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- INTRODUCTION 2
- INSTALLATION 3
- LOADING PENNYWISE 5
- OPENING NEW & EXISTING FILES 6
- USING THE MENUS & GADGETS 7
- ENTERING, EDITING & SAVING DATA 10
- DEFINING THE ACCOUNT 11
- PAYEES & PAYERS 12
- TRANSACTION TYPES 13
- COST CENTRES 14
- TRANSACTIONS 15
- SELECTING TRANSACTIONS 16
- RECONCILIATION 17
- GENERATING REPORTS 18
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- PENNYWISE USER MANUAL
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Pennywise is a small 'Cashbook' program for the AMIGA. Use it to keep
- track of the financial transactions of a cheque, bank, business or similar
- account. Benefits of using a computer based 'Cashbook' are proportional
- to the quality and quantity of the data entry. For exam-ple, if you only
- have one or two transactions a week, benefits from using 'PennyWise' will
- most certainly be few. Conversely, if you have many entries each week,
- the rewards will be great as will the time you'll save around July/
- August each year. (I feel one of the great strengths of Pennywise is its
- Report Generator).
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- Pennywise's intended audience is the self-employed tradesman or perhaps
- those of you with more than one source of income. None of the demands
- a larger, more flexible double entry accounts system might make are
- evident. Throughout Pennywise takes advantage of the Amiga's Intuition
- interface to make life easy at the data entry stage. There are no 'codes'
- or ID numbers to remember and typing is kept to a minimum.
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- PENNYWISE INSTALLATION
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- First, if you are serious about using PENNYWISE, make a backup of the
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- PENNYWISE allows you to maintain your data in any directory, by any
- file name. This simplifies installation somewhat. If you are using
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- STANDARD AMIGA DISK DRIVES, the disk containing PENNYWISE and
- the HELP directory must be named 'PENNYWISE'. Failing that, you must
- ASSIGN (from the CLI) 'PENNYWISE:' to the disk where the HELP
- directory resides. Otherwise PENNYWISE will not find the HELP files!
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- HARD DISK OWNERS should create a directory of a suitable name, and
- place 'PENNYWISE' and the HELP directory in it. You must then ASSIGN
- 'PENNYWISE:' to that directory!
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- Assuming you have created a directory called 'PW' on your HARD DRIVE
- 'DH0:' for this purpose, the best place to make the assignment is in the
- Startup-sequence. Somewhere after the hard-disk is MOUNTED place the
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- ASSIGN PENNYWISE: DH0:PW
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- GAINING MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE (SPEED):
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- MICRO FLOPPY DISK USERS are advised to increase the buffer size
- of the drive where the PENNYWISE data will be maintained. I found
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- Once again, the startup sequence is the best place to do this. If the
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- ADDBUFFERS DF1: 40
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- Alternatively, and only if you have a MEGABYTE or more of memory and
- Workbench 1.3, you might consider installing 'RAD:' and keeping your
- data directory in it.(don't forget to copy the data back to disk before
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- HARD DRIVE USERS will be able to take advantage of a special version
- of PENNYWISE (only available to shareware subscribers) which maintains
- its index files on disk.This approach is impractical (too slow) with
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- You should also prepare a directory in which you will keep the Pennywise
- data files. If you are using floppy disk drives only you might consider
- formatting a new disk for the data files.
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- Then (and this applies to Hard disk users as well) duplicate the 'Empty'
- drawer on your workbench. Rename the 'Copy Of Empty' to something
- reflecting the name of your Pennywise Data Files. Finally, drag the
- renamed directory to the data disk or to some convenient place on your
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- THE T: Directory Assignment
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- The Report Generator in PW needs the assignment to a directory t:
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- ASSIGN T: SYS:T
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- If it is not there you must ensure a suitable assignment is made. I like to
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- ASSIGN T: RAM:
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- A good starting point would be MEGADISK or the AMIGADOS manual.
