you want TickleX to reset your printer to
         some state other than that established with the PRINTER IN-
         ITIALIZATION line, you should enter the reset escape charac-
         ter sequence into line 1 of the PRNTINIT file (supplied with
         TickleX).

          The data line for LENGTH OF PAGE allows you to print your reports
     on paper of a length different from the standard 66 lines.  For ins-
     tance, you might want to print a report with the paper turned side-
     ways.  Just measure in inches of the paper you'll use and multiply by
     6.  8-inch paper, for instance, would be entered as 48.  11-inch paper
     is 66 lines long.

          WIDTH OF PAGE tells TickleX how many characters it can expect to
     print on each line.  The default is a page width of 80 characters, but
     you may modify this if you're using an appropriate printer.  If the
     PRINTER INITIALIZATION you entered, for instance, turns on your
     printer's 132-column capability, you should enter 132 here.

         NOTE:
               EDITX cannot handle lines wider than 79 columns.  If
         you want to create a report with more columns than that,
         you'll have to "double up".  Use two lines in EDITX for each
         single report line that will be more than 79 columns wide.
         In order to tell TickleX that these two lines are to be com-
         bined, make the last character on the first line a "+".  For
         example, two lines entered as

                          Mary had a little lamb, it+
                          s fleece was white as snow.


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         would be printed by TickleX as a single line, "Mary had a
         little lamb, its fleece was white as snow."  Note that Tick-
         leX allows combining only two lines at a time into one.
         Three consecutive lines can't be combined into one, but three
         consecutive two-line sets can can be combined into three
         lines.

          The HEADER data lines are used to prepare the beginning of the
     report.  You might, for instance, want to include your name and the
     title of the report in the HEADER.  Up to 10 lines may be included.

          The 2D HEADER data lines (up to 5) are those that will print at
     the top of each page following the first (which contains the HEADER).

          The FORMAT data line tells TickleX what specific schedule infor-
     mation you want printed on each line, as well as the spacing between
     each item.  Note that each item requires a minimum amount of space.
     The spacing information is obtained by pressing F1 if you're using
     EDITX.  If you're using your word processor, you'll want to refer to
     the tilde code table below:

Event items:
                                        ~j=event type (1) (eg: appnt,deadline)
~k=beginning date (9)                   ~l=ending date (9)
~m=beginning time (5)                   ~n=ending time (5)
~o=department/employee (3)              ~p=project (12)
~q=event description (37)               ~r=first line of notes (56)

Hunt items:
~s=beginning date of hunt (9)           ~t=ending date of hunt (9)
~u=specific department being hunted (3) ~v=specific date being hunted (9)


          The FOOTER data lines (up to 5) consist of any footnotes, etc.,
     that you want to be printed at the bottom of the report.

          The DATE CHANGE data lines (up to 3) are, of course, optional.
     If present, they will be printed whenever TickleX reaches a point in
     the report when a date change occurs.

          The DEPARTMENT CHANGE data lines (up to 2), if present, will be
     printed whenever the department being hunted changes.  If you have
     anything filled in here, the report will be organized by both date and
     department.  As TickleX comes to each date, it will break it's hunt
     into a sub-hunt for the first department's events, then a sub-hunt for
     the second department's, and so on.

          If you're unable to design a template for the exact report you
     want, do as well as you can with either EDITX or your word processor.
     Just before you begin a hunt (by pressing the F6 key) using this tem-
     plate, press ^F (to toggle the report to a disk file, instead of to
     the printer).  After the report has been written to disk (into a file
     called TEXT.MX), exit TickleX.  Edit TEXT.MX with your word processor,
     so that the report looks EXACTLY as you want it to.  Then print it
     with your word processor.



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     Training Schedules, etc.

          If you'd like to design a training schedule or some other
     specialized report, follow the instructions in the preceding section
     to set up its template.

          Now that you have a training schedule designed, how do you tell
     TickleX that, of all the information it maintains, you want only
     CERTAIN events to appear on the training schedules it prints?  Simple.
     Just fill in the Hunt Gates properly before you press F6 to begin the
     hunt.

          If, when entering an event, you're conscientious about always
     assigning it to a project, you'll find that your future hunts will be
     extremely accurate.  If, for instance, you always begin projects in-
     volving training a project that contains a unique sequence of charac-
     ters, all you need to do when you prepare the training schedule is to
     fill in Hunt Gate A with that unique sequence.

          Let's say that you always begin all projects involving training
     with the sequence, ">>".  You might have a whole series of training-
     related projects, such as >>PHYS ED, >>ARCHERY, >>CHAPEL, and >>CLASS.
     When you want to prepare your training schedule, you should fill in
     Hunt Gate A (Project) with ">>".  This will tell TickleX to include on
     the report that it generates only events assigned to projects contain-
     ing ">>".  Of course, you should make sure that no non-training pro-
     jects contain this unique sequence; otherwise, they'll show up on the
     training schedule, too.  >>>PICNIC and <<MOVIE>> are examples of other
     projects that may appear.





























