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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.