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an OBJECTS::NEXUS(tm) filer ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }tm ║ ║ ║ ║ (Professional/Personal Appointments Scheduling Solutions) ║ ║ ║ ║ (C) Copyright MCMXCIII RCCO Research Associates. ║ ║ All Rights Reserved under International Conventions. ║ ║ ║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Documentation ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } (Professional/Personal Appointments Scheduling Solutions) is a simple, efficient recordkeeping system for professional or personal appointment schedules maintained for one or more persons. It is primarily intended for professional use, although it is well suited for use by individuals and small business concerns. { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } is an outtake of a module in RCCO Research's flagship program, { MONEY & BANKS } Personal Banking Manager software. Users familiar with that program will recognize { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } as an enhanced version of the appointments scheduler pop-up utility (in versions 1.3 and later). From comments received from many registered users of { MONEY & BANKS }, we determined that certain portions of that popular program were especially useful in professional and personal management; we decided to make available as separate programs some of those modules as part of the RCCO Research OBJECTS::NEXUS(tm) Filer Series. In { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } one may list and keep records of active and formerly active appointment schedules. Entry is simple and intuitive, with an on-line calendar for verifying and selecting past and future dates. The unregistered copy is not in any way limited as to the usefulness, capacity, or reporting facilities of the program. Registration will remove the unregistered reminder notices and provide legal authorization for continued use of the program after a thirty-day trial period. Full registration is only $10.00. PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 2 Quick Start ──────────── Simply use the INSTALL.EXE provided in the package and install to the drive and directory of your choice. After installation, simply type PASS<enter> and begin using the program. The main screen will appear shortly after the program's logon. It will initially show today's date and the schedule therein. If no appointments have been entered for the initial or selected date, the word "NONE" appears in place of the first appointment. To add an appointment, verify the date shown at the top of the screen is indeed the one you want and then simply choose the menu selection (at the bottom of the screen) "Add" to enter your first appointment. When entering times of the day, for single digit hours enter a "0" (zero) as a placeholder; ie, if you are entering a 4:45 pm appointment type a "0" before entering the "445." An "Edit" selection on the menu provides an opportunity to make any needed revisions. The "Change Date" choice pops up the calendar with the date highlighted; simply use the keys in the help window to make a selection for a different date. Confirm the new date with <Enter> and you are returned to the main appointments screen with that date's listings in view. You will find selections on the menu for Printing ("Output List") a schedule on your printer as well as Purging old records in the scheduler. To exit, simply select the menu selection "Return" or press the <Esc> key (or <RightMouse> ). Using the menu itself, you may use the arrow keys or a slight left-right movement of your mouse to move between selections, or press the first letter of each choice and the keypress will instantly issue the command to initiate the appropriate action. In general, the <Esc> key or <RightMouse> will back up to the previous level; exceptions are noted on certain screens, but in general <Esc> or <RightMouse> are the exit keys. <LeftMouse> is the same as the <Enter> key. Scroll very gently with the mouse or arrow keys up/down the schedules, right/left for menu items. PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 3 Easy batch file ideas ───────────────────── You may wish to create at least one batch file for your batch or root directory: ┌──────────┐ │ PASS.BAT │ └──────────┘ @ECHO OFF C: (or whatever drive you use) CD \PASS PASS -- Setting up schedules for multiple persons -- If you are maintaining appointment schedules for more than one person, batch files are the ideal way to use one copy of the executable portion of the program, yet access the data files containing individual schedules. We shall herewith provide a short example of setting up a system for three different persons. Imagine that we need to set up a system for three individuals on the same personal computer. Dr. Moe, Dr. Larry, and Dr. Curly must have separate but easily accessible appointment records because of additions, changes, and cancellations that occur throughout the day for any given day of this or any month. We assume that the program has been initially set up in the \PASS directory. Make that directory the current one, ie, change to that directory while at the DOS prompt. Assuming your installation is on hard drive C:, type: C:<enter> CD \PASS<enter> Make three new subdirectories *in* the main \PASS directory for those individ- uals; that is, begin by typing: MD MOE<enter> MD LARRY<enter> MD CURLY<enter> (Do NOT create directories *other* than directly beneath the \PASS parent directory.) Then, *if* you have a VGA monitor, type: COPY _ADMIN5.PCX \PASS\MOE<enter> COPY _ADMIN5.PCX \PASS\LARRY<enter> COPY _ADMIN5.PCX \PASS\CURLY<enter> (The file _ADMIN5.PCX must appear in any secondary directory you create *if* using a VGA monitor.) PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 4 Next, you *must* add the path to the main \PASS directory a part of your regular path statement in your autoexec.bat. If you are not sure how to modify the path statement, please consult your DOS manual or obtain proper assistance; this is a routine, fairly simple procedure. (You need not alter the path statement if only the one directory, \PASS, will be used.) After you have modified the path statement in your autoexec.bat, you must reboot the computer for the change to take effect. (To reboot your computer, press and hold the Control key, then press and hold the Alt key, then press the Delete key. Your computer will do what is known as a warm reboot; the changes in your