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QBook Recipe Manager Version 1.00 User's Guide Copyright (C) 1989-1994 by Robert J. Butler All Rights Reserved Robert J. Butler 2023 38th Street NW Rochester, MN 55901 QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:2 Table of Contents WHAT IS QBOOK?..................................................3 QBook's Features:............................................3 LICENSE.........................................................4 STANDARD DISCLAIMER.............................................4 INSTALLATION....................................................5 GETTING HELP....................................................5 STARTING QBOOK..................................................6 USING QBOOK.....................................................7 Adding Recipes................................................7 QBook's Recipe Editor.......................................8 Entering Recipes............................................9 Display a Recipe.............................................10 Print an Index...............................................11 View all of the Titles.......................................11 Search for Recipes...........................................12 Import Recipes...............................................13 THE IMPORT SCREEN..............................................14 THE TITLE VIEW SCREEN..........................................15 CONFIGURING QBOOK..............................................17 Display Options..............................................17 Printer Configuration........................................17 Editor Options...............................................18 Recipe Storage Options.......................................19 Data File Directories........................................20 QBook Utilities..............................................20 Registration Information.....................................20 TECHNICAL INFORMATION..........................................21 REGISTRATION FORM..............................................22 QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:3 What is QBook? QBook is a program which helps you maintain a database of recipes. It is designed to flexible, powerful and easy to use. QBook's Features: - Recipes can be typed in any format you want or no format at all - Stored recipes can optionally be automatically compressed to save disk space. - Recipes can be easily imported to the database from a variety of sources including recipes captured from on-line services and BBS's and recipes scanned and converted with OCR. - Recipes can be easily exported from QBook to a text file for easy sharing with others. - The database can be searched using AND/OR/NOT operations - Recipes can be added and edited using either QBook's built- in editor or your favorite ASCII editor or word processor. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:4 License QBook is Shareware. It is NOT Public Domain software and it is NOT free software. The program QBook, this document and the help screens displayed within QBook are all Copyright (C) 1994 by Robert J. Butler. All rights reserved. You may use, copy and distribute QBook only under the following conditions: Non-registered users have a limited license to use QBook on their systems for an evaluation period of thirty days. Any use beyond this period requires that QBook be registered with the author. QBook may not be modified in any way for any reason. This includes, but is not limited to, removal of the opening "reminder" screen. The only legal way to remove this screen is to register the program. You may distribute QBook to others under the following conditions: 1) You distribute only the Shareware version and do not distribute the registration key or any programs or utilities that are provided to registered users. 2) The program is distributed in its original form and with its original files. You may, however, change from one compressed format to another (i.e.: from ZIP to ARC) provided all files are kept in the compressed file. 3) If you charge to distribute the program, you must CLEARLY AND EXPLICITLY STATE to your customers that the fee you charge does not register the program, and that they are still required to register the program with the author if they use it beyond the evaluation period. Standard Disclaimer QBook is provided AS IS with no expressed or implied warranties. Use QBook at your own risk. The author will not be liable for any damages or loss of data resulting either directly or indirectly from the use of the program. The author will not be responsible if the program fails to operate as desired by the user or as described in this manual or the help screens. The author intends to provide support for QBook and has every intention of providing updates and bug fixes. There is, however, no obligation on his part to do so. Put simply, the program comes with absolutely no guarantees. The program has been thoroughly tested, but it is always possible to miss something. Always keep backups of your data. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:5 Installation To install QBook, copy the file QBOOK.EXE, MESSAGES.QBK, MESSAGES.IDX and QBOOK.HLP to whatever disk and subdirectory you desire (i.e.: C:\QBOOK) The standard installation should work well for most users. QBook's internal editor will be used for creating and editing recipes, and recipes will be stored in compressed form using QBook's internal compression routines. If you are running QBook on a disk drive that uses a disk compression technology (such as Stac Electronics' Stacker), you may want to turn off compression (See "Configuring QBook"). Once you are comfortable with QBook, you may want to explore some of the advanced configuration options (See "Configuring QBook"). Getting Help QBook has two levels of help. "Help Mode", which can be turned on and off using the F1 key, gives you a brief description of each menu option on the main set of popup menus. QBook also has a fairly