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     SECTION 5     MORNING STARTUP

          When you first start up the program each day, TickleX will search
     for old Deadlines to bring forward.  All Deadlines from past dates
     which have not already been tagged for omission will be brought for-
     ward so that they will not be lost during an ^Omission routine.  Then,
     you will be asked whether you want TickleX to give you a report of
     the day's events.  Therefore, a day will not go by without your hav-
     ing been prompted at least once to prepare a printout of upcoming
     events.  Answering `Y' to this prompt will bring you into this Hunt
     routine, where you can select the exact parameters (gates) for the
     listing to be prepared.















































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     SECTION 6     LOG MODE

          All the preceding sections have basically concerned using TickleX
     as a scheduler.  But it's also capable logging things that have actu-
     ally taken place, as opposed to things that have been merely sched-
     uled.  It can be used to log services performed, income, and expenses.

          Remember, TickleX is primarily a scheduler.  The logging func-
     tions are designed for the user who simply wants a convenient place to
     register his income, expenses, and the hours he's worked on various
     projects.  Thought its reporting ability is quite flexible, it's not
     designed to produce client reports or bills.  If you need those re-
     ports, you should use a program specifically designed for billing
     and/or bookkeeping, such as BillPower.

          You may toggle between the LOG and SCHEDULE modes by pressing ^L
     when the menu is displayed.  If you're in the log mode, you won't be
     dealing with Appointments, Deadlines, etc.  Instead, your choices will
     be Services, Disbursements, and Receipts.  Most everything else,
     though, is the same in both the schedule and log modes.

          A Service is work performed, a Disbursement is an expense (money
     you've spent), and a Receipt is income you've received.  If you wish
     to keep accurate records of the hours worked on each of your projects,
     you should be conscientious in entering a Service whenever you spend
     time on one of them.  The same goes for tracking income and expenses
     attributable to each project.

          When you enter a Receipt or Disbursement, one of the items you
     can fill in is the category into which the income or expense falls.
     If you enter a category whenever you input a Receipt or Disbursement,
     TickleX will be able to produce an accurate report, by category, of
     all your income and expenses over any period of time.

          TickleX keeps a list of your income-expense categories in a file
     called INCEXPNS.DAT, which can be accessed with EDITX by pressing ^E
     at the TickleX menu.  This file is provided in sample form with the
     TickleX program, and you'll have to modify it to suit your own needs.
     The file may hold up to 200 lines, each line containing a 1-to 3- dig-
     it category number and a 1-to 25-character category description.  As
     you modify the file, make sure that the numbers and descriptions you
     enter line up exactly with the headings at the top of the screen.
     Note that there may be no blank lines in the file, and every that line
     must contain both a number and a description.  Failure to follow these
     simple rules will have undesirable effects.

          When you're in TickleX's LOG mode, entering a Receipt or Dis-
     bursement, the program won't let you enter a category number that is
     not described in the INCEXPNS.DAT file.  If you can't remember the
     number of the category you need to fill in, just place the cursor be-
     neath the "Cat" item and press the F1 key.  You'll be shown the con-
     tents of the INCEXPNS.DAT file.  Remember, F1 gives you help anywhere
     within the TickleX program.

          When you want a report on the total disbursements, receipts, and
     hours worked on any or all of your projects, just conduct a Hunt.  At
     the end of each chronological "Standard" report, these totals will


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     appear.  If, for instance, you want a year-to-date listing, by cate-
     gory, of all your income and expenses, set Hunt gates E and F appro-
     priately and press F6 to begin the hunt (preceded by ALT-P or ALT-F if
     you want the report to go to the printer or to a disk file).

          TickleX is capable of holding 8000 disbursement, receipt, and
     service entries (in addition to the 8000 appointments, deadlines,
     etc., that it can hold).  When this capacity is reached, you'll have
     to go through the ^Omit routine to eliminate old entries (as well as
     current ones that you may have tagged for omission), thus freeing
     space for new entries.  Before TickleX eliminates entries, it will of-
     fer you the chance to obtain a printout of the old items that will be
     omitted.  You are urged to take this opportunity to produce a perman-
     ent record.













































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     SECTION 7     CAUTION

          Some of the events you schedule in TickleX will be of
     such importance that you may suffer grave consequences (including
     pecuniary liability) if you miss them.  You should not place full
     faith in this computer program or any other to remind you of these
     events.  ALWAYS BE SURE TO USE A DEPENDABLE MANUAL TICKLER SYSTEM
     FOR CRITICAL EVENTS.  NEVER, NEVER ABANDON A MANUAL SYSTEM.

