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Documentation for CHEXBAL, Version 3 - 12/18/89
What's new in version 3:
Important error fix: If you have for example deleted an entry
in your checkbook and saved it without entering new
transactions CHEXBAL will give you the wrong balance (CHEX
does not truncate a shortened check book file and CHEXBAL was
assuming that the balance is always towards the physical end
of file, which is wrong).
Encrypted files will be skipped, not reading / printing their
balance at all. This is due to the fact that encryption makes
the file impossible to read.
CHEXBAL is a very simple but useful program that supplements
the CHEX checkbook software written by Rich Young,
Version 2.41-3 (the latest ones I know of).
I use Young's CHEX to keep track of what's happening on
several accounts. Unfortunately CHEX works only with a single
account at a time, so it is impossible to get a total balance
of all the accounts together.
This is where CHEXBAL comes in handy. Once run it checks all
the accounts, starting from CHEXBK01, ending with the one of
the highest number in the sequence. It adds (and subtracts)
all the account balances, displays them individually and then
shows the total balance for you. That's all it does.
Usage:
Either run CHEXBAL in the same path your accounting files
reside, or supply the path on the command line with it, as
in: CHEXBAL C:\PERSONAL\ACCOUNT.
Errors:
If the program cannot find at least one checkbook file it
will display an error message and remind you to supply the
correct path (assuming that this is what's wrong).
Password protected files are OK and will be displayed
correctly.
The program stops its file search as soon as it cannot find a
file in the next ascending sequence. So if you have CHEXBK01
and CHEXBK03, but CHEXBK02 is missing CHEXBAL works only up
to the last file in the sequence, namely CHEXBK01.
Credits:
Many thanks go to Rich Young in providing helpful hints, such
as pointing out the errors he found in version 2 of my
program.
CHEXBAL is very fast and was written in TURBO C 2.0, so
credits go to BORLAND INTERNATIONAL for their outstanding
product!
CHEXBAL is Freeware, no fees are necessary to be paid to me,
it's author.
CHEX is Copyright By Rich Young
How to get hold of me (Franz):
GEnie mail address: FRANZK
Compuserve address: 72341,3101
PRODIGY address: KCGV38A
PC-Link address: FranzK