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- R C F U N D S
- Version 1.30
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- Fractured Femur Software
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- Shareware for an Even Break!
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- A Special Thanks to Conrad Kageyama for his insight and development tips!
- Without Conrad RCFUNDS would be a mere shadow of itself.
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- I. Introduction........................................................3
- A. Disclaimer.....................................................3
- B. What is RCFUNDS and what does/does not do?.....................3
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- II. Setup..............................................................3
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- III. Tutorial..........................................................4
- A. Starting the Program........................................4
- B. Main Menu...................................................4
- C. Create A Fund...............................................4
- D. Configure Report Device.....................................4
- E. Access Registry.............................................5
- 1. Make an Entry.........................................5
- 2. Modify NAV............................................6
- F. View Fund Summaries.........................................6
- 1. Modify NAV............................................6
- 2. Delete a Fund.........................................7
- G. Reports.....................................................7
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- IV. Trouble Shooting...................................................7
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- V. Where Can You Find Ross?............................................8
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- VI. Registration Form (Come on fill it out!)..........................9
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- I. INTRODUCTION
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- DISCLAIMER
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- THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED "AS IS", FRACTURED FEMUR SOFTWARE MAKES NO
- WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. FRACTURED FEMUR SOFTWARE DOES NOT
- WARRANT THAT THE PROGRAM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT THE
- OPERATION OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. YOU ARE
- SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SELECTION OF THE PROGRAM TO ACHIEVE YOUR
- INTENDED RESULTS AND FOR THE RESULTS ACTUALLY OBTAINED. RCFUNDS WILL
- NOT PREDICT STOCK/MUTUAL FUND/BOND/MONEY MARKET GAINS OR LOSSES!
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- WHAT IS RCFUNDS AND WHAT DOES/DOES NOT DO?
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- RCFUNDS is a free standing database which allows the user to track mutual
- fund transactions. The program is very similar to a check book, with
- one twist: it allows pertinent mutual fund data to be entered (i.e.
- NAV/Shares purchased). RCFUNDS CANNOT PREDICT THE MARKET!!!! RCFUNDS
- DOES NOT PROVIDE INVESTMENT ADVICE!!!! It is a simple tracking device
- for use by the private investor. The program grew out of desire to enable
- me (a true market neophyte) to track my deposits/withdraws, my accrued
- interest (not some fancy Wall Street Journal Summary), and trace the path
- of rising and falling NAV's. RCFUNDS is not intended for professional
- investors. Although RCFUNDS will track unlimited accounts to the value
- of $9,000,000.00 each, persons with that much money should have a
- professional tracking their investments!
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- RCFUNDS is distributed as SHAREWARE. It is not freeware! Feel free to
- exchange RCFUNDS in an unaltered format with your local BBS. If you
- find the product useful, you are obligated to register the program.
- SHAREWARE allows the user to test software before making a purchase. You
- are granted a temporary license of RCFUNDS for thirty days. If RCFUNDS
- continues to be useful after thirty days, REGISTER!
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- II. SETUP
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- Requirements: IBM compatible - 512K RAM - 640K RAM/Hard disk preferred.
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- RCFUNDS is passed from user to user in an archived format (RCFUNDS.ARC,
- RCFUNDS.ZIP,etc.). To install create a directory of your choice and
- extract the archive to the new directory, i.e.
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- MD C:\RCFUNDS
- PKUNZIP A:\RCFUNDS.ZIP C:\RCFUNDS
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- RCFUNDS should contain only two files:
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- RCFUNDS.EXE
- RCFUNDS.HLP
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- This example makes several assumptions: User is installing a ZIP
- archive from Floppy Drive A: to Hard Drive C:.
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- Please alter the drives and materials as appropriate. There you go!
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- That's it, RCFUNDS is installed.
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- III. TUTORIAL
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- STARTING THE PROGRAM
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- Change to the directory where RCFUNDS resides. Type RCFUNDS.EXE at
- the DOS prompt. Execution should begin immediately. Several data
- files will be created on first time use:
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- ACCOUNTS.DAT
- ACCOUNTS.K01
- ACCOUNTS.K02
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- MAIN MENU
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- Upon entry to the Main Menu, the user will find four possible options:
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- 1. Access Funds - Enters the Transaction Registry of a single fund
- 2. Setup Funds - Creates new funds and views all fund account
- summaries. Also allows NAV update without transaction entry.
- 3. Configure - Configures Report Output Device
- 4. Totals - Prints the all account summaries
- 5. Breakdowns - Prints sorted reports of fund events
- 6. Registry - Prints all the transactions of a single fund
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- Use your cursor keys to move around the menu, highlighting various options.
- Pressing the key corresponding to the first letter in any menu selection
- will cause immediate execution of that option.
