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Run Stat ________ Version 1.10 The Runner's Statistical Journal User's Manual (C) Copyright 1991 All Rights Reserved Sector Software P.O. Box 4171 Irvine, CA 92716-4171 RUN STAT Registration Form Yes, I want to support high quality, try before you buy, software. Please send me my official registered copy of RUN STAT, including the program disk, printed manual, and technical support. If buying as a gift please list recipients name and address on reverse, and address you wish it mailed to. NAME: ____________________________________________________________ ADDRESS: _________________________________________________________ CITY, STATE, ZIP: ________________________________________________ PHONE NUMBER: ____________________________________________________ Quantity Price Amount RUN STAT 1.11 (including disk, manual, and support) ___ 3.5" Low Density ________ @ $40.00 _________ ___ 5.25" Low Density ________ @ $40.00 _________ California Residents add ________ @ $3.10 _________ 7.75% sales tax Shipping within USA ________ @ $2.00 _________ Shipping outside of USA ________ @ $5.00 _________ TOTAL _________ All funds must be in US Dollars. Personal and Company checks accepted. All checks must be drawn against US banks and payable in US Dollars. Make Checks payable to Sector Software. User Comments ------------- I acquired Run Stat ver 1.10 from: [ ] - Friend [ ] - Coach [ ] - Computer Club [ ] - Computer Show [ ] - Shareware Vendor [ ] - Electronic BBS [ ] - Other - Please Specify ________________________________ We would also appreciate any input you would care to give concerning Run Stat. If you have any ideas or comments that would make Run Stat a better program, then please let us know. Comments and/or suggestions: ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose RUN STAT was designed by runners for runners. Runners like to keep track of their experiences so that they can look back on them later and learn, or simply recall the excitement of a great race or memorable run. RUN STAT is designed to make collecting and reviewing information about your running much easier and more effective. It does this in several ways. First, it simplifies data collection by providing prompting for information pertinent to your running performance and enjoyment. This includes items such as distance, times, terrain, weather conditions, and pulse rate to name a few. Naturally, you the user can decide which items you wish to be prompted for. You won't spend any time collecting information that you are not interested in. Each RUN STAT entry also includes a traditional journal entry in which you can enter as much or as little as you like. Second, RUN STAT uses the information that you have entered to provide you with statistical information that you would otherwise have to work very hard to get. RUN STAT presents this statistical information to you in the form of graphs and reports. Finally, RUN STAT helps you find information that you wish to look at by using the search features and the monthly calendars. 1.2 Features - User selectable data prompts - Traditional journal text entries of up to 64kb each - One keystroke graphs - Automatic statistics - Printouts of all entries, graphs, and reports - Pace Calculator - Month at a glance calendars - Race reports 2.0 INSTALLATION 2.1 System Requirements Minimum System Configuration - IBM PC XT/AT, or a 100% compatible computer - PC-DOS or MS-DOS Version 2.0 or higher - One Floppy Disk Drive and One Hard Disk Drive or Two Floppy Disk Drives at least one of which must be high density (5 1/4" or 3 1/2") - 640K of Random Access Memory (RAM) on board Optional Hardware - Graphics Display Adapter (i.e. Hercules, CGA, EGA, VGA) - Printer (Graphics capability a plus) We highly recommend the use of a hard disk since it will greatly speed up operation of the program due to the extensive use of the database files. 2.1.1 Installing the BBS version. The version on the BBS is different that the one on disk to reduce the size of the file. Therefore there is no install program, and it is not a self extracting file. To install it you must unzip it and then run the "STARTUP" program. To use the defaults in the initialization of RUNSTAT (as described in section 3.1 under Qinstall) just add the parameter /d (STARTUP /D). 2.2 Installing on a Hard Disk System Read section 3.0 to see if you can use the Quick Install procedure. You must have at least 720KB (737280 bytes) of free disk space on your hard drive and at least 530KB (542720 bytes) of free memory available on your computer itself. To see if you have enough free memory on your hard disk and on your computer: 1. Type CHKDSK <enter> In the information presented, you will find "Bytes available on disk" telling you how many free bytes are on your hard disk and "Bytes free" telling you how much free memory is available in your computer. If these numbers satisfy the requirements stated above you may continue with the installation. Otherwise you must free up space on your hard disk or memory in your computer at this time before proceeding. (Refer to your DOS manual for information for this procedure.) 