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- Active Life 1.5 - Excellent PIM for Windows/DOS/OS2
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- Active Life 1.5 is a powerful system for planning, managing, and
- tracking one's active business and personal life. Flexible schedules
- manage work-flow effectively. All types of recurring items need be
- entered just once. Features pop-up calendars, week-at-a-glance, alarms,
- printed schedules, and more. There are versions of Active Life 1.5
- for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 Presentation Manager. The DOS and Windows
- editions also include a timer and an indexed text/graphics notebook
- manager with auto-dialer. Shareware by 1Soft Corporation. List $149.
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- Active Life can plan time for everything you want to do!
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- Active Life is very popular. Since first appearing on CompuServe in
- October 1989, Active Life has consistently been downloaded more often
- than any other business application. CompuServe is the world's largest
- on-line service with more than 600,000 members.
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- System requirements:
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- Active Life for DOS........ DOS 3.0+
- Active Life for Windows.... Microsoft Windows 3.0 or 2.x
- Active Life for OS/2 PM.... OS/2 1.2+
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- How to Install Active Life 1.5
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- The installation process allows you to select which directory you would like
- to contain Active Life files. The directory you name will be created if it
- doesn't already exist, and the files will be copied from the diskette(s) to
- this target directory. Some files are in compressed form on the diskette(s)
- and will be automatically uncompressed as they are installed.
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- Step 1: Insert the (first, if two) Active Life diskette into drive A:
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- Step 2a: If installing for Windows, select Run from the File pull-down menu in
- the Program Manager and type in A:ALWIN. ALWIN is a Windows program
- that will install the files for Active Life 1.5, Windows edition.
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- Step 2b: If installing for DOS, run ALDOS
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- Step 2c: If installing for OS/2 PM, run ALPM
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- Step 3: For DOS users only!
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- If you are installing the DOS version of Active Life, you must
- run the SETUP program which will prompt you for the type of
- display and mouse, if any, you are using. To do this, type:
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- SETUP and press ENTER.
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- Answer the questions and your system will be set up properly.
- (For more details, see the section below, Configuring Active Life
- for DOS with Setup.)
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- Step 4: To start Active Life run:
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- AL
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- Step 5: As soon as the program appears, choose HELP from the menu by
- pressing Alt+H (hold down the Alt key and press H). Complete
- Documentation will appear in the on-screen Help Guide.
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- Configuring Active Life for DOS with Setup
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- You will be asked to select which type of display and mouse (if any) that
- you are using. Choose among the following display adapters:
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- 1. Monographics (Hercules compatible monochrome graphics)
- 2. CGA* (most laptop's and PS/2 models 25, 30)
- 3. EGA
- 4. VGA (PS/2 models 50+)
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- (* On a CGA, Active Life requires the high resolution mode (640x200). This
- mode supports only 2 colors (eg. black and white). To run Active Life in
- full color, you need a VGA or EGA display.)
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- To change your settings, simply run SETUP again at any time.
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- Choosing the correct display and mouse (or no mouse) is critical. If
- Active Life is started with inaccurate settings it will not run. To make
- corrections, simply run SETUP again.
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- When settings are correct and Active Life for DOS still does not run, it
- may be due to a conflict with a resident program (.exe) or driver (.sys).
- To pinpoint the problem, we suggest you temporarily modify your CONFIG.sys
- and AUTOEXEC.bat files so no resident programs and drivers are included.
- Re-boot your machine and try AL.bat. If AL runs OK with a clean system,
- add each TSR or driver back, one at a time, rebooting between changes.
- Call 1Soft technical support if you need any assistance.
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- If you experience immediate difficulty, despite having followed the
- procedures described above, the most common reason is that your disks were
- damaged in shipment. Occasionally, Postal Service screening causes
- magnetic dislocation of program material. Common symptoms are jumbled
- text in files or catastrophic errors when you try to run the programs.
- Other means besides Postal Service handling can occasionally introduce
- program corruption. These include BBS downloading, defective media, or
- file damage from hardware or software problems in relation to your hard
- disk. You can't assume you have an exact copy of Active Life 1.5. If your
- copy has been damaged, it will not work properly, and must be replaced.
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