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Rap Sheet for Windows Version 1.42 May 25, 1996 Ron V. Webber ym@lightlink.com www.lightlink.com\ym Documentation Version 1.42 is the first release of Rapsheet for Windows. It includes all of the features of Rapsheet version 1.42 for the Atari ST and Rapsheet version 1.42 for DOS, and is even data file format compatible for those running all of these on the same hard drive (using a PC emulator for the ST or using an ST emulator for the PC). It is possible to have all three versions in the same directory so that no matter what operating system you are using you can access a version of Rapsheet and they will all work on the same data files. For those of you who have already registered a previous version, you will find that your registration name and number will work to register the Windows version as well. If you are going to run multiple versions of Rapsheet from the same directory, be sure to read the section near the end of this document on the best ways to make this work properly. What Is Rapsheet? Rap Sheet is a program that helps you keep track of how much time you spend doing various tasks. It can be used to determine a breakdown of your time spent doing various types of things on your computer, which is useful (and required) for those who plan on deducting some of their computer expense from their taxes. It can also be used to keep track of any other time based activities. What Isn't Rapsheet? Rapsheet DOES NOT constantly monitor your work on your computer, logging how much time you spend on each program. It is NOT a terminate-and-stay-resident program. Rapsheet DOES NOT allow you to log events that happened in the past, or to alter records after the fact. This is to make the records more trustworthy. It DOES allow you to alter the amount of time spent on the current task by changing either the amount of time directly or setting the time the current task was stopped. This is for when you stop working but forget to tell Rapsheet about it. (Older versions could be made to do this by changing your system clock before running Rapsheet.) Rapsheet will work with ANY tasks you have to perform, as long as you always tell it when you start any given task, switch to another task, or shut down your computer. What do you need? Rapsheet _Should_ run on any computer that can run Windows 3.1 or higher. It should run perfectly fine under Windows 95, but it will not use the long file names. A 32-bit version may become available if there is sufficient demand. Rapsheet will create the data files it needs when it is running. It requires that all of these data files (which all have the name RAPSHEET, with different extensions) reside in the same place, which is usually the same directory as the RAPSHEET.EXE file, be that floppy or hard disk. Rapsheet will determine where its data files are by looking in the current working directory when it is run. This current working directory is normally the directory where the RAPSHEET.EXE file is located, but does not have to be. By changing the properties of Rapsheet in the program manager you can put your data files in some other place. When first run, Rapsheet will create the RAPSHEET.PRV and RAPSHEET.TSK files. BEFORE you run Rapsheet, you should make sure that the time and date are set correctly, as Rapsheet uses the system clock to find out what day it is and to figure out how long you have been spending on the current task. When first run, Rapsheet will assume that the time is correct. Subsequent runs must be performed at some time in the future. The current time shows up in the upper right hand corner. If it is incorrect, click on the time and you will be prompted for the correct time and date. If, on a future run, Rapsheet determines that the time is now some point in the past, it will ask you for the correct current time and date, so in this way Rapsheet will warn you if you have neglected to reset the clock, or if your batteries have failed. (This is VERY useful if your clock goes all funny all of a sudden, as has happened to me.) Rapsheet IS a Shareware Program. If the program is not registered, a registration screen will be presented every time Rapsheet is run, asking you to type in your name and registration number. To get a registration number, send $20.00 (or more) to Stochastic Systems, P.O. Box 925, Dryden, NY 13053 USA, along with your desired user name (20 characters maximum) and your return address. The user name must be your name or the name of the official user. "Handles" are not allowed, nor are company names. Rapsheet is registered to an individual user, not a company. (Contact Stochastic Systems for information about site licenses.) If you request an invalid user name, the name of whoever sent in the money will be used. Also send the address of the official user. When the $20.00 (or more) is received, the official user will be put on the Stochastic Systems mailing list for upgrade notices, and a registration number will be generated and sent back to the address of the official user. When you receive the registration number, run Rapsheet and type in the official name and registration number on the opening screen and press return. The registration number will be verified and then the program will be registered. The registration screen will no longer appear when you run Rapsheet, and the user name will be put into the main dialog box. DO NOT give away copies of the program once it has been registered. If you wish to give away a copy of Rapsheet, either save a non-registered copy before you register, or create a de-registered copy, as explained below. When you register, please feel free to send any requests for added features. A planned upgrade is for an added customizable report format that will aid in those who use Rapsheet to generate bills for time worked. The availability of upgrades will depend on the response to this program. The same registration