          The reason for this caution is two-fold.  First, TickleX may
     contain flaws that could result in the loss of important event data.
     Second, computer memories are volatile.  An unusual chain of events
     may cause the destruction of your computer's magnetic media, in-
     cluding some or all of TickleX's data base.  Generally, nothing is
     more secure than a tickler card file.  And don't forget that some
     insurance companies require you to maintain a second tickler system,
     anyway.










































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     SECTION 8   MESSAGES


     "_____ files not on disk" -- Some important files have disappeared
     from the disk.  You probably have a faulty disk.  Exit the program and
     have your computer checked.  Once it's fixed, restore files from your
     backup diskettes.  If you think that nothing is wrong with your hard
     disk, call Integra Computing (404-973-3586).

     "_____ is an unacceptable date ..." -- The format in which you entered
     a date is incorrect.  Press the RET key and try again, this time using
     the `DA MON YR' format (eg: 12 OCT 89) or the MO/DA/YR format (eg:
     10/12/89).

     "_____ is not in the current list of projects ..." -- TickleX
     maintains a list of all the projects you're handling.  The program is
     just asking whether you want to add the project just entered to the
     list.  If you've entered the wrong project name, press "N"; otherwise,
     press "Y" to add the new project to TickleX's list.  To see a display
     of the current list, press the F1 key.

     "A reminder may be set for this record only in the MAIN computer" --
     While using a satellite, you are attempting to add a reminder for an
     event that is already part of the MAIN computer's data base.  Allowing
     you to do so might result in future problems.  Go to the MAIN computer
     to add this reminder.

     "Aborting because [disk drive] is full" --- Your disk may not be full,
     but it does not have enough space on it to run TickleX.  TickleX needs
     at least as many free bytes as are taken up by the file whose name is
     "M--JOURN.LBF".  This message may also occur if the ManageX directory
     (or any of it's subdirectories) contains more files than DOS allows.

     "Aborting because Note file is full" -- The file containing the free
     notes for each of your scheduled events is full.  You should get rid
     of all old events that you no longer need.  Select the ^Omit option at
     TickleX's menu.

     "Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE that this is not the MAIN computer?" -- You
     are trying to copy data files to/from a floppy drive, which may be
     done only on a satellite computer, but TickleX thinks that this is the
     MAIN computer.  If TickleX is mistaken, proceed;  otherwise, press "N".

     "Department _____ is already designated ..." -- You have attempted
     to assign a department identifier that is already being used.  Enter
     some other identifier.

     "Do you want to overwrite the data already on this disk?" --  You're
     trying to OUTPUT data to a diskette already containing current data.
     If you proceed, you'll overwrite the data already on the diskette.

     "Do you wish to re-assign ____ to another .... " -- You have just
     erased a department's/employee's identifier.  If you want to
     assign that identifier to another department/employee number, press
     `Y'; if you want to eliminate that department entirely, press `N'.

     "Employee _____ is already designated ..." -- You have attempted to


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     assign an employee identifier that is already being used.  Enter
     some other identifier.

     "Files from only the MAIN computer can be OUTPUT" -- You're attempting
     to OUTPUT data from satellite files.  You must not do so.  Only data
     from the MAIN computer should be OUTPUT to satellite diskettes.

     "Impossible -- that date is later than today" -- You have elected to
     omit events for some date in the future.  TickleX does not allow you
     to do so, and assumes that you've made a mistake in entering the date.

     "Improbable date, since program last used on ______" -- You have told
     TickleX that today's date is too far from the date on which the pro-
     gram was last used.  TickleX is trying to insure that you don't make a
     mistake, so just enter today's correct date.  If it really HAS been a
     long time since you last used the program, enter a date about 25 days
     after the date the program was last used.  TickleX will accept that,
     but, since it's not really the correct date, you should exit the prog-
     ram at your first opportunity.  Then, load TickleX again and enter the
     correct date when you're asked.

     "More than 100 events meeting your specifications ..." -- The maximum
     number of events that TickleX can display for one day is 100.  TickleX
     can actually hold many more than that, but it can't display more than
     100 meeting your specifications for the selected date at one time.
     Make your specifications more discriminating, by, for instance, speci-
     fying a particular department/employee.

     "Only the MAIN computer can omit events" -- While using a satellite,
     you are trying to go through the ^Omit routine, which is allowed only
     on the MAIN computer.

     "Press RET to omit _____'s events ..." -- You have elected to delete
     a department/employee from the TickleX data base.  If you wish, you
     may now delete all events scheduled for that department/employee.  To
     do so, press RET.  If you've made a mistake in deleting that
     department/employee, press ESC, and you'll be allowed to take
     corrective action.

     "RECORD IS ASSOCIATED WITH A PLAN" -- The event you're editing was
     made automatically while you were creating or editing a Plan.  Tick-
     leX, therefore, will not allow you to edit it, except while you're
     editing that Plan.  The only exception to this rule is that you may
     edit the notes attached to the event.  To do so, press ^N.

     "That entry is, itself, a reminder" -- You are attempting to enter a
     reminder for a reminder.  That isn't allowed.  Reminders can be as-
     signed to only Gotchas, Deadlines, Appointments, Vacations, and Trips,
     not to other reminders.

