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Personal Daily PlanIt
PlanIt Paradise Sampler
Use the scroll bar at the right to view this entire document.
Please read this document. It contains IMPORTANT INFORMATION
regarding this Sampler diskette. When done reviewing this
document, press "Continue" to close this file and continue
with the installation of the PlanIt.
CONTENTS:
Welcome to the Personal daily PlanIt
Startup group
Limited demonstration version
Don't forget to visist all three PlanIts
Memory and SMARTDRV
Printing
WIN.INI
Database file description
WELCOME TO THE PERSONAL DAILY PLANIT!
We hope you enjoy exploring your new PlanIt. Every effort
has been made to make your Personal Daily PlanIt very useful
and extremely entertaining, and yet easy and intuitive to use.
However, should you need a little assistance in navigating
your PlanIt, we have included extensive on-line help that is
always just a click away. The PlanIt provides you with
tremendous flexibility in setting up your planner environment
for the way you like to work. Use the Options menu to
customize the planner tabs, launchers, event icons, and much
more.
STARTUP GROUP:
If you want your PlanIt to automatically run when you load
Windows, copy the PlanIt icon from the Personal Daily PlanIt
group to the Startup group (do this by holding down the
control (Ctrl) key and dragging the PlanIt icon from the
"Personal Daily PlanIt" group to the "Startup" group).
You may set up the launcher buttons to play any of a host
of included entertainment features, or to launch your most
commonly used programs. Whether running in the foreground,
the background, or minimized, your Personal Daily PlanIt
is always ready to alert you of any pressing events with
the media clip of your choice.
LIMITED DEMONSTRATION VERSION:
This is a demonstration version of PlanIt Paradise. As
such, it has been drastically scaled down. The real product
has full motion video, audio entertainment, many more small
and large photos, and much, much more.
You will have 45 days to explore your PlanIt. To purchase
either the full CD-ROM or diskette version of the Personal
Daily PlanIt, visit a software dealer near you or call Media
Vision at 1-800-845-5870. Don't worry, when you purchase and
install the full Personal Daily PlanIt, your PlanIt
database(s) will be maintained from this Sampler version
(even after the Sampler expiration).
The Demo version of the PlanIt does not contain any video
clips or animation files; so, Microsoft Video for Windows
is not included in this version of the PlanIt. Compressed
sound files are included for alarm media clips. Microsoft
Video for Windows runtime files are shipped with both the
full floppy and CD-ROM versions of the Personal Daily PlanIt.
The PlanIt Sampler does contain sound files and requires a
sound driver compatible with MCI. If you do not have a sound
driver, you may turn off the Start, Lunch, and End clips in
the Options - Personal Assistant dialog.
The PlanIt has the ability to be voice-controlled as well as
using voice annotation. The voice control program, Talk->To
Plus by Dragon Systems, is shipped with both the full floppy
and CD-ROM versions of the PlanIt.
Although the demonstration version of the Personal Daily
PlanIt is functional, the following dialogs have been
disabled in the demonstration version:
File-Update Media Download the next month's images and
entertainment sound files from CD-ROM
(CD-ROM version only)
File-Import Photo Import Photo CD images into the PlanIt
Also, the entertainment launchers contain content for only
31 days, rather than the normal 366 days. The demo lacks
the video introduction files and the voice recordings for
the entertainment content. (Both the full floppy and CD-ROM
version include video introduction files; only the CD-ROM
version contains the entertainment launcher sound files).
There are only a few small images and only 1 large image
included in this version (there are 432 each small and large
images with the CD-ROM version; the floppy version has 97
small and 13 large images).
DON'T FORGET TO VISIT ALL THREE PLANITS:
Warren Miller Entertainment presents PlanIt Adrenaline,
Swimwear Illustrated presents PlanIt Paradise, and
the National Wildlife Federation presents PlanIt Earth.
All three versions of the PlanIt are available on both
CD-ROM and diskette. Visit a software dealer near you
or call Media Vision at 1-800-845-5870.
MEMORY AND SMARTDRV:
If you are running Windows on a 4 MB system with 256 or more
colors or an 8 MB system with more than 256 colors (16- or
24-bit color), you may encounter problems if you are running
SMARTDRV with default settings. Ordinarily, SMARTDRV reserves
2 MB of memory (XMS) and this memory is not available to
Windows programs. We recommend changing your SMARTDRV
settings to:
SMARTDRV 2048 256
For more information on these settings and their effect, type
'help smartdrv' from your DOS directory. Also, you can check
the available memory by typing:
MEM /C
PRINTING:
When using the HP Laser Jet 4Mx Si printer driver, select from
the following fonts: Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman,
Symbol, or Wingdings. If you need to use other fonts, try
switching to the Laser Jet 3Si printer driver.
WIN.INI FILE
The Personal Daily PlanIt copies its own font into the Windows
System directory and adds: PlanIt= PSYS.FON to the [fonts]
section of the WIN.INI file. This does not take affect until
Windows is restarted after the PlanIt install.
DATABASE FILE DESCRIPTION:
Your Personal Daily PlanIt uses several files to maintain all
of the information that makes up a user's database. All of the
files for one database have the same file name, but different
extensions as follows:
*.0dt Event information data file
*.0ix Event information index file
*.1dt Recurring event data file
*.1ix Recurring event index file
*.2dt Address book data file
*.2ix Address book index file
*.4dt Location list data file
*.4ix Location list index file
*.5dt Event icon name data file
*.5ix Event icon name index file
*.6dt Duration event data file
*.6ix Duration event index file
*.7dt Event alarm data file
*.7ix Event alarm index file
*.8dt Event description (notes) data file
*.8ix Event description index file