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WEDDING ORGANIZER
v. 3.0
(c) Copyright 1990-1994
Spud City Software Co.
Compuserve: 76660,3524
PROGRAM FEATURES:
* COMPREHENSIVE INVITATION MANAGER
* BUDGETING SPREADSHEET
* TO-DO LIST
* VENDOR NOTEBOOK
* SEX LESSON (VA-VA-VA-VOOM!)
* ALL COMPLETELY MENU-DRIVEN
WARRANTY:
Wedding Organizer is distributed on an "AS IS" basis without
warranty, expressed or implied. Considerable testing of the
program has been done, but the user assumes full risk as to the
results of using this program. Any liability of the author will
be limited exclusively to product replacement. In no event shall
the author be liable for any consequential damages arising from
the use, or inability to use this program.
The INVITATION MANAGER Automatically:
* Alphabetizes guest lists
* Tallies RSVP's
* Tracks gifts and thank you's
* Sorts and prints guest lists
(Plus MANY MORE features)
The BUDGETING SPREADSHEET Lets You:
* Create a budget, with up to 45 expense categories
* Compare actual costs vs. budget
* Keep track of who paid what
* Keep track of vendor contracts and what needs to be paid
* Easily add and change category names to suit your needs
* Print out a copy of the spreadsheet
The TO-DO LIST:
* Preset with all standard wedding tasks
* Edit, add and delete tasks
* Print lists of your tasks
The VENDOR NOTEBOOK Will Help You:
* Keep track of all the vendors (florists, caterers, etc.)
that will be involved in your wedding.
* Besides contact names, addresses and phone numbers, you
can also enter free-form information on cost estimates,
promises made, or anything else you want.
* Have the computer dial vendor phone numbers for you.
The SEX MANUAL Lets You:
* Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the birds and
the bees, more or less.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
* 512K or more.
* All monitor types (mono, CGA, EGA and VGA) are supported.
* A hard drive is STRONGLY recommended. This program will run
from a single high density diskette (5-1/4" or 3-1/2"), but
the more invitations and vendor data you put in, the greater
your chances are that you'll run out of available memory on
the disk. When you START the program with less than 15K of
disk space, you'll be given a warning and the option to copy
everything to another disk.
INSTRUCTIONS:
At the DOS prompt, type WEDDING and press your ENTER key.
The entire program uses menus and help screens that make it
easy to know what you are doing. I programmed it that way so
that you don't have to keep referring to an instruction file.
P.S. Don't forget to back up (make copies) of this program
and ALL of its ancillary files on a daily basis. If your hard
drive crashes, you'll be mighty glad you had all of your
information safely copied, believe me.
A MOMENT ON MONITORS:
I did my best to write Wedding Organizer to work perfectly well
with all monitor types. However, if your computer gives you
fits when you enter the SPREADSHEET section of the program, it
is probably due to incompatibility between the software and your
computer's graphics board. Specifically the Wedding Organizer
senses you have an EGA or VGA monitor and tells it to get fancy
and shift to 43 or 50 lines of text per screen, instead of the
normal 25. In 95 percent of the cases, that's no problem.
However, for five percent of you, your graphics card will
refuse to switch to the higher-resolution mode, so your screen
goes blank and the system locks up. Fret no further. Simply
start over, go into the SETUP section at the main menu, and
choose your monitor from the choices given.
DISTRIBUTION:
You may freely copy this program to friends and bulletin boards
as long as at least 10 files (WEDDING.DOC, WEDDING.EXE,
WEDDING.X01, WEDDING.X02, WEDDING.X03, WEDDING.X04, WS.EXE,
WV.EXE, WX.EXE and BRUN45.EXE) are included unmodified.
Since most of the files store user-inputted data, they will
change with use. To check this, when at the DOS prompt, type DIR
and make sure all file creation dates say 03-16-94 (for version
3.0). If they don't all show that date, then the Wedding
Organizer program has been used before and probably doesn't have
all of the important preset information (list of to-do tasks and
budget categories) that are on a virgin copy of the program.
In any event, try running the program. If you like what you see,
then send in your registration fee immediately and I will mail
you a copy of the most recent version. Do this before you start
entering any data that you will want to use for your wedding.