     "That ID not assigned" -- You've entered a department/employee
     which TickleX does not recognize.  If you insist upon using that de-
     partment/employee, you must enter it into the data base by customizing
     the program (going to the menu and pressing ^C).

     "The _____ case does not exist" -- You have entered a case number for
     a BillPower or ManageX case that does not exist.  If you've forgotten


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     what cases you have, press the F1 key when TickleX asks you for a case
     number.

     "The _____ Template does not exist" -- You have attempted to access a
     Plan Template that does not exist.  Try again, or press ESC to abort.

     "This diskette has already been processed ..." -- TickleX is warning
     you that you've already run this diskette through the INPUT routine.
     If you input it again, you'll end up with duplicated entries.  The
     only valid reason for re-inputting it would be an unusual occurrance
     during the first attempt.

     "This diskette has no TickleX data" -- You're attempting to INPUT data
     from a disk that does not contain the needed files.

     "This diskette hasn't been INPUT yet ..." -- You're attempting to
     OUTPUT the current main computer's data to a satellite diskette whose
     data has not yet been INPUT.  If you proceed, you'll overwrite the
     diskette's information with that from the main computer's files, and
     you'll therefore lose whatever INPUT data was on the diskette.

     "This item cannot be edited in the Hunt routine"  -- If you want to
     edit this item, you must use the Edit routine.

     "This record can be edited only in the MAIN computer" -- You're trying
     to edit a record on a satellite computer, but this record is already
     part of the MAIN computer's data base.  Allowing you to edit it here
     could result in problems on the main system later on.  If you need to
     edit this record, do so only on the MAIN computer.

     "Too many entries" -- You are attempting to add one more entry to a
     TickleX data base that is already full (with 8000 entries).  Before
     you can add any more events to the data base, you need to ^Omit old
     events that are no longer needed.  Go to the menu and press ^O to go
     through the ^Omit routine.

     "Too Many Users" -- An attempt has been made to use TickleX with more
     users than are allowed by your registration.

     "Use (^E)dit option to set up that Template" -- You have attempted to
     copy a non-existent Template into a Plan file.  If you made a mistake
     in designating the Template, try entering it again.  If you need to
     set up that Template, you must do so in EDITX, accessed by pressing ^E
     at the menu.















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     APPENDIX A:   SHARING DATA AMONG SEVERAL COMPUTERS

          TickleX is designed to be used on one computer at a time.  If you
     need to be able to share its data among several machines, you'll have
     to utilize the program's specialized input and output routines.

          NOTE:  Please bear in mind that you're authorized to use each
          registered copy of TickleX on only one computer.  If you plan
          to use the program on several computers, please be sure to
          register a separate copy for each one.  Thanks.

     You'll have to decide which of your computers will be considered the
     "MAIN" computer.  This will be the computer which will store TickleX's
     data base.  All other computers will be considered "SATELLITE" compu-
     ters and should be using only copies of the main computer's data base.

          Here's how the satellite system works.  TickleX will be installed
     on each satellite computer in a manner identical to that in which it
     was installed on the main computer.  At the main computer, you'll use
     TickleX's OUTPUT function to create a specialized copy of the data
     base on a diskette.  The data on that diskette will then be trans-
     ferred to a satellite computer.  Over time, each satellite's copy of
     the data base will have grown as each user adds events to the sched-
     ule.  After several days (perhaps a week, or so), each satellite's
     modified data base will be transferred on diskette back to the main com-
     puter and run through TickleX's INPUT routine.  The INPUT routine will
     add to the main computer's data base only those events which were not
     present when each satellite's copy of the data base was originally
     OUTPUT from the main computer.  After all the satellites' new events
     have been INPUT into the main computer, you're ready once again to use
     the OUTPUT function to create new copies of the main computer's up-to-
     date data base.  The process starts again as these new copies are then
     used on each satellite computer.

          The main computer's OUTPUT function is accessed by pressing ALT-O
     at the menu.  Press ALT-I for the INPUT function.

          There are a few limitations to what can be done on a satellite
     computer.  First, you won't be able to (E)dit any events that were
     copied from the main computer's data base.  The only items you can
     edit will be those you've originally entered on the satellite computer
     since the last transfer of data took place.  You also won't be able to
     go through the (^O)mit routine (though you will be able to tag new
     items for omission).  And you won't be able to conduct OUTPUT's or
     INPUT's, like the main computer can do.

          If your satellite computer has a hard drive, you'll probably want
     to transfer the data OUTPUT from the main computer to your satellite's
     hard disk.  To do so, place the diskette containing the newly OUTPUT
     data into your satellite's floppy drive, get to TickleX's menu, and
     press ALT-C to access the COPY function.  The COPY function is also
     used to copy data from a satellite's hard disk to a diskette, so that
     the modified data base can then be transferred back to the main com-
     puter for assimilation into it's data base.  Never, never use the COPY
     function on the main computer.  The COPY function is to be used ONLY
     on satellites.



