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- THE AUCTIONEER
- Version 2.0
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- A. Installation:
- The Auctioneer is installed by simply unzipping the files into a directory.
- The following example shows how to install if the aution zip file is on a
- floppy in drive A. Change any commands necessary for your system.
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- md\auction 'make a directory off the root
- cd\auction 'change to the directory
- pkunzip a:auc20e 'unzip the file, change as needed
- auction 'run the program
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- B. New Features
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- 1. LAPTOP SUPPORT:
- Monochrome laptops (or PCs) are supported automatically, the program checks
- for monochrome and if found operates in black and white. Laptops that support
- color with shades of blue, silver etc. may be hard to read because the shades
- for two colors are too close. To over come this, Auctioneer can be started to
- force monochrome. Execute auction with a /m to force monochrome, eg.;
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- C:\>auction /m
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- 2. SALE INFORMATION:
- 1. Local tax rate - optional, if zero will not appear on Bill-of-Sale
- 2. Country - U.S. or Canada (default is U.S.) Affects terminology,
- eg. State for U.S. Providence for Canada.
- 3. Lots - Yes or No. If yes, inventory is input by Lot. Sale Recap then
- reports tracking information about each Lot.
- 4. Save Bidder file to ASCII.
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- 3. INVENTORY MAINTENANCE:
- 1. Optional Details of item, if Yes enter free-form details of the item.
- Some word processing features apply, press F1 for Help.
- 2. Lots - If Lots is Yes in Sale Information, a prompt will appear for
- the Lot Number.
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- 4. BIDDER MAINTENANCE:
- 1. Tax Exempt - If Yes, tax will not be added to Bill-of-Sale.
- 2. Local Tax Exempt - If Yes, local tax will not be added to
- Bill-of-Sale.
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- 5. CONDUCT A SALE:
- 1. BID ON ITEM - New to version 2.0. Enter a bid on any item. When all
- bids are in, select Enter Item to sell, enter the item number, then select
- Pick Bidder. The system will then select the highest bid with the earliest
- date (if bids were entered on different dates).
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- 6. SALE RECAP:
- 1. OPTIONS - The Buyer, Seller, Lot, or Inventory recaps may be toggled
- on or off in any combination. A recap that is toggled off will not be
- printed or displayed.
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- 7. OPTIONS:
- 1. DEFAULT COUNTRY - The default country may be changed by entering U for
- U.S. or C for Canada. Prompt for country may be set to yes or no. When set
- to yes, the program will prompt for country when adding or changing Sale
- Information, when set to no, the program will by-pass the country entry.
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- 2. LABELS - Mailing labels may be printed from the currently selected
- bidder file.
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- 3. BACKUP - A full festured backup/restore program has been added to
- version 2.0. ArcBack is a menu driven backup program that compresses
- data file to make maximum use of floppy disk space. Do full or partial
- backups, restore entire directoies or a single file.
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