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- A Project/Event Planner 1.1 (README.DOC - March 9, 1993)
- Copyright 1992-1993 Sapphire Software Inc. - All Rights Reserved
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- This file contains the following sections:
- 1. General Program and Author Information.
- 2. ASP Member.
- 3. Registration Requirements.
- 4. Description of Distributed Files.
- 5. Installation and Getting Started.
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- ****************************************************
- *** PLEASE NOTE NAME CHANGE FROM VERSION 1.0 ***
- ***----------------------------------------------***
- *** A Project/Event Planner 1.1 replaces ***
- *** PlanView 1.0. Refer to VENDOR.DOC and ***
- *** RELEASE.DOC for additional information. ***
- ****************************************************
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- Section 1. General Program and Author Information.
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- Dear User:
-
- This program can be used for quick overall project planning, activity
- scheduling, and resource scheduling. You can assign income and costs
- to events (tasks) and resources to estimate a project's income and
- cost. You can define events that are tied to predecessors. For these
- related events, start and end times are automatically calculated.
-
- You can shift all events in a plan forward or backward in time. You
- can define multiple calendars and use different calendars for each
- resource. The program allows free-form drawing of events on a scale
- of days, weeks, months, or years. On-line help and sample plans are
- provided.
-
- It will handle up to a few hundred events in a given plan, but it is
- not suited for highly complex projects where thousands of tasks are
- defined within a project plan.
-
- This program requires Microsoft Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and a mouse (or a
- equivalent pointing device). (NOTE: Subsequent releases will require
- Microsoft Windows 3.1.)
-
- Thank you for trying this program.
-
- Layton Fujii
- Sapphire Software Inc.
- 6650 Hawaii Kai Drive
- Suite 219
- Honolulu, Hawaii 96825
-
- Phone: (808) 395-5587
- CompuServe: 71223,3653
-
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- Section 2. ASP Member
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- This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware
- Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware
- principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
- shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member
- directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you
- resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide
- technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP
- Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a CompuServe
- message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
-
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- Section 3. Registration Requirements
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- This is a shareware program. If you find this program useful and find
- that you are using it after a reasonable trial period, you must make a
- registration payment to Sapphire Software Inc. To register, use the
- program's "Registration" option in the "Help" menu or use the
- "register.doc" file.
-
- You are encouraged to pass a copy of this program (in its original form)
- along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to
- register their copy if they find that they can use it.
-
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- Section 4. Description of Distributed Files.
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- 1. Informational Files:
- file_id.diz - Program summary information for BBS.
- freeoffr.doc - Description of a free registration offer.
- readme.doc - The file you are reading.
- release.doc - Information about the differences between this
- version and the previous version.
- register.doc - Registration information. Information is also
- provided in the "Registration" option of the
- program's "Help" menu.
- vendor.doc - Information for shareware vendors and BBS SYSOPs.
-
- 2. Required files for execution (may be placed in separate directory):
- aplanr.exe - The program executable.
- aplanr.hlp - On-line Windows help (not in text file format).
-
- 3. Sample data files (may be placed in separate directory):
- pvcal.dat - Calendar definitions file with sample definitions.
- pvidx.dat - Plan index file.
- pvrsc.dat - Resource definitions file with sample definitions.
- pvyymmdd.sss - These are plan files that use the following naming
- convention: yy = year, mm = month, dd = day,
- sss = sequence number.
-
- 4. Windows Files:
- aplanr.ini - This file is not distributed, but it is a Windows
- initialization file that is automatically created and
- maintained. It is located where Windows keeps its
- other ".ini" type files.
-
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- Section 5. Installation and Getting Starting.
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- 1. If upgrading from a previous version, refer to the RELEASE.DOC
- file.
-
- 2. To install from the standard distribution diskette received
- directly from Sapphire Software Inc.:
- a. Create a directory to place the program files. You
- may use the Windows File Manager or DOS. For example
- in DOS type:
- md c:\aplanr
- b. Copy all the program files from the diskette to the
- new directory. You may use the Window File Manager or
- DOS. For example in DOS type:
- copy a:\*.* c:\aplanr
-
- [NOTE: The above only applies to diskettes received directly from
- Sapphire Software Inc. Files received from bulletin boards or
- Shareware vendors will typically be in compressed format.]
-
- 3. How to run the program:
- The program executable is named "APLANR.EXE". You may execute
- it directly with the Windows File manager.
-
- If you want to set up an icon in a program group to execute
- APLANR.EXE, refer to the Windows Users' Guides for the
- appropriate version:
- Windows 3.0: See Chapter 3 "Program Manager" in a section
- titled "Changing the Contents of Groups"
- near page 89.
- Windows 3.1: See Chapter 3 "Program Manager" in a section
- titled "Working with Program Items" near
- page 78.
-
- Use the directory that APLANR.EXE is located in as the path for
- the default directory.
-
- 4. Upon starting the program for the first time, review the on-line
- help information that is available from the program's "Help" menu.
- You may print any of the help sections.
-
- 5. Look at the sample plans, resource definitions, and calendar
- definitions that are provided.
-
- 6. Refer to the RELEASE.DOC file for additional information regarding
- the current release.
-
- 7. By default, all data resides in the same directory as the program
- executable. You may place your data in another location by doing
- the following:
- a. Create the directory you want to store the data in.
- b. Use the "Directories" option of the "Options" menu to tell
- the program to use this directory for all data.
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