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- CREATE A FUND
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- Select Setup Funds from the Main Menu. Your screen will go through some
- gymnastics, and you should end up at a purple screen prompting you for
- a FUND NAME and an ABBREVIATION. The purple screen is the fund entry
- form. Type in the name of a fund (i.e. GT Global World Wide) and strike
- <Enter>. Next you are prompted for an abbreviation. You may enter any
- series of characters, they must be unique for each fund. RCFUNDS will
- double check you! My personal preference is use the abbreviation found
- in your local news paper business section. For the above fund the
- abbreviation is Wldw p. Press <Enter> when you are finished. RCFUNDS
- does a couple of things at now:
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- 1. Saves the data you have just entered into the account files
- 2. Checks to make sure the abbreviation is acceptable to DOS
- and is not a duplicate
- 3. Prepares to create a registry for each new fund.
- (A DOS data file titled with the abbreviation)
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- Eh wallah! You have created your first Mutual Fund File. You should
- be sitting at a green table listing the name only of the file created.
- This is the Fund Summary Table. It doesn't look like much yet, but it
- will. For the time being, hit <Esc> and return to the Main Menu.
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- CONFIGURE OUTPUT DEVICE
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- RCFUNDS allows the user to configure the output device. A user may select
- several different options to send reports to. Select Configure from the
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- Main Menu, and hit <Enter>. On first time use, you will be prompted for
- a DEVICE. This is where you want your reports to go. For most people, it
- will be LPT1 ( The first parallel port - most common printer configuration).
- Press <F1> to see a full discription of available output options. Highlight
- the desired device and press <Enter>. You will now see your device
- displayed on the Device Table. Hit <Esc> to exit the table.
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- NOTE: NO REPORTS WILL BE PRINTED UNTIL A DEVICE IS SELECTED!!!!!
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- ACCESS REGISTRY
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- At the Main Menu select "Access Funds" and press <Enter>. A red line
- will appear at the top of the screen prompting you to enter the name
- of a fund to access. If you had failed to create a fund in the last
- section, RCFUNDS will now prompt you to do so. (See CREATE A FUND).
- Otherwise, a green selection table listing available funds will also
- appear. Using the cursor keys, highlight the desired fund (If you are
- following the tutorial there should only be one fund - GT Global World Wide)
- and press <Enter>. Now a blue table will appear with the Mutual Fund Name
- continuing to be displayed at the top of the screen. Because this is the
- first entry, a White Transaction Entry form will also appear - prompting
- for a new transaction.
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- Follow the Transaction Form's prompts:
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- 1. Enter the desired date of transaction - Press <Enter>
- 2. Highlight either Deposit or Withdraw - Press <Enter>
- a. Although in the truest sense, one does not deposit and
- withdraw from a mutual fund, these terms were selected
- to keep the check book analogy alive and well. I feel
- it makes the investment principles easier to understand if
- you can identify it with a more common bank account.
- 3. Enter the transaction amount (THIS IS A MUST) - Press <Enter>
- 4. Next RCFUNDS has a little razzle dazzle. If you enter '0'
- for the current account NAV, RCFUNDS will calculate the
- NAV from the number of shares entered on the next line. If
- you enter the NAV, RCFUNDS will calculate the number of shares
- purchased. YOU MUST KNOW ONE OF THESE TWO VALUES - EITHER
- NAV OR NUMBER OF SHARES. Press <Enter> after both the NAV
- and the Shares prompts.
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- You should now be returned to the blue Transaction Registry Table. The
- entry you just created will be displayed, and highlighted. Let's take a
- look at the screen:
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- 1. Top of the screen - Name of Mutual Fund which is currently
- active
- 2. Line Two - Title bar discribing transaction entries
- 3. Scrolling Registry - majority of the blue screen. The first
- entry on the line is either "D" or "W" labelling the
- transaction as either a "Deposit" or "Withdraw". Next will
- be the transaction amount, followed by the NAV, Shares, and
- Value of the transaction at the time it occurred!
- 4. Red and Blue line - Current NAV (independent of transaction
- dates), total shares owned, total cash invested
- 5. White Line - "Interest" or Earnings of YOUR cash in the
- fund, Face Value of Fund at Current NAV
- 6. Blue line - Date search (enter a date here will jump the
- registry to match), Available hot keys.
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- Hot Keys: <Ins> Adds a new record
- <Enter> Edits the existing highlighted entry
- <Del> Deletes the highlighted entry
- <Ctrl-U> Updates the Current NAV without entering a new
- transaction.
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- Let's explore the last option.
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- MODIFY NAV
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- You should still be at the blue transaction registry. Hold down the
- <Ctrl> key and press "U". The cursor will jump to a small black entry
- field over the current NAV. Type in the desired numbers (for sake of
- example, let's assume you fund is making money - so enter a number higher
- than you entered in the transaction entry example). When complete press
- <Enter>. Notice all the calculated fields at the base of the page have
- been updated with your new NAV, without altering the transaction registry.
- The new NAV will be stored in the Account file as the most recent recorded
- NAV as well. If you enter a transaction dated for the current date, the
- NAV will automatically be updated. This will not occur if you post date a
- transaction. In that manner you may enter the most current NAV from the
- <Ctrl-U> procedure, rather than overwriting a more recent NAV with a post
- dated transaction. You may still page back through the registry to track
- NAV's at the time transaction took place. Paging back over the registry's
- NAV's will give you an idea how fast you fund is making money (or loosing
- money!).
