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Compu-Chef (tm) Version 2.0 The Ultimate Meal Manager Recipe Organizer, Shopping List Maker (At least we think so!!) User's Guide Copyright (C) 1990 by Micro System Design, Inc. All Rights Reserved Written and Designed by: Peter Sciacchetano and Mark Bacas Micro System Design, Inc. P.O. Box 14418 Baton Rouge, LA 70898-4418 Compu-Chef 2.0 User's Guide Page: 2 (C) Copyright 1990 MSD, Inc., HillStepper All rights reserved worldwide. Printed in the United States of America. Compu-Chef is a registered trademark of MSD, Inc. and HillStepper. All trademarks and registered trademarks referenced within this document are the property of their respective owners. Micro System Design, Inc. P.O. Box 14418 Baton Rouge, LA 70898-4418 Hillstepper 6905 Tree Mountain Pkwy Stone Mountain, GA 30083 Programming Peter Sciacchetano Documentation Mark Bacas. This manual was developed in Multi-Edit Professional an editor by American Cybernetics March 1992 Release Compu-Chef 2.0 License Agreement Page: 3 The Compu-Chef(tm) product is NOT in the "Public Domain" and it is NOT "Freeware." Compu-Chef is a copyrighted software product developed and owned by MSD and HillStepper. MSD and HillStepper grant you the right without charge to reproduce, distribute and use copies of this version of Compu-Chef, subject to receive any payment, commercial benefit, or other consideration for such reproduction or distribution, or change this license agreement or the following copyright notice that appears in the software, documentation, user interface, menus and magnetic media: (C) Copyright 1990 MSD and HillStepper. All rights reserved worldwide. The rights to receive any such financial or other benefit, and to modify the product or employ its components in any kind of derivative work, are reserved exclusively by MSD and HillStepper. Support from users enables us to develop additional features and future versions of the Compu-Chef product. Registered users benefit from enhanced technical support, notice of new products, and bulletin board access. Contact us at: Micro System Design, Inc. P.O. Box 14418 Baton Rouge, LA 70898-4418 CompuServe : 70152,2461 Also, please feel free to contribute your ideas regarding desired additional product features and functionality. THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, PERFORMANCE, OR OTHERWISE; ALL WARRANTIES ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. BY USING THE COMPU-CHEF PRODUCT, YOU AGREE THAT NEITHER MSD, INC. NOR HILLSTEPPER NOR ANY OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, SHAREHOLDERS, AFFILIATES, OWNERS, OR OTHER RELATED PARTIES WILL BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE. EVEN IF WE ARE NOTIFIED OF SUCH POSSIBILITY IN ADVANCE. (SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.) You may not reverse-engineer, disassemble, modify, decompile or create derivative works of the product. You acknowledge that the product includes certain trade secrets and confidential information, all of which is the copyrighted intellectual property of MSD and HillStepper. Table of Contents 1. Overview....................................................5. 2. System Requirements.........................................5. 3. Features....................................................6. 4. What Makes Compu-Chef So Special?...........................8. 5. Let's add a recipe..........................................9. 6. Editing a recipe...........................................11. 7. Now to delete a recipe.....................................12. 8. Marking from main menu.....................................12. 9. eXport a recipe from the main menu.........................12. 10. Printing from the main menu................................13. 11. Finding recipes............................................13. 12. Finding recipes in a hurry.................................14. 13. Let's go shopping..........................................14. 14. Print recipes with the Reports option......................14. 15. Compu-Chef's information screens ..........................15. 16. Utilities options..........................................16. 1. Importing recipes.......................................16. 2. Exporting recipes.......................................18. 3. Category Maintenance....................................18. 4. Ingredient Maintenance..................................19. 5. Clearing marked recipes.................................19. 6. Multiple recipe sets....................................19. 