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- Pro-Organiser is extremely easy to use, but a little bit of setting up
- is required before you can use it properly.
-
- The first thing you should do is make a backup copy of your disk, just
- in case anything goes wrong with your original.
-
- Don't worry it's all dead easy - we'll start with Hard-Drive users, and
- then go on to floppy users (FLOPPY USERS MUST READ THIS).
-
- HARD-DRIVE INSTALLATION
-
- Load up your Workbench.
- Insert the Pro-Organiser disk.
- Double click on the Pro-Organiser disk icon (VERY IMPORTANT!!)
- Drag the entire 'Org' drawer over to wherever you want it go on your HD.
- You now need to add a line to your startup-sequence or user-startup
- sequence. To do this, open the shell, and type ...
-
- ed s:user-startup or ed s:startup-sequence
-
- Add the following line to the sequence ...
-
- Assign Org: Work:Org
-
- If you've installed it somewhere other than Work, make sure you change the
- line accordingly. Be careful with spaces. There should be one after 'Assign'
- and after the first 'Org:' but nowhere else.
-
- Then save it, by pressing ESC followed by 'X'.
-
- That's it - Pro-Organiser will now be fully installed. If you run into any
- problems with this, then do get in touch either by phone or letter.
-
-
- FLOPPY DRIVE USERS
-
- Getting a program like to Pro-Organiser to work on a floppy-only system was
- an absolute nightmare! The main problem was disk space - there simply isn't
- enough of it (or at least not by the time you've added names & addresses etc..)
-
- We wanted to avoid constant disk swapping - something I'm sure you hate more
- than anything else.
-
- Anyway, we reached a solution - but it does involve one small sacrifice.
- There is a section of the program that looks up dialling codes and postcodes.
- These are both useful, but aren't used as much as, say, the address book.
- The data files for these two sections consume tons of disk space, so you're
- going to have to decide which of the sections you are going to use least and
- delete its files (you don't have to delete both).
-
- Here's what to do ...
-
- Make an extra backup copy of Pro-Organiser - this is the one you'll use if
- you need to look up a postcode or dialling code at some time in the future.
-
- Decide which section you want rid of - removing dialling codes will free
- about 120k of disk space, postcodes will give you 100k. Either one of those
- should be sufficient - you don't need to lose both.
-
- The files to delete are in the DATA directory of the ORG directory on the
- disk. Use a file manager such as DirOpus, delete them using the shell,
- or delete their icons on Workbench.
-
- If you are deleting dialling codes, delete the DCODES directory.
- If you are deleting post codes, delete the PCODES directory.
-
- DO NOT DELETE ANY OTHER FILES AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING A BACKUP COPY!
-
- If you have a printer, you won't be able to print unless you also copy
- the PRINTER.DEVICE file from the DEVS directory of your Workbench disk
- into the DEVS directory of the Pro-Organiser disk. You won't be able to
- do this until you've deleted some one of the directories above.
-
- I'm sorry about the hassle of having to do this, but it was either this
- or make the program hard-drive only.
-
- If you run into any problems whatsoever, or you're not sure what you're
- doing, then do get in touch either by phone or letter.
-
- Ali Prior, Pro-Soft, PO Box CR53, Leeds, LS7 1XJ.
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