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- The register program is controlled by a system of menus of which this is
- the first. You should backup the whole of this floppy disc on to another
- before going any further. You will need an A3000 or Arc 310 or higher spec
- model to run the program with screensize configured to 80K and a small
- setting for sprites. An error message indicating no writeable memory or
- similar indicates that you have too much memory configured for other uses eg
- fonts. A hard disc is not essential but significantly speeds up loading and
- saving data making the response almost instant at all times. Pressing ESCAPE
- will bring you back to this menu at any time.
- The program is configured to run from an applications directory called
- !REG. The main program is called !RunImage and is mainly BASIC with a couple
- of assembler routines. The program will run under RISCOS, but is as yet not
- running properly in windows. The directory HELP within !REG holds the help
- files including this one accessed by the right hand mouse button. The file
- attf is the attendance data. The file NAMES is the names of pupils held as
- an array of BASIC strings, the last character of which is the student number
- which points to the registration data for a given student in attf. SPCTC
- holds the logo sprite for the menu, TIME the redefinition of the pointer to
- an egg-timer, hardcopy ACORN'S screen dump utility used by some parts of the
- program. The short program RESET will reset attf to a blank file ready for
- your own holiday dates etc.
- The order to do things is
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- 1. Backup the disc
- 2. Reset attf using RESET (*RESET or click on the desk top)
- 3. Use 1 on next menu to set up tutor information
- 4. Use 2 on next menu to set up names file.
- 5. Use 3 on next menu to set up calendar details.
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- The program is limited to 240 students since it is unlikely that more than
- this could be registered at a single terminal rather than memory or speed
- restrictions. It may be possible in the future to run say 5 BBC Masters,
- (one for each year) as terminals to an ACORN R140 or 200 series machine
- under Unix but writing the software is at present beyond me!
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- There is more help available on the next menu.