number works on both Atari, DOS, and Windows versions of Rapsheet. Development for other platforms will depend on demand. The latest version of the Windows version of Rapsheet is available at the Stochastic Systems website - www.lightlink.com/ym. Other versions may be available depending on demand. Using Rapsheet To run Rapsheet, either use the "RUN" option from the program manager and select RAPSHEET.EXE, run it from file manager, or add an icon for it to some program group in the usual way and then double-click on the icon. Click on the "Not Yet" button on the registration screen if you have not yet registered and wait for the title bar to flash and beep a few times. Note that not all of the features described below will work if you have not registered. If you don't have a mouse, or you prefer to use the keyboard, see the section near the end of this document about Keyboard Shortcuts. Once you are past the registration screen (assuming you are using a non-registered copy) you will be presented with the main Rapsheet dialog box. The top line will welcome you to the program and ask you to select your task. In the middle will be a list of tasks. When you first start out, you will have no tasks on the screen, and will need to create some before you can start using Rapsheet. What Are Tasks? A task is any category of activities that you can imagine. All tasks have a name (up to 60 characters), and a task type number (0 to 99). Names are used to identify tasks and can be such things as "Playing Games", "Typesetting", "Program Development", etc.. The first 25 characters in the name are used for the primary description, and this description will be used when a shorter version of the name is required. The remaining 35 characters in the name are used for the secondary description, and there will be a dash placed between the two in the task list. Type numbers are used to group tasks together so you can determine how much time you spent on different types of activities. One possible grouping is type 0 for entertainment activities, type 1 for system maintenance activities, type 2 for activities for your day job, type 3 for activities for your night job, and type 4 for educational activities. With this sort of breakdown, at the end of the year you can print out a report that not only shows how much time you spent on each task, but how much was for entertainment, how much for work, etc.. This could be very useful if you work for more than one company, and is required if you intend on deducting your computer as a business expense and still want to play games on it. The report breaks down the types by amount of time and by percent of the total time. Adding New Tasks To add a new task, click on the Edit button. You will be presented with an alert box asking if you want to Add a new task, Remove a task, or Modify an existing task. Since you don't have any tasks to modify or remove, click on Add or press Enter (Add is the default button). You will be presented with a dialog box asking you for the name of the task and the type. Any characters can be used for the name, and the type can be any integer from 0 to 99. Note that the name is entered on two lines. The first line, containing 25 characters, contains the portion of the name that will be used when there isn't room for the full name. The second line, containing 35 characters, contains the additional portion of the name that will be used after the first 25 characters when there is room. This box also shows you the total amount of time worked on this task so far, which, since it is a new task, will always be 0 hours and 0 minutes. When you have finished entering the new information, press the Return key or click on the DONE box. If you change your mind and don't want to add a new task, click on the Cancel box or press Escape. You will be returned to the main Rapsheet screen for you to select the new current task. Note that you can only add twenty (20) new tasks during one session of Rapsheet. If you wish to add more than twenty, you will have to exit from Rapsheet by either selecting one of the tasks or remaining on the current task, and then re-run Rapsheet, which will then give you room to add up to twenty more new tasks. If you remove a task, that will add to the available space for new tasks during one session. If you Cancel a session of Rapsheet, anything you did during that session will be forgotten (with the exception of erasing the log file, which we will get to later). Selecting Tasks To select a task, either double-click on the task with the mouse, click on the task and then click on the main buttom (which will have the short name of the task on it), click on the task and then press enter (which activates the main button), or move the cursor to the task using the arrow keys and then press enter. The task will be selected as the current task, and the program will terminate. The next time you run Rapsheet, the top line will show you the name of the current task that you selected the last time you ran Rapsheet. If you are changing to a different task, simply select the new task in the above manner. Rapsheet will log how much time was taken up with the previous task and mark the new task as the current one. Note that Rapsheet remembers the scroll position in the task list from one run to the next, so there may be more tasks both above and below the ones visible on the screen if you have many tasks. Below the task list and the main button (described later) is the "Shut Down The System" button. This button is for use when you are going to stop keeping track of tasks. It marks no task as the current one, and though it does keep the time when you shut down the system, it only uses it to make sure that the clock is set to some time in the future when you next run Rapsheet. To select Shut Down, simply click on it. Note that the current time and date is only recorded when Rapsheet is run. This will be the time and date that