2. Insert the RUN STAT disk into the floppy drive (either A or B.) 3. Type A:<enter> (or B:<enter>) 4. If your hard drive is device C, type INSTALL C:<enter> If your hard drive is device D, type INSTALL D:<enter> This will create a subdirectory on your hard disk called "RUNSTAT" and will copy all necessary files into that subdirectory. The STARTUP program will automatically start. A detailed explanation of this program is given in section 2.4. 7. The program will start itself. The first operation for you to perform is to create a database for yourself. The procedure for this is described in detail in section 2.4 in this manual. 2.3 Installing on a Floppy System (no hard drive) It is not possible to use this program on a low density 5.25" disk (360k or DSDD). While RUN STAT will fit on a low density 3.5" disk, there is virtually no room left for data storage on the disk. This is why you must also have a data disk if you are running off of floppies. You will need two disk drives and one blank disk. The procedure below is for installing the program onto a disk in drive B. If your drives are of two different sizes and you wish to install the program onto a disk in drive A, just switch the letters A and B in the procedure below. You will need at least 530KB (542720 bytes) of free memory available on your computer. 1. Place your DOS disk in drive A. 2. Format the one blank disk. (refer to your DOS for this procedure) 3. Remove the DOS disk. Place the Run Stat disk in drive A. Place the formatted blank disk into drive B. 4. Type A:<enter> 5. Type INSTALL B:<enter>. This will copy all necessary files onto your floppy disk. 6. The STARTUP program will automatically start. A detailed explanation of this program is given in section 2.4 of this manual. 7. After completion of the startup program,the main program will start itself. The first operation for you to perform is to create a database for yourself. The procedure for this is described in detail further on in the manual. 2.4 StartUp The startup program is where you configure many parts of the program not accessible from the main program. You must run the Startup program before you can run the main program. If you use the Quick Install procedure the start up program will be run automatically. Read section 3.0 to see if you can use the Quick Start procedure. You have four items to define the choices for the following categories: Weather, Health, Hills, and Surface. You may use the default choices or define your own. You Add, Delete, or Edit a choice from the list by pressing the first letter of the appropriate command. The commands are listed at the bottom of each window. The next screen in the startup program asks if your printer uses the IBM character set and prompts you for a yes or no answer. If you do not know if you printer uses the IBM character set, answer 'Y'. If the borders on your printouts come out in something besides solid lines, you can re-run the start up program and change your answer to 'N'. 2.5 Running RUN STAT After Installation Before you can run RUN STAT, you must tell the computer how much memory to set aside for the program. This can be done in two ways. The first way is to type SET CLIPPER=V18 It must be all in capital letters and there must be no spaces before or after the equal sign. This would have to be done each time the program is run. One way to avoid having to type SET CLIPPER=V18 each time before running the program is to add the command to your autoexec.bat file. If you do this, the command will be executed automatically each time you boot up your computer. Consult your DOS manual for the procedure to edit your autoexec.bat file. The other way is to start the program by using the batch file run.bat. This file will automatically set the memory allocation and then start the program. If RUN STAT was installed using the QINSTALL program the SET CLIPPER=V18 command was automatically added to your autoexec.bat file. Whether you use rs.exe or run.bat to start the program you can include the name of your database on the same line. This will cause the program to come up with your database already loaded in. So, if you added SET CLIPPER=V18 to your autoexec.bat file or you have just typed it in and your database is called "Alex" you would run the program by typing at the RUNSTAT> prompt rs alex Notice that it is not necessary to type the file extension .exe after rs. If you chose not to add SET CLIPPER=V18 to your autoexec.bat file and the name of your database is "Alex" you would run the program by typing at the RUNSTAT> prompt run alex Again, notice that it is not necessary to type the file extension .bat after run. You now have a choice of measurement systems. You must choose either the English or Metric system of units. This will affect the units in which your distances and temperatures will be stored and reported by RUN STAT. Once you have chosen the system of units you can never change them. However, RUN STAT does allow you to ENTER data in the alternate system. For example, if you choose the English system RUN STAT will still let you enter a 10 Kilometer run or race but it will store and report the distance as 6.214 miles. 