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      Welcome to the P.B. Safety Remember Program !

  This application is an easy, fast and safe way to store, elaborate and review
  your data. It is a simple, fixed structured database application with the basic
  data elaborating functions. The principal properties of this program are these :
    - the data is stored in economy ASCII files,
    - the program looks and works like a typical database application,
    - the program provides exclusive functions, such as printing the data,
      recording the data path or password protection.
  What's new in P.B. Safety Remember Program - Version 2.0.1 ?
    - more data units (10 + 1 units, Version 1.0.1 had only 6 + 1)
    - advanced searching features
    - alphabetic data sorting function
    - clipboard work with full database sheet
    - faster work.
  Before you start work, you should get to know your program and prepare
  it for your use. Start the program clicking its shortcut in the start menu.
  You can also copy this shortcut (P.B. Safety Remember Program.lnk)
  to your desktop using Windows Explorer. After the first start you will see two
  windows. First click the Default Captions button and then the OK button in
  the Database Select window. You have created a new database, but it is not
  important now. The main window of this program is now enabled. If you need
  to use the password protection, click the Password command in the Settings
  menu and set it. How to do this, can be read in the Setting and troubleshooting
  help topic. After setting the password you should set the data path. Create one
  subdirectory on your hard disk for saving your database files. Then click the
  Data Path command in the Settings menu and set its path. You can also read
  more information about it in the Setting and troubleshooting help topic.
  The program is now ready for use.
  It is recommended to register the type of P.B. Safety Remember Program
  data files. How to proceed : Start Windows Explorer. Choose the Options
  command from the View menu. On the File type card click the New type button.
  Type "P.B. Safety Remember Program Database" in the Type description
  text box, then type "pdb" in the File extension text box. Then click the Change
  icon button, on the Change icon window click the Browse button, then list the
  icon file (Sfrpdata.ico - which is placed in the directory of this application
  and click the OK button and in the Options window click OK button again.
  The P.B. Safety Remember program data files are registered.
  This application provides another interesting function. On all of its windows you
  can see a small picture or icon. Click it for reading a fast help with the most
  important information about the current situation and the instruction, just
  "what to do" message.
  After this introduction close and restart the program for testing its new settings
  and starting work.
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      Using P.B. Safety Remember Program

  Read this topic, which is going to help you to know, how to use this program
  optimally. After having started the program, you will see the Database Select
  window. There you can create a new database. Fill the database name and all
  unit captions in the text boxes. The unit captions mustn't be equal and you must
  fill in all of them. The Default Captions button fills the universal correct database
  name and unit captions in the text boxes, the Clear All Captions button clears
  all text boxes. You can also go to open an existing database, if you choose
  the Open an existing database option button. After having selected the next
  task, click the OK button. If the database name and all unit captions are filled
  in the text boxes, the main program window enable. You can start entering the
  data. If you chose the Open an existing database option button, you will see
  the Open window. Select the drive, path and name of the database file that you
  want to open, then click the OK button. You can start editing the database.
  During the work with a text the program provides the typical clipboard functions.
  If you want to add one data sheet, click the Insert Sheet button. If you want to
  remove the current data sheet, click the Delete Sheet button and confirm your
  command in the Confirm window. You can also clear the current data sheet
  choosing the Clear Sheet command from the Edit menu. The full sheet can be
  copied into the clipboard and pasted using the Copy Sheet and Paste Sheet
  commands. The Undo button cancels the last Insert Sheet, Delete Sheet,
  Clear Sheet, Paste Sheet or Sort operation. You can list among the data
  sheets using the Next and Back buttons. If you want to do jump in the database,
  click the Go To button. You will see the Go To window. You can choose, if you
  want to jump to the start of database (the first sheet) or to the end of database
  (the last sheet) or the custom sheet. If you want to jump to the custom sheet,
  you must put the sheet number in the text box. After having specified the jump,
  click the OK button. The program goes to the selected data sheet.
  This application provides also the Find function. You can search a data item
  or its part in the database. If you open the Find menu, you will see that the
  commands of this menu have the same descriptions as the unit captions.
  Choose the command that has the same description as the caption of the unit
  that you want to search. You will see the Find window. Type the string that you
  want to find in the text box. If you want this string to be considered as a part of
  the selected data item, check the Wild Search check box. Then, if you want to
  find all the items those begin with the search string, select the "Begin" option
  in the combo box. If you want to find all the items those contain the search string,
  select the "Contain" option in the combo box. If the Wild Search check box
  is not checked, the program will find only these items those are equal with the
  search string. If you want the program to match the case of the letters during the
  search, check the Match Case check box. Finally click the Find button. If the
  search string is found, the program goes to its sheet and selects the string.
  You can continue searching the previous string in the rest of the database
  using the Find Next command. The messages will inform you, if the searching
  is finished or if the search string was not found.
  Another P.B. Safety Remember Program's feature is the alphabetic data sort
  function. Click the Edit menu and from the Sort By menu choose the command
  that has the some caption as the unit that you want to sort by. You will see the
  Sort window. Choose, if you want the database to be sorted from A down to Z
  or from Z up to A. Then click the sort button. The database will be sorted by the
  selected unit and the program will go to the first sheet.
  If you want to print the data, choose the Print command from the File menu.
  You will see the Print window. There you can choose, if you want to print the
  current sheet or the all database or the selection, if you have selected some
  text before. After the choice click the OK button.
  If you want to save the database file, click the Save button. If the database
  was not saved before, you will see the Save as window. The database name
  is selected as the name of the new file. You can change it, like the drive and
  path. Click the OK button to save the file. If you click the Save button next time,
  the changes are saved in the existing file automatically. If you want to save
  the database in a file with a different name, choose the Save as command
  from the File menu and you will see the Save as window. If you want to open
  another database, choose the Open command from the File menu and you will
  see the Open window. If you want to create a new database, choose the New
  command from the File menu and you will see the Database Select window.
  If the previous database is not saved, the Confirm window will inform you
  about the situation and it will let you save it.
  The maximum length of one data unit is 102 characters (2048 for the Main Unit)
  so the data volume of 1 sheet is approximately 3 kB and the maximum length
  of one database is 9999 sheets.
  This application is completely independent of any use of the mouse. It can be
  controlled by keyboard, pressing ALT with the underlined character of the
  command caption. In the menus there are many key shortcuts. In the main
  window the cursor can be moved among the data units by the ENTER key
  (F2 key between the Main Unit and other units) or the cursor arrow keys.
  In other windows you can list among the controls using the TAB key.
  Close the program choosing the End command from the File menu.
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      For the best work of P.B. Safety Remember Program