extensive context-sensitive help system which provides help for each of the functions QBook provides. Much of the help information duplicates what is found in this user's guide, but is much more accessible. Unless QBook is busy printing or reading or writing to the disk, the Alt-F1 key combination will almost always pop up a help screen. Many help screens have more than one page, and you can see additional information by pressing the Page Down (marked PGDN) key. Each help screen is linked to related help topics, you can select the topic you wish to view with the arrow keys and then press ENTER. Part of the help system is an Overview of QBook. This overview gives you a brief description of each of QBook's features. It is recommended that you read the overview before using QBook for the first time. The Help Index is selectable from all of the help screens except the overview screens and lists all of the help topics that are available. Another key that is useful is the ESCAPE key. This key will get you out of wherever you are and pressing it repeatedly will eventually bring you to the main screen. Pressing escape from the main screen will cause QBook to ask you if you are sure you want to exit. If you do, press Y, if not, press N. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:6 Starting QBook Type QBOOK at the DOS prompt. The first time you run QBook, it will ask you "Is this the first time you have run QBook?" It does this because it was unable to find QBook's configuration file (which contains information on how you want the program to work). If you answer 'Y' to this question, QBook will initialize itself by creating its configuration and index files. Once it has initialized, QBook will automatically display a help window which will allow you to walk through a brief overview/tutorial. QBook accepts three command line parameters. If you have an older color adapter and the screen flickers when QBook runs, you can turn on CGA snow checking by typing "QBOOK /S+" at the DOS prompt QBook normally writes direct to video memory. This is a fast method of displaying information on the screen, but occasionally causes problems (for example in an older multitasking environment). If you want QBook to use BIOS screen writes instead of direct screen writes, type "QBOOK /B+" at the DOS prompt. Both snow checking and BIOS writes can be turned on permanently (see Configuring QBook). The final command line parameter tells QBook that you want to make configuration changes before it tries to load its data files. For example, if you move the data files to a different directory in DOS instead of letting QBook move them for you, QBook will not know where to find them. You can type "QBOOK /CFG" at the DOS prompt and you will go directly to the configuration menu where you can make your changes. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:7 Using QBook Adding Recipes A "recipe" to QBook can be anything at all. It doesn't need to be instructions for preparing a food item. For example, if you have a lot of cookbooks with favorite recipes, rather than typing them into QBook you can simply add a "recipe" that is a reference to the page number in your cookbook. This way you can utilize the searching capabilities of QBook without having to type in recipes that you already have somewhere else. Other ideas are to store conversion tables or titles of cookbooks that you'd like to find someday. QBook makes them easy to find when you need them. To add a recipe, simply choose the option from the main menu. When you add a recipe, QBook creates a temporary file called RECIPE##.###, where ##,### is the number of the recipe being created. If you create a file named TEMPLATE.QBK and place it in your data directory, QBook will use that as a template (everything in it will be copied to your new recipe prior to loading the editor) when you create a new recipe. If it is not found, QBook will put create a file with a "Title:" line and a "Keyword:" line for you. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:8 QBook's Recipe Editor Unless you have configured an external editor, QBook will use its internal editor for adding and editing recipes. This is a fairly simple editor, but it should be sufficient for most users. The editor will automatically wrap text at the column number you specified when you chose the internal editor (column 75 if you never changed it). The internal editor understands the following keys: Movement: : : Arrow keys: Move the cursor one character up, down, left or right Ctrl-right Ctrl-left: Move the cursor left or right one word Home/End: Move the cursor to the beginning or end of the current line PgUp/PgDn: Move to the next/previous page of the recipe Ctrl-PgUp Ctrl-PgDn: Move to the beginning or end of the recipe Deletion: : : Backspace: Delete the character immediately to the left of the cursor Del: Delete the character under the cursor Ctrl-End: Delete from the cursor to the end of the current line Ctrl-Y: Delete the current line Ctrl-T: Delete the word to the right of the cursor Ctrl-R: Delete the word to the left of the cursor Ins: Toggle between overtype and insert modes Other: : : F7: Record a sequence of keystrokes (F7 again to stop recording) F8: Playback the recorded sequence of keystrokes Alt-B: Reformat the current paragraph to the margins specified in the configuration Alt-S: Save the recipe Alt-X/Esc: Quit the editor, prompt to save if the current recipe is unsaved. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:9 Entering Recipes One of QBook's advantages is that recipes can be formatted any way you desire. In order to index your recipes, however, QBook requires that you type in a title and keywords for the recipe. The first thing you should do is type in the title of the recipe you are adding. If you want to take advantage of QBook's indexing and searching capabilities, the next thing you should do is add keywords, which are used by QBook to search for a recipe. You do this by typing "Keywords: " (if it isn't already there) on line two and then typing in your keywords separated by commas. If you have too many keywords to fit on a line (80 characters across), just add another line beginning with "Keywords: ". Do not put a comma at the end of a keywords line, even if there are more keywords on the next line. Choosing keywords carefully makes it much easier for you to find the recipe you are looking for. QBook doesn't have the capability to search ingredients or the text of the recipe, so it is a good idea to list major ingredients as keywords. The best way to choose keywords is to think in terms of an index in a cookbook: What would you look under if you wanted to find this recipe and couldn't remember the title? You can have as many keywords as you want. Only the first 60 characters of a keywords or title are indexed. Once you have entered your title and keywords, all you need to do is type in your recipe. Each line of your recipe should be less than 80 characters. Once you are done, save the file and exit the editor. QBook will add the recipe to the index and move the temporary recipe file into a compressed data file and then delete it. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:10 Display a Recipe To display a recipe, choose the option from the main menu, type the recipe number and press Enter. You can also display recipes from the title view screen by selecting the desired title with the arrow keys and choosing Display from the menu (see Viewing Titles and Searching for Recipes). When a recipe is displayed, the title, recipe number and keywords are displayed on top. This header information does not scroll, the rest of the recipe can be scrolled with the Up, Down, PGUP and PGDN, Home and End keys. The Up and Down arrow keys scroll up or down one line at a time, PGUP and PGDN scroll a whole page at a time. Home displays the first page of the recipe, End displays the last. A flashing '*' next to the title of the recipe indicates that there are more than one recipe with the same title in the database (see Locating Duplicate Recipes). A flashing '+' at the end of the keywords line indicates that there are more keywords than can be displayed on a single line. The bottom two lines of the display screen are a menu listing the display options. The options are as follows: Edit: Edit the displayed recipe with the editor. This option allows you to make changes to the displayed recipe. When you exit the editor, QBook will update its indexes and replace the old copy of the recipe in the compressed data file. Print: Print the displayed recipe. QBook will prompt you for the printer setup to use and the output device or file to send the recipe to. See Configuring QBook for information on printer setups. Export: Write the displayed recipe to a disk file with begin and end markers so that it can be easily imported into another QBook database and/or posted to an electronic Bulletin Board. Keywords: Display all of the keywords in the recipe and allow you to add, delete or change them. Title: Edit the title of the recipe. Delete: Delete the displayed recipe from the database. You will be asked to verify the deletion. + and -: These options only appear when you choose display from the Title View screen. They allow you to step through the list of titles without returning to the Title View Screen between recipes. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:11 Print an Index There are three types of indexes that can be printed: titles, keywords and combined. The title index lists all titles in alphabetical order, along with the recipe numbers (which are assigned in order as you add or import recipes). The keyword index lists the titles alphabetically, but grouped by keywords. For example: The keyword "Candies" would be listed followed by an indented list of the titles of all recipes containing that keyword. Recipe titles are ONLY listed under the appropriate keywords, if a recipe does not contain any keywords, it WILL NOT BE PRINTED in the keyword index. The combined index, as the name suggests, is a combination of the keyword index and the title index. The combined index resembles a good cookbook index where you can look up either a keyword or a title. Titles appear in boldface in the alphabetical listing along with the keywords, they also appear in the indented list of each keyword that the recipe is indexed under. View all of the Titles View all of the Titles will display QBook's Title View screen with all recipes displayed. This screen consists of a list of recipe titles with a menu across the bottom. Choosing this option is identical to choosing Search for Recipes and entering a blank search string. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:12 Search for Recipes Search for Recipes will Display a popup window which allows you to enter a search string and modify the search options. The search string is a word or partial word that you want QBook to locate in the index. A blank search string matches all of the recipes and is identical to choosing View all of the Titles from the main menu. You have three options when searching the index: Quick Search: Quick search uses a very fast search method to find recipes. However, only those recipes where the search string matches the beginning of a title or keyword will be matched. For example, if you search on "Chicken", "Chicken Stir Fry" would match, but "Stir Fried Chicken" would not. Careful use of keywords can give you the speed advantage of Quick Search and still give you flexible searches. For example, if you gave "Stir Fried Chicken" a keyword of "Chicken" it would have matched in the above example. If you turn Quick Search Off, QBook examines each entry in the index and matches all recipes where the search string appears anywhere in the title or keyword. In the above example, Full Search WOULD match "Stir Fried Chicken, even if you didn't give it a keyword of "Chicken". Full Search is much slower than quick search, but gives you more matches if the keywords are not detailed enough. Search Titles: This option tells QBook to include a recipe when its title matches the search. This is normally set to Yes. Search Keywords: This option tells QBook to include a recipe when one of its keywords matches the search. This is normally set to yes. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:13 Import Recipes When you choose the Import Recipes option from the main menu, you will be prompted for a file name to import. Once you have entered a file name, the Import screen will be displayed. Importing and exporting provide an easy way of exchanging recipes. When you export a recipe, QBook writes the recipe, its title and all its keywords into a file along with lines that mark the beginning and end of the recipe. The markers are necessary because one file can contain many exported recipes and QBook needs to be able to tell where one recipe ends and another begins. An exported recipe isn't formatted in any special way, aside from the begin and end markers. Exporting provides an easy way to exchange recipes. Just give a file of exported recipes to someone, either on floppy disks or by uploading to a computer bulletin board system (BBS), and that person can quickly import all of the recipes into his or her copy of QBook. Exported recipes can also be posted as messages on a computer BBS and other users can save them and import them. Importing is the complement of exporting. When you import a recipe, QBook reads a file that has been exported by someone else and adds the recipe to your database without you having to type the recipe in. QBook understands the export format of several recipe databases, but sometimes you will need to interactively import recipes by telling QBook where a recipe begins and ends. QBook allows you to either quickly import all delimited recipes in a file, or to scan through a text file and interactively mark and edit keywords and titles prior to importing a recipe. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:14 The Import Screen The import screen can be in several different modes, depending on the previous options you have chosen you may be in Scan mode, Clip mode, or Recipe Display mode. The following options are common to all of the modes: Find: Find the next recipe which is delimited with begin and end markers. Begin: Make the cursor line the first line of the recipe, clipping out all lines above it. End: Make the cursor line the last line of the recipe, clipping out all lines below it. Global: Import all delimited recipes in the import file starting at the cursor location. If a recipe is currently being displayed in recipe display mode, it will be imported even if the cursor is not at the top of the recipe. Scan mode is the mode you are in when you fist see the Import screen. The entire import file can be scrolled by using the cursor keys. You have the following additional option when in Scan Mode: Remember: This is used if you want QBook to include a line of text that is not included in the delimited part of the recipe. For example, if you are importing recipes captured from a BBS and want to remember who posted the recipe, you could "Remember" the From line of the message and QBook would append it to the recipe when you import it. The remembered line is displayed at the bottom of the screen, just above the menu bar. To delete a remembered line, simply "Remember" a blank line. QBook enters Clip Mode when you have marked either the beginning or end of a recipe, but not both. In addition to the options listed above, you also have the following new option: Unmark: This option will return you to scan mode, again allowing you to view the entire import file. Finally, Recipe View Mode is entered when you have either used the "Find" function to locate a delimited recipe, or you have marked both begin and end lines of a recipe. The "Remember" option is not available, but the "Unmark" option is. You also have the following new options: Keywords: Display all of the keywords in the recipe and allow you to add, delete or change them. Title: Edit the title of the displayed recipe. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:15 The Title View Screen On the Title View screen, you can use the up and down arrow keys, the PgUp, PgDn, Home and End keys to move through the list. Home and End will move you to the top or bottom recipe on the current screen. If pressed a second time, they will move you to the first or last recipe respectively. You may also move directly to a recipe by typing in its number. Pressing the space bar will mark or unmark the currently highlighted recipe so that you can perform a function on a group of recipes at the same time. Your menu choices are as follows: Display: Display the currently highlighted recipe. Print: Print all marked recipes. QBook will prompt you for the printer setup to use and the output device or file to send the recipes to. See Configuring QBook for information on printer setups. If no recipes are marked, the currently highlighted recipe will be printed. Export: Write all of the marked recipes to a disk file with begin and end markers so that they can be easily imported into another QBook database and/or posted to an electronic Bulletin Board.. If no recipes are marked, the currently highlighted recipe will be exported. Delete: Delete all of the marked recipes from the database (you will have an opportunity to cancel). If no recipes are marked, the currently highlighted recipe will be deleted. Mark: Mark all recipes in the list so they can be printed, exported or deleted. UnMark: Unmark all marked recipes. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:16 Search: The search option allows you to narrow or broaden the your list of recipes by searching on additional keywords/titles. The search options will be the same as those you used the last time you chose Search for Recipes from the main menu. You have three search methods: AND: An AND search will narrow the list to all the recipes in the current search group that also match the also match the new search string. OR: An OR search will expand the list by searching the whole QBook index and adding all recipes that match the new search string to the currently displayed list. NOT: A NOT search will locate all recipes in the currently displayed list that match the search string and remove them from the currently displayed list. Flag UnFlag: This option is used to toggle marking of potential duplicate recipes with a flashing '*'. You may then use the '*' menu option to locate all recipes with the same title and display them to determine if they are indeed duplicates. *: This option is only available when in duplicate flagging mode. If you press it when a recipe marked with a flashing '*' is highlighted, you will be shown a list of all recipes that have that title. 0-9: Typing a number will pop up a prompt asking you for the recipe number to jump to. If the recipe is in the current list, the list will scroll immediately to that recipe. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:17 Configuring QBook The first time you use QBook, it will set up the default configuration and display the configuration menu so you can make whatever customizations you desire. The configuration menu has the following choices: Display Options The Display Options menu choice allows you to choose between three built in color schemes (one monochrome and two color) or to create your own. You may also set options to prevent "snow" on a CGA display or to force video to be in BIOS mode, which may solve compatibility problems with older multitaskers or speech equipment. Printer Configuration The Printer Configuration menu choice allows you to set up descriptions and formatting sequences for up to five "printers". A printer is any output device, including files on disk or the display. The default configuration has four pre- configured printers - Epson on LPT1, HP laser on LPT2, disk file and screen. You may need to change the printer ports if your system differs. QBook also allows you to change the output device each time you print something. This would allow you to print an index with HP Laser escape sequences to a disk file, for example, without requiring a separate printer setup for both printer and disk. QBook always expects to be able to print 80 columns across, if you make any changes to the standard printer configuration, make sure your paper width, margins and print pitch provide 80 columns for text. The following configuration options are available: Description: This is the name of the printer configuration you are editing. All available printer setups will be presented in a popup menu whenever you print a recipe or index. Output to: This tells QBook where to send the printout. It may be a printer port (PRN, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, COM1, COM2...), a disk file (RECIPE.PRN, INDEX.PRN) or it may be left blank. If left blank, output will be displayed on the screen. Page Length: This is the number of lines the printer is capable of printing on a single sheet of paper. It tells QBook where to put the page breaks. If you do not want page breaks, set this to zero. If you are printing to the screen, this option is ignored. Margins Top/Bottom: This tells QBook how many lines to leave at the top and bottom of each page. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:18 Init DeInit: These are the printer codes QBook sends before starting the printout and after printing is complete. These might be used to switch a printer into and out of compressed type mode to print on recipe cards, for example. Printer codes must be entered as ASCII values separated by spaces. For example,. ESC-B would be entered as "27 66". Bold On Bold Off: These are the printer codes QBook sends to print text in bold and to turn bold off. As with Init and DeInit, they should be entered as ASCII values separated by spaces. Editor Options This option allows you to specify the editor QBook will start when you want to edit or add recipes. Unless you change this option, QBook will use its own built in editor. Your other choices are to use MS-DOS's EDIT or SemWare's Qedit. You can also specify the editor of your choice by selecting "Customized Editor". To enter a customized editor, enter the command you normally type to start your editor except replace the file name with a "%F". For example, if your editor is called "B", you would enter "B %F" and QBook would then start "B" when you want to edit a recipe. If your editor is not in your system path, you need to specify the fully qualified path so that QBook can find it. For example, if B.EXE is in the directory c:\editor, you would enter "C:\EDITOR\B.EXE %F" as your editor command. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:19 Recipe Storage Options These options tell QBook how to store your recipe files. Unless you change things, QBook will store your recipes in files of 100 recipes each, using its own internal compression routines. The compression technique QBook uses is very fast and does a fairly good job of compressing text files. Overall, you should see a 25-30% reduction in size. If you are using "disk doubling" technology such as Stacker or DoubleSpace, you will probably gain better compression and better performance by turning off compression completely. You should see about a 50% compression ratio or better. If you are not using a program like Stacker or DoubleSpace, and you would like to save more disk space than you do with QBook's internal compression, you can use an external data compression program such as PKZIP, LHARC or ARJ. These programs can achieve 30-50% data compression, but performance may suffer significantly. QBook comes with options for each of the three compression programs mentioned above, or you can use another by choosing the Customized Compression option from the menu and entering the appropriate commands. You will need to enter the commands needed to get or extract a file from the archive, put a file into an archive, move a file into an archive (deleting the original) and delete a file from an archive. You will also need to enter the default file extension used by the archive program you are configuring. For each command, replace the name of the archive file with a %A and the name of the file being worked with with a %F. You might want to choose one of the preconfigured commands and modify it to use your program instead. As with the editor command, if the program is not in your system path, you need to enter the fully qualified path name. You may also choose to change the number of recipes QBook stores in each compressed file. Your choices are 20, 50, 100, 200 and 1000. Smaller files tend to be faster (especially with external compression programs) but have more overhead, which may reduce their compression ratio. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:20 Data File Directories Choosing this option allows you to tell QBook where to put its data files. Usually, these directories would be subdirectories below QBook's main directory. The three types of files QBook needs to store are Datafiles, which are the main index files and QBook's help files, the Work files, which are files created during a QBook session but which are not permanent (a RAM disk is a good choice for a Work Directory), and Archive files, which are the files QBook uses to store recipes in compressed form. If you make changes, QBook will create the directories if necessary, and ask if you'd like to move the existing files to their new location. Normally you would choose Yes, unless you have previously moved them yourself. QBook Utilities The QBook utilities are used to repair or rebuild an index if you start having problems with your database. Normally, this will not be necessary, but if you lose power during the middle of a disk operation, or have a partial disk failure, you may need to repair your index files. The Repair option simply checks the index files for possible problems and attempts to fix them. It does not compare the index files to the actual recipe files. The Rebuild option will completely re-create the index files by looking at each recipe file and re-indexing it as if you had just added it to your database. The Keyword Maintenance option allows you to edit change all occurrences of one keyword to another. For example, if you have some recipes with the keyword "Chicken" and some with the keyword "Poultry" and want to change them all to "Poultry", this is where you would do so. Registration Information Once you have registered QBook, you can enter your name and registration key here, and QBook will stop nagging you to register every time you start the program. It will still display a status screen each time you start it, but any key will bypass the screen. You may also put anything on the command line and the screen will not be displayed at all once you have registered. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:21 Technical Information QBook was written in C++ using Borland C++ version 3.1. The screen library used is Mike Smedley's Shareware function library, CXL (version 5.2). Some of the database routines are from Mix Software's C/Database Toolchest. The internal editor is based on code from Dlugosz Software's C Editor Toolbox. The internal compression routines are adapted from the book "The Data Compression Book" by Mark Nelson. QBook's data files QBook creates three index files. ENTRIES.QBK is used by QBook to track how many recipes are in the database and the recipe numbers that are in use. TITLES.QBK is list of recipe titles used for quick lookup. It contains as many 61 byte records as you have recipes. KEYWORD.QBK and KEYWORD.IDX are the main index files used by QBook.Their size depends on the number of recipe titles and keywords. These files are stored in the DATA directory defined in configuration. All of these can be recreated with the Rebuild utility option if they become damaged. The files MESSAGES.IDX and MESSAGES.QBK are used by QBook to store informational messages. QBOOK.HLP is QBook's help file for online documentation. The optional file, TEMPLATE.QBK contains text that QBook will use as the base text for all new recipes that are created. See Adding Recipes for additional information. All of these files are in the DATA directory. QBook expects to find the file QBOOK.CFG either in the current working directory or in the same directory as QBOOK.EXE. This file contains the configuration information for QBook. Recipes are given a name of the form: RECIPE##.###, where ##,### is the recipe number from 1 to 65,535. These files normally won't be present except as temporary work files (they are kept in the archive files), but if you reboot or lose power while using QBook, they may be there. They will be moved to the proper archive file the next time you run QBook. These files are stored in the WORK directory. Finally, the REC##### files contain the RECIPE##.### files. The extension of these files depends on the compression tool you use (internal compression and no compression both create two files with extensions of .QBK and .IDX). These files are stored in the ARCHIVE directory. QBook maintains all these files for you, so all you need to do is back them up regularly in case of disk failure or human error. Make sure you get all the archive files AND the TITLES, KEYWORD and ENTRIES files when you back up the data. QBook Version 1.00 User's Guide Page:22 Registration Form QBook is Shareware. If you use it beyond the thirty day evaluation period, you must register it. For $20 (US) you will receive a registration key which will disable the opening nag screen. If you would like a diskette containing the current version of QBook, please send a self- addressed, stamped diskette mailer and a formatted diskette along with your registration. Please send your registration to: Robert J. Butler 2023 38th St. NW Rochester, MN 55901 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - QBook 1.00 registration form Name:__________________________________________ Address:____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ EMail address (if any):_______________________________ ____ Copies of QBook @ $20 each: $__________ Comments/Problems: