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- The Pool Manager (tm)
-
- A Football Pool Organizer and Database
-
- by Andy Kunz
-
- The Pool Manager is User Supported Software
- Copyright (C) 1985 by American Systems
- Post Office Box Five
- Blue Island, IL 60406-0005
-
- This program performs all the tedious work involved in running a
- football pool, including generating and printing Picksheets, Summary
- Spreadsheets (showing everyone's picks), and Standings. Many other
- features are described in detail in the documentation. Follow the
- directions below to print your User's Guide and set up a working disk.
- You may make unaltered copies this program (within the restrictions
- described in the User's Guide) for anyone you know of who may be
- interested in it.
-
- The following four files constitute The Pool Manager:
-
- NFLPOOL.TXT - (this file) General information and
- initialization instructions.
- NFLPOOL.DOC - Complete documentation (User's Guide)
- for operating The Pool Manager.
- NFLPOOL.EXE - The Pool Manager Main Program.
- NFLPOOL2.EXE - The Pool Manager Operation Program.
-
- To begin using The Pool Manager, perform the following steps:
-
- 1. Make a backup copy of The Pool Manager distribution disk (using
- the DOS diskcopy command) and put the original in a safe place.
-
- 2. Print out the documentation by following these steps:
-
- A. Put your backup disk into the "A" drive.
- B. Set your printer to top of form.
- C. Be sure you have adequate paper ready. The User's
- Guide is about 20 pages long.
- D. In response to the A> enter the following:
-
- COPY NFLPOOL.DOC PRN
-
- Margins have been set to enable you to bind this User's Guide in
- a three ring or report folder.
-
- 3. Create a working disk:
-
- A. Format a disk using the /S option.
- B. Copy the NFLPOOL.EXE and NFLPOOL2.EXE files onto
- this disk.
-
- 4. Start the program by entering: NFLPOOL with your Working Disk in
- the "A" drive. Please take time to read through the User's Guide
- before running your first pool. Good Luck!