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          Please note that the data transferred to and from diskettes with
     the INPUT, OUTPUT and COPY functions does not include Plans, Tem-
     plates, Frequent or Recurring Events, or Custom Reports.  Only the
     main schedule's events are transferred.  Each satellite user must
     insure that his list of departments (in the ^Customize routine) is
     identical to the main computer's.  If a satellite user creates a new
     Plan or adds something to his Recurring Events file, he should be
     aware that these items won't be transfered automatically with the IN-
     PUT, OUTPUT, and COPY functions.  Generally, the only items transfer-
     red will be those that are created with the (M)ake function.

















































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     APPENDIX B:   TICKLEX ON A LOCAL AREA NETWORK

          Please call Integra Computing for information about a version of
     TickleX that's designed for use on a Local Area Network (LAN).  It
     utilizes file locking to prevent two users from simultaneously attemp-
     ting to change information in the data base.  Though only one user at
     a time can Make or Edit a record, any user can Hunt through the data
     base for information at almost any time.

          In order for the LAN version to work, your network's server must
     utilize the SHARE (or an equivalent) program provided with DOS 3.

         NOTE:
               You must also have a copy of TickleX that's been pre-
         pared for the maximum number of users you intend to have on
         the LAN.  If you use a non-LAN version (or a LAN version
         that's not prepared for as many users as you actually have on
         the net), the program will appear to work properly in most
         instances, but you'll be running the risk of losing data.  If
         the number of users on your net ever increases beyond the
         number for which you're registered, you must be sure to up-
         date your registration and install a copy of the program de-
         signed for more users.  If you forget to do so, you may lose
         data.  Therefore, it's a good idea to register, not necessar-
         ily for the number of users you presently have, but for the
         maximum number you anticipate may eventually be on the net.

          The LAN version must be installed on each computer on your net.
     This is done by simply placing the registered diskette into each com-
     puter's drive A and entering "A: UPGRADE C:" (assuming that the compu-
     ter's hard disk is drive C).

          When you initially run the LAN version on each computer, the
     first thing you do should be to press ^C at the menu, so that you can
     Customize the program.  While Customizing, make sure that TickleX
     knows the proper designation of the disk drive that contains the com-
     mon data base of appointments, deadlines, etc.  The server computer
     may refer to its own hard disk as drive C, but the other stations may
     refer to the same drive as D, E, or F, etc.

          If the server computer's fastest disk drive is not the same as
     the one that holds the data base, TickleX must also be advised of
     this.  If, for instance, the main computer has a RAM disk, you should
     tell TickleX, so that a couple of the files it frequently uses can be
     accessed quickly.  You may inform TickleX of a faster disk drive by
     altering the TX.BAT file on each station.  Find the line that says
     "ticklex".  If this station refers to the server's fastest disk as
     drive F then, change this line to "ticklex x x x x x x x F (that's
     seven x's, followed by the fastest drive's designation).

          After you've customized the program on each station (and altered
     its TX.BAT file, if necessary), you'll find that the program works
     much as it does as single-user software.  The main differences are
     that it may appear somewhat slower (since it will be utilizing the
     LAN's resources) and that it will occasionally delay a user's entering
     some data (as it wait for another user to finish doing the same).



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     APPENDIX C:  TICKLEX JR. and TINY TICKLEX

          TickleX Jr. and Tiny TickleX are reduced versions of TickleX, and
     they're designed to work as RAM-resident programs.  As any "pop-up"
     program will, they may occasionally cause your computer to malfunc-
     tion.  But if you want to be able to schedule events at the touch of a
     few keys, one of these two programs may be just what you need.

          TickleX Jr. takes up about 200K of RAM.  Once it's loaded it will
     remain in memory until you either re-boot your computer or instruct
     the program to unload itself.  As long as it's in memory, it may be
     accessed from within any program by pressing the ALT-T key combina-
     tion.  You may cause it to unload from memory by pressing ALT-X when
     the menu is being displayed.

          TickleX Jr. looks just like TickleX, but it offers fewer options.
     You can't, for instance, perform Hunts and prepare reports.  It won't
     do Plans, and it can't go through the ^Omit routine (though you can
     still tag individual events for omission).

          What TickleX Jr. does better than any other RAM-resident software
     is allow you to enter and edit events.  You can also enter and adjust
     alarms and scan events occurring on any day you wish.  In other words,
     TickleX Jr. gives you the most frequently used options available in
     TickleX.  If you want an occasional printed report, you'll have to use
     TickleX, but most of the time TickleX Jr. will suffice.

          TickleX Jr. MUST be located in the same directory as TickleX.
     And you must always run TickleX at least once each day before you at-
     tempt to run TickleX Jr.  The reason for this is that TickleX is de-
     signed to do a couple of things at the beginning of the day that Tick-
     leX Jr. does not handle.  The loading process is handled automat-
     ically by the TX.BAT file, so that you don't have to worry about it.

