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- Program name: ExpressCheck (tm)
- (C) Copyright 1987, 1988 Expressware Corporation
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- Author : David Berdan
- Expressware Corporation
- P.O. Box 230
- Redmond, WA 98073
- (206) 481-3040
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- Price : $29.95
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- What is ExpressCheck?
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- ExpressCheck has a simple goal in life, to help you manage your
- checking accounts. Because the various screen look just like
- your paper checks, deposit slips and check registers, you will
- find the program extremely easy to learn and use. But Express-
- Check goes far beyond the usefulness of a check register. Every
- check and deposit can be recorded to various budget codes that
- you set up. This makes it possible for you to see at any time
- during the year where you stand in regard to your spending. How
- much do you spend on food each month? How much have you given in
- tax deductible donations? Car payments, electricity, gasoline,
- entertainment? Without ExpressCheck you either guess at where
- you spent all your money, or you spend long hours with a calcu-
- lator. With ExpressCheck you can find out in just a few seconds.
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- Entering checks and deposits is fast and enjoyable. Recurring
- payments can be entered with two keystrokes. Budget codes can be
- defined on the fly and you can pop up a window with all the
- currently defined codes whenever you need them. ExpressCheck
- will even print the checks for you on any kind of tractor feed
- forms.
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- Pre-defined reports can be printed that give you monthly or
- year-to-date totals for any or all budget codes, a check register
- with running balance, all transactions that have not yet cleared
- the bank, checks or deposits that included certain budget codes,
- or all checks made out to certain payees. Many of the figures
- that go on your tax return are at your finger tips.
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- Files included on the ExpressCheck diskette:
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- 1 README
- 2 CHECK.EXE
- 3 CHECK2.EXE
- 4 CHECK3.EXE
- 5 CHECK.PRO
- 6 EXAMPLE.DEF
- 7 EXAMPLE.DTA
- 8 EXAMPLE.BGT
- 9 EXAMPLE.SOR
- 10 EXAMPLE.HDR
- 11 CHECK.DOC
- 12 PRINTDOC.BAT
- 13 ORDERFRM.DOC
- 14 ORDER.BAT
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- The ORDER.BAT file on the Program Diskete can be used to print an Order
- Form and Mailing List form. Use the Order form to order the latest Disk
- Sets and Registered Copies of Expressware programs. Use the Mailing List
- Form to send us your address. We will add you to our mailing list, and
- will notify you of future updates and product announcements. The form
- may also be used to send us comments about our products.
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- If you have received this copy of ExpressCheck from a friend, please take
- the time to send in the Mailing List form. To print it, make sure your
- printer is on, and the printhead is at the top of the paper. Then type:
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- ORDER
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- Not in the manual:
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- The following information (if any) was not written in time to be
- included in the printed manual:
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- /P
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- When starting ExpressCheck you can use a /P on the command line to
- force the program to stop on the Opening Banner screen. If you have
- added an Account Filename or a Path name in the Customize section,
- ExpressCheck will not stop at the Customize section to allow you to
- change anything when started normally. If you want to change any
- custom options in this case, start ExpressCheck by typing:
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- CHECK /P
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- This will cause ExpressCheck to stop on the first screen, allowing
- you to press <F1> to display the Customize Section.
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- USING EXPRESSCHECK FILES WITH FILE EXPRESS DATABASE PROGRAM:
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- The data files produced by ExpressCheck can be directly used by our
- database program, File Express. The ExpressCheck program diskette
- contains a file called EXAMPLE.HDR that can be copied and renamed to
- the name of your account file. This header file, along with the .DTA
- file where your check information is kept, constitute all that is
- needed for File Express.
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- Example: You have an account file named PERSONAL.
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- As you enter checks and deposits, ExpressCheck stores the
- information in a file called PERSONAL.DTA. This file
- is in the same format as a File Express data file.
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- All you need to do to be able to load the PERSONAL data file
- into File Express is to have a PERSONAL.HDR file. This can
- be made by copying the EXAMPLE.HDR file and renaming it to
- PERSONAL.HDR. This can be done with this command at the
- DOS prompt:
- COPY EXAMPLE.HDR PERSONAL.HDR <Enter>
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- The pair of files, PERSONAL.DTA and PERSONAL.HDR, are all that
- File Express needs to be able to load it. After loading,
- File Express will prompt you to sort the file to create
- an index file.
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- If you find that you want to produce complex reports, or do some search
- and replace operations, this easy access to File Express will do the job.
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- 2.03
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- Automatic disk space checking has been disabled as the default because
- some computers were constantly reporting 0K of disk space available
- even if there was an entire hard disk empty. If you want to have this
- disk space checking turned back on you must put the command:
- SPACE CHECK
- in the CHECK.PRO file with a text editor.
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- 2.04
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- The QuickFill list is now sorted when displayed.
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- The printer port specified in the CHECK.PRO file is now also used
- for the check printing as well as the report printing.
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- 2.05
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- QuickFill codes have been expanded to allow the use of words after the
- slash character. For example, you may now use /MORTGAGE as a QuickFill
- code instead of just /M.