the previous task will be logged as being stopped, and the time and date that the current task will be logged as being started. The entire time spent in the Rapsheet program is credited to the task that is selected within the current session. If the Shut Down is used, the time spent between running Rapsheet and selecting Shut Down will not be logged for any task. If you don't want to mark a task as beginning at the time when Rapsheet was run, simply cancel out of Rapsheet and run it again to reset the time to the current time. The purpose of this is so you can start your day by running Rapsheet and have the time it takes for you to choose a starting task be logged as being part of your work time. When something interrupts your current work (a phone call, etc.) you can run Rapsheet to record the current time and then leave Rapsheet idle with this starting time locked in, take care of whatever needs to be done, and then tell Rapsheet what the task was. Between the Shut Down button and the task list is the main button. This is the default button and will be activated if you click on it or press Return. Selecting this button while it says "REMAIN ON CURRENT TASK" leaves the system exactly as it was before you ran Rapsheet and does not update the timer. The difference between selecting "Remain" and simply re-selecting the same current task is best illustrated by an example: At 1:00 you run Rapsheet and tell it that you are now working on Music. Rapsheet sets the current task to Music starting at 1:00. At 2:00 you run Rapsheet. It tells you that you have been working on Music for the last hour. You use the "Remain" button. At 3:00 you run Rapsheet. It tells you that you have been working on Music for the last two hours, since 1:00. It doesn't remember that you called it up at 2:00. You re-select the Music task. Rapsheet updates its log file to increment the Music task by two hours and sets the current task to Music starting at 3:00. At 4:00 you run Rapsheet. It tells you that you have been working on Music for only the last hour. You tell it that you are shutting down the system, and it updates its log file to increment the Music task by one hour and sets the current task to nothing starting at 4:00. If you now wait until 7:00 and run Rapsheet, it will welcome you to Rapsheet and have no task currently set. If you turn off your computer at 4:00, and then turn it on again at 7:00 but the clock isn't set properly, when you run Rapsheet it will ask you for the current date and time since it knows that the time must be some time after 4:00. Rapsheet also keeps track of the date, so it can take care of any amount of time between runs. The algorithm for time between dates will correctly handle all leap years, and is corrected for the special case of no leap year on century years which are not divisible by 400. Unfortunately, this is of no use since Windows can't handle years above 2099 (or below 1980), and the year 2000 will be a leap year (lucky break for some programmers). If operating systems are updated, a fix to this problem will be sent to all registered users before December 31, 2099. Contact Stochastic Systems in 2099 to see if such a fix is available. The main button changes functions if you click on a task other than the current task. When you do this, the main button changes to show the short version of the name of the task that will be selected. If you want to exit from Rapsheet without selecting any task, either move the selection back to the current task or click on the Cancel button. (Clicking on the Cancel button will also forget any changes you made during this session of Rapsheet.) Removing Tasks If you have a task on your list that you don't use, you can remove it from the list. First, click on Edit and then click on "Remove". The top line in the box will be replaced by a prompt for you to select the task to be removed. Select the task in the usual way. Note that the main button will change its caption during this process, telling you that you are selecting a task for removal, not selecting a new current task. Also note that most of the other buttons are not usable during this selection process. Clicking on Cancel will cancel the selection process and leave you in Rapsheet. If you select a valid task, you will be asked to confirm if you want to remove it. If you do, the task will be removed and all tasks after it will be moved to fill in the space. Note: you can not remove the current task, and you can not remove a task that has any time logged to it. This is to keep the percentage of use accurate. See the report section for how to clear the time logged to tasks. Modifying Tasks If you would like to change the name or type of a task, first select Edit and then select Modify. The top line will be replaced by a prompt asking you to select the task to modify. Select the task (see above) and you will be sent to the same box as when you first added the task. You will be allowed to change the name and type of the task, and will be shown the total amount of time spent on this task. You will NOT be allowed to change the amount of time spent on this task, as that would be cheating. When you are done, either press Return or click on the Done box. If you don't want to make the change, click on the Cancel box or press Escape. Note that if you are modifying the current task, the time will include the time from when you started the task to when you ran Rapsheet. Sorting Tasks If you would like to change the order that tasks show up on the screen, there are four sorting selections available above the task list. The options are to sort by name, which will sort the tasks in alphabetical order from A-Z, sort by type, which will sort the tasks in numerical order based on the task numbers from 0-99, sort by size, which will sort the tasks based on the amount of time logged, from highest to lowest, and swap, which will swap two tasks. If you click on one of the three