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EDNA'S COOK BOOK (ECB)
Edna's Cook Book (ECB) is a program for recording, filing, listing, and
printing recipes. Essentially, it is the equivalent of the cookbook
in which you now keep all your recipes, except that it is electronic. The
program may also be used in the preparation of cook books for publication,
since it facilitates organization and printing.
If you can type, you no longer have to deal with disorganized slips of paper
and clippings thrown together in a drawer or box, only to be frustrated when
you can't find that particular recipe that you remember you had, except you
can't remember where it is, or what the precise name of it is. ECB will take
care of the tedious part, so you can get on with the real work--good cooking.
QUICK START INSTRUCTIONS
MAKING A WORK COPY
1. Format a disk, using the DOS FORMAT command.
2. If you are using a dual floppy system, format a second disk to use as a data
disk.
3. Copy the Program Disk files onto a work copy using the COPY *.* procedure
and put the original in a safe place. In case something happens to your
work copy, you will then have a backup.
Do NOT put a write protect tab on the program disk. Any permanent changes that
you make (print parameters, boot drive/directory, password) will have to be
written back to this disk.
ECB will run from a hard disk with no difficulty. Just copy the files on the
program disk onto the hard disk. It is recommended that you create a separate
subdirectory for the program.
PRINTING THE USER'S MANUAL
To print the User's Manual, place your work disk in Drive A: and type:
PRINTDOC
You can view the manual on your screen by typing:
TYPE MANUAL.DOC
STARTING THE PROGRAM
To start ECB, put the work copy in drive A. At the A> prompt type:
ECB <Return>.
If you have a color card and a monochrome monitor, you may have difficulty
seeing some of ECB. To run ECB in black and white (or green and green or
whatever two colors you may have on your monitor), type: ECB BW <Return>.
UPDATE INFO
v. 1.16 : It is now possible to delete the last record in a file without
crashing and having your cursor swallowed whole.
v. 1.17 : fixes a problem editing multi-page directions (thanks to
T. Walker, a problem with list (thanks to C. Sloan), a search
problem, and a printing problem that appeared only under
certain conditions.
v. 1.18 : fixes a problem listing to ASCII files (thanks to B. Scott).
v. 1.19 : fixes a serious problem in indexing larger recipe files and makes
slight modifications to the indexes (thanks to F. Schmidt and
L. Payton) and cleans up some other little things. Lists to disk
files and printers have been made more legible.
IMPORTANT: IF YOU HAVE RECIPE FILES CREATED WITH VERSIONS PRIOR TO
1.19, YOU MAY HAVE UNSTABLE INDEXES WHICH CAN LEAD TO CONSTANT
CRASHES AND OTHER DIFFICULTIES WHICH ARE EVEN MORE UNPLEASANT.
TO CORRECT THIS, RUN AN INDEX REBUILD (SELECT UTILITY/REBUILD
INDEXES) IMMEDIATELY AFTER BOOTING ECB V. 1.19. THE REBUILD WILL
CORRECT POTENTIAL PROBLEMS IN THE INDEX STRUCTURE.
v. 1.20 : corrects a problem that occurred in printing recipes with multiple
pages of ingredients AND recipes (thanks to B. Matone) and double
listing some (multipage) recipes when listed by name (thanks to F.
Schmidt). Also adds a feature: if a category or subcategory is
deleted, the categories/subcategories of all subsequent recipes are
automatically corrected and the records updated.
v. 1.21 : corrects a problem associated with adding the 20th category or
subcategory (Thanks to M. Watts).
v. 1.22 : corrects a problem associated with printing multiple recipes (e.g.
a whole category that contained multiple multiple-page recipes -
the print function used to quit before the end of the category
(Thanks to J. Curtis).
v. 1.23 : fixes a data integrity bug that surfaces only under certain
infrequent conditions and adds code to the program that detects
that condition (Thanks to A. Wiles). Also adds RECONST.COM to the
ECB program disk. This utility literally reconstructs the data file
as well as the index files to correct the condition mentioned above.
A bonus of this utility is that if deletes unused records. If you
have a number of unused records in the file (from deleting a number
of recipes), running this program will remove the unused records
from the file. For those who decided in the middle of entering
recipes to keep separate files, this could decrease the size of
those files considerably. Operating instructions for this utility
are in the ASCII file RECONST.DOC.
NOTE: in some cases, when creating a new recipe file or opening
a recipe file that that has NEVER had data in it, ECB will
erroneously detect the error condition mentioned above and advise
you to run RECONST to salvage the files. Just press <ESC> at the
error message and you can proceed. This is the ONLY circumstance
under which the advice to run RECONST should be disregarded.
v. 1.24 corrects the problem with false reporting of error condition
mentioned above. Also corrects an occasional misreporting of print
parameter "print categories/subcats" (Thanks to W. Benda).
Paper advance option added to end of "list to printer." Cleanup of
screen messages when pausing between pages. UPGRADE utility and
documentation added to disk. This utility is for upgrading from
one version to another without disturbing passwords or parameters
that you have already customized. RECONST 2.00 is issued with this
update. The new reconstruct has a feature that insures that all
recipes are properly indexed, according to the category/subcat
listed on the recipe page (see RECONST.DOC for further details.)
v. 1.25 fixes a problem when printing more than 2 pages of ingredients in
double columns. (thanks to C. Pettengill)
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