7. Fixing index files......................................20. 17. Giving credit where credit is due..........................21. Compu-Chef 2.0 Overview Page: 5 Well enough legal mumbo jumbo, lets get down to business. What is Compu-Chef and why does it exist? That is the question we are going to try to answer for you here. I was calling the BBS's to find a good recipe program, but I didn't care too much for the ones I found. They weren't bad, but seemed awkward to me. I thought about buying one, but I prefer to try something before I buy it, so that wasn't a good alternative. I thought about writing one myself, but I knew it would take me to long to get a good one finished. So I started talking to a good friend and fellow programmer, Pete. Well, Pete didn't think much of the idea at first, but I kept bugging him about it. Then one day he called my BBS and looked at the cooking echo. When he saw that there was over 100 messages on cooking and recipes, posted there daily, he saw some potential. So we talked about features and he started working on it. Pretty soon he was really getting into it. Compu-Chef is a very easy to use program, and you may never need to read this manual. There are some features that may not be apparently obvious, but will be explained later. System Requirements Compu-Chef can be run from a floppy disk system, although we recommend a hard disk. A system with at least 384k is required for this version. A printer is required for printing recipes. Compu-Chef will run on an XT class machine or higher meeting the above requirements. The newest demo version of Compu-Chef may be obtained from CompuServe COOKS Forum, or contact Pete Sciacchetano : 70152,2461 Compu-Chef 2.0 Features Page: 6 Compu-Chef is a feature laden program, and the easiest way to see the various features is to use the program, and read the on screen instructions. For completeness though, here is a brief list of the many features of Compu-Chef. 1) Add recipes with the following information available: Title, 3 Categories, Serving size, Time to prepare, Fat, Cholesterol, Calories, Ingredients, Directions and Source of recipe. 2) You can edit existing recipes from the main menu by simply highlighting the recipe and pressing the enter key or the letter E. Once you pull the recipe up on the screen you can edit ingredients, directions, or perform many other functions. 3) You can delete any recipe from the main menu by pressing the letter D. Before the recipe is deleted, you will see the entire recipe for you to confirm the deletion. 4) You can mark recipes in many different ways. You can mark your FAVORITES, or mark recipes for a SHOPPING LIST, EXPORT or PRINTOUT. 5) You can export any recipe by highlighting it and pressing the letter X from the main menu. The program will ask you for a file name to which it may be exported. This feature is handy to export a recipe for transferring to a bulletin board system. 6) Any recipe can be printed from the main screen by just highlighting the one you want to printout and pressing the letter P. Recipes can be printed on paper or almost any size index card! 7) You can find recipes in many different ways. For example, you can get a list of all your FAVORITE recipes, or all desserts, or even a list of recipes that use chicken, or any combination. This is extremely useful in deciding what to make. The find function is accessed by pressing F from the main menu. 8) A quick search is available from the main menu by pressing the letter Q. You will then be prompted for a sequence of letters to search for. So if you want to find Crawfish Etouffee, you can press Q, then Cr, and you will be brought to the first recipe that begins with Cr. 9) The shopping list feature makes shopping easy. Once you have marked the recipes you wish included in your shopping list, you can select this option to generate the shopping list. It will tell you what recipes it is shopping for, then combine the like ingredients, and convert them to the best unit of measure for ease of shopping. There is also a misc. shopping list that allows you to enter shopping goods that are not food related. You can then clear all marked recipes and the misc. shopping list. Compu-Chef 2.0 Features Page: 7 10) Reports let you print out the recipes that are displayed. In other words, if you have done a find on all cajun recipes, when you run the report function it will print all the cajun recipes. Recipes can be printed in report format, full page, or on index cards. 