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- However, here are the steps to satisfy PENNYWISE's hunger for a T:
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- 5) To through the instructions and look for ASSIGN T: xxxxx where
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- ASSIGN T: RAM:
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- STARTING PENNYWISE
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- Once you have made a back up of the distribution disk and installed
- Pennywise, you will want to start the program. Pennywise is started from
- the Amiga Workbench. Find the Pennywise Icon, move the mouse pointer
- over it and Double Click the left mouse button. Pennywise should load.
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- Pennywise uses its own SCREEN.SS 1TFx1 The initial welcome message is
- cancelled by moving the mouse pointer over the message and clicking the
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- The welcome message is followed by a requester inviting you to either
- lookup the HELP files or open a 'Pennywise' data file.
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- At this time you may care to select the 'Help' option. A large, blue
- requester appears in the middle of the window. Within it are displayed
- the topics covered. Select a topic by moving the Mouse cursor over it
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- 'Help' files are displayed in a simple text-reader. There are two
- gadgets at the bottom of the text-reader to move around a 'Help' file
- that is larger than the window can accommodate- Previous Page & Next
- Page. Select and click whichever is appropriate to advance or reverse the
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- You can exit the 'Help' file by selecting the 'QUIT' gadget at the
- bottom of the window or the 'Close Window' button at the top left.
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- This takes you back to the 'HELP' requester. You can select another
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- OPENING A PENNYWISE FILE
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- Pennywise gives you total flexibility of where you keep and how you
- name your data files. However, the selection process for creating a new
- file or 'opening' an existing is very similar. A file selection requester
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- THE FILE REQUESTER:
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- The FILE REQUESTER is like most found in AMIGA programs.
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- It recognises the devices available on your AMIGA, which are described
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- Use the slider to move through the list.
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- Directories are in red. Click a directory to see inside it.
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- Click 'PARENT' to go back to the previous directory.
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- Once you have clicked the file you want, select & click [LOAD]. (or
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- To create a NEW Pennywise Cashbook file:
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- From the file requester select the Disk Drive/ Device and/or directory
- where you want to keep the new files. You do this by selecting and
- clicking the DEVICE GADGETS at the right of the requester. The
- directory is then read and displayed. Having selected the path, TYPE in
- the proposed name of your file in the 'FILE' gadget at the bottom of
- the requester. Select & Click LOAD.
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- If the file does not exist,you'll be asked to confirm that the
- file be created. Note that Pennywise creates some additional file with
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- Selecting an existing file is much the same, except that you select the
- file name from the requester, rather than having to type it in. At this
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- Moving Around Pennywise
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- USING THE TITLE BAR MENUS
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- As with most other AMIGA programs, moving the mouse pointer to the
- windows title bar and holding down the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON reveals a
- list or strip of 'MENUS'. By further mouse movement the contents of
- each menu can be revealed and selected with the left mouse button. If
- you are unfamiliar with this process please refer to your AMIGA's manual
- which explains the process at some length.
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- PENNYWISE has four such menus:
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- THE PROJECT MENU options:
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- NEW..... To Create a NEW Pennywise File
- (* NOTE: The Subscriber version will create new files
- based on an old file's definition *)
- OPEN.... To open another (existing) PENNYWISE Data File
- CLOSE... Same as QUIT.. Closes all files and exits PENNYWISE
- PRINT... For future expansion
- ABOUT... About me, CVT and everything!
- HELP.... That's how you got here!
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- EDIT... Edit/ change something in the current record item.
- The cursor should appear in the first field to be
- edited. If it doesn't, select the place to edit
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- FIND... Brings up the SCAN LIST or TRANSACTION SELECTION
- window (whichever is appropriate) so you can select or
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- DELETE.. Allows you to delete an item. Note that debits and credits
- applying to the item you want to delete must be set at
- zero. YOU CANNOT DELETE AN ITEM THAT HAS SOME
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- NEW... Clears the current item from the window and allows you
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- SAVE NOW!. Exactly that... saves the current record. A
- requester appears asking you to confirm the save
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- PENNYWISE is careful about unsaved records. It always
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- UNDO!... Ahem!!! I'm still working on this, but ideally it
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- SELECT TRANSACTION
- ACCOUNT DETAILS
- PAYEE/ PAYER DETAILS
- COSTING CENTRES
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- SHOW NON-RECONCILED...
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- If you have doubts about the calculated results.
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- Takes you to the PENNYWISE REPORT GENERATOR
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- PREFERENCES MENU
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- DISPLAY TRANSACTIONS BY
- DATE (of entry)
- NUMBER (of cheque etc)
- TYPE (Transaction Type)
- NAME (Payees/ Payer name)
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- The Pennywise Gadgets
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- All screens have 'gadgets' that are selected with the MOUSE pointer and
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- There are three types of gadgets, one that you select with the mouse
- pointer and left button to set a certain condition. For example, in
- the Transaction Types window there is a gadget which indicates that
- the transaction type is a DEBIT TRANSACTION. Selecting it will make it
- indicate that it is a CREDIT TRANSACTION. Selecting it once more
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- The STRING gadget appears as a 'box' either empty or perhaps displaying
- some text. Select a position within the box an click. A cursor appears.
- Enter some (appropriate) data. Notice that the cursor is confined to the
- box. When done, press [RETURN]. In PENNYWISE, if the current window
- has a subsequent STRING gadget the cursor moves to it automatically.
- Clicking the mouse somewhere else in the window moves removes the
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- holding down the left button. As the 'KNOB' is moved and released, data
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- NSACTION SELECTION WINDOW. When there are more transactions than
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- ENTERING NEW DATA, EDITING DATA & SAVING DATA
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- entered, the cursor jumps to the next input field. When you have entered
- the data for the record select 'SAVE NOW' from the EDIT Menu, or press
- [RIGHT AMIGA] & [S]. A requester pops up asking you to confirm the
- save. If you don't won't to see the requester, click the [SAVE] gadget at
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- anytime either by selecting the field to be edited with the mouse or by
- selecting the EDIT ENTRY option from the EDIT MENU. In the latter
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- THE ACCOUNTS WINDOW
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- Use this window to describe your business and the account details. Note
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- for the current year. I feel this makes sense since one would usually
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- This option searches all transactions and re-calculates the
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- In the top part of the Account you would describe the account holder's
- details. In the bottom part go the details of the financial institution
- administering the account. A separate 'box' at the bottom right, common
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- debits & balance. Note the Account Window considers any figure entered
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- PAYEES & PAYERS WINDOW
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- payers. Names & addresses are entered into this window. They also play
- an important role when you enter a transaction. Instead of having to type
- the name of the payee/ payer into the Transaction details you will be
- selecting names from a 'SCAN-LIST'. The trade off is that the payee/
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- You can find a Payee/ Payer by selecting the [?] gadget at the bottom of
- the window, pressing [RIGHT AMIGA] & [F] or by selecting FIND from
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- then realise that you have not entered the payee/ payer
- details. I suggest that you enter one payee/ payer record as
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- THE TRANSACTION TYPES WINDOW
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- TRANSACTION TYPES describe the kinds of transactions your account
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- Cheque, Cash Purchase, Cash Receipt, F.D.T., Interest, S-
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- As with the Payee/ Payers, you build up a list of Transaction Types.
- Later, when entering transactions you will be selecting the transaction
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- DEBIT & CREDIT TRANSACTION TYPES.
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- There isn't much to enter, just the transaction type name and a note.
- You must also tell Pennywise whether the Transaction Type will be
- 'DEBIT' or 'CREDIT'. Do so by selecting and clicking the Gadgets at
- gadget at the Left of the data entry box. It will toggle from DEBIT to
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- Some transaction types, such as cheques, will have numbers. Tell P-
- ennywise by selecting the NUMBERING gadget at the right of the data
- entry box. It will toggle between AUTO NUMBERING ON and AUTO
- NUMBERING OFF whenever selected. If you want, you can also enter the
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- of the window, pressing [RIGHT AMIGA] & [F] or by selecting FIND from
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- transaction type [<<], the previous transaction type [<], the next t-
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- THE COST CENTRE WINDOW
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- Cost Centres are sometimes called cost control centres. They allow you to
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- As with the Payee/ Payers, you build up a list of Cost Centres. Later,
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- You can find a cost centre by selecting the [?] gadget at the bottom of
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- Cost Centre [<<], the previous Cost Centre [<], the next Cost Centre [>]
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- TRANSACTION ENTRY WINDOW:
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- If you have a well defined list of Payees, Transaction types, and cost
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- I think you will find Pennywise Easy and Intuitive to use. But whether I
- improve it depends on the feed back I get from users. Constructive
- criticism is most welcome.
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- If you are using the general distribution version and feel Pennywise has
- merit, then I'd like to encourage you to register as a shareware user of
- this software. Subscriber's will get printed documentation and regular
- updates and upgrades. The totally disk-based version (for hard disk users)
- is only available to subscribers. The enhanced report generator and
- mailing label/ address book option will not be available for general
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- Pierre A. du Parte
- Computer & Video Technology
- P.O. Box 305
- Unanderra, N.S.W,
- AUSTRALIA, 2526
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- Tel: 042 716355
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- "s:STARTUP-SEQUENCE" 4 PENNYWISE FILE 6
- 'MENUS'. 7 OPENING 6
- 'PREFERENCES' 18 Payee 12, 13, 14, 15
- 'REPORTS' 18 PAYEES 12, 15
- 'S:STARTUP-SEQUENCE' 4 WINDOW 12
- 'SAVE 10 Payer 8, 12, 15
- 'scan' 16 PAYERS 12, 13, 14
- 'SCAN-LIST'. 12, 13, 14 Pennywise
- 'Transaction 18 Gadgets 9
- 'TRANSACTIONS'. 18 PENNYWISE INSTALLATION
- (Payees/ 8 PENNYWISE 3
- (Transaction 8 PREFERENCES 15, 16, 18
- [SAVE] 6, 10 MENU 8
- ACCOUNT 8, 11 Re-edit 13
- ACCOUNTS 11 Re-edited 11
- WINDOW 11 RECONCILIATION 17
- AMIGA 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Report 2, 4, 8, 18
- 16, 18 REPORTS 18
- DISK DRIVES 3 SAVE 7, 10
- AMIGA's 7, 9 SAVING 7, 10
- AMIGA] 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 SCAN 15, 16
- AMIGADOS 4 List 7, 15
- ASSIGN 3, 4 SCANLIST 18
- DIrectories 3 In Reports 18
- PENNYWISE 3 STARTING
- Assignment 4 PENNYWISE 5
- The T: Directory 4 Startup-sequence 3, 4
- Cost 11, 14, 15 SUMMARY 19
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- CENTRE 14 Directory 4
- COSTING 8 TRANSACTION 1, 7, 8, 9,
- Costs 14 12, 13, 15, 16, 18
- Credits 11 CREDIT 9, 13
- DATA Date 15
- ENTRY 10 DEBIT 9, 13
- EDIT 7, 10, 14 Details 12
- MENU 7, 13 ENTRY 15
- RECORD 7 GADGET 18
- Edited 7, 10 Gadgets 15
- EDITING selection 7, 8, 16
- DATA 10 SELECTION WINDOW
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- Text 4 Type 8, 9, 13
- Editors 4 Types 8, 13
- FLOPPY TRANSACTIONS 1, 8, 16,
- DRIVES 3 17, 18
- FLOPPYS 3 Display 8
- Too SLow 3 Display By 8, 16
- GADGET 9, 18 RCONCILIATION OF
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- Disk Installation 3
- DRIVE USERS 3
- INTRODUCTION 2
- MENU 7, 10, 11, 16, 18
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