HOW TO PAY:
Please mail your check or money order for $20 (U.S. currency) to:
Spud City Software Co.
P.O. Box 16062
Boise, ID 83715
Registered users will be mailed a disk with the latest version
of Wedding Organizer, which I plan to upgrade continually.
LICENSE:
Wedding Organizer is copyrighted software that is being
distributed as shareware. It is NOT in the public domain.
By using or distributing this package, you agree to the condi-
tions presented herein. If you find it useful, you are required
to pay a registration fee of $20. You are granted a limited
license, valid for seven days, to use this package for evalu-
ation purposes. If you continue to use this package, you must
pay the registration fee.
DEDICATIONS:
First of all, to my own new bride, Kathy, thank you for enduring
six or seven months of being a "computer widow" while
I sat fidgeting and fretting in front of my computer.
Second, a tip of my hat to the folks at Microsoft for creating
QuickBasic 4.5, the language I wrote the program in.
Third, my unending gratitude to Crescent Software, who wrote
QuickPak Professional, used extensively throughout Wedding
Organizer. Their set of software tools for QuickBasic program-
mers is like a dream come true.
The last thank you goes to you, the user. Your support of the
shareware concept will justify the hundreds of hours I spent
working on this program. You can also help me spread this
program across the U.S. (and perhaps beyond). Please make copies
for your friends who are getting married, and if you have a modem,
upload it to your favorite bulletin boards.
REVISION HISTORY
v 1.0 released April 12, 1990
-Initial release
v 1.1 released April 18, 1990
-Fixed bug that locked up program if user tried to FIND an invi-
tation before any had been ADDed.
-Fixed bug that made calendar disappear if user changed the
wedding date.
-Fixed typo in wedding quotes.
v 1.2 released May 4, 1990
-Added help screens to program.
-Enlarged zip code area to accept zip + 4 and Canadian postal
codes.
-Changed most of the files' extension names.
-Fixed another typo in wedding quotes.
v 1.3 released June 5, 1990
-Fixed bug that wouldn't allow some machines access to the guest
invitation module.
-Enabled proper use of PGUP, PGDN, HOME and END keys while scrol-
ling through To-Do tasks and while using Invitation's FIND com-
mand.
-After BROWSING through To-Do tasks, the highlighted task now
remains on the screen, ready for EDITing.
-Time on main menu is now displayed in am/pm format, rather than
24-hour format.
-Fixed yet another typo in wedding quotes.
v 1.4 released July 15, 1990
-Fixed bug that would occasionally display some garbage char-
acters (Martian poetry) on the "To-Do" EDIT and ADD screens.
-Added prompt allowing user to "chicken out" when deleting TODO
tasks.
v 1.5 released August 13, 1990
- Added option of printing spreadsheet data.
- Now each time Wedding Organizer starts, if the available disk
space is below 50k, the user will be alerted and given the
option of having all program files copied to another disk, or
continuing with the program.
- Fixed bug in main menu that displayed 12:00 p.m. to 12:59 p.m.
as a.m. times.
- Fixed bug that put garbage on screen if during the first time
you ran the program you EDITed an invitation that had just
been ADDed.
- Fixed bug that fouled things up if you included a quote mark
(") in the bride or groom's names.
v 1.6 released September 29, 1990
- Fixed bug that put garbage on the screen if, the first time you
ran the program, you consecutively read several of the TODO
help screens.
- Fixed typo in the SPREADSHEET help menus.
- Added SETUP section to the main menu, giving users the option
of specifying their monitor type if they are so inclined.
- Users can now exit the program at the main menu with the ESC key.
v 1.6a released October 1, 1990
- Added SETUP option of turning off and on WEDDING MARCH music.
v 2.0 released January 17, 1991
- Added VENDOR NOTEBOOK section.
- Added a check so that the program won't start if the computer's
internal date shows January 16, 1991 or earlier. User is
instructed to use the DOS DATE command to enter the real date.
This keeps the TODO section from presenting weird information.
v 2.1 released March 1, 1991
- Added the ability to print VENDOR NOTEBOOK entries.
- Added autodial feature to VENDOR NOTEBOOK.
- Added more help screens to VENDOR NOTEBOOK.
- Changed low disk storage warning threshold from 50k to 15k.