11) There is an information system, which contains helpful information including Nutritional, Food storage, Measurement equivalents, Cooking terms, and a miscellaneous file for you to put your own information. All these information screens are editable, and you may enter any information you want. 12) The Utility menu is accessed by pressing the letter U from the main menu. From this menu you can import and export recipes, perform category maintenance, ingredient maintenance, tell Compu-Chef how to display the quantities, clear marks, and fix up the data files. 13) Recipes can be grouped into different recipe sets or directories on your disk or different disks. This allows you to work with smaller sets of recipes which can improve ease use and program performance. Compu-Chef 2.0 What Makes Compu-Chef So Special? Page: 8 There is no other recipe management program like Compu-Chef. It contains features unmatched by any other program, with a user interface that is easy to use. As far we know, there is no other recipe program that lets you immediately see recipes in your database. Most of the other programs require you to enter a number, name, category, or another criteria just to view a recipe. We believe this is one major feature of Compu-Chef. Once you start the program you can instantly view any recipe just by highlighting it and pressing the enter key, or the E key. ┌─── Main Menu ────┐ ┌Recipes ──────────────────────── Time Cals Mark┐ │ │ │ │ │ A Add R │ │Crawfish Pie 01:00 290 F │ │ E Edit e │ │Mark's Famous Po-Boy 00:30 350 FSEP│ │ D Delete c │ │Pecan Pie 01:30 250 S P│ │ M Mark i │ │ │ │ X Export p │ │ │ │ P Print e │ │ │ │ F Find s │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Q Quick Find │ │ │ │ S Shopping List │ │ │ │ R Reports │ │ │ │ I Information │ │ │ │ U Utilities │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └── ESC to quit ───┘ │ │ └──────────────── All Recipes ──────────────────┘ 3 recipes This is the opening screen, and as you can see it's very self-explanatory. Just use the appropriate letter for the function you wish to perform. Compu-Chef 2.0 Let's add a recipe Page: 9 Adding a recipe is very simple. Simply press [A] from the main menu. The following screen will appear. ┌────────────────────────── Add Recipe ──────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Title │ │ │ │ Source Number of Servings │ │ Approximate cook time │ │ Categories 1 Fat (grams) per Serving │ │ 2 Cholesterol per Serving │ │ 3 Calories per Serving │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ When this screen appears, type in the recipe information. To see a list of keys for maneuvering around these screens, see appendix A. Enter the recipe title. Next you can enter the source of the recipe, (for example, "The CC Cookbook - page 43.") Now, assign the recipe to up to 3 categories. To see a quick list of categories already entered, simply press enter in this blank field, and a pop up pick list will appear and let you make your selection. You can pick one of the ┌──[Select item]─┐ existing categories or │ - Add to list -│ you can press the up │ │ arrow to add an item. │ Dessert │ You can also jump to a │ Main Dish │ particular item by │ Sandwich │ pressing the first │ │ letter of your selection. │ │ └────────────────┘ If you enter a category that is not in the list it will ask you if you would like to add it. After entering the categories, you can enter the number of servings, the approximate cooking time, then three items for the health conscious, fat, cholesterol, and calories. That's it for the main recipe information. Next, you will see the following screen: ┌─── Ingredients (F3-Zoom In) ───┬───── Directions (F4-Zoom In) ─────┐ │ │ │ │ ──────── End ──────── │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘ Ingredients: F3-Zoom I/Ins-Insert D/Del-Delete Enter-Change U-Units F2-Edit Info F4-Direct F5-Servings P-Print X-Export M-Mark Compu-Chef 2.0 Let's add a recipe Page: 10 You are now ready to start entering ingredients. To start, just press the letter [I], INSert, or ENTER on the ─── End ─── line. I prefer using ENTER, it's easier when inserting many ingredients. Next, the following screen appears: ┌────────────────────────── Add Ingredients ───────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Quantity Unit Name │ │ │ │ When adding ingredients, you may enter the quantity using │ │ fractions or decimals. If you want to enter an ingredient │ │ like DICED ONIONS, enter it >> ONIONS - DICED << │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This is the screen where you enter the quantity, unit of measure and the Name of the ingredient. Depending on how you have your Quantity display set