sorts, the task list will be instantly sorted. If you click on "Swap", you must then select two tasks, which will be swapped in position. You can cancel the swap with the Cancel button or by selecting the same task twice. Note that these sorting and swapping features were suggested by a registered user. If you have a feature you would like added, please let us know when you register. Logging A small button in the lower right hand corner selects or de-selects the logging feature. If this button is selected, whenever you select a task, or shut down the system, a note is made in a file called RAPSHEET.LOG. This note contains the current time and date and what just happened. If this file doesn't exist, it will be created for you. Logging can be turned on or off at any time, so if you are going to do something that you don't want to show up in the log, turn off logging, do whatever it was you didn't want logged, and then turn logging back on. Reports Reports list the names of all tasks that have non-zero times, their types, and the total amount of time spent in Hours and Minutes, plus the total amount of time for all tasks. It then lists all types with non-zero times (in numerical order), the total amount of time spent on each type (in Hours and Minutes), and the percentage of the total time. To generate a report, click on the Report button. The report will be generated and shown to the screen. From the report screen you can send a copy of the report to the printer by clicking on the "Print" button. There are also buttons for setting up the printer, saving a copy of the report to a text file, clearing all of the times logged to all of the tasks, and erasing all of the tasks from the task list. Note that you will not be able to send reports to the printer or to a text file until you register your copy. Once you have finished viewing the report, you have three options: Clicking on the "Done" button will take you back to the main screen without making any changes to the task list. Clicking on the "Erase All Tasks" button will first prompt you to confirm, and then remove all task information and take you back to the main screen with an empty task list. If there was a current task, it would not be erased though it would have its time set to zero. Clicking on the "Zero Times" button will first prompt you to confirm, and then set all the times of all the tasks to zero and take you back to the main screen. Make sure you have printed and/or saved your report results before you click on either of these last two buttons. The changes to the task list will become permanant when you exit from Rapsheet by selecting a task or shutting down. If you exit Rapsheet using Cancel, the changes will be forgotten. If you printed the report to the printer, and if a RAPSHEET.LOG file exists, you will be asked if you want to print out the log file. If you select yes, the log will be printed and you will be given the option of erasing the log file. Note that you can only erase the log file after printing it out. This is for your own safety. This also means that you can not erase the log file from within Rapsheet unless you register - though you could always delete the RAPSHEET.LOG file from your disk. When all done, you will be returned to the main Rapsheet screen where you should select the new current task or shut down. If you zeroed the times, you can use the Edit Remove feature to remove those tasks that you no longer need. If you Erased all tasks, you should use the Edit Add feature to add some tasks to the list. If you remain on the same task, and you cleared the times, the task will start timing from when you entered Rapsheet. Safety Features As already mentioned above, if Rapsheet sees a problem with the clock (specifically, if the current time is before the last time Rapsheet was run) it will ask you for the correct time and date. If this really is the correct time and date (say you just set the clock back one hour because of daylight savings time or switching time zones), you can just press Return to accept the new time and date. If you are going to change the time on your computer, you should tell Rapsheet that you are shutting down your system before you change the time. It will still ask you to confirm the new time if you run Rapsheet before the clock has gone past the old time, but at least your task time log will be accurate. If you confirm a new time that is before the old time, and you have a task active, Rapsheet will ask you to confirm the amount of time spent on that task. This time can not be negative. If Rapsheet determines that you have spent more than 8 hours on the current task, it will ask you to confirm that you really worked that long. This usually happens if you forgot to tell Rapsheet that you shut down your computer, and you come back to it the next morning and it thinks you have been working all night. In this case, tell it that you did not work that long and it will then ask you how long you really worked, in hours and minutes. If you forgot to tell Rapsheet when you shut down or switched tasks, you can temporarily change the current time and/or date by clicking on the current time (upper right corner). You can also click on the amount of time spent on the current task (under the heading "Access Time") to change that (only if there IS a current task). Also, if you forgot to tell Rapsheet when you started up in the morning, simply click on the current time and reset it before selecting your first task of the day. Whenever you set the current time, you will be given the option of setting the hardware system clock as well. Using this feature you could build up a whole set of false data, but please be honest, as it will keep your records accurate. Other Uses: You don't have to restrict your use of Rapsheet to just computer activities. You can use Rapsheet as a great billing tool. For example, if you do work for someone who wants a bill that is broken down by