- Removed some mouse support code (it doesn't make sense to support
a mouse in an intensive data entry program like this).
v 2.2 released March 21, 1991
- Fixed bug that caused problems if a vendor category's name
was exactly 15 characters long.
Rebecca Ann Irwin released (born) June 8, 1991
- Our first child. Be sure to send in your registration money
to help keep her in diapers.
v 2.3 released August 10, 1991
- Fixed error which gave wrong information when printing a guest's
reception RSVP status.
- Added a better printing format for the various guest lists.
- Added the ability to print a list of guests were invited, but
haven't RSVP'd yet for either your wedding or reception.
- Fixed memory problem which would crop up when FINDing guest names
in a large guest data file.
- Added ability to print out a WEDDING ORGANIZER registration form.
- Added the capability to reset the number of people RSVPing to
either the wedding or reception on individual invitations back
to zero.
v 2.4 released October 20, 1991
- Now WEDDING ORGANIZER will properly copy ALL of the program
files to another disk drive if the one you're using is full.
- Fixed problem with printing out a list of people who have RSVP'd
with regrets.
- Fixed bug that wouldn't allow the VENDOR section to work on some
computers.
v 2.5 released June 8, 1992
- Now allows subtotals larger than $32,767 in the spreadsheet
section. (If you're spending that kind of money on your
wedding, then share the wealth and register this program.)
- The spreadsheet's budget deviation column now calculates properly.
- Fixed a typo in the spreadsheet help screen.
- Fixed various bugs that swarmed around the Print Guest List
options. Now the Unconfirmed RSVP's and Bride's and Groom's
Guest lists print out properly.
- We moved to Boise, Idaho, so be sure to send your $20 registration
fee and correspondence to my new address: P.O. Box 16062, Boise,
ID, 83715. Items mailed to my old address will be forwarded to
me, but there is a one-week minimum delay.
- I now can be contacted through CompuServe. My user id there is
76660,3524. I check for my E-mail once or twice a week.
v 2.6 released Sept. 15, 1992
- Fixed problem with displaying and printing out vendor information
if the category name was exactly 15 characters long.
- Revised initial setup (Bride's Name, Groom's Name, etc.) to exit
the program when done. This will eliminate garbage characters
that first-time users would sometimes encounter.
- When adding a new record, the default title is now Mr. & Mrs.,
not Mr.
- Updated the program's internal clock check to accept no "current"
date earlier than Sept. 1, 1992.
v 2.7 released Oct. 14, 1992
- Fixed problem with adding new vendors to the Vendor Notebook.
- Now the program won't try to dial a vendor unless he/she has a
phone number entered.
- Allows you to print all of the spreadsheet data onto one page if
your printer accepts wide paper (132 columns), or has extra-
small fonts.
v 2.8 released November 23, 1992
- The program now allows the user to exit from pull down menus
by pressing the ESC key.
- Fixed a bug that caused the program to think a guest hadn't RSVP'd
at all when you entered a 0 for the number attending the
wedding or reception. (Note: if you accidently entered a number
in one of the two RSVP fields, and want to re-enter an estimated
number instead, enter a period in the RSVP field. It will reset
back to the "factory default" and the little hearts will reappear.
- Speeded up guest list printing times.
v. 3.0 released March 16, 1994
- Added ability to delete guest records.
- Added ability to export guest data to a DBase III-compatible file.
- Added ability to quickly record which guests have been mailed a
invitation to your wedding. All guest records are accessed at
one with a quick check-off list.
- Added ability to print the results of the tally screen.
- Added new guest list printing formats (names and addresses only,
and names and addresses only of those needing invitations).
- When printing todo lists, a form feed will now eject the paper
from your printer.
- Changed the color of tasks that are being edited, for better
contrast against the other screen colors.
- Fixed a problem with screen colors going 'crazy' in the todo
section.
- Fixed the problem with losing some of your configuration data when
you changed your wedding date.
- Fixed the problem that would occur if you used quote marks " in a
guest name, and edited the record.
- Added a frame around the list of guests generated when using the
FIND function.
- Now offer copies of the Wedding Organizer on 3-1/2" as well as
5-1/4" disks.
- Started an official company to handle software products:
Spud City Software Co.