          If you want to load TickleX Jr. into memory, just enter "TX JR"
     at the DOS prompt (instead of the usual "TX").  "TX JR" will cause
     TickleX to execute first.  Then, when you exit TickleX, TickleX Jr.
     will be installed into memory, and will thereafter be available at the
     touch of a key (ALT-T), unless you re-boot or unload it (by pressing
     ALT-X at the TickleX Jr. menu).

          Like B-BEEP (discussed in a previous section), TickleX Jr. is
     capable of holding 20 alarms in its cue.  If you also want to be
     beeped on the hour, enter "TX JR HOUR" at the keyboard. To cause beep-
     ing every half hour, enter "TX JR HALF".

          Tiny TickleX (provided to purchasers of TickleX, Jr.) takes up
     about 120K of RAM.  It has no fancy calendars, and it doesn't perform
     as many input accuracy checks as its larger siblings.  With Tiny Tick-
     leX, you can't edit an entry (though you can still mark entries for
     omission), and you can't enter the 17 lines of notes per event that
     the other programs allow.  But this program still allows you to sched-
     ule events and alarms and to log activities, income, and expenses.
     Tiny TickleX is loaded into memory in a manner similar to that used
     for TickleX, Jr.  Just enter "TX TT" at the DOS prompt.  After it's
     loaded, it can be accessed at any time by pressing ALT-T.



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     APPENDIX D:  DEPARTMENT/EMPLOYEE GROUPS

          Departments/employees may be grouped together for mass schedul-
     ings.  As you know, TickleX will track up to 20 departments/employees.
     It will also track 20 groups, each of which may consist of up to 10
     departments/employees.  Whenever you schedule a group, you will effec-
     tively be scheduling each of it's constituent departments/employees.
     Whenever you hunt through the data base for a group's activities, you
     will, in effect, be hunting for the activities of that group's mem-
     bers.  Anywhere that TickleX requests a department/employee, you may
     substitute a group.

          One reason for having some of your departments/employees included
     in a group is that you may wish to find a period when everyone in that
     group is free for a meeting.  Doing a "Scheduled Time" hunt (discussed
     in an earlier section) for that group will reveal all the time already
     scheduled for all group members.  Just fill in Hunt Gate C with the
     abbreviation for the group in which you're interested, set the begin-
     ning and ending dates, and press F6 to begin the hunt.  The gaps in
     the scheduled time shown on the report will be the periods during
     which everyone in the group is free.

          Groups should be listed in a file called GROUP.DAT, which TickleX
     scans whenever you enter the program.  You may create this file in
     EDITX by pressing ^E at the calendar menu.  Then press "G" at the
     EDITX menu.

          To set up a group, enter a unique 1- to 3-character abbreviation
     under the "ABB" heading.  Then hit the tab key to align the cursor for
     the entry of that group's constituent departments/employees. As you're
     entering the departments, separate each by a slash, "/".  Note that a
     group may not contain another group.  Example:

     ABB  --- CONSTITUENT DEPARTMENTS/EMPLOYEES ---
     gp1  stb/gm/lta/prs
     gp2  stb/mkr
     gp3  tup/dst/prs
     gp4  dst/stb/gm
     gp5  gm/gp1     WRONG! -- gp1 is, itself, a group























                                   TICKLEX
                                    INDEX


Abbreviation, 13, 14, 23
Abort, 6, 22, 31, 32
Address, 1, 41
Adjust, 37
Advance, 17
Alarm, 17, 18, 36, 37
Alphanumeric, 11
ALT-B, 18
ALT-C, 34
ALT-F, 7, 29, 36
ALT-I, 34
ALT-O, 34
ALT-P, 7, 29
ALT-T, 38
ALT-X, 38
Alternate, 9
AM, 9, 15, 17, 18
Amount, 23, 25,
Annual, 38, 40
Append, 7, 15
Appointment, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 28, 29, 32
Arrow, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 21, 24
ASCII, 7, 36, 38
Assimilation, 34
Attorney, 3, 40, 42

B-BEEP, 18, 37
Backup, 31
Balance, 38
Beep, 17, 18, 37
Bill, 4, 28, 38, 39

Calendar, 4, 9, 10, 13, 19, 20, 21, 23, 36
Case, 5, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32, 38, 40
CaseNumber, 11
Category, 4, 13, 28, 29, 40
Chronological, 21, 28, 38
Client, 28, 38, 40
Close-out, 38
Code, 7, 24, 25
Color, 8
Column, 25, 39
Contingency, 40
Control Key, 4, 6, 24
CTRL-PrtSc, 10
Cursor, 10, 11, 14, 28
Custom, 23, 24, 35, 36
Customize, 8, 23, 32, 35, 36, 40