up from the Utility Menu, determines how your quantities will be displayed here. You can actually enter the quantity in fraction or decimal form, and it will be converted to whichever display Compu-Chef is setup for. So if you enter 1.5 and you are setup for fractions, it will convert it to 1 1/2 automatically. Next is the unit of measure. If you just hit the enter key here, you will be presented with a pop up pick list. ┌────[Select item]───┐ │ = As required │ You can select any of the items │can = Can │ from the pick list or enter your │cup = Cup │ own. Compu-Chef has an extensive │ea = Each │ unit conversion system, so keep │gal = Gallon │ in mind that if you enter │g = Gram │ something other than from the │oz = Ounce │ pick list, CC won't be able to │pkg = package │ convert it to any other unit. So │pt = Pint │ try to use qt for Quart instead of │lb = Pound │ Qrt. There are 3 exceptions to │qt = Quart │ this, first, you can enter a capital │Tbsp = Tablespoon │ [T] for Tablespoon, a small [t] for │tsp = Teaspoon │ teaspoon, and [c] for Cup. └────────────────────┘ Once you have selected the unit of measure, you can enter the name of the ingredient. We recommend that you enter the actual ingredient as the first word, then any specifications on how that item should be prepared. (i.e. Onions - Diced, instead of Diced Onions) This helps when searching for recipes by ingredient names. That's all to entering in an ingredient line. Just keep hitting [I], or ENTER, until all of the ingredients have been entered. After that, you are ready to enter your directions for the recipe. You can press the right arrow key or the [F4] key to enter the directions. Pressing the right arrow allows you to enter the directions while still viewing the ingredients, while pressing [F4] allows you to enter the directions in a zoom mode. After entering the directions press [Esc] and you will be asked if you wish to save the changes. When entering the directions, you are actually using a mini-word processor, and if you know WordStar commands, you can use them. Compu-Chef 2.0 Let's add a recipe Page: 11 You can use the [F3] and [F4] keys to zoom in and out between the ingredients and the directions. After entering all the required information for the recipe, you can just hit the [Esc] key, which will bring you back to the main menu. That is all it take to enter a recipe, very easy and intuitive. After entering a recipe your screen should look similar to the following: CRAWFISH PIE Serves 6 Time 1:00 ┌─── Ingredients (F3-Zoom In) ──────┬───── Directions (F4-Zoom In) ─────┐ │ │ │ │1 ea Onion - Diced │ Saute onions, garlic, bell pepper │ │1 lb Crawfish Tails - C │ and celery in butter until limp. │ │1/4 cup Green Onion - Minc │ Add tomato sauce, crawfish and │ │1/4 cup Parsley - Minced │ parsley. Cook slowly for 10 │ │2 ea Garlic - Cloves │ minutes. Turn off heat. Add │ │1 Tbsp Salt │ bread crumbs, salt, pepper, egg │ │1/2 ea Bell Pepper - Dice │ and milk then mix well. Bake 35 │ │1/2 cup Bread Crumbs - Sea │ to 40 minutes in 350 degree oven. │ │2 ea Celery Stalks - Di │ If you don't care for the │ │1/2 tsp Red Pepper │ delicious mud bugs you may │ │1/2 cup Butter │ substitute shrimp. │ │1 ea Egg │ │ │1/2 tsp Pepper │ │ └───────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘ Editing a Recipe To edit a recipe just press [E] from the main menu. You will be presented with the recipe to edit, and a status line like the following at the bottom of the screen: ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │Ingredients: F3-Zoom I/Ins-Insert D/Del-Delete Enter-Change U-Units│ │F2-Edit Info F4-Direct F5-Servings P-Print X-Export M-Mark │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ There are many things you can do when editing a recipe. You can press [F2] to edit the header information, that contains the title, categories, and other information. You can add ingredients, by placing the light bar where you wish to insert the ingredient and press the [I] or INSert key. You can also delete an ingredient by pressing [D] or the DELete key, upon which you will be asked to confirm the deletion. Hit enter on an ingredient to edit it. One of the major features is the Unit conversion feature. You can change from Tbsp to Cups simply by pressing the letter U. You can cycle through the different units of measure. This is one of the reasons you might want to use our units of measurement. You can edit the directions by pressing the right arrow key or the [F4] key. Compu-Chef 2.0 Editing a Recipe Page: 12 Another one of the many significant features of