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OASIS for Windows 4.00
Installation and Startup Guide
This guide covers installation and startup of OASIS for Windows.
The complete User's Guide is built into the program and is
accessed by selecting the "Help" option. In order to get the
most benefit from this program, we strongly suggest that you read
the user's guide.
What is OASIS?
OASIS (OWL Automated Sales and Invoicing System) is a
complete sales management system that includes: invoicing,
automated billing, customer correspondence, mailing list
management, and sales tracking. OASIS Features:
* Intuitive menus that minimize typing. For example, to
create an invoice you simply choose the customer and
products sold from a series of menus. OASIS fills in
the invoice and computes the sales tax for you.
* Customer tracking. Customer profile reports show each
customer, the items they have purchased and the dates
each item was purchased.
* Sales tracking. Product sales reports give a complete
picture of the products that are selling and those that
are not. The Buyers report shows you the names of
customers who have purchased a particular product.
* Mailing list management. Customers can be separated
into up to 100 groups. Mailing labels and mail merge
files can be generated for any combination of one or
more groups of customers. This feature lets you target
your mass mailings to just those customers who are most
likely to respond to a given mailing.
* OASIS can be configured to automatically compute two
sales taxes (e.g., Canadian GST and PST).
* Income data entered into OASIS can be imported into OWL
Basic Bookkeeping to provide complete tracking of both
sales income and business expenses.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OASIS requires Microsoft Windows 3.1 or above, a hard disk
and 4 MB of memory.
UPGRADING FROM OASIS for DOS.
The Upgrade Data option under File/Setup converts OASIS for
DOS data for use with OASIS for Windows. When installing
OASIS for Windows, DO NOT install it in the same directory
where your DOS version of OASIS is installed.
REINSTALLING OASIS FOR WINDOWS.
Before reinstalling this version use your present version of
OASIS for Windows to make a backup disk of your data. In the
File menu choose the Backup Data option to make the backup
disk. After you reinstall OASIS for Windows choose the
Restore Data option to restore your data.
INSTALLATION
If you downloaded OWL Basic Bookkeeping from an on-line
source, you should first create an installation floppy disk
containing the following files.
oasis.ex_ oasis.hl_ oasis4w.db_ cust2.db_
cust2.dbt groups.db_ inv.db_ inv.dbt
itm4.db_ labels.db_ pmt.db_ prod4.db_
prod4.dbt orderoa.doc readme.oas cb5.dl_
vbrun300.dl_ commdlg.dl_ spin.vb_ grid.vb_
cc2.vb_ cmdialog.vb_ install.exe winstall.inf
The easiest way to create an installation floppy disk is by
decompressing the downloaded archive file to a floppy disk.
To install OASIS for Windows, use the Program Manager or
File Manager to run INSTALL.EXE. For example, if you are
installing from drive A:
1. From the Program Manager File menu, choose Run.
If you are running Windows 95, choose Run from the
start menu.
2. In the Run dialog box, type A:INSTALL and choose
OK.
The install program will allow you to select the drive and
directory where OASIS will be installed. The default is
C:\OWL_BUS. If you are reinstalling OASIS for Windows or
installing an updated version of OASIS for windows, use the
same directory where you originally installed the program.
The install program checks to see if a file with the same
name already exists before writing files to your hard disk.
If there is another file with the same name, a message is
displayed similar to:
======================================================
| cmdialog.dll |
======================================================
| A NEWER copy of this file already exists in |
| c:\windows\system |
| |
| Source File:14 Aug. 199510:15:14: 141005 bytes |
| Target File:06 May 1995 10:15:14: 141005 bytes |
| |
| Should I overwrite the existing file? |
| |
| [Yes] [No] |
======================================================
Click on "Yes" ONLY if the source file is newer than the
Target File.
The Install program creates a program group named "OWL
Business Apps" with icons for OASIS, the OASIS User's Guide,
and OASIS README.
RUNNING THE PROGRAM
The data files shipped with the program are empty. The
Getting Started section of the User's Guide contains a step-
by-step guide to program setup and creating your first
invoice. To view this information double click the OASIS
User's Guide icon then select Program Setup under Getting
Started from the Table of Contents.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
If you are unable to resolve a question or you have
difficulty running OASIS, please call us or send us a letter
describing the problem. Include the exact text of the error
message (if any) and a complete description of the problem,
your computer system (computer, memory, graphics card, DOS
and Windows version, contents of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files, etc.), the option you were running when the error
occurred and any supplemental data that you entered under
the option. If possible, please also include a disk created
using the File/Backup Data option (your data will be held in
strict confidence). We will investigate the problem and
respond as quickly as possible.
Our technical support group can be reached at:
'Otto-Williams Ltd. (OWL)
P.O. Box 794
Lanham, MD 20703-0794
Phone: 301-306-0409
Internet: 72144.1223@CompuServe.Com