activity, you can use Rapsheet to keep track of how much time you spend. When you start, run Rapsheet and tell it what you are doing first (i.e. Cleaning Fish.) When you are done cleaning fish, run Rapsheet again and tell it your next task (i.e. picking up the bosses dry cleaning). Continue this throughout the morning. At lunch, run Rapsheet and tell it you are shutting down the system. After lunch, run Rapsheet and tell it your first task for the afternoon (i.e. practicing flying paper airplanes down the hall). (Note: you may want to give that last task a different type number, depending on your charge per hour for different tasks.) When the salesman arrives you tell Rapsheet that you are talking to salesmen. If the phone rings you tell Rapsheet that you are talking to customers or taking orders, etc.. Rapsheet is designed to be so easy to use that you should just have to do just two double-clicks: once to call up Rapsheet (if you have it installed in program manager) and once to select the task. This should take so little time and become so natural that you will find that you can break down your billing into such minute and mundane parts that the boss won't be able to question what you have been doing. (You may want to modify the name of the paper airplane task before printing out the report.) At the end of the week, or other billing period, you print out the report and use it to present your bill. If you normally work on the same sorts of tasks from one week to the next, you would just zero out the times. If you never know what you will be working on from one week to the next, you would erase all tasks and add them when you need them. You can also feel free to have multiple copies of Rapsheet in different directories, so you can keep track of different types of things at the same time. De-Registering your copy: If (when?) you register your copy, your name will be imbedded in the program and show up near the bottom of the main screen. Once this is done, you are not allowed to give this program to other people, since it is only licensed for your own use. If you have not kept an un-registered copy of Rapsheet (just the RAPSHEET.EXE file), you can create a new one in the following way: 1) Copy RAPSHEET.EXE to a new disk or directory (so you don't lose your registered version) 2) Run the copy of RAPSHEET.EXE 3) Click on the smiling head in the lower left corner. 4) "Bob" will thank you for registering. Click on the "Cancel" button. 5) You will be presented with a message box asking if you want to de-register your copy. If you select Yes, this copy of RAPSHEET.EXE will be de-registered and you can then give copies of it away, as long as it is accompanied by this file (RAPSHEET.DOC). De-registered copies will say that they have not been registered on the bottom of the main screen, and will also start with the registration screen every time they are run. When this non-registered copy is run on a different computer, it will initiate the start of a new trial period on that computer and come up with an empty task list. If you run this non-registered copy on the same computer where you have been running your registered copy, the trial period will have already started from the time you last ran the registered copy. Every time you run the registered copy it resets the start of the trial period to the current time. You should be aware that the trial period is not simply a matter of time - the number of tasks and total amount of time logged to the tasks is also taken into account. If you have a fairly long task list and/or have many hours accumulated in existing tasks and you try to run a non-registered copy with the same task list, you could find that your trial period is over immediately! The solution to this is either to re-register the copy, erase the task list, and then de-register the copy (you can't erase the task list once the trial period has expired) or to delete all the files from the directory except for RAPSHEET.EXE and RAPSHEET.DOC. Known Problems That Can't Be Fixed: 1) Rapsheet modifies itself whenever you register or de-register. It knows where in the RAPSHEET.EXE file to find the values that it needs to change, and it doesn't check to make sure that these locations are correct. Therefore, if you modify the size or position of any of these locations by running Rapsheet through a compressor program, and then try to modify Rapsheet, you will end up with a trashed copy of Rapsheet. You SHOULD be able to compress Rapsheet once you have registered it, but you should keep a non-compressed copy around just in case. Since this would defeat the purpose of compressing the file (to save disk space), such compression is not recommended, unless the compression program was capable of de-compressing the program into EXACTLY the same file and you did this BEFORE modifying Rapsheet. This same warning applies to ANY other program that modifies itself. This warning only applies to file compression utilities. Disk compression programs shouldn't cause any more problems with Rapsheet than they do normally. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cautions For Those Using Multiple Versions Of Rapsheet In The Same Directory Since the Atari executable has the file name RAPSHEET.PRG, it will not interfere with having a RAPSHEET.EXE file in the same directory, but if you try to use both the Windows and DOS versions in the same directory there will be a conflict as they both are normally named RAPSHEET.EXE. To solve this conflict, I recommend either of the following: 1) Put the windows version of RAPSHEET.EXE in some other directory and set the working directory to the place where the DOS version and all the data files are located. This means that you can only run Rapsheet from the Program Manager, which will use the working directory, and if you run Rapsheet from File Manager or in some other way it won't be able to find the current task list. The Windows version is capable of finding itself for registration and de-registration even with a redirected working directory, so this won't cause any problem with registration. 