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- PROGRAM LICENSE
- ===============
-
-
- ProPoc 1.01 is owned and (c)Copyright 1993 by Berthold Daum.
- All Rights Reserved.
-
- This program is shareware. It may be freely distributed (not for resale)
- only in its original form including this documentation.
- It may be used freely during a trial period of 3 weeks.
- After that period you will have to register or you have to cease
- using the program.
- For registration details see below.
-
- Although ProPoc has been extensively tested, the author shall not be
- responsible for any loss of any kind due to its use. It is the
- user's responsibility to establish the suitability of this
- software for any particular purpose.
-
-
-
- Registration
- ============
-
- The registration fee is US$30.
-
- Please use the form
- jpreg.txt
- and send cheques made payable to an Australian bank, Eurocheques, or money orders
- (no credit cards numbers please) to
-
- Berthold Daum
- 21 Margate St.
- Beaumaris, Vic. 3193
- Australia
-
- CompuServe User ID: 100026,3365
-
- Alternatively, you will be able to use CompuServe registration facilities
- in a few days. GO SWREG and look for ProPoc V1.0 .
-
-
- Registration gives you the following benefits:
-
- 1. Unlimited use of ProPoc on any one machine.
-
- 2. Free use of all future shareware versions of ProPoc.
- At present, upgrade versions can only be distributed via electronic
- networks.
-
- 3. Free application support for three month.
- At present, application support can only be offered via CompuServe
- and not by mail or telephone.
-
- 4. Free detailled user manual in printed form. Allow a few weeks for
- delivery.
-
- 5. Your receive a registration number which enables you to switch
- off that annoying registration prompts that appear after
- a certain time.
-
-
-
- ProPoc Version 1.01 - Release Notes
- ===================================
-
- Program Description:
- --------------------
-
- ProPoc is a project planner.
- It can handle multiple projects, activities, milestones, and resources.
-
- Activities and milestones can depend on the completion of other
- activities. Activities can share resources, even between
- different projects.
-
- ProPoc determines the StartDate and EndDate of each activity,
- the ActualDate of each Milestone, the number of days each
- activity is allowed to float, and if a activity or milestone
- is critical.
-
- The results are displayed in graphical form on screen or
- can be printed in ASCII form (tables).
-
- Explanation of terms:
-
- File:
- -----
- Each file can contain:
- 7 projects
- 224 activities
- 56 milestones
- 7 resources
- 1 set of preferences
-
- Files are totally independent from each other.
- It is possible to copy activities and milestones from
- one file to another by using the Copy function, closing
- the first file, opening the second file, and using the
- Insert function.
-
- Project:
- --------
- Insert a new project with the Insert function.
- Modify a project with the Modify function.
- Delete with the Delete function or Delete key
- (Items must be deleted first.)
-
- Name:
- a unique name
- Description:
- up to 255 characters of text
- Priority: 1 for high, 7 for low
- Priorities are unique! If you
- specify for instance priority 3
- the other projects in the file are
- pushed upwards or downwards.
- High priorities wins in resource conflicts.
- Start Date:
- Official project start date.
- Alarm advance days:
- How many days before the event you want
- to have the alarm
- Alarm for:
- Type of events generating alarms
-
- End date:
- Computed end date for project.
- Total duration:
- Difference between end date and start date
- Critical:
- List of critical activities
- Hot milestones:
- List of milestones where the actual date is
- higher or equal the planned date.
-
- Item:
- -----
- Can be both an activity or a milestone.
- Create a new one with the Insert function.
- Modify with the Edit function.
- Cut with the Delete function or Delete key.
- Delete (no Cut) with Shift/Delete.
- Copy with the Copy and Insert function.
-
- Project:
- to which project it belongs
- Name:
- unique name
- Description:
- up to 255 characters of text
- Earliest date:
- Activities may depend on external
- influences, e.g. suppliers. This may
- define an earliest date for activity
- start.
- Duration:
- Duration of Activity in days.
-
- Usage of:
- Percentage (0-100) of how much
- the resource is used. Most important
- resource: Yourself. If some activities
- must be done in business hours, create a
- resource business hours - or split yourself
- into a business you and a home you.
-
- Planned date:
- Planned date for milestone. If the
- actual date exceeds the planned date,
- the activities causing this will go
- critical and the milestone will go hot.
-
- Links:
- List of activities the current activity
- or milestone is depending on.
-
- Start date:
- Computed start date for an activity.
- Activites in other projects with higher
- priority can influence the start date
- when they compete for the same resources.
-
- End date:
- Start date + duration
-
- Float days:
- Number of days, the activity is allowed
- to float.
- Activites in other projects with higher
- and lower priority can influence the float days
- when they compete for the same resources.
- An activity with null float days is called
- critical. These activities are represented
- by fat bars in the chart.
-
-
- Actual date:
- Computed actual date for a milestone
-
-
- Resources:
- ----------
-
- Resources are created and edited with the preference
- function (second screen). It is not possible to delete
- resources. You may only rename them.
-
- When no resources are defined the project planning
- process is straight forward.
- However, when resources are defined, the planning
- becomes a tricky optimisation process. We use a
- heuristic strategy (otherwise computation times
- would be enormous). This strategy may sometimes
- not lead to the shortest possible project duration.