3.0 QUICK START 3.1 About QINSTALL The Quick Start installation procedure allows you to install and run RUN STAT without having to interact with the Startup program described in section 2.4. This is accomplished by running the QINSTALL batch file, which sets all of the selectable variables in the Startup program to their default values. All of the parameters that are set by the startup program can be changed at any time except for the Measurement System. Using QINSTALL sets the Measurement System to English (miles, degrees fahrenheit). This can never be changed once the first entry is made, therefore you must be willing to use the English system of measurement if you are going to use QINSTALL. You will still be able to enter data in metric units (kilometers, degrees celsius) by using the F1 function key, however the data will be stored and reported in English units. 3.2 Quick Start Procedure You must have at least 720KB (737280 bytes) of free disk space on your hard drive and at least 530KB (542720 bytes) of free memory available on your computer itself. See section 2.2 of this manual for the procedure check for sufficient hard disk and computer memory space. To install from floppy drive A (source) to hard disk C (destination) simply place the RUN STAT disk in drive A and type: a:qinstall <return> For any other combination of source and destination drives place the RUN STAT disk in the source drive and type the following lines, substituting your source drive for X and your destination drive for Y:. See section 2.3 for floppy drive restrictions. X:<return> qinstall X: Y: This will create a subdirectory on your hard disk called RUNSTAT. The compressed files on the RUN STAT disk will be exploded and transferred to your disk. The startup program will be run automatically and the the RUN STAT program itself will start. The last thing that you must do before actually entering your first run is to open your new database. From the Main Menu, choose File, then from the File menu choose NEW DATABASE. You will be prompted for a name. Your database name can be up to 10 characters. See section 4.1 for naming restrictions. You are now ready to use RUN STAT. Begin by making an entry with the Entry Menu. Detailed information about the Entry Menu features is found in section 4.2. 4.0 MENUS 4.1 Main Menu The Main Menu is a menu bar which appears at the top of the screen and contains the headings for the four pull down menus. The pulldown menus are File, Entry, Options, and Graphs. When the program starts the highlight will be on File. You may select the desired menu by moving the highlight with the arrow keys and pressing ENTER or typing the first letter of the desired menu heading. 4.1 File Menu New Database: This creates a new database into which you can enter data. Each user should have their own database. A user might even have two databases. For example John might want to keep track of his biking mileage in addition to his running. The name you enter for your database can be up to 10 characters, but the only allowed characters are letters, numbers and an underscore. There can be no spaces in the name. This is because the first five letters of the name are used for the database name. This also means that the first five letters must be unique if you have more than one database. For example you may have databases called John1 and John2, but you may not have databases called Cindy1 and Cindy2 because the first five characters of Cindy1 and Cindy2 are the same. Open Database: This opens an already created database for your use. When you select this choice a window containing the names of the existing databases will appear. Move the highlight to the desired database name and press enter. The name of the selected database will then appear in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Print: Choosing Print opens a window displaying the four choices, Week Print, Course List, Race Summary, and Statistics. Week Print: This feature allows you to print out one week of entries, including a weekly mileage total. Simply enter any date occurring in the week of interest and press enter. This will give you a week long printout of the data that was entered for the given week. The default date that appears is the last date entered in the database. The journal's week runs from Monday through Sunday. This output can be directed to only the printer or a disk file, not to the screen. Courses: When you make this selection a window will open offering you the choice between workout courses and race courses. Work Out Courses: This will give you a list of the work out courses that you have entered. It can be directed to the printer or the screen. Race Courses: This will give you a list of the race courses you have entered. It can be directed to the printer or the screen. Race Summary: This will give you a list of all the races you have run for a given year. For it to be a complete listing you should enter a race course for each race you run, and enter 'Y' for when asked if it is a race when entering the data for the day. The listing can be directed to the printer or the screen. Statistics: This is how you generate the statistical report of your running for any year in the database. The report includes information about how many times you ran each course, your slowest, fastest and average time for each course, how many miles you have on your shoes and other interesting data. The report can be directed to the printer or to the screen. Exit: This allows you to exit the program to DOS. No data will be lost, as it is saved as it is entered. 