Daily, 4
Database, 20
Day-By-Day, 21
Deadline, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32
Department, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31, 32, 35
Department-By-Department, 21, 23
Description, 9, 13, 14, 16, 23, 24, 25, 28
Disbursement, 28, 29, 38, 39, 40
Diskette, 31, 32, 34, 35
Disks, 39
Docket, 4
DOS, 8, 31, 37, 39

EDITX, 7, 10, 13, 14, 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 33, 36
Employee, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20, 23, 25, 31, 32, 40, 41, 42
Erase, 24, 31, 38
Escape, 6, 10, 14, 22, 24, 32
Event, 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 32, 36
Event-by-Event, 21

Fee, 2, 3, 39, 40, 42
File, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, ì
áá35, 36, 37, 39, 40
Floppy, 34
Form, 1, 20, 28, 39, 41
Format, 18, 24, 25, 31, 38, 39
Frequent, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 35, 37, 38
Full-screen, 9, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 36

Gate, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 29
Gotcha, 4, 9, 10, 32
Graphic, 6, 10, 24
Group, 38

Half hour, 1, 9, 18, 39, 41
Help, 11, 28, 36, 39
Highlight, 10, 12, 14, 19
Holiday, 16
Hour, 4, 8, 9, 15, 18, 23, 28, 37

ID, 9, 12, 15, 20, 32
Income, 4, 28, 29, 40
Income-expense, 28
Initials, 8, 15
Install, 8, 18, 34, 37

Log, 14, 19, 28
Make, 10, 14, 17, 23, 35, 36
Malfunction, 18, 37
Memory-resident, 17, 18
Message, 7, 31
Minute, 17, 22, 41
Multi-day, 4
Multiple-user, 42



Notes, 11, 13, 15, 25, 31, 32

Omit, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, 20, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37
Overwrite, 31, 32

Paper, 23, 25
Paragraph, 2
Parameter, 8, 20, 22, 27, 40
Periodic, 19, 38
PgDn, 10
PgUp, 10
Phone, 1, 40, 41
Plan, 5, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 23, 24, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37
PM, 9, 15, 17, 18
Pop-up, 37
Printer, 7, 10, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 38, 39, 40
Printout, 10, 16, 27, 29
PRNTINIT, 10, 23, 25
Problems, 5
Project, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 9, 20, 21, 25, 26, 28, 31
Prompt, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 19, 27, 37

RAM-resident, 37
Receipt, 28, 29, 38, 39, 40
Record, 4, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29, 32, 40
Recurring, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 35, 36
Report, 5, 6, 7, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40

Satellite, 31, 32, 34, 35
Second, 6, 15, 18, 26, 30
Summary, 11, 22, 23, 40

Tag, 10, 19, 20, 27, 29, 34, 37
Template, 7, 13, 14, 19, 24, 26, 32, 33, 35, 36
Tilde, 24, 25
To-do, 4, 5, 16, 17
Today, 7, 16, 17, 19, 20, 31, 32
Toggle, 7, 21, 26, 28
Total, 1, 23, 28, 40, 41
Trip, 4, 8, 9, 32

Unload, 38
Untag, 20

Vacation, 4, 8, 9, 32

Week, 5, 10, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 34
Weekday, 15

Year-to-date, 29
Year, 17, 19, 21

Zoom, 10



                 OTHER PROGRAMS IN THE "POWER OFFICE" LINE-UP

Each unique program in this series requires a hard disk-equipped IBM-compatible
PC with 512K of memory.  The following paragraphs contain brief descriptions.

       BillPower --> time & billing with totally integrated general ledger
       TickleX   --> the ultimate  in scheduling/planning/docket control
       MOE       --> pop-up time/work/expense log, scheduler, calculator,
                     phone directory, mini-data base, printer controller
                     (MOE ties in with BillPower & TickleX, if you wish)
       LitigeX   --> research/evidence organizer for litigation support
       Nifty     --> combination menu and pop-up help system

BILLPOWER and BILLPOWER PLUS

     BillPower is a system designed to relieve you of the drudgery involved  in
billing.   In a nutshell, it will track the time you work on professional  mat-
ters,  keep up with your receipts and disbursements, and calculate  the  amount
owed  by  each client.  And it will automatically prepare  informative  monthly
statements  for all your clients.

     Engineered exclusively for the small firm, this innovative software offers
a  rare combination of power and ease of use at a fair price.  Unlike  programs
that  attempt to electronically emulate ancient manual  accounting  procedures,
BillPower  is designed to capitalize upon the power of your computer.   If  you
are  an  "old hand" at bookkeeping, then open your mind to a  real-time  system
which  immediately updates all balances at the time an entry is made; one  that
does  not require periodic batch postings or annual close-outs; one  that  pro-
vides a convenient method for correcting erroneous entries; a system that never
erases  old data in the interest of consolidation.  You'll find both  BillPower
and BillPower Plus to be advanced products.