-
- You can, however, use "Earliest date", dummy links,
- dummy activities, to make manual adjustments.
-
- You can print or display a resource schedule for the current
- project or for all projects with PSION-Z.
-
- Preferences:
- ------------
-
- The preferences are file specific and can be
- modified with the Preferences function.
-
- Alarm time:
- Time of day when the alarms shall go off.
-
- Reorder:
- For small projects choose "automatic".
- For big projects it is better to use "manual"
- and to call the Reorder function from time
- to time.
- Note: During reorder (auto or manual),
- the current project and all other projects
- that use resources are recalculated.
-
- Links:
- ------
- Milestones and Activities can depend on other activities
- in the same project. To define such a link, use the
- Link function. Then navigate to the desired activity
- and press Enter. ESC will cancel the link mode.
- To remove links, use the Unlink function.
-
-
-
- Installation:
- =============
-
- You may want to use the MCLINK command file JPINSTAL.
- First change the drive letters to your requirements,
- then call under MCLINK "@JPINSTAL".
- Then install ProPoc via PSION-I.
-
- Projects reside in folder \PROJ and have the suffix .PRJ .
-
- The following modules are shared with other applications:
-
- rsset.opa with SimPoc and HyperPoc
- morpheus.opa with HyperPoc
- about.opa with HyperPoc and RepPoc
-
- If you already have these modules installed you may want
- to remove the appropriate lines from JPINSTAL.
-
- You should always install MORPHEUS.OPA on the internal disk.
- MORPHEUS is the ProPoc alarm handler and always runs in the background.
- If you already have installed MORPHEUS (as part of product HyperPoc)
- dont need to install again. Simply ignore the next two paragraphs.
-
- If you install it on disk A or disk B you
- will have trouble when you want to reformat a disk.
- Install MORPHEUS as a separate application
- using PSION-I. Start it by moving the highlight to it
- and pressing ENTER. MORPHEUS prints
- a protocol of the alarms set. Leave the MORPHEUS screen
- by pressing the SYSTEM key. If you want to remove
- MORPHEUS from the system screen, deinstall it with
- PSION-Y. It will still run in the background. If you
- want to stop MORPHEUS, because you don't need the alarm
- facilities any longer, reinstall it with PSION-I,
- reactivate it, and press the DELETE key.
-
- MORPHEUS picks up the alarms set by ProPoc and passes them
- to the Series 3 alarm system so that always the next ProPoc
- alarm is known to the system. It will be shown in the TIME
- application screen as a MORPHEUS alarm.
- After the alarm has gone off, MORPHEUS will pass the next alarm, etc..
- However, it may take up to five minutes for MORPHEUS
- to recognize a new alarm or an alarm update.
- MORPHEUS communicates with ProPoc via the file ALRM.$$$
- located in the root directory of the internal disk.
- If you delete this file, you will loose all alarm information.
- The ProPoc stacks do not contain any alarm information.
-
-
- Contents of this disc:
-
- Notes for Macintosh users: All files listed below must be unzipped as binary
- files. Use Zipit to do so. Available in Compuserve GO PALMTOP.
-
- Modules: ProPoc.opa, Morpheus.opa, about.opa, rsset.opa
-
- Fonts: progrph.fon
-
- Docu: readme.txt, jpinstal, jpreg.txt
-
- Files: ProPoc.prj
-
-
- Requirements:
-
- The system requires about 27k of disk space
- plus 2k for MORPHEUS.
-
- When active, the system requires about 27k of main memory.
- MORPHEUS requires constantly 9k of memory.
-
- We recommend to install the system (except Morpheus) on flash SSD,
- the PROJ folder on the internal disk.
-
-
-
- Other products
- --------------
-
- HyperPoc is a card oriented hypertext an hypermedia system.
- Cards are organised in stacks (files). Cards may be superimposed with
- backgrounds.
- Cards and backgrounds can contain a variety of objects, such as:
- application, bitmap (animated), card link, clock, expainer, hotTab,
- icon (animated), keyword, music, phone number, polyline, rectangle, text.
- Functions include:
- Invocation of Series 3 applications, several navigation functions,
- phone dialling, alarms, stopwatch.
- Comes with 30 icons and 20 tunes.
- Shareware.
-
- A good complementing product for HyperPoc is PicPoc. PicPoc is a fully fledged paint program.
- It allows to create icons and bitmaps up to a size of 640x400 pixels. It includes the usual
- tools including spray and fill patterns (even custom fill patterns).
- Freeware.
-
- Another complementing product is MusiPoc. MusiPoc is a graphical editor for
- musical tunes of up to 255 notes and rests. It comes with an OPL-subprogram
- to play tunes from your own application or program and includes more than
- 20 predefined tunes. Freeware.
-
-
-
- SimPoc is a spreadsheet application for the Series 3 computer. It can print, displays business
- graphics, and scrolls fast. It is possible to call OPL-programs from formulas and formulas
- from OPL-programs. Although it includes such nifty things like lazy evaluation and result cache
- it comes as freeware.
-
- RepPoc is a report writing / mail merging application based on
- WORD and DATA file formats. It provides: complex search criteria,
- automated form generation, text functions. Comes with four standard
- form sheets: Phone list, Labels, Letterheads, Envelope.
- Shareware
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