Compu-Chef, is the ability to change the servings size of a recipe. You can change the number of servings to up to 999, and the ingredient quantities will automatically be adjusted. The quantities will by converted to the best unit of measurement, so you won't have 200 Tbsps of salt, you will have 3 1/8 quarts. You can print your recipe right from this screen by pressing [P]. Next, you can eXport your recipe. By pressing the [X] key, you can export your recipe to the disk. This is handy if you wish to trade recipes with a friend or post one on a Bulletin Board System (BBS). You will be asked for the filename to export to, and if it already exists, you will be asked if you wish to append the recipe, or replace the file altogether. See you DOS documentation for information on naming files. The last option on the editing screen is marking. You can mark the recipe for 4 different groups: FAVORITE, SHOPPING LIST, PRINTOUT, and EXPORT. See 'Marking from main menu' below, for more information. Now to delete a recipe. This will be a very short section, as it doesn't take much to delete a recipe. Just press the letter [D] from the main menu and you will be shown the recipe you requested to delete, and asked to confirm the deletion. If you confirm the deletion by pressing enter, the recipe will be deleted. Use this with caution, once a recipe is deleted it can't be retrieved. Marking from main menu. You can mark any recipe from the main menu for your Favorite list, Shopping list, Exporting, or Print to be printed out. After selecting [M] from the main menu you will see a screen similar to the following: ┌─────────────── Mark Recipe ──────────────┐ Highlight the category │ │ you wish to mark. A │ √ Favorite List (F5) │ check mark appears to │Mark Recipe for: Shopping List (F6) │ show that it has been │ Export List (F7) │ selected. │ Printout (F8) │ │ │ The F5-F8 keys can be └─────────────── ESC to Quit ──────────────┘ used from the Main Menu. eXport a recipe from the main menu. You can export any recipe from the main menu by highlighting the recipe of your choice and pressing [X]. You will be prompted for a filename to export to. The default is [EXPORT.CCF] but this can be changed by simply typing over it. If the file already exists, you will be asked if you wish to append the recipe to the file or replace the file all together with the recipe. Compu-Chef 2.0 Printing from the main menu. Page: 13 Any recipe can be printed directly from the main menu simply by pressing the letter [P]. You will be asked to press the enter key when you are ready to print. Finding Recipes This is by far one of the most important features of the program. After selecting this option (the [F] key from the main menu) you will be presented with a screen that looks like the following: ┌──────────────────────── Find Recipes ───────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Enter any or all of the following : │ │ │ │ Recipe Title │ │ │ │ Category │ │ │ │ Ingredient │ │ Use the singular form of the name for best search.│ │ │ └─ Favorites Shopping Exports Printout? FSEP ───────────────┘ You can search by any of the above criteria or any combination of them. If you wish to skip a certain area use the down arrow key, otherwise a pop up pick list will appear. A pop up pick list will appear for the Category and the Ingredient fields. This is a very helpful feature, as you don't have to remember the way the ingredients were entered. After entering the selection criteria, you will be presented with a list of recipes that match your request if any exist. A screen similar to the following will appear: Recipes Time Cals Mark ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║Crawfish Pie 1:00 290 F ║ ║Mark's Famous Po-Boy 0:30 350 FSEP║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════╝ Category=MAIN DISH A double box is placed around the recipes so you know you are viewing selected recipes. You are also shown the criteria that the selected recipes meet by the statements under the double box (i.e. Category=MAIN DISH in this case). After you have viewed the selected recipes you can press [Esc] to get back to the list of all the recipes. Compu-Chef 2.0 Finding recipes in a hurry. Page: 14 By pressing [Q] from the main menu you can perform a quick search. This allows you to "jump" to a particular recipe or at least get somewhere in the neighborhood of the recipe you are searching for. After pressing [Q] you are prompted to enter a string of letters to search for, so if you are looking for 'Eggplant casserole' you can type in [Q]-[eg] and Compu-Chef will