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- ---LINES 2 to 6 is an EXIT MESSAGE
- Do you agree to 's license, disclaimer, & agreement
- and
- Do you wish to exit now?
-
- üYes üNo
- ---LINES 8 to 23 is another EXIT MESSAGE
- REDUNDANCY IS ESSENTIAL IN SCHEDULING IMPORTANT EVENTS
-
- You should never rely solely upon a computer system to maintain data that
- is critical. Loss of important information may result from hardware malfunc-
- tions, programming flaws in the software, or Acts of God. If, during this
- session with the program you have entered events of which your failure to be
- notified could result in embarrassment or liability, you should also enter
- those same events into a manual calendar or tickler file. And you should
- refer to your manual system on a daily basis to ensure that you miss nothing.
- Also, don't forget to back up your program data on a regular basis. On
- odd days, you should use a backup disk labled "ScheduleODD", and on even days
- you should use a "ScheduleEVEN" backup disk. Every Friday, you should backup
- to a "ScheduleWEEKLY" disk, and at the end of every month, you should use one
- labled "ScheduleMONTHLY". The WEEKLY and MONTHLY backups help protect you in
- the event that you unknowingly back up bad data to the ODD and EVEN disks.
-
- --- Lines 25 to 33 discuss setting up for printing a monthly calendar
- The number of columns determines how wide each day's block will be (eg: 15
- columns equals a width sufficient to print 15 characters). The number of
- lines determines how long each day's block will be.
- If you request too large a number of columns below, your printer may over-
- print some lines. If you request too many lines, the calendar may not fit
- onto one sheet of paper. It's probably wise to use the default number of
- columns suggested by the program. The default number of lines should also be
- used, unless you're doing only a one- or two-week calendar, in which case you
- might want to double or triple the suggested value.
- --- Lines 35 to 41 contain the heading for the OMISSION of LOG items
- Now, the program will look through its LOG of disbursements, receipts and
- services performed and eliminate the items already tagged for omission. Also
- eliminated will be ALL items (whether tagged for omission or not) falling
- BEFORE the cut-off date set below.
- Note that the suggested cut-off date is about one YEAR back.
-
-
- --- Lines 43 to 49 contain the heading for the OMISSION of SCHEDULE items
- You are about to go through an omission process, during which items already
- tagged for omission will be eliminated from the SCHEDULE. Also eliminated
- will be ALL items (whether tagged for omission or not) falling BEFORE the
- cut-off date set below. After this omission process for the SCHEDULE,
- the program will do the same for the LOG of disbursements, receipts, etc.
- Note that the suggested cut-off date is about one YEAR back.
-
- ---LINES 51 to 55 is another EXIT MESSAGE
- Would you like to use DOS's backup program to make
-
- an archive copy of your data
-
- üNo üYes
-
- ---Lines 58 to 69 are for the re-indexing routine
- Indexing the Schedule and Log databases is a DRASTIC measure. The ONLY time
- you should even consider it is when your databases are corrupted and you have
- no reliable backup disks from which you can restore them. The routine you're
- about to go through will read each Schedule & Log entry in your current files
- and attempt to index it. If the routine finds any faulty links to other re-
- cords, it will simply erase them, possibly leaving reminders that no longer
- link to primary events. This routine will take a LONG time if you have set up
- many plans.
-
- Do you wish to proceed with this drastic measure?
-
- üNo üYes
-
- ---Lines 72 to 77 are for JULIAN DATE info
- This function displays (at top-right of screen) the Julian date/week or the
- number of days/weeks from a reference date to the calendar's highlighted date
-
- If you want simple julian dates to be displayed, DO NOT fill in a date
- below. Fill in the date below only if you wish to show the number of
- days from a specific reference date to the calendar's highlighted date.
-
- ---Lines 80 to 84 are for JULIAN TITLE info
- For the title, enter whatever you'd like to call this date calculation.
- If you do not enter a title, date calculation will not appear on screen.
-
- If you're doing week counting, instead of
- day counting, begin your entry with a ü#.
-
- ---Lines 87 and 88 are for PLAN/TEMPLATE selection
- You have named a plan which does not exist. Therefore, it is assumed that
- you wish to create a new plan with that name and patterned upon a template.
-
- -- Lines 91 to 97 are for field erasure in CLIENT MODULE
- At least one customizable field has been erased (that is, its heading is
- blank). If a field that was being used previously has just been erased,
- you might wish to erase each record's data for that field.
-
- Do you wish to eliminate each record's data for all erased fields?
-
- üNo üYes
-
- -- Lines 100 to 104 are for record setup in CLIENT MODULE
- Each record has nine optional fields (3 short and 6 long) whose head
- ings you may specify. Just type in the new heading for the field indicated
- by the flashing arrow. To eliminate a field, simply erase its name. If you
- ever need to change the headings you enter below, you may do so by pressing
- the Ctrl-U key combination at the Menu.
-
- -- Lines 107 to 111 are for setting Plan dates
- will now set dates for related events in the plan. Do you
- want to PAUSE at each such event so that you may enter its and
- time, or do you want the program to AUTOMATICALLY set s and times?
-
- üAutomate-DoNotPause üPauseForInput üDoNotSetRelatedDates
-
-
- -- Lines 115 to 122 are for Reminders within the Plan routine
- One (or more) of this Plan's events may have "RMN" in its notes, indicating
- that you might like the program to set a reminder for it at a prior date.
- Even though you elected above to automatically fill in dates & times, would
- you nonetheless like the program to pause to ask for reminders?
-
- üPauseForReminders üDoNotPause
-
-
-
- -- Lines 125 to 129 are for Plan edit routine in editor
- This plan already has already had dates assigned to its events, so it can-
- not be edited. It may be altered only through the normal routine by which
- dates are placed into plans (pressing "P" at the Schedule menu).
-
- üEsc
-
-
-
-
- -- lines 135 to 137 are for report preparation
- To use standard paper for a STANDARD-size (8-1/2" X 11") report, pick `11'
- To cut standard paper into DAY-PLANNER-size (8-1/2" X 5") reports, pick `5'
-
- ü11 ü5
-
-
-
-
-
- -- Lines 145 to 151 are for the Manual Printing Message
- The manual may be printed any time from within the program by pressing "U,M"
- at the main calendar screen. "U" takes you to the Utilities module, while
- "M" selects ManualPrinting within that module.
-
- Would you like to print the manual NOW?
-
- üYes üNo
-
-
- -- Lines 155 to 160 are for Printdrive routine
- It's possible that your printer will not accept a software command which in-
- structs it to switch to the IBM graphics character set. Just in case this
- is true, you should ensure that your printer's dip switches are set so that
- your printer will automatically default to the IBM graphics character set
- whenever it's turned on. You'll need to handle this chore only once, unless
- your other programs happen to require different character sets (not likely).
-
-
-
- -- Lines 165 to 172 are for WINDOWS installation routine
- An effort has been made to install this program for use with Microsoft Win-
- dows, following the guidelines you have provided. Make a note that, to use
- the program within Windows, all you need to do is to press
-
- ALT-T
-
- Also, please read the section of the manual that discusses Windows.
-
- ü
-
-
-
-
-
- -- Lines 180 to 183 are for DOS 6 users who try Backup/Restore
- The backup and restore utilities supplied with this version of DOS do
- not support the command line parameters that this program supplies.
- You must perform backup and restore operations manually. The files
- to be backed up are all those whose names end with ".LBF" or ".LBI".
-
- ü