Gold Medal Software 5/Gold Medal Software - Volume 5 (Gold Medal) (1995).iso/windows/misc/tryskw.arj/README.TXT

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                  Welcome to Sidekick for Windows
                             README File
                  ================================


This file contains important information--please read all of
it. All information here supersedes information in the
printed documentation and online Help.  Also refer to
UPDATE.TXT for a list of improvements to Sidekick.

Table of Contents
------------------
 1.  Installation
 2.  Registering
 3.  Purchasing and unlocking the Trial Edition
 4.  Technical Support
 5.  Changing the working directory
 6.  Sample files
 7.  Amendments to the documentation
 8.  Saving and backing up your data files
 9.  Using Sidekick with PC Tools and Norton Desktop for
     Windows
 10. Resetting the Forward of incomplete items in the
     Calendar
 11. Printing
 12. YourWay users upgrading to Sidekick
 13. Uninstalling Sidekick for Windows

NOTE: If you are installing over an existing copy of Sidekick,
make sure you read Section 8 of this README file, "Saving and
backing up your data files."


1. Installation
----------------
 Sidekick requires a minimum of 5 MB of hard disk space to
 install, 1 MB of which must be on the same drive as your
 Windows directory, and a 386 processor or higher. After
 installation, however, Sidekick itself uses only 3 MB of
 hard disk space and requires a minimum of 500 KB free disk
 space for working with data files.

 On some older machines, the available disk space is
 inaccurately reported to the installation program. If you
 have less than 10 MB of available disk space, and the
 program either will not install or the install unpack is
 aborted for no apparent reason, make 10 MB of hard disk
 space available and install again.

 Install will ask for your initials (up to 4 letters) to
 create your default calendar name.  Install then creates:
  o a directory called 'SKW' on the C: drive (or whatever
    directory and drive you specified in the Install screen)
    and copies the program files into that directory.
  o a directory under 'SKW' called 'DATA', which contains
    your Sidekick data files.
  o a SIDEKICK.INI file in your computer's Windows directory
  o a Sidekick for Windows program group in your Program
    Manager

 To install Sidekick for Windows:
  1. Start Windows.
  2. Choose File|Run from the Program Manager.
  3. Place the Sidekick disk in the appropriate disk drive.
  4. Type A:INSTALL (or B:INSTALL if you're using drive B)
     and choose OK.
  5. Follow the directions on the screen.
  6. To start Sidekick, open the Sidekick for Windows group
     in Program Manager and double-click the Sidekick icon.

Note: The install looks for the SIDEKICK.INI on your system
      to determine if a copy of Sidekick for Windows was
      already installed. If you are reinstalling Sidekick,
      you may want to back up any data files you've created
      in Sidekick. Refer to the section, "Backing up your
      Data Files" in this document for more information.


2. Registering
---------------
 During installation or at any later time, you can run the
 Automatic Registration program, and be registered
 automatically via modem.  If you don't have a modem, the
 Automatic Registration program will print all your
 registration information in a form that can be simply
 mailed or faxed to Borland. Automatic Registration is
 available for U.S. and Canadian customers only.


3. Purchasing and unlocking the Trial Edition
----------------------------------------------
 If you have the Trial Edition of Sidekick, it will work
 exactly like the retail version of the program.  The ONLY
 difference is that the Trial Edition will automatically
 stop working thirty days after installation unless you
 purchase and "unlock" it.  You can unlock the Trial Edition
 during installation, or run the Unlock Sidekick program any
 time during the thirty-day trial period. Unlocking turns
 off the thirty-day limit; Sidekick is then yours to use!
 In addition, we will send you the Sidekick User's Guide.

 You have two toll-free options for unlocking: by modem (in the
 U.S. and Canada) or by voice over the telephone.  If you have a
 modem, the Unlock Sidekick program will prompt you for some
 information, and then contact Borland for you, exchanging
 information which unlocks your product.  If you don't have
 a modem, you can call Borland, and you will be given the access
 code to unlock Sidekick.  In the U.S.: 1-800-854-7611 ext. 1225.
 In Canada: 1-800-461-3327.  Other countries: refer to the number
 on the disk's label.