        --> BillPower ($100):  time, billing, & bookkeeping for firms  with
            up to  three timekeepers -- includes bank  account  management,
            income-expense reports, balance sheets, & several bill formats.

        --> BillPower Plus ($150):  time,  billing, & bookkeeping for  firms
            with up to fifteen timekeepers -- builds upon BillPower's   fea-
            tures,  adding the abilities to keep extensive indexed memos  on
            any subject, maintain notes on thousands of people, conduct con-
            flict of interest checks, prepare mailing labels, and more.

     BillPower   can prepare several types of reports.  Whenever  you   request
one,  you will be presented with a screen listing the parameters by  which  you
can choose the information to be included.  After you have selected the  appro-
priate   parameters,  BillPower will hunt through its data base  for   informa-
tion  meeting your specifications.  The report may be sent to the  screen,  the
printer or to a disk file.

     Finally, while other time and billing programs may offer "links" to exter-
nal accounting software, BillPower completely integrates its bookkeeping  func-
tions into the rest of the program.  In fact, BillPower Plus can simultaneously
update  affected G/L accounts (as well as a client's balance and  aged  receiv-
ables) at the time that a disbursement or receipt is entered.  This "real-time"
approach to bookkeeping, virtually unprecedented in a time and billing program,
saves you the time you would otherwise spend making duplicate G/L entries, pos-
ting transactions, and/or transferring files from one program to another.  With
BillPower  Plus,  a SINGLE entry can handle all the updating that needs  to  be
done.  No other program offers such a degree of integration.  NONE!

LITIGEX

     LitigeX  ($50) is a program designed to help you keep track  of  research,
chronologies,  and evidence.  When you enter an item of research, you may  tell
LitigeX such things as the source, page, and line number where that item can be
found.  You may also enter an eleven-line summary of the item and indicate  the
subject category into which the item falls.

     A prime use of this program is to create printouts of research data,  sor-
ted  alphabetically  by subject abbreviation.  Another use is to keep  tabs  on
documents  and other evidence (who sent it, who received it, its current  loca-
tion,  etc.).  It can also be used to prepare a chronological report of  a  se-
quence  of  events which may have been entered at random into  the  data  base.
Finally,  it can scan depositions provided to you on disk in  industry-standard
ASCII  format and transfer verbatim text directly from the depositions  to  its
data base.


MOE

     MOE  ($50) is a handy "pop-up" program that contains a number of  features
useful in a business environment.  It will:

        --> schedule upcoming events,  allowing  up to 20 alarms  per day;
        --> maintain a record of your expenses and the time you spend  wor-
            king on various projects;
        --> provide a calculator with a 20-line "tape" and the  ability  to
            transfer  results  to  your word processor  or  other  program;
        --> provide a pop-up phone directory that will dial for you;
        --> allow you to establish numerous mini-databases, such  as  to-do
            lists, general ledger account numbers, etc.; and
        --> provide a convenient means of sending your  printer  the  codes
            it needs to change fonts, margins, etc.

     Once  MOE  is installed (it needs 80K), it's instantly  available  at  the
touch  of  a few keys.  It may be called up from within most  word  processors,
spreadsheets, and other primary applications.  If you also happen to have Bill-
Power  and TickleX, you'll find that MOE ties in beautifully with them.   What-
ever appointments or deadlines you've scheduled with MOE will be  automatically
picked up by TickleX, while BillPower will automatically take in the  services,
expenses, and receipts you've logged with MOE.  TickleX and BillPower can  even
assimilate entries made into MOE by users on other computers around the office.
All you need to do is "OUTPUT" those entries to floppy disks, carry them to the
central  computer that maintains the BillPower/TickleX data bases, and then  go
through a simple "INPUT" routine.




NIFTY

     Nifty  ($50) is a unique program that may be used as either a pop-up  Help
system or a DOS menu.  It combines an elegantly simple and attractive user  in-
terface  (much appreciated by the inexperienced user) with a consistent,  flex-
ible means of set-up (benefiting the system integrator).

     As  a  Help system, Nifty can, at the touch of a key or two,  provide  the
user  with  on-line assistance on any subject (assuming that  appropriate  help
files  have been created by the person installing the system).  Since the  Help
system is memory-resident, it may be accessed from within nearly any other  ap-
plication.

     Simplicity is also the rule when Nifty is used as a Menu system.  A single
keystroke can execute any program or read any file on the computer.  Some  menu
systems may be easier to set up, but few provide such flexible  screen-creation
facilities, and none are easier to use once they're installed.  With Nifty, you
may "draw" your own menus and place into them any messages you desire.  You may
use  either passwords or "security levels" to control access to sub-menus.  You
you may even set a timer to automatically execute any program at any time.

     As  a  Help system, Nifty uses about 50K of memory; as a Menu  system,  it
requires  about 55K.  If you know a computer novice, you know a  candidate  for
using this handy product.  And if you understand DOS paths and file extensions,
you know enough to set up a Nifty Help or Menu system, yourself.