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N********************************************************************* N********************************************************************* N*** Don't use type or copy to print this documentation. It should *** N*** be printed by using the print documentation option in the *** N*** utilities option of EZCATLOG. *** N********************************************************************* N********************************************************************* EZ-CATLOG THE HANDY FILING AND CATALOGING PROGRAM Version 1.0 Disk Based Documentation This document contains everything there is to know about using EZ-CATLOG. In fact the program is so easy to use it was designed such that anyone could pick up the program and use it by utilizing the on-line help function. This manual explains about shareware and why you should register your copy of EZ- CATLOG, if you find it useful. Details on registering are in the last section titled registration form. (C) Copyright BELTECH Services 1987 All Rights Reserved 1 ------------------ YOUR EZ-CATLOG LICENSE ------------------- EZ-CATLOG is copyrighted. Even though the program is share ware, and can be freely copied, there are still some limita- tions to protect the quality of the distribution of the program and to support future development. Users of EZ-CATLOG may make copies of this program for trial use by others on a PRIVATE NON-COMMERCIAL BASIS. By accepting and using this software, you acknowledge that this software may not suit your particular requirements or be com- pletely trouble-free. With proper application, this software will perform as described. However, BELTECH Services is not responsible for your specific application or any problems resulting from use of this software. If the software does not perform as described, our liability to you is limited to replacing the software or refunding your contribution (if registered). We have no liabilility to you or any other person or entity for any damage or loss, including special, incidental, or consequential damages, caused by this software, directly or indirectly. Some states do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or conseq- uential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Okla- homa. Should any part of this agreement be held invalid, the remainder of the Agreement will still be in effect. This Agreement can only be modified by written statement signed by BELTECH Services. Under this license, you may NOT: 1) Distribute the program in connection with any other product or service, or as part of a corporate or institutionally sponsored distribution. Site licenses and bundling agreements are available upon request. 2) Charge more than $5.00 to cover costs of distributing 3) Distribute the program in modified form. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS _________________ Description Page ----------- ---- The Shareware Concept......................... 4 Getting Started............................... 5 About EZ-CATLOG............................... 6 Action Codes.................................. 6 Wild Card Dates............................... 7 Sample Things To Do Lists..................... 8 Site Licenses and Bundling.................... 9 Other BELTECH Programs........................ 10 Registration Form............................. 11 3 THE SHAREWARE CONCEPT --------------------- EZ-CATLOG is distributed through a unique marketing approach called shareware. The program can be freely copied and shared. We ask that you help us distribute the program by sharing copies with your friends and associates. You are being granted a temporary license to use EZ-CATLOG. If you find it useful, and continue to use it we invite you to help support ongoing improvements and other development by registering your copy by sending $25.00 and a filled in registration form. $5.00 of this fee will be sent to the registered user whose serial number was on your copy. Once we have received your registration we will provide you with your own unique serial number(updated with the utility option in EZCATLOG), so that you can benefit monetarily when someone registers from a copy of your version of EZCATLOG. This is an added incentive to reward you for helping circulate the program. Some of the benefits of registration are: 1) You will receive the most current version of the program, if there is a more current release than the one you have. 2) Automatic notice of new releases and their enhancements. 3) You will be supporting the concept which allowed you to receive and evaluate the program in the first place. Only through user financial support will shareware programs continue to exist. IF YOU DO NOT REGISTER YOUR COPY, YOU ARE NOT SUP PORTING THE CONCEPT WHICH BROUGHT IT TO YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE AND SHOULD DISCONTINUE USING IT. 4) It gives you an opportunity to suggest improvements which will be help us make EZCATLOG a product that will help you as well as others. 