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- HOME MANAGER