path statement will then be available to DOS.) Then, we create three batch files to refer to the records of Drs. Moe, Larry, and Curly. They may appear as: ┌─────────┐ │ MOE.BAT │ └─────────┘ @ECHO OFF C: (or whatever drive you use) CD \PASS\MOE PASS ( \PASS must be in the path statement) and ┌───────────┐ │ LARRY.BAT │ └───────────┘ @ECHO OFF C: CD \PASS\LARRY PASS ( \PASS must be in the path statement) and the third one, ┌───────────┐ │ CURLY.BAT │ └───────────┘ @ECHO OFF C: CD \PASS\CURLY PASS ( \PASS must be in the path statement) Place these batch files in your regular batch directory if you have one, or in the root directory of your C: hard drive. Then when you need to access Dr. Larry's schedule, you simply type at the DOS prompt (from any directory): LARRY<enter> PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 5 and the scheduler will create and use only his records. After you exit the scheduler program normally, you may access another individual's records by typing the name of that person's batch file; ie, MOE<enter> or, for Dr. Curly: CURLY<enter> Please consult your DOS manual if you are unfamiliar with creating batch files. The above batch files will make operation of { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } easier for you. When you run the program in each of the three directories a data file and its companion index file will be built automatically by the program. It will be these files you need to include in your daily backups. Please perform regular backups of each of the data directories in which you maintain your important scheduling records. We cannot stress enough to our own clients the importance of maintaining current backups of proprietary data. If you have not yet created your batch file(s) and simply want to get right into the program, change to the \PASS directory and type: PASS<enter> to begin the { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } program. Technical Matters ────────────────── { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }(tm) will run on IBM-compatible computers with 512k of memory. All display modes are supported; although the video was designed on and primarily intended for VGA display, the program was simultaneously tested on, and modified as needed for, monochrome displays as well as laptop B/W displays in order that contrasts and prompts be present and visible to all possible users. Special features that are VGA-only are compensated for in the other displays, with no adverse effect on program execution. { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }(tm) must be installed on a hard drive. Do not attempt to install to, or run the program on, a floppy drive. DOS 3.1 or higher is required. Mouse support is provided, but a mouse is not required for use of the program. PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 6 A disk cache utility used on your system will provide great benefit to running { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }(tm), resulting in marked improvement in speed and efficiency throughout the program. { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }(tm) will use expanded memory if it is available on the system, even if it is only present in a small amount. The presence of expanded memory, particularly on a 386 or greater computer, significantly enhances the performance and efficiency of this software. The printer may be connected to LPT1, LPT2, or you may print to an ASCII text file. The printing facility will carefully prompt you for any needed infor- mation, which is selectable from the provided choices. Ascertain that subdirectories are *only* located one level beneath \PASS. Read the included ALT_LOGO.TXT file for using the alternate sign-on screen. It is possible (but unlikely) that index files (*.NTX) can, at some point, become corrupted and you see an error message referring to index files. This would likely only occur if you had been working in the program and those files were being updated when there was a power outage (or an equivalent occurrence). Simply change to the directory where this occurred, and at the DOS prompt, type: DEL *.NTX to delete all the index files; the next time you run the program, the index files will be rebuilt. Do not take the backup .NTX files you may have stored on your daily backup diskettes; they may or may not match the data tables if the program was performing updating when the corruption occurred. If you have data tables (*.DBF) that become unusable for any reason, copy them from your daily backup diskettes. Delete any .NTX index files as detailed above and allow the program to rebuild them (the process is very fast and usually imperceptible to the user). Also, please be aware that data tables (.DBF) can appear to be corrupted to some users, but usually the problem is with indexes (.NTX) that no longer match or are not current with the assoc- iated .DBF table. Try deleting the .NTX files as described above before deciding the .DBF tables are bad. PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 7 Registration Information ───────────────────────── { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } is licensed and supplied as is, without any warranty. To the extent permitted under applicable law, RCCO Research Associates disclaims all warranties, either expressed or implied, with respect to this software program, its quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose. In particular, this software program is not guaranteed to prevent or detect damage to your data or programs. In no event shall RCCO Research Associates be liable for any claims for lost profits or any damage, including, but not limited to, special, incidental, consequential or other damage (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interrup- tion, loss of business information, or other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use of or inability to use this RCCO Research Associates product, even if RCCO Research Associates has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or conse- quential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no case shall RCCO Research Associates's liability exceed the license fees paid for the right to use the licensed version of the software. The license agreement and warranty shall be construed, interpreted and governed by the laws of the state of Tennessee. This software program, { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }(tm), is protected under the