4. Technical Support
---------------------
 Borland offers you a variety of services to help you with
 your questions.  Be sure to register your copy of Sidekick:
 registered users are entitled to receive technical support
 and information on upgrades and supplementary products.
 North American customers can register by phone 24 hours a
 day by calling 1-800-845-0147.  Borland provides the
 following telephone support options for Sidekick for
 Windows.

 The 900 Support Line
   The 900 Support Line provides priority access to a
   support engineer and is available from 6AM to 5PM
   (Pacific Time), Monday through Friday.  900 Support Line
   calls are billed directly to your telephone bill.  Price:
   $2 per minute, first minute free.  Call 1-900-555-1010.

 The 800 Support Line
   The 800 Support Line also provides priority access to a
   support engineer and is also available from 6AM to 5PM
   (Pacific Time), Monday through Friday.  800 Support Line
   calls can be billed to your major credit card.  Price:
   $14 per call.  Call 1-800-953-9995.

 International Support
   Please contact your local Borland office for technical
   support and product information.  Borland provides
   several language drivers for Sidekick for Windows.  See
   "Contacting Borland" and "Extended Language Driver"
   Support in the online Help.


5. Changing the working directory
----------------------------------
 By default C:\SKW is set as the working directory for Sidekick
 and the Import and Export tools. However, you can change the
 working directory to the same location as your data files
 (in C:\SKW\DATA), or to any other directory you want.

 To change the working directory to the location of your data
 files, follow the instructions outlined below:
  1. Switch to Program Manager.
  2. Select the icon labeled "Sidekick."
  3. Choose File|Properties from the Program Manager.
  4. Change the working directory in the Properties dialog box
     from C:\SKW to C:\SKW\DATA (or to the DATA directory of
     the path you specified during installation).

 When run from the Program Manager, you can change the working
 directories for the Import and Export tools in a similar manner.


6. Sample files
----------------
 The following sample files are included with Sidekick:

 In the SKW\SAMPLES directory:

   Sample cardfiles
     800NMBRS.SDB    AT&T 800 numbers for airlines, hotels, etc.
     OFFICES.SDB     Catalog of Borland offices worldwide
     SOFTWARE.SDB    Descriptions of Borland software
     VIDEOS.SDB      Information on videos and learning aids
     WINELIST.SDB    Catalog of wines
     BOOKS.SDB       Catalog of books about Borland software
                     current as of February 1994
   Sample Reports
     CONTACT.RPT     Report on personal contacts
     800NMBRS.RPT    Report on 800 numbers
     OFFICES.RPT     Report on Borland offices
     SOFTWARE.RPT    Report on Borland software
     VIDEOS.RPT      Report on videos
     WINELIST.RPT    Report on wines
     BOOKS.RPT       Report on books

 In the SKW\DATA directory:

   Sample cardfiles
     ADDRESS.SDB     Default sample cardfile
     ADDRESS2.SDB    Sample cardfile

   Sample folders (Notes module)
     Tips            Several tips and ideas for using Sidekick
     Business        Business form letters (use with ADDRESS.SDB)
     Personal        Personal form letters (use with ADDRESS.SDB)


7. Amendments to the documentation
-----------------------------------
Installation
   o During installation, a SIDEKICK.INI file is created in your
     windows directory.  You should not manually change the
     contents of this file.  If you do, portions of Sidekick may
     fail to operate properly.

 Calendar
   o There are new printing formats for the weekly and monthly
     Filofax personal organizer paper. Choose Help|Search from
     within Sidekick and search on the keyword "Calendar: printing"
     for more information on print options available in the
     Calendar.

   o Additional information on changing and deleting recurring
     activities in the Calendar can be found in online Help.
     Choose Help|Search from within Sidekick and search on the
     keyword "Recurring activities" for more information.

   o The Calendar does not support multiple appointments within
     the same time slot on a particular day's Appointments list.
     Therefore, if you try to schedule an appointment whose
     duration overlaps the start time of an existing appointment,
     Sidekick gives you the choice of overwriting it with the
     new appointment.

     If you try to reschedule an appointment to a slot within
     another appointment's duration, the item is moved, but its
     duration setting is not retained.

   o The Sidekick Calendar extends from January 1, 1990 through
     December 31, 1999. Note: If the system date on your computer
     is outside of this range, Sidekick will not be able to load.