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- VIEW FUND SUMMARIES
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- Ok, enough of entering transactions - let's review our fund statistics.
- If you are still at the blue Transaction Registry Table - Press <Esc>
- and exit to Main Menu. Select Setup Funds once more.
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- Now, it looks a little different, doesn't it? If you entered all the
- above examples your Available Fund Table should have a complete listing
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- 1. Fund Name
- 2. Current NAV
- 3. A symbol character (up arrow, down arrow, or equal
- sign). This represents whether the most recent NAV
- is increased, decreased, or equal to the previous NAV.
- 4. Total Shares
- 5. Fund Face Value at current NAV.
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- MODIFY NAV
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- You should be an old pro at this by now... It is a very similar operation
- to updating the NAV from the Transaction Registry Table. Hold down the
- <Ctrl> key and press "U". A purple screen should appear prompting for a
- new NAV. Enter as before, but this time drop the value of the NAV - press
- <Enter>. Now your Fund Table should be updated with the new NAV , along
- with a down arrow after the NAV. The arrow indicate the price of each
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- DELETE A FUND
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- Deletion is a necessary and potentially hazardous function in any program.
- Fund deletion may be accomplished from the Available Fund Table (Setup
- Fund Screen). Highlight the entry you wish to delete and press <Del>.
- The Fund Entry screen will appear with a message that all evidence of
- this fund is about to be deleted! ALL FUND INFORMATION WILL BE DELETED,
- INCLUDING TRANSACTION REGISTRY FILES FOR THE HIGHLIGHTED FUND! Be very
- certain, hopefully you have used you favorite backup system for insurance!
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- Go ahead and highlight our dummy example of GT Global World Wide.
- Press <Del> . From the Fund entry form, <Enter> will confirm deletion,
- <Esc> will cancel deletion. Press <Enter>. BYE-BYE! The fund and all
- its transactions are gone. You are now ready to enter the real thing.
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- REPORTS
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- If you have an Epson compatible printer, RCFUNDS can print two different
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- 1. Totals: prints a listing of all funds, their current NAV's,
- number of shares in each, current Value
- 2. Registry - prints a single mutual file's transaction registry.
- 3. Breakdown - prints breakdown by transaction type
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- IV. TROUBLE SHOOTING
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- To the best of my knowledge, RCFUNDS is free from bugs; however, to
- believe any program is perfect is foolish. I am interested in any bugs
- you may find.
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- Problems:
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- Q: When I delete a file, my entire screen scrolls up one line and turn
- to gibberish.! How do I fix it?
- A: Well...this reflect your computer is running low on RAM memory. It
- would be easy for me to say add more memory, but that is expensive.
- Simply hit <Esc> and return to the previous screen. It should cure
- the problem.
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- Q: I can't exit from the Main Menu to DOS! How do I get out of RCFUNDS?
- A: <Alt-X> from the Main Menu. <Esc> was disabled in the Main Menu to
- prevent accidental exit.
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- Q: I can't create a new Mutual Fund file! How do I fix it?
- A: Check your available disk space. RCFUNDS will handle unlimited
- mutual funds to a total of $9,000,000.00 each. However, it is
- limited by your systems disk space. If you've got room, RCFUNDS has
- files!
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- Q: My printer won't print reports! Why not?
- A: The reports were designed with ASCII characters in an Epson
- Printer mode. It should work on 90% of the printers out there.
- If not you have a rare bird, sorry!
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- Q: Why doesn't my Earnings to Date percentage match that in The Wall
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- Street Journal?
- A: The number displayed in Earnings to Date is what percentage YOUR
- invested monies have earned in this particular fund since the time
- of investment. Although I am not savvy in the stock market, The Wall
- Street Journal displays percentages of the total funds performance
- over a time period (3 mon, 6 mon, 1 yr, 5 yr, 10 yr). Although
- indirectly these numbers may reflect the same idea, I wrote RCFUNDS
- to make Mutual Fund Investment appear more like a traditional bank
- account. The Earnings to Date reflect your current percentage of
- "Interest" earned at the current NAV.
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- WHERE CAN I FIND ROSS?
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- Ross Contino...that's me...the author.
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- I am a humble hobby hacker, I do not provide support - persay. I do
- regularly monitor FidoNet's Shareware and SDN_Works Echoes. I also
- frequent the follow BBS's and Electronic Services. Feel free to reach
- me on any of these routes:
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- Microbe II BBS - (717)252-4543
- L & T's BBS (War College BBS) - (717)243-0055
- Compuserve - Compuserve ID 73327,1271
- GEnie - Address R.CONTINO
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- Hope to hear from you! Please register, support a guy with one
- part time machine in his basement.
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- PLEASE BE ADVISED: RCFUNDS IS NOT CRIPPLEWARE. THIS IS THE FULL
- WORKING VERSION!
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- Please Send a $25.00 Check or Money Order to: Ross Contino
- For Registration of RCFUNDS v1.30 407 Deerfield Drive
- Hanover, PA 17331
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