  This application can be set up according to the user's requirements. It provides
  password protection. If you want to set up password protection, choose the
  Password command from the Settings menu. You will see the Set Password
  window. Type the string that you want to be the password in the two enabled
  text boxes, named Enter new password and Retype new password. The strings
  in both text boxes must be the same. Then click the Set password button. The
  program is now protected. If you want to start it next time, you must enter the
  password. If you want to change the password, type the old password in the
  text box named Enter old password and enter the new one. Then click the
  Set password button. If you want to remove the password protection, type the
  old password in the text box named Enter old password and click the
  Do not use password button. The protection is now disabled.
  This program provides also the path-record function. If you have created a
  subdirectory for your database files, choose the Data path command from the
  Settings menu. You will see the Set Data Path window. Type the correct path
  of the subdirectory for your database files, then click the OK button. The
  program tests the selected path. If it is invalid, the message will inform you and
  the program will let you repair it. If it is alright, the program will record it. This
  path will be implicitly selected in the Open window and in the Save as window.
  The program tests the recorded data path during every start. If it finds it invalid,
  but before it was alright (for example, if you have deleted the subdirectory
  whose path was recorded by this program) the message will inform you about
  the situation and the program will replace it by the program path.
  If you have some data files of P.B. Safety Remember Program - Version 1.0.1,
  you have to convert them into the data format of Version 2.0.1 by the Safety
  Remember Program Database Convert. In the Compatibility menu there is just
  one command for running it. After having run this utility, you will see a window,
  reminding the Database Select window. Type the remaining 4 unit captions in
  the text boxes and click the File Browse card header. Then select the drive,
  path and name of the database that you want to convert and click the Convert
  button. The database will be converted and it will be usable by this version.
  If the Help Contents or Read Me of this program do not work, make sure if the
  files "Sfrp.help" and "Readme.txt" are placed in the directory of this program.
  If they are placed there, but the Help Contents or Read Me of this program still
  don't work, make sure if the program path is selected in the shortcut of this
  program. If not, click the shortcut by the right mouse button, choose the Shortcut
  card and select the program path in the Start path text box.
  Never try to delete or edit the initiation file. If the initiation file does not
  exist or if there is an error in it, the program will not start ! If you have deleted or
  edited the initiation file and the program does not start, you have to reinstall
  the application. Never try to edit the P.B. Safety Remember Program data files
  using another program. If the message informs you about an error in the
  database file during the use, make sure if you have tried to modify the file by
  some other program. If you haven't done it, the file is not the database of this
  program and there is an extension coincidence. Stop trying to open the file by
  this program. But if you have modified this program's data file incorrectly,
  call the author of this program to repair it.
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