 Notes
   o You can now export notes to either the Windows Clipboard or
     to a formatted text file. Choose Help|Search from within
     Sidekick and search on the keyword "Exporting notes" for
     more information.


8. Saving and backing up your data files
-----------------------------------------
 If you are installing over an existing copy of Sidekick, you
 should first back up your data files. Otherwise, the new
 installation will replace your existing data. In addition,
 you might want to back up SIDEKICK.INI to preserve your
 Sidekick settings (default alarm settings, background colors,
 and so on).

 To back up your data files:

 1. Copy the entire contents of your data subdirectory (in a
 standard installation, C:\SKW\DATA) to another location.
 Copying files is described in your Windows or operating system
 manual.

 2. If any exist (they might not), copy files with .SDB and
 .TDB extensions from your Sidekick directory (C:\SKW) to
 a separate location from the data subdirectory files.

 3. [Optional] Copy SIDEKICK.INI from the WINDOWS directory.

 4. Install Sidekick.

 5. After installation, copy the .SDB and .TDB files from
 Step 2 back into C:\SKW.

 6. Go to the location where you stored the data subdirectory
 files (Step 1) and delete the following files:

    BTBBMP.SKW
    BTBSTDCT.SWK
    BTBSTDNT.SKW
    BTBSTDRP.SKW

 Deleting files is described in your Windows or operating system
 manual.

 7. Copy the remaining data files back into C:\SKW\DATA.

 8. Copy SIDEKICK.INI back into the WINDOWS directory (if you took
 Step 3).

 To make future backups of your data files, follow Steps 1 and 2 above.

 For a complete list of files included with Sidekick and their
 use refer to online Help. Choose Help|Search from within Sidekick
 and search for the keyword "Files."


9. Using Sidekick with PC Tools and Norton Desktop for Windows
---------------------------------------------------------------
 With some configurations of PC Tools for Windows, when you switch
 between desktops while Sidekick is open, a "docked" SpeedBar or
 LaunchBar will move with the active desktop independent of the
 main Sidekick window.

 To prevent the SpeedBar or LaunchBar from moving with the active
 desktop, you can change them to floating palettes by dragging
 them with the mouse, or hide them using the Show options on the
 Sidekick View menu. They will then remain with the Sidekick
 window until the next Windows session.

 When installing Sidekick under Norton Desktop 2.0, you may
 receive error messages when the Installation program attempts to
 automatically create the Sidekick icons.  Ignore the error
 messages and Sidekick should be installed.  You can then create
 the icons manually.


10. Resetting the Forward of incomplete items in the Calendar
--------------------------------------------------------------
 If you have chosen to have incomplete items forwarded (in the
 Calendar's Daily Setup dialog box, which is the default setting),
 any activities not completed are forwarded to today.  (Note:
 Sidekick looks back up to ten days for incomplete items.  If you
 don't use Sidekick for more than ten days, older items will not
 forward.)

 To ensure that items are forwarded, you need to save the Calendar
 when prompted to do so.  If you close the calendar without saving
 changes, any items which were forwarded are not saved to their
 new location and will not forward correctly the next time you open
 the calendar.

 If any items (Calls, To Do or Task List) don't forward as
 expected, you can reset the automatic forwarding for a
 particular calendar by editing a line in that calendar's
 INIT file.

 1. Note the name and location of your calendar file
    (displayed in the title bar of the Calendar View).
    Then close Sidekick and save any changes you made.

 2. Run Windows Notepad and open your calendar's INIT file.
    The file name is in the format XXXXINIT.SKW, where XXXX
    represents your calendar's name. For example, if your initials
    are IGW, this file will be named IGWINIT.SKW.

 3. Once you've opened the XXXXINIT.SKW file, look through
    the list of settings until you see a line which starts
    "LastEditTime=" followed by a date.  This line tells SKW
    the last day you opened that calendar file and that items
    should not be forwarded from earlier than that date.

 4. Delete the entire line and save the INIT file.

 The next time you open your calendar in Sidekick, any
 incomplete items on the Calls or To Do lists from the last
 ten days will forward to today.  You should then save the
 forwarded items in their new location by choosing File|Save.