bring you to the first occurrence of 'eg'. This comes in handy if you have a several hundred recipes and want to find one real quick. Let's go shopping Shopping list is the next option from the main menu. This allows you to generate a shopping list from recipes that have been 'marked' as such. Upon selecting [S] from the main menu, you will be presented with the following: ┌─── Shopping List Menu ────┐ │ │ │ N New shopping list │ │ E Edit shopping list │ │ M Misc shopping list │ │ P Print shopping list │ │ C Clear list/marks │ │ │ └────── Esc to return ──────┘ After selecting [N] from the above menu, a new shopping list will be generated. It will show you which recipes it is shopping for and then tell you that it is combining the ingredients. You can then use [E] to edit the generated shopping list if you wish to delete anything. The shopping list shows you the ingredient and the recipe for each ingredient. There is also a miscellaneous shopping list for you to enter such things as tooth paste, toilet paper, or any other thing not pertaining to the recipes. You can access this by pressing [M] from the print shop sub menu. After you have printed your shopping list or the next time you choose to do so, you can clear the recipes marked with an 'S'. You can also clear the miscellaneous shipping list. To clear these you can use [C] from the sub menu. Print recipes with the Reports option. By selecting [R] reports from the main menu, you can print out your recipes or just the titles of them. This function works in conjunction with the Find option. If all the recipes are shown you will be presented a screen like this: ┌─────────────────────────── Report ──────────────────────────┐ │ │ │This will print the recipes currently selected. │ │ │ │All Recipes │ │ │ │Print full Page recipe, Title only, or Index card P/T/I ? P │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Compu-Chef 2.0 Print recipes with the Reports option. Page: 15 This will print all the recipes. If you select [P], it will print the complete recipes. If you select [T] just the title for each one will be printed. If you select [I] index cards will be printed. If you wish to print just the 'Main Dishes', you can use the find from the main menu and do a search by category for main dish after which you would be presented with a screen like the following: ┌─────────────────────────── Report ──────────────────────────┐ │ │ │This will print the recipes currently selected. │ │ │ │Category=MAIN DISH │ │ │ │Print full Page recipe, Title only, or Index card P/T/I ? P │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This would print out the Main Dishes, and again either the complete recipe or just the titles can be printed. If you wish to print index cards, select [I]. A screen similar to the following will appear: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Format #1 Format #2 │ │Name 3 X 5 Normal 3 X 5 Compressed │ │Pre-print code |15 │ │Post-print code |18 │ │# lines per card 18 18 │ │# chars per line 50 80 │ │Ingrd columns 1/2 1 2 │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ You have two default index card formats to choose from. Each format can be changed at any time. The changes will be saved. The pre & post print codes allow for compressed printing, or other printer features. To specify the codes, use any characters, or use the | character followed by a number representing the ascii character to send to the printer. (For example, |27 is an ESC character.) The Ingrd columns 1/2 field, determines how many columns of ingredients to print per line. Compu-Chef's information screens Compu-Chef has 5 information screens. These are editable information screens that you can enter any information you want. We have entered some helpful information in these for you, but feel free to modify them in anyway you see fit. Compu-Chef 2.0 Utilities options. Page: 16 Utilities options. The last option from the main menu is the utility menu. After selecting [U] from the main menu, you will be presented with the following choices: ┌───── Utilities Menu ───────┐ │ │ │ I Import Recipes │ │ E Export Recipes │ │ Q Quantity Display │ │ C Category Maintenance │ │ N Ingredient Maintenance │ │ M Clear Marks │ │ U Use/Make new recipe set │ │ F Fix Files │ └────────────────────────────┘ This allows you to set up and perform various utility options of Compu-Chef. After selecting [I] from this sub menu, you will be presented with the following: ┌─────────────────────────── Import Recipes ─────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Import File Name import.ccf │ │ │ │ Approve each Recipe Y/N N Check for duplicates Y/N Y │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This screen allows you to import recipes. If a friend is using Compu-Chef, Meal Master or any other program that can export recipes, you can use this to import them. Compu-Chef CURRENTLY recognizes Meal Master recipes automatically. Other types of recipes should be edited to match the EASY text format shown next. Compu-Chef 2.0 Importing recipes. Page: 17 WE WILL BE REGULARLY ADDING OTHER RECIPE TYPES TO OUR AUTOMATIC IMPORTING, SO BE SURE TO SEND IN YOUR REGISTRATION FORM, OR CHECK WITH US TO RECEIVE THE LATEST VERSION. The title goes on ┌──────────────────────────────────────────── the first line ----------->│Barbecue Pork Chops On the next three lines -->│Main Dish is where the categories \->│Beef are placed. \>│ Then the number of servings│4 Then you skip a line ----->│ The ingredients are next ->│1 c Brown Sugar The quantity starts on │1/2 c catsup the first column. │1 envelope dry onion soup mix Unit of measure starts on │2 T vinegar the ninth column. │3 T mustard The description starts on │8 pork chops the fourteenth column. >│ Then skip another line --/ │Combine first 5 ingredients and pour over Then the directions ------>│Cook at 325 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. Then the source of rcp---->│Source:Compu-Chef's Kitchen pg. 1 Then 3 dashes to complete >│--- the recipe. │ This is very easy to do, as I have done several. If you set up tab stops at the ninth and fourteenth column you can jump right through the recipes. I have used Qedit from Semware which has a real nice feature that I believe is called smart tab stops. Anyway, it knows where to indent to, from the line above the one your editing. After you have entered one ingredient line you can just hit the tab key to bring you to the unit of measure and the ingredient description. You are also allowed to approve each recipe when importing. This is handy if a friend sends you a large file with a bunch of recipes that you wish to selectively import. You can also quit at any point when using this option. Compu-Chef 2.0 Exporting recipes. Page: 18 ┌────────────────────── Export Recipes ──────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Export Recipes │ │ │ │ All Favorites Shopping Exports ? AFSE E │ │ │ │ Approve each Recipe Y/N N │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This screen allows you to export your recipes in Compu-Chef format. You can export All your recipes, your favorites, ones marked for shopping or ones marked for exporting. You can also selectively export each recipe by answering [Y] to approve each recipe. Category Maintenance You can perform category maintenance by selecting [C] from the utility sub menu. This allows you to delete, change or add categories. After selecting category maintenance, you will be presented with a screen similar to the following: ┌───────────── Category Maintenance ──────────────┐ │ │ │ Ins - Add ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ │ Enter - Edit │ │ │ │ Del - Delete │ Dessert │ │ │ │ Main Dish │ │ │ │ Sandwich │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ └───────────────── Esc to quit ───────────────────┘ By pressing the INSert key you can add a category. If you press enter on any particular category, you will be allowed to change it. It will also change any associated recipes. This is very handy if you have three different categories you wish to combine into one. (i.e. sweets, pies, and desserts). If you wish to change all of these to desserts, highlight sweets, press enter, and change it to desserts. Do the same for pies. The last selection, is to delete a category simply chosen by pressing the DELete key. Compu-Chef 2.0 Ingredient Maintenance Page: 19 You can also perform ingredient maintenance in much of the same way as category maintenance. After selecting [N] from the utility sub menu you will be presented with a screen similar to the following: ┌───────────────── Ingredient Maintenance ──────────────────┐ │ ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │10" Pie Plate (Double Crust) │ │ │ Enter - Edit │Beef - Roast │ │ │ Del - Delete │Bell Pepper - Diced │ │ │ │Bread Crumbs - Seasoned │ │ │ │Butter │ │ │ │Butter - Stick │ │ │ │Celery Stalks - Diced │ │ │ │Corn Meal │ │ │ │Crawfish Tails - Coarsely Chopped │ │ │ └───────────────────────────────────────┘ │ └────────────────────── Esc to quit ────────────────────────┘ This is handy if you have something like: Diced onions, onions chopped, and Onions minced, and you wish to