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Program name: ExpressCheck (tm)
(C) Copyright 1987, 1988 Expressware Corporation
Author : David Berdan
Expressware Corporation
P.O. Box 230
Redmond, WA 98073
(206) 481-3040
Price : $29.95
What is ExpressCheck?
ExpressCheck has a simple goal in life, to help you manage your
checking accounts. Because the various screen look just like
your paper checks, deposit slips and check registers, you will
find the program extremely easy to learn and use. But Express-
Check goes far beyond the usefulness of a check register. Every
check and deposit can be recorded to various budget codes that
you set up. This makes it possible for you to see at any time
during the year where you stand in regard to your spending. How
much do you spend on food each month? How much have you given in
tax deductible donations? Car payments, electricity, gasoline,
entertainment? Without ExpressCheck you either guess at where
you spent all your money, or you spend long hours with a calcu-
lator. With ExpressCheck you can find out in just a few seconds.
Entering checks and deposits is fast and enjoyable. Recurring
payments can be entered with two keystrokes. Budget codes can be
defined on the fly and you can pop up a window with all the
currently defined codes whenever you need them. ExpressCheck
will even print the checks for you on any kind of tractor feed
forms.
Pre-defined reports can be printed that give you monthly or
year-to-date totals for any or all budget codes, a check register
with running balance, all transactions that have not yet cleared
the bank, checks or deposits that included certain budget codes,
or all checks made out to certain payees. Many of the figures
that go on your tax return are at your finger tips.
Files included on the ExpressCheck diskette:
1 README
2 CHECK.EXE
3 CHECK2.EXE
4 CHECK3.EXE
5 CHECK.PRO
6 EXAMPLE.DEF
7 EXAMPLE.DTA
8 EXAMPLE.BGT
9 EXAMPLE.SOR
10 EXAMPLE.HDR
11 CHECK.DOC
12 PRINTDOC.BAT
13 ORDERFRM.DOC
14 ORDER.BAT
The ORDER.BAT file on the Program Diskete can be used to print an Order
Form and Mailing List form. Use the Order form to order the latest Disk
Sets and Registered Copies of Expressware programs. Use the Mailing List
Form to send us your address. We will add you to our mailing list, and
will notify you of future updates and product announcements. The form
may also be used to send us comments about our products.
If you have received this copy of ExpressCheck from a friend, please take
the time to send in the Mailing List form. To print it, make sure your
printer is on, and the printhead is at the top of the paper. Then type:
ORDER
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Not in the manual:
The following information (if any) was not written in time to be
included in the printed manual:
/P
When starting ExpressCheck you can use a /P on the command line to
force the program to stop on the Opening Banner screen. If you have
added an Account Filename or a Path name in the Customize section,
ExpressCheck will not stop at the Customize section to allow you to
change anything when started normally. If you want to change any
custom options in this case, start ExpressCheck by typing:
CHECK /P
This will cause ExpressCheck to stop on the first screen, allowing
you to press <F1> to display the Customize Section.
USING EXPRESSCHECK FILES WITH FILE EXPRESS DATABASE PROGRAM:
The data files produced by ExpressCheck can be directly used by our
database program, File Express. The ExpressCheck program diskette
contains a file called EXAMPLE.HDR that can be copied and renamed to
the name of your account file. This header file, along with the .DTA
file where your check information is kept, constitute all that is
needed for File Express.
Example: You have an account file named PERSONAL.
As you enter checks and deposits, ExpressCheck stores the
information in a file called PERSONAL.DTA. This file
is in the same format as a File Express data file.
All you need to do to be able to load the PERSONAL data file
into File Express is to have a PERSONAL.HDR file. This can
be made by copying the EXAMPLE.HDR file and renaming it to
PERSONAL.HDR. This can be done with this command at the
DOS prompt:
COPY EXAMPLE.HDR PERSONAL.HDR <Enter>
The pair of files, PERSONAL.DTA and PERSONAL.HDR, are all that
File Express needs to be able to load it. After loading,
File Express will prompt you to sort the file to create
an index file.
If you find that you want to produce complex reports, or do some search
and replace operations, this easy access to File Express will do the job.
2.03
Automatic disk space checking has been disabled as the default because
some computers were constantly reporting 0K of disk space available
even if there was an entire hard disk empty. If you want to have this
disk space checking turned back on you must put the command:
SPACE CHECK
in the CHECK.PRO file with a text editor.
2.04
The QuickFill list is now sorted when displayed.
The printer port specified in the CHECK.PRO file is now also used
for the check printing as well as the report printing.
2.05
QuickFill codes have been expanded to allow the use of words after the
slash character. For example, you may now use /MORTGAGE as a QuickFill
code instead of just /M.