2) Rename the Windows version to RAPWIN.EXE (or something like that). It normally doesn't matter what name the program is, except when registering and deregistering, when the executable file is modified. The DOS version will always modify a file called RAPSHEET.EXE, so you should leave it with that name. If you renamed the DOS version to something else and left the Windows version named RAPSHEET.EXE, the DOS version would attempt to modify the Windows version when registering or de-registering and would mess it up. The Windows version will modify the file that is currently being executed, so you can safely rename it and still register or deregister it. If you de-register a copy to give to a friend, you should rename it RAPSHEET.EXE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Using Keyboard Shortcuts: Most buttons have keyboard shortcuts, so whenever you are told to "click on the X button", you can usually also press the shortcut key. When the focus is on the task list (as it is when you start Rapsheet), you will need to hold down the "Alt" key when pressing the shortcut key. When the focus is not on the task list, you can usually just pressure shortcut key. The focus can be shifted using the Tab key, or using the arrow keys when the focus is not on the task list. (When the focus is on the task list, the arrow keys will move the selection within the task list.) The shortcut key is the letter that is underlined in the button name. The shortcut for the main button is the return key. The shortcut for the Cancel button is the Esc key. Note that the "Not Yet" button on the registration screen does not have a shortcut key, nor can you get to it using the Tab key. This is done intentionally to give you an added incentive to register. If your mouse isn't working, you can get to the "Not Yet" key by tabbing the focus to the "Register" button and then using the arrow key to move over to the "Not Yet" button. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes on using the unregistered program: Rapsheet was designed to be easy to use and provide a useful service for registered users. Before it is registered, its sole purpose is so you can evaluate it and determine if it is useful for you. If you don't have a need for Rapsheet, you should be able to determine this quite soon after you try it. After using Rapsheet for a while without registering it, some of the functions will stop working. The longer you attempt to use Rapsheet without registering it, the more it will stop working. Which functions stop will depend on how many tasks you have, how many hours have been logged to the tasks, and other things. This will especially be true on Mondays and Friday afternoons. Once the program is registered, all the features will work again. If you are going to de-register a copy, make sure you copy the RAPSHEET.EXE file to a different directory that doesn't have any support files or empty task list when you de-register it. When you first run an un-registered copy of Rapsheet on your computer, it tells your computer to remember the time and date of this first run, and it automatically starts with an empty task list. This is used to limit the amount of time you can use the un-registered version. When you run a registered version of Rapsheet, it tells your computer that you are now a registered user and that it can forget about keeping track of your use of the un-registered version, so everything will start working again. Because of this, if you then de-register a copy of Rapsheet or run an un-registered copy it will act as if it is the first time it has been run, and thus erase the task list. If you de-register a copy of Rapsheet and then run this de-registered copy from the same directory where you have your current task list, it may erase your current task list. If you see an empty task list where you think you should be seeing a full task list, use Cancel to exit from Rapsheet so that it doesn't write the empty task list to the disk. This is an artifact of the un-registered time limitation system. Unfortunately, such a time limitation system has been shown to be necessary to achieve enough registrations to make shareware programming viable. If there is enough demand for it (from registered users) this may be removed in the future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Other products from Stochastic Systems: CheckFiles - Lets you know what changes have happened on your system by keeping a small file in every directory (you can choose which ones) that holds the name, date, time, size, and checksum of every file in the directory. Gives you a list of all files that have been added, deleted, or changed since the last run of CheckFiles. Also warns you when a file's checksum has changed without the time, date, or size changing - this could be a sign of corruption. Very useful for running before a backup and before and after a defrag. For Windows 3.1 and higher. 32-bit version coming soon to handle long file names (and be about 30% faster on some systems). Coming Soon (maybe): The Too Many Notes Tune Editor. At the forefront of CAMP (Computer Aided Music Performance). Allows you to create musical performances that sound exactly the way you would have played them if you had the talent to play them that way. Requires the ability to read music and a sense of rhythm, but not necessarily at the same time (or by the same person). Any suggestions for these and other products would be appreciated (depending on the suggestion). Address all correspondence and money to: Stochastic Systems P.O. Box 925 Dryden, NY 13053 USA Email: ym@lightlink.com http://www.lightlink.com/ym This document is copyright 1996 by Stochastic Systems and is for duplication only when accompanied by the RAPSHEET.EXE file in its non-registered form.