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- -= P C - S P O R T =-
- Version 2.50
-
- Copyright (c) 1986,1988,1989 by Geoffrey C Monkley
-
- Much time and effort is consumed by voluntary sporting body administrators
- (usually players or Mums and Dads) to promote and conduct sporting fixtures.
- Many people in this position have access to Personal Computers at home or at
- work which could dramatically cut the time required to perform these duties, if
- only they had a suitable Program. PC-SPORT has been designed to fill this gap
- for those honorary sport administrators with access to an IBM PC or compatible
- computer.
-
- PC-SPORT is intended for use by persons with little or no knowledge of
- computers. It is thus designed to be highly "User Friendly" with little need
- for reference to documentation. It features:
-
- * Suitability for most true "Team" sports (eg Football, Baseball)
- * Easy definition of your "Association" and points score system
- * Complete flexibility in providing your Ladder requirements
- * Ability to amend data, titles, calculation formulae at any time
- * Simple addition of game results with minimum effort
- * Automatic calculation from scratch each time you want a
- Ladder (Hence it cannot be fooled by amendments to scores)
- * Automatic determination of competition draw
- * Automatic drafting of a pocket size fixture book for each season
- * Easy incorporation of additional user provided columns in fixture book
- * Acceptance of additional user provided pages for fixture book
- * Complete flexibility in determining what ladders/tables to print at
- any time
- * Ability to print output to disk first or direct to the printer as you
- desire
-
- Version 2.0 of PC-SPORT featured a major upgrading of the modules used for
- Competition Definition and for performing competition draws for the fixture
- book, as well as a general revision of the whole program to allow an increase
- in the maximum number of teams to 16 in any grade. Versions up to 2.50 add
- minor improvements, improve data entry, speed up operation and fix a few bugs.
-
- Initial definition and amendment are performed on a screen template with full
- editing facilities and allow for the use of a Macro to copy the team names from
- one grade to the next to save keystrokes. Amendment at any time after
- performing the initial draw now provides the option of preserving the draw as
- far as practicable even with a new sort of team names. This will allow late
- changes to the competition program to be included speedily with minimal
- alterations to the existing draw. It will also allow the same template to be
- used for following seasons by providing the facility to delete all results and
- to accept amendments.
-
- The fixture book module now provides for a Standard Draw which gives
- alternating Home and Away fixtures as far as possible and evens out the order
- of games to give each team an approximately equal number of appearances in any
- particular "time slot". Allocation of teams to a particular template
- "number" can be random, same as previous grade, or user specified as desired.
-
- The extension of the maximum number of teams to 16 necessitated a change to the
- layout of the data file. As a result v2.x data file format is NOT compatible
- with v1.x data files, and hence PC-SPORT v2.x will NOT access v1.x data or
- template files correctly. If you are a registered user, you will be supplied
- with SPRTCONV.COM on request. This will enable you to convert your existing
- data files to the PC-SPORT version 2.x format.
-
- Your distribution diskette should also contain:
-
- PC-SPORT.COM The main program file
- PC-SPORT.000 ) The files containing the Overlay programs
- PC-SPORT.001 )
- PC-SPT.DOC User manual formatted to print on 11"x9.5"
- paper.
- PC-SPT.DOK User manual formatted to print A5 size pages on
- 11"x9½" paper in Elite print (12 cpi).
- PAGECONV.COM Program to convert a PC-SPT.DOK to PC-SPT.R
- (right pages) and PC-SPT.L (left pages ) for
- double sided printing.
- READ.ME This document.
- BROWSE.COM Program to view text files.
-
- Before proceeding further use DiskCopy to make a working copy of this diskette
- to a spare one, then put the distribution diskette away in a safe place and use
- your copy to print the manual.
-
- To get a manual on standard paper, at the DOS prompt, with PC-SPORT.DOC in the
- default drive, type
-
- COPY PC-SPT.DOC PRN <Ret>.
-
- If you would rather have a smaller A5 size manual, (approx 155mmx200mm or
- 6.2"x8.3" ie about the size of the pages in your DOS Manual) you can obtain a
- single sided version by first ensuring your printer is set to print at 12 cpi
- (elite). Then type
-
- COPY PC-SPT.DOK PRN <Ret>.
-
- If you want an A5 size manual, printed on both sides, at the DOS prompt type
-
- PAGECONV <Ret>.
-
- Answer the first question with PC-SPT.DOK. Give a drive\path\YourFile WITHOUT
- extension for the output file name. Two files, .R for right hand pages and .L
- for left hand pages will be created, each nearly 100k long. When complete,
- set your printer to 12 cpi (elite), and type
-
- COPY drive\path\YourFile.R PRN <Ret>.
-
- When complete, remove the paper, put the first page into the printer with the
- printed side next to the roller, ensure yor printer is still set for 12 cpi and
-
- COPY drive\path\YourFile.L PRN <Ret>.
-
- When all sheets are printed, trim them to size and place them in an appropriate
- binder.
-
- G C Monkley
- Brisbane 22nd September 1989
-