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HOME MANAGER 0.1E
from
Lord Sutch Productions
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A CanDo Endeavour from Len Platt
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Released - October 9, 1991
Revised - November 25, 1991
* DISCLAIMER *
I have tested this program thoroughly and have not found any bugs and also
find it didn't harm my Amiga. Therefore I take NO responsibilty for problems
incurred on your computer. You use it entirely at your own risk.
* DISTRIBUTION *
Home Manager is freely distributable and copyrighted. You may upload it
wherever you choose, but you are not allowed to sell Home Manager for
profit, or include Home Manager on a disk which is sold for profit, without
the permission of Len Platt. The ONLY exclusion to this is the Fred Fish
Library.
Main Course
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This is the final realization of what was originally called Home Sweet
Home. I have gone a few steps further in this program and it now contains
an Appointment Scheduler, ToDo List, Notepad, Home Inventory database, an
Address Book (with Dialer) and an Important Phone Number List (with
dialer). Obviously, for the last two, you need a modem attached to your
Amiga's serial port. The dialer supports Tone Dialing. If you have Pulse
Dialing, the program can be changed when it is registered. Just put a note
in with your registration application and I will give you a 'pulse' version
of the program.
I have also decided to go with a more graphical interface instead of
the "Workbench 2 look" that a lot of people are hung up on. The Amiga is a
great colour and graphics computer, so why not have programs that take
advantage of that interface.
There are Help files in the program so I will not go into a long explanation
here. Each area of the program has Help files that can be accessed by
pressing your Help key or by clicking on the Help icon on the screen. If
you wish to have a printed copy of the Help files, just do a graphic screen
dump with one of the many on the market.
The are two functions not mentioned in the online Help files and they are
in the Address Book and the Important Phone Numbers areas. In Address Book
you will see a small telephone beside the Home number and the Work number.
Click these to dial the number to the left of them. In the Important Phone
Numbers area, to dial the number in the lower left box, just click the
telephone. In either case, you must then pickup up the phone within 15
secondsor there will be a disconnect.
Other than that, I only have the following items to mention.
When the program first runs you will see a the opening screen with a closed
book graphic. There is a Help icon which will give you a screen of text
explaining what to do. If you click on the pic of Lord Sutch, you will get
the rundown of the Shareware fee and where to send for registratiion.
This is (ALMOST) a fully running version of the program. Everything works
except the print functions. Registered users will get the full print
functions. Sorry, I didn't want to cripple it in any way but with previous
programs I have done I have yet to receive any Shareware fee for those
fully functioning programs. The program is in Hi-Res Interlace mode and I
might do a Medium Res version but that depends on the response I get.
One other item is using your Escape key. If you use it in any listing or
editing section, it will iconize the program. Just click the icon to return
to the program. Also the Screen Title of each area can be clicked with the
mouse and it will iconize the program. This frees up about 130k of memory of
the minimum 600k needed to run the program. I suggest you have a one meg Amiga
before attempting to run this program. If you happen to run into a
requester asking for a particular IFF file, just assign HOME: to whereever
you have put it on your drive.(I'm sure I have fixed this now, my testing
has shown it doesn't happen anymore....BUT....:).
File Setup
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Home (Main Directory)
Home
Home.info
Home_Manager.Docs
Home_Manager.Docs.info
Readme.Home (Latest update info, etc)
Resources (Sub-Directory)
Home2.iff \
Addressopen.iff \
Addressopen.hlp \
Appointments.iff \
Appointments.hlp \
Blatant.iff \
Inventory.iff |
Inventory.hlp |
Notepad.iff |
Notepad.hlp |- You must have these for the program
Opening.hlp | to run properly.
Phone.iff |
Phone.hlp |
ToDo2.iff |
ToDo.hlp |
TD.bru |
OnHook.bru |
OffHook.bru |
HM.bru |
AP.bru |
Warning.bru |
Alarm /
Bad /
Expand /
SerialManager /
Search /
Search2 /
Search3 /
Req /
Data (Sub-Directory)
Addresses.DAT \
Phones.DAT \
Inventory.DAT |
Business.DAT |
ToDo.Per.DAT |------ Your various data files
ToDo.Bus.DAT /
Macros (Sub-Directory)
HM.Macros \
F1.Txt \
F2.Txt \
F3.Txt |
F4.Txt |
F5.Txt |------ Optional files you set up.
F6.Txt |
F7.Txt |
F8.Txt /
F9.Txt /
F10.Txt /
You MUST have the following in your C: directory for HM to function;
Rename
Run
Assign
The Topaz font (sizes 8,9,11) must also be in your fonts directory.
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Features to be added:
Multi-Label printing facility.
Shopping List (Someone else already did this, so I might not bother)
Budget Balance (Ditto to above)
Receipt Form (Just fill in the blanks)
Improved NotePad
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Be sure to read the file Readme.Home on the disk. This file will give you the
latest updates and instructions that may not be in this documentation file.
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Well, that should cover just about everything. I hope you enjoy this
program. If you have any questions, ideas, suggestions or just want to
talk, I can be reached at the following;
Canada Remote Systems - (416) 798-7730 (In the Amiga Conference)
GENIE - L.PLATT1 (Email)
or
On the InterLink and NANET echoes.
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* Shareware *
If you find you like this program and continue to use it,
please send $15 + $3 S/H to the address below.
Please Money Orders Only!
Len Platt
97 Garden Ave.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M6R 1H8
Make money order payable to Len Platt.
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