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                Fire Fighter for Windows


                     Version 1.03

                    September 1993

                          by


                    Lance R. Underwood

                    Box 112 Celista B.C

                    V0E 1L0   Canada


             Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 by Lance Underwood

                    All rights reserved

                    For IBM PC or Compatible

                    PC/MS-Dos 3.3+ or later

                         Hard Drive

                       Windows 3.1 or later



About the Author:

I am the Fire Chief of a Volunteer Dept. in
southwestern British Columbia.

I found that the bookeeping involved in running the Dept.
required considerable time and effort and really wasn't as
orderly as I would have liked it.

This program was written to simplify the record keeping
for Practice, Maintenance, Training, Incidents and the
preparation of Firefighter rosters.

The FireFighter program is a shareware product.  You may try
FireFighter to see if it fits your needs, on a trial basis only.

You may copy and distribute this shareware program freely.
If you plan to use it after the trial, (usually 30 days), print and
then fill out the "REGISTER.ME" file and send it along with
full payment to:

                        Lance Underwood
                        Box 112, Celista B.C.
                        Canada    V0E 1L0

                       D I S C L A I M E R

The author, Lance R. Underwood makes no warranties expressed
or implied as to the quality or performance of this program,
nor its fitness for a particular purpose. The author will not
be held responsible for any direct, indirect, incidental or
consequential damages resulting from the use of this program.
YOUR USE OF THIS PROGRAM CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THIS
DISCLAIMER and your release of the author from any form of
liability or litigation.

Please print and read the file REGISTER.ME




Overview:

These are the things this program can do for your Department.

1. Keep your Firefighter Roster up to date.
2. Print out individual Records or whole Rosters.
3. Keep track of Training Records.
4. Show and/or print only the Training Records you want.
5. Show the honourarium or wages owed for Training.
6. Show all Training for the current year.
7. Keep track of your Incidents.
8. Print selected Incidents.
9. Keep track of the amounts owed FireFighters for Incidents.
10. Show and/or Print Incidents.
11. Keep Maintenance Records on your Equipment
12. Keep all Records pertaining to Training, Incidents,Maintenance,
    Roster Records at the press of a key.
13. Keep a dialing list of important numbers and dial them
    automatically,
14. If you are paid by the "Call Out" rather than by the hour,
    you can get different menus by typing ffwin /c.
15. Record up to seven different response times for firefighters,
    per Incident.


Important:

There are a few items which are very important to the smooth
operation and set up of your files.

Please read this document file before using FireFighter.


GETTING STARTED:

Copy the file(s) to either an A: or B: floppy, or empty directory
on your hard drive.

Uncompress the file if it is compressed.

Start windows and program manager.  Select "Files" and then
select "Run".

Windows will ask for the drive and name of the program you want to
run.

Type the drive and SETUP1. eg; c:\misc\setup1 or A:\setup1

This will start the setup program to install FireFighter.

Note: Registered users only.

The program will ask if you have a previous registered version
of FireFighter for "DOS".
If you do, select "YES".

The setup program will then change some of your data files to
the windows version and install them in the correct directory.

The setup program will not destroy or change any files you
have in your FireFighter for "DOS" directory.

If you are paid by the Incident rather than by the hour, start
FireFighter with: "FFwin /c".

For more information on this please refer to the file "READ.ME"

VIEW ROSTER:

This selection will let you view each individual Roster record.
Double click on the members name or press <Enter>.

Clicking the first icon will also let you view the Roster records.

ENTER ROSTER:

Enter the First and Last name.  If you have two or more members
with the same first and last names, you will have to make
them unique. eg; If you had three members with the name JIM BAKER
they could be entered: JIM BAKER, J. BAKER, JAMES BAKER etc.
This in effect would make each name unique.

Press TAB to continue down the form, filling in the information
as you come to it.

You MUST fill in the form where it asks for a Training and
Incident rate. If you do not pay an hourly rate or Honourarium
then place $0.00 in the text boxes.

Fill in a complete form for each Firefighter.


EDIT ROSTER:

To edit a record TAB or click on the text box you want to change.


DELETE ROSTER:

Select the name you want to delete and double click the mouse or
press <Enter>.

The delete button will then be enabled.

Remember once a record is deleted, it is no longer available
in your files.

ROSTER FILE:

You can view or print out this file.

When entering the rank in the "Add Roster", you MUST use these
naming conventions;

                  Fire Chief or Chief

                  Asst. Fire Chief or Assistant Fire Chief

                  Deputy Chief

                  Captain or Cpt.

                  Lieut. or Lieutenant

                  FireFighter or Fire Fighter

                  EMS 1

                  EMS 2

                  EMS 3

                  EMS P

                  Rookie

                  Probation

                  Volunteer


The "Roster" will recognize "EMS P" (probation trainie), "EMS 1"
 (EMT level 1), "EMS 2" (EMT level 2) and "EMS 3" (EMT level 3).

They must be entered in your "Add Roster" records as EMS P, EMS 1,
EMS 2, or EMS 3.

You may enter anything AFTER the rank, but the letter total
(Including spaces) must be 25 or less.


Eg; Captain-Training officer.

The roster record will be in "Alphabetical" order when viewed, and
will be in RANK order when PRINTED. eg; The Fire Chief will be
on the first line of the print-out, followed by the
Asst. Fire Chief etc.

PHONE DIALER:

Clicking the icon(telephone) will select the dialer.

You will need an installed modem to use this feature.

Select either Pulse or Tone dial.

Select either COM1 or COM2.
(COM2 will generally be the right choice)

Select "Open Phone Book"
If you want to ADD a record select "Add Record"
Select "Edit Record" if you want to EDIT a record.
Select "Delete" if you want to DELETE a record.

When you are finished with the phone book select "Cancel".

When you need a phone number, double click the name of the
person you want to call and select the dial phone button.

You can also enter the number manually.

BACKING UP YOUR DATA FILES:

The data files that need to be backed up are:

         Roster.dat
         Comment.dat
         Contact.dat
         Dial.dat
         FireInf.rpt
         Practice.rpt
         Maint.rpt
         Hose.rpt
         Ladder.rpt
         Bottle.rpt
         Case2.rpt

Select Backup Data Files or the icon(copy).

Windows file manager will backup the data files.
Select "F" and then "X" to return to FireFighter.


Be sure to back up your data files often!


ENTERING TRAINING RECORDS:

Enter each catagory as you come to it.

To enter a name in the training record, double click the name
or press <Enter>.

Important:

Be sure to enter the date of training correctly.

The form for this is MM-DD-YYYY meaning Month-Day-Year.


EDIT TRAINING:

To edit a training record , click or TAB to the section you
want to change and enter the new value.


VIEW TRAINING:

Click the icon