4.2 ENTRY MENU Enter: This allows you to create an entry for a run. You can customize which information RUN STAT prompts you for by using the Customize/Data function. There are three special function that can be called while making an entry by using the function keys. Alternate Units (F1): When entering at distance you may elect to enter it in the alternate system of units. For example, if you are using the English system of units but you wish to enter a 10k run, simply do the following. With the cursor in the distance column, press the function key F1. The characters "km" will appear to the right of the field. Type in 10 and then press enter. The program will automatically convert the 10 kilometers to 6.204 miles. Calculator (F3): The feature actually has two parts. The main part is a distance/pace/time calculator which can be accessed at any time by pressing the function key F3. When you press F3, the calculator comes up with zeros entered for each of the three fields Distance, Time, and Pace. By typing the first letter of any of the three categories lets to enter a value. When you enter values for Distance and Pace the Time is automatically calculated. When you enter Distance and Time the Pace is automatically calculated. If you subsequently change the values for Distance or Pace the time is recalculated. If the Time is changed the Pace will be recalculated. Using these combinations you can calculate the pace needed to achieve a certain race time or find the time that would result from running a certain pace for any distance you choose. The second part of the calculator is used to subtract times. With the cursor in the Time field of the calculator, press the function key F4. A new window with two fields will appear. The first field will contain the time that was displayed in the Time field of the main calculator. You may change this or leave it as is by pressing enter. In the second field, enter the larger of the two time that you wish to find the difference of. When you press enter the bottom window will disappear and the difference of the two times will appear in the Time field of the main calculator. Display: This feature allows you to display your entries. A window appears offering two options, Month and Day. Month: This will display on the screen a calendar of the current month. For each day of the month the following data will be shown: day, miles run, an R indicating race days, and an X indicating cross-training. You can page through previous months by using the up arrow key. View: If you press "V" while displaying a monthly calendar you will get a cursor which is controlled by the arrow keys. If you press 'Enter' it will display all the data for the highlighted day by putting you into the Display/Day mode. While in the Display/Day window you can use all of the features of that mode. Print: If you press "P" while displaying a month you will get a cursor which is controlled by the arrow keys. If you press 'Enter' it will send to the printer a listing for the week that the cursor was in. This is the same as choosing File/Print/Weekprint. Day: When Display/Day is selected a you are prompted for the day you wish to display. The default day is the last day that was entered or displayed. Arrow Keys: The 'UP' and 'LEFT' arrow keys will move you to the previous month. The 'DOWN' and 'RIGHT' arrow keys will move you to the next month. Page Up: To move one year back. Page Down: To move one year forward. Home: To move to the beginning of the data. End: To move to the end of the data. Arrow Keys: The 'UP' and 'LEFT' arrow keys will move you to the previous run. The 'DOWN' and 'RIGHT' arrow keys will move you to the next run. Page Up: To move 10 runs back. Page Down: To move 10 runs forward. Home: To move to the beginning of the Entry. End: To move to the end of the data. <Control>Page Up : To page upward in the text. <Control>Page Down: To page downward in the text. Delete: To delete a given run. Edit: To edit the data for a run. Find: To move to a given date. Graph: To create a single run graph for the current run. The same as the "Graph/Single Run" menu operation. Print: To perform a week printout containing the current run. Exit: To exit the display function. Escape also works this same function. Customize: This allows you to select which data elements you will be prompted for while making entries. If 'N' is selected for a data element then no data can be entered for it and no statistics can be performed on that data. 4.3 OPTIONS MENU Default: This feature lets you set the default values of the following parameters. Weight: This determines how often and when to you enter your weight. The possible choices are: daily, or once a week on any selected day. Shoe: This determines the default selection for entering which shoe you ran in. Printer: This allows you to select a printer driver for the graphics printouts. This has no effect on the other printouts (i.e. week print, statistics, course list.) Port: This determines which printer port (LPT1, LPT2) your computer sends reports and graphs to. You may choose a disk file as an alternative. Paper: This allows the selection of fan fold (continuous) or single sheet paper for your printer. Courses: These features allow you to create course that may be selected while making entries. Work Out Course: This is for creating workout courses. The data entered is: Name, description, distance, surface, and hills. This must be done before a course can be selected when entering data. Race Course: This is for creating race courses. The data entered is: Name, description, distance, surface, and hills. This needs to be done before any race courses can be selected when entering data. Shoes: This allows you to enter shoes that may be selected while making an entry. A shoe must be entered here before it be selected when entering data. 4.4 GRAPHS MENU Distance: This will give you a bar graph of distance on the Y- axis and the date on the X-axis. Also there is a point plot on the Y-axis of the pace for each run. There are four different scopes that can be chosen to narrow down the amount of data graphed. Date: Allows selection of a given range of dates. Distance: Allows selection of a given distance range. Race: Selects races only. Pace: Allows selection of a given range of pace. After entering a scope a submenu with three selections appears. End: This ends the data selection and begins creating the graph. And: This allows you to select another scope to further refine the data that will be plotted. The graph will be of the intersection of the specified scopes. Or: This also allows you to select another scope to further refine the data that will be plotted. In this case, the graph will be of the union of the specified scopes. Single Run: This will create a graph for a single run with a pace on the Y-axis and distance on the X-axis. There will be two line plots on the graph. One will be of the cumulative pace at each split, and one will be of the individual pace for that given split. End Chart: This will create a bar graph of the weekly mileage for a given year. Also on the graph will be a line plot of your weight for each week. 5.0 PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION 5.1 Backing Up Your Files It is a good idea to make backup copies of your data in case your hard disk should fail. To make a back copy of your data follow the simple procedure below. 1. Place a formatted disk in your floppy drive. 2. At the RUNSTAT> prompt type COPY X:*.DB? Y: where X is your hard drive designation (usually C) and Y is your floppy drive designation (usually A or B). This will copy all of your journal entries and all of your data to the floppy disk. We recommend that this be done once per week. Limitation of Liability Sector Software and its principals are not resposible for damage or inconvinience caused by this software or arising from the use of this software. This incluseds, but is not limited to, computer hardware, computer software, operating systems, and computer peripherials. The user agrees to hold Sector Software and its principals harmless for any problems arising from the use of this software. Sector Software and its principals shall not in any case be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or other similar damages arising from any breach of these warranties even if Sector Software or its agents or distributors have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no case shall Sector Software or its principals liability exceed the license fees paid for the right to use the software. Limited License To Copy the Software You are granted a limited license to copy RUN STAT ONLY FOR THE TRIAL USE OF OTHERS subject to the terms of the software license agreement described herein, and the conditions described below are met: * RUN STAT must be copied in an unmodified form. * No fee, charge or other compensation may be accepted or requested by anyone without the express written permission of Sector Software. Public Domain Disk Vendors may not change a fee for RUN STAT itself. However, you may include RUN STAT on a diskette for which you charge a nominal distribution fee. The purchaser of said diskette must be informed in advance that the fee paid to acquire the diskette does not relieve said purchaser from paying the Registration Fee for RUN STAT if said purchaser uses RUN STAT. * Operators of electronic bulletin board systems (Sysops) may post RUN STAT for downloading by their users without written permission ONLY AS LONG AS THE ABOVE CONDITIONS ARE MET. A fee may be charged for access to the BBS AS LONG AS NO SPECIFIC FEE IS CHARGED FOR DOWNLOADING RUN STAT files without first obtaining express written permission from Sector Software to charge such a fee. * Distributors of public domain and user supported software, such as disk vending services, may NOT CHARGE a fee for RUN STAT itself. However, you may include RUN STAT on a diskette for which you charge a nominal distribution fee. The purchaser of said diskette must be informed in advance that the fee paid to acquire the diskette does not relieve said purchaser from paying the Registration Fee for RUN STAT if said purchaser uses RUN STAT. The above constitutes the license agreement for RUN STAT.