5) You will receive $5.00 each time someone registers a copy with your serial number on it. Commercial users should contact BELTECH Services, Box 956, Sand Springs, Ok 74063, to obtain information about site licensing or bundling. 4 GETTING STARTED --------------- MAKING A BACKUP --------------- Before using EZ-CATLOG, make a backup copy of the program and all of its documentation files. Put this backup away in a safe place for emergency use only if something were to happen to your original. CONFIG.SYS ---------- For EZ-CATLOG to work properly your boot disk must have two special files on it: 1) ANSI.SYS from your Dos diskette and 2) a CONFIG.SYS file created using any text editor. The CONFIG.SYS file must contain at least the following two records: FILES=20 DEVICE=ANSI.SYS FOR FLOPPY USE -------------- Insert the EZ-CATLOG disk into the default drive and type EZCATLOG at the dos prompt. FOR HARD DISK USE ----------------- Create a directory where you would like to keep all of your EZ- CATLOG files. Copy all EZ-CATLOG files into this directory. COPY A:EZCATLOG.* To invoke EZ-CATLOG type in EZCATLOG at the Dos prompt. 5 EZ-CATLOG EZ-CATLOG is a filing and cataloging program. It can be uti lized to categorize bible verses, recipes, library books, music libraries, etc. The possibilities are endless. Use keywords in place of categories to help remember where you have stored related things. If you run out of room in the description sim- ply create another record. The program utilizes 2 primary files: a database file and a category/keyword file. You are prompted each time the program is invoked for the names of the 2 files. You can have an infinite number of databases and related category/keyword files. If it can't find existing files, in the current directory, to match the ones you enter, it will create new ones for you. This means that you can have as many different databases as you need. Both files can be updated or browsed at the same time. You have been provided a quote file(EZQUOTE2.DBD) and a category file(EZQUOTE.CAT). EZQUOTE2.DBD is a condensed version of EZQUOTE.DBD which is a collection of philosophical and inspirational quotations copy righted as "WORDS TO LIVE BY". EZCATLOG was written especially to catalog this collection. This file containing over 150 cataloged quotations is available for an additional fee when you register your copy of EZCATLOG. Two report options are provided: Record sequence - sequenced by record ID and Category sequence - sequenced by category. Selec- tions may be made by category using "and" or "or" logic. Option to display to the screen or printer. The categories section of database maintenance lists and updates the categories assigned to this database record. F4 deletes all categories after current curser position. F5 pulls up category maintenance and allows you to add new categories or page through the categories available in alphabetical sequence. The record contents portion of the database maintenance is a mini-editor. Curser movement up, down, left and right is avail- able but INS and DEL is not. So that you don't split a word between two lines, word wrap is in effect. F3 causes everything in record contents to be saved regardless of curser position. F4 does the same as F3 except it deletes everything following the current curser position. ESC will get you out of any place in the program, returning you to a previous prompt. DATABASE MAINTENANCE ACTION CODES <A>DD - Add records to the database. <C>HANGE - Change a database record by adding or changing categories or changing record contents. FORWARD AGE - Page forward from current point in database. As you are paging thru records they may be changed or deleted by entering the proper code and then continue paging. <L>IST - Produce a listing by record ID or category. Option to select by "and" or "or" logic or all records. List to the screen or printer. TILITIES - Update serial number, print documentation and order information. NOTE: Order information must be printed here in order to pick up serial number so that $5.00 of your registration fee can be returned 6 to the the person who provided you with your copy of EZCATLOG. When you register you will be sent either your serial number to update your copy or if your copy is not the latest version, a diskette with the latest version of EZCATLOG encoded copy is not the latest ver- sion, a diskette with the latest version of EZCATLOG encoded with your unique serial num- ber. When anyone registers an order printed off of a copy of your diskette, we will send you $5.00 of the registration fee. <E>ND - End database maintenance and return to DOS. <D>ELETE - Delete a database record by entering record ID. ACK PAGE - Move back a record at a time from the current position in the file. Also, can be used in conjunction with change and delete. NQUIRY - Look at the categories and record contents. Enter a record ID number. If it does not find the number it will return the next one in sequence. Can be used to randomly jump around the database for starting forward page and back page in different places. CATEGORY MAINTENANCE ACTION CODES <A>DD - Add records to the category file. <D>ELETE - Delete a