 Choose Help|Search from within Sidekick and search on the
 keyword "Setting up the Daily view" for more information
 on the Forward Incomplete Items option.


11. Printing
-------------
 When using a pre-defined template to print cardfiles or
 calendars, you may need to adjust the template's margins slightly
 for your specific printer.  For example, increasing the top
 margin slightly, and decreasing the bottom margin by the same
 amount will cause the text to print higher on the page.


12. YourWay users upgrading to Sidekick
----------------------------------------
 All cardfile and calendar files created in YourWay are
 compatible with Sidekick.  Report files are not.  Cardfile
 extensions are now .SDB and the calendar file extensions are
 now .SKW.  YourWay files can be renamed to the correct extension
 and then simply opened in Sidekick.

 Installing Sidekick

  1. Be sure you do not have YourWay or the Quick Menu running
     when you install Sidekick. Follow the installation
     instructions.

 Renaming YourWay's Cardfiles
  1. Open the File Manager.  Click on the YOURWAY directory so
     it is highlighted. (If your data files are stored elsewhere,
     click on that directory.)
  2. Choose File|Copy.
  3. In the Copy dialog box, type "C:\YOURWAY\*.YDB" (don't
     type the quotes) into the "From:" text box.  Type
     "C:\SKW\DATA\*.SDB" into the "To:" text box.  (Change the
     location for the Sidekick directory if yours is located on
     another drive or has a different name.) Click OK.  This will
     copy and rename all the cardfiles in the YOURWAY directory to
     the SKW directory.  If you do not want to rename all the
     cardfiles, select only the ones to rename before opening the
     Copy dialog box. (Ctrl-click on each file name to select it.)
  4. Your cardfiles are now ready to be opened in Sidekick.
     Close the File Manager and open Sidekick.  Choose
     File|Open in Sidekick's cardfile to open any of the
     renamed cardfiles.

 Renaming YourWay's Calendar files
  1. Open the File Manager.  Click on the YOURWAY directory to
     highlight it. (If your data files are stored elsewhere, click
     on that directory.)
  2. Find all the calendar files.  These are all the files in the
     YOURWAY directory that begin with your initials and have a
     .YWY extension. When you installed YourWay, the program
     prompted you for up to four initials to aid in identifying
     your personal files.  For example, if your initials were CWB,
     YourWay would have created CWBTASK.YWY, CWBDATA.YWY,
     CWBMAST.YWY, and other similar files.
  3. Highlight all these calendar files except one: the *INIT.YWY.
     Do not highlight or rename this file.
  4. Choose File|Copy.
  5. In the Copy dialog box, the files that you've just
     chosen should automatically be listed in the "From:"
     text box.  Type "C:\SKW\DATA\*.SKW" into the "To:" text box.
     Click OK.
  6. All the calendar files are now in the Sidekick directory
     and are ready to be used in Sidekick.  Close the File
     Manager and open Sidekick.  Open the calendar file you
     need in Sidekick's calendar by choosing File|Open.

     NOTE: Multi-Day events (YourWay called them Conferences)
     will have to be edited.

 Using Sidekick

   Do not have YourWay and Sidekick open at the same time.

   IMPORTANT: To ensure that Sidekick runs correctly, you should
   also remove the following files from your WINDOWS directory:

      MACRODLL.DLL
      MEETINGS.DLL
      MICRDATE.DLL
      MICRFLOA.DLL
      QMHOOKS.DLL
      YWDLGDLL.DLL
      YOURWAY.INI
      CMCLIP.YWY

   Once you are certain you no longer need backup files, you can
   delete the YOURWAY directory and all the YourWay files.


13. Uninstalling Sidekick for Windows
-------------------------------------
 Before removing Sidekick from your system, you may want to back
 up any data files you've created in Sidekick. Refer to the
 section, "Backing up your Data Files" in this document for more
 information.

 To uninstall Sidekick for Windows:
  1. After backing up any Sidekick data files you want to keep,
     delete the C:\SKW directory and all of the files/directories
     it contains.
  2. Delete the file SIDEKICK.INI from your Windows directory.
  3. If it exists, delete the file CMCLIP.SKW from your Windows
     directory.

 Except for any data files you backed up, Sidekick for Windows
 is now completely removed from your system.