change them all to Onions - Diced. You can also delete any ingredient from here, but use this with caution, as the ingredient will be removed from all of your recipes. Clearing marked recipes Using the clear marks function, you can clear any set of marks. If you wish to clear all recipes marked as your favorite, hit [M] from the utility sub menu and then [F] for favorite. This is an alternative to doing each one individually. Use/Make new recipe set This feature allows you to separate recipes into different sets. This can be helpful in many ways, such as keeping your recipes separate from someone else's, or keeping main courses separate from desserts, etc. This also improves the speed of the program. You can specify floppy drives if you want to keep recipes on removable disks. With this option, you can create a new recipe set, or use an existing one. Compu-Chef 2.0 Use/Make new recipe set. Page: 20 After selecting this option, you will see: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │Current recipe set: C:\CC │ │ │ │Directory location │ │ │ │If recipe set is not found, it will be created. │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ If creating a new set, enter the name of the directory to store recipes. You will then be asked: Copy the current CATEGORY list or create a new one C/N ? Answer C to copy the category list from your current set to the new set. Answer N to create a new set with a clean category list. Copy the current INGREDIENT list or create a new one C/N ? Answer C to copy the ingredient list from your current set to the new set. Answer N to create a new set with a clean ingredient list. When selecting a directory, pressing enter in the blank field will pop up a directory pick-list. Fixing data files You shouldn't ordinarily need to use this option. If for some reason the index files get messed up either from a power outage or from a system lock up, you can choose [F] from the utility sub menu upon which time you will be asked to press any key. This function also recovers lost space from deleted recipes, so it is not a bad idea to use this option every couple of months, or after deleting many recipes. As you can see by the many features of Compu-Chef, it is a very powerful program. Pete and I have worked very hard on this project and will continue to support it, if those who use it support use. We already have plans in the works to make Compu-Chef better, with even other programs for household use. Any suggestions on making Compu-Chef better or ideas for another type of program would be greatly appreciated. You can reach us through Compu-Serve 70152,2461 If you make a suggestion that is incorporated into a future release, your name will be mentioned in the documentation. Compu-Chef 2.0 Giving credit where credits due. Page: 21 Meal-Master, MS-DOS, Qedit, and CompuServe are registered trademarks. I would like to thank several people for there suggestions and support while working on this project: Overton Anderson Chuck Ripple Dave Davis Ellen Cleary Rich Harper Michelle Bass My Wife Rebecca And Pete's Wife Kristi Appendix A The following keys can be used in data entry screens. ┌───┐ ┌─┘ │ (ENTER or For entering data into a field. Moves the cursor to │<──┘ │ RETURN) the next field. └─────┘ ┌────┐┌────┐ │Ctrl││ U │ Restores a field to the value before it was changed. └────┘└────┘ ┌────┐ │PgDn│ Saves the current changes and quits. └────┘ ┌────┐ │ESC │ Quits without saving the current changes. └────┘ ┌────┐ │Home│ Moves the cursor to the beginning of the current └────┘ field. ┌────┐┌────┐ │Ctrl││Home│ Moves the cursor to the first field of the screen. └────┘└────┘ ┌────┐ │End │ Moves the cursor to the last character of the current └────┘ field ┌────┐┌────┐ │Ctrl││End │ Moves the cursor to the last field of the screen. └────┘└────┘ ┌────┐ │ Up │ Moves the cursor to the previous field. └────┘ ┌────┐ │Down│ Moves the cursor to the next field. └────┘ ┌────┐ │ ──>│ Moves the cursor one character to the right. └────┘ ┌────┐ │<── │ Moves the cursor one character to the left. └────┘ The following keys can be used in the pick-list screens ┌────┐ │PgUp│ Scrolls the list up one page. └────┘ ┌────┐ │PgDn│ Scrolls the list down one page. └────┘ ┌────┐ ┌────┐┌────┐ │Home│ or │Ctrl││PgUp│ Moves to the top of the list. └────┘ └────┘└────┘ ┌────┐ ┌────┐┌────┐ │End │ or │Ctrl││PgDn│ Moves the cursor to bottom of the list. └────┘ └────┘└────┘ ┌────┐ │ Up │ Moves the highlighted bar up one line. └────┘ ┌────┐ │Down│ Moves the highlighted bar down one line. └────┘ A - Z Moves to the options starting with the letter.