category record by entering category code. <C>HANGE - Change a category description. NQUIRE - Look at the category codes and descriptions. Enter a category code. <T>OP - Return to beginning of category file. AGE DOWN - Page down from current point in category file. As you are paging thru records they may be changed or deleted by entering the proper code and then continue paging. <H>ARD COPY - Produce a listing of category file. <E>XIT - End category maintenance and return to calling module. ESC will accomplish the same thing. LISTING Select criteria can be either the entire database by entering "L" or selected categories utilizing "and" or "or" logic by entering "<A>" or "<O>" respectively. Up to 7 categories can be entered to select on. Two different report formats are pro vided: Enter "R" and you will get a listing by database ID num- ber. Enter "C" and you will get a listing by category descrip- tion. You can change the heading(2 lines) that you want on the report. And you can either print to the screen or the printer. If option "L" for select criteria is entered, the program will force the report to go to the printer because of the potential volume. 7 SITE LICENSES AND BUNDLING ARRANGEMENTS --------------------------------------- Corporate site licenses and bundling arrangements are available direct from BELTECH Services. Site licenses can be used to distribute large quantities of EZ- TICKLE and its documentation within a specific organization at very reasonable prices (Much less per copy than competing prod- ucts). All users under a site license can become registered users at no extra fee and are automatically notified of updates. Bundling arrangements can be used to distribute copies of EZ- TICKLE in order to promote some other product or service. Note that neither of these activities is permitted under the lim- ited license granted to all users of EZ-CATLOG without the expressed written consent of BELTECH Services. 8 OTHER BELTECH PROGRAMS ---------------------- EZ-TICKLE - "THE BEST" Reminder Program. Gives you the ability by utilizing wild card dates to enter one entry in the database that will remind you of events that occur on the 25th of each month, the 3rd Wednesday of each month, one day every year, etc. You can select ranges of days to print and print all tasks or appointments on each day. Will display to the screen or to the printer. Provides for up to 400 characters of description for each task. Stores in a variable length file only the amount of text entered to conserve space. Extremely easy to use because of simple interface. Almost no learning curve. Most computer users can master in 30 min- utes. Has the ability to prioritize tasks by any system you desire and to select and print by priority.(I.E. You want to see only priority "A" tasks for today). Also contains an interface to the Time and Billing module currently under devel- opment. EZ-CATLOG Quote Database - Categorized database that EZ-CATLOG was originally developed to maintain. Contains 100's of time honored and current inspirational and philosophical quotations. The EZQUOTE2 data base that came with your copy of EZCATLOG contains quotes that came from the larger database to give you an example of the type of quotations that you will receive. 9 REGISTRATION FORM ----------------- If you purchased EZ-CATLOG directly from BELTECH Services in your own name, then your copy is already registered and you will receive all the benefits of registration. You do not need to send in a registration form. If you received EZ-CATLOG some other way, you may register your copy by filling out the following form and mailing it to the listed address along with $25.00. You will promptly receive the latest version of EZ-CATLOG, unless you already have it. If this is the case, we will send you a letter containing your unique serial number(You update your copy using the utilities option of EZCATLOG). We will also place you on our update list so that you will automatically be notified of any EZ-CATLOG updates. In addition, you will be supporting software distributed under the shareware concept and will be contributing to the further development of EZ-CATLOG, EZTICKLE and other share ware products. ------------------------------------------------------------ BELTECH Services P.O. Box 956 Sand Springs, Ok 74063 Note: Print this form from the Utilities section of your program in N order for it to pick the version and serial number V (Reserved for version and serial number) ITEM QTY PRICE TOTAL --------- --- ------ ------- EZ-TICKLE ___ $25.00 _______ EZ-CATLOG ___ $25.00 _______ EZ-CATLOG Quote* Database ___ $10.00 _______ TOTAL _______ *(Available only to registered EZ-CATLOG Users) Name _______________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________ City __________________ State _________ Zip _________ How did you receive your copy of this program? ________________________________________________________ What enhancements would you like to see to this program? ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ Use back of form if you need more space to write. 10