Copyright Laws of the United States of America and all applicable International Copyright Conventions. Makers and/or users of illegal or unauthorized copies of the registered version are subject to prosecution under these laws. Some material included herein is copyrighted by Functional Software, Inc., and is used per license agreement. The names { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }(tm) and OBJECTS::NEXUS(tm) are trademarks of RCCO Research Associates. The registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Please consider how unusally low the registration price is for a full, │ │ legal, registered copy of software you may use for many years. │ │ │ │ If one uses the program beyond the liberal trial period, or attempts to │ │ continue using it without purchasing registration, it must be │ │ considered unauthorized use of proprietary authorship and material. │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You are granted a limited trial period of 30 days to determine whether or not you wish to register your copy of this software. Registration will eliminate the unregistered reminder notices and grant the user authorized continued use of the program. After the trial period, if you wish to continue using this program you may mail a registration fee of U.S. $10.00 + $1.00 handling ($2.00 handling non-U.S.) to RCCO Research and receive authorized registration codes for validating your software to registered status. (After receiving your registration, simply use the Register.exe program which should be found with the copy you now have). Check or money PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 8 order only, please. Tennessee clients please include 8.5% sales tax. Please indicate program name and version number on your order; you may use the Order.frm file provided in this package or simply send a note or letter with your name, address and remittance. Your comments on our programs are welcomed. ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ *Please* indicate the program name *and* version number on your order; we │ │ *must* have this information in order to send the proper validation codes │ │ for the copy of the software you now have. │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Register.exe ───────────── The separate executable file called Register.exe supplied with this package is usable only when you have obtained a valid serial number for this program directly from RCCO Research. This particular version of Register.exe works *only* with the current version of *this* software program. The Register.exe supplied herewith will not work with other RCCO Research programs; other RCCO Research programs will have their own proprietary versions of Register.exe. When you receive your serial number information with your registration, simply change to the directory in which this software is installed and type: REGISTER<enter> Carefully follow the prompts and enter the supplied information, as well as your name (and optional company name) *exactly* as shown on your registration invoice received from RCCO Research. If you enter erroneous information into Register.exe, there will be no harm done; simply allow the Register.exe program to reset itself to the default parameters and run it again. Please note, for the benefit of our registered users, that the registration codes purchased will work with all *minor* update versions of this program. For example, if your current copy of this program is v1.0, your registration codes will work with any update containing the *major* version number "1" (the number before the decimal point); ie, 1.2, 1.5, 1.75, etc. In this manner, your updates, if any, are at no further cost to you other than the purchase of an update disk you see in a shareware disk catalog or the down- load from your favorite BBS. Simply use a backup copy of your own main data table (.DBF; delete the index (.NTX) file(s) first) with the update release and use your 1.x codes to initialize the updated version of the program with Register.exe. Any *major* version (the number before the decimal point; ie, 2.x etc.) change, if any, will be offered to registered users directly by RCCO Research at significant discount (usually about 50%) from the then current cost of registration. Please note that we do not plan or foresee frequent *major* version changes for this particular program. PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 9 Additional Information ─────────────────────── If, after registration, you have any comments regarding the program { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }, please send them in writing to: RCCO Research Associates P. O. Box 196 Gatlinburg, TN 37738 Please include your phone (day & evening) and fax (if any) numbers as well as your mailing address on ALL written communications. Please indicate the serial number from your copy of the program as well as your CustID number. Q. I see the file Order.frm [order form] in my \PASS directory. How may I print it out on my printer? A. To print the registration order form, make sure your printer is on and ready with at least 2 sheets of paper, change to the \PASS directory and at the DOS prompt, type exactly the following: COPY ORDER.FRM PRN<enter> ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ A few of the programs developed by RCCO Research: ║ ║ ║ ║ { MONEY & BANKS }(tm), Personal Banking Manager ║ ║ ║ ║ { SDB: Safe Deposit Box }(tm) (for DOS) ║ ║ ║ ║ { CCM: Credit Cards Minder }(tm) (for DOS) ║ ║ ║ ║ { WOLFGANG: Automotive Service Records }(tm) for Windows 3.1+ ║ ║ ║ ║ { BIBLIOTEK: Book Library Records System }(tm) for Windows 3.1+ ║ ║ ║ ║ { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }(tm) (for DOS) ║ ║ ║ ║ { CinemaNexus: video collection records }(tm) for Windows 3.1+ ║ ║ ║ ║ { MusicaNexus: audio library records }(tm) for Windows 3.1+ ║ ║ ║ ║ { BooksNexus: book library records }(tm) (for DOS) ║ ║ ║ ║ Please consult your favorite shareware source for the availability ║ ║ of current DOS and Windows versions of these programs. ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ PASS.DOC { PASS: Appointments Scheduler } Page 10 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── { PASS: Appointments Scheduler }tm an OBJECTS::NEXUS(tm) filer (C) Copyright MCMXCIII RCCO Research Associates. All Rights Reserved under International Conventions. RCCO Research Associates Post Office Box 196 Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────