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Welcome to BUDGET MANAGER (Version 2.1, January 1996)!

Budget Manager is a small (750 K) Windows 3.1 application for
managing household budgets. The program manages Funds (categories of
spending and income) and Accounts (where money is kept, such as cash
and checking accounts). Budgets are kept for each month, and there is
a system of reminder notices to help keep track of upcoming expenses,
direct deposits, etc. A Windows Help file with a tutorial to help get
started is included. This version fixes a bug in the Version 2.0
'New Year' command. Also, this version holds 15 months worth of data
per file, instead of one month (as in versions before 2.0).

BUDGET MANAGER Copyright 1994-1996 TIMOTHY R. WAGENMAKER.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

This software is copyrighted. Permission is granted to copy and
distribute the files for BUDGET MANAGER provided that no changes are
made to any of the files and that no fee exceeding the greater of $5 or
$2 per software package on the disk or CDROM is charged. If you use this
software for more than 60 days, you are required to register your copy.
Shareware registration is $10.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

The program INSTALL.EXE will copy all of the necessary files from your
diskette to your hard drive, unless they are already on the hard drive.
Then it will install BUDGET MANAGER into the Windows 3.1 Program Manager
or Windows 95 Start menu.

To install BUDGET MANAGER from a diskette onto your hard drive:

Windows 3.1 Users:

Insert the diskette into drive a: and select 'Run...' under the 'File'
menu. Type
    a:install
as the name of the file to run. (If your 3.5 inch drive is b:, use b:
instead of a:). The program will prompt you for the name of the
directory you wish to use. It will copy the files onto your hard drive
and then install the programs into Program Manager. If you use a shell
other than Program Manager, you will have to install it yourself.

Windows 95 Users:

Use 'My Computer' to view the files on your drive and double click on
icon for INSTALL.  Install will copy the files onto your hard drive and
install BUDGET MANAGER in the Start menu.

To install BUDGET MANAGER into Program Manager when the files are
already on the hard drive (you may be in this situation if you
downloaded BUDGET MANAGER from the internet or a bulletin board):

First place all of the files in the same directory. The run INSTALL.EXE,
by double clicking on the icon for INSTALL.EXE using File Manager or
My Computer. If you run INSTALL.EXE from your hard drive (specifically,
the same drive as your WINDOWS directory), it will install BUDGET
MANAGER into the Program Manager (Windows 3.1) or Start menu (Windows 95).
If you use a shell other than Program Manager, you will have to install
it yourself.

If you would rather do the installation yourself, or for any reason the
program INSTALL does not work with the configuration of your computer,
you can go through the following steps instead. You must copy the files
into a directory on your hard drive and install the program into Program
Manager. (For Windows 3.1.  Windows 95 users, consult your manual for
help with the Start menu).

The files included are this file (README.TXT), the manual (MANUAL.WRI),
the executable file (BUDGET.EXE), the help file (BUDGET.HLP), and the
sample budget files (SAMPLE?.BGT). The file INSTALL.EXE does the
installation. The program CONVERT.EXE is essential if you are updating
from a previous version of BUDGET MANAGER. This will take a year's worth
of old monthly files and combine them into a new yearly file. Those who
are not updating may still appreciate the option to merge two Funds or
Accounts. This feature is found in CONVERT.EXE but not in BUDGET.EXE
because of size constraints. CONVERT.EXE can be used to fix errors caused
by the 'New Year' command in version 2.0. README.TXT contains a basic
description and additional installation instructions.

Create a subdirectory somewhere on your hard drive and copy the files
listed above into it. From DOS, you can do that with the commands:
   "cd c:\"                (To get to your base directory on drive c:)
   "md budget"             (To make a new directory named budget)
   "copy a:*.* c:\budget"  (To copy all files from the floppy disk in
                 drive a: to the new directory)
The above names are only suggestions. If you wanted to install BUDGET
MANAGER on drive d: instead, you would replace "c:" by "d:". The
instructions also assumed you were copying these files from a floppy
disk containing only the files necessary for BUDGET MANAGER. If you got
them from some other source, see your DOS manual if you don't know how
to copy the files listed above.

Now install BUDGET MANAGER into WINDOWS Program Manager. (If you use
another program besides Program Manager, you will have to follow
slightly different steps). Get into Program Manager and select the group
where you want BUDGET MANAGER's icon (such as 'Budget Manager' or
'Applications'). Choose 'New' under the 'File' menu and select
'Program Item'. You can choose 'Browse' to look for BUDGET.EXE in the
subdirectory you created (C:\BUDGET is suggested) and select it, or else
just type "C:\BUDGET\BUDGET.EXE" in the 'Command Line' box. Type
"BUDGET MANAGER" in the description line, and type the path of the
subdirectory ("C:\BUDGET" is suggested) in the working directory line.
Then select 'OK', and you are ready to go!

You can contact the author, Timothy Wagenmaker, by sending e-mail to
[e-mail]. If that address is no longer good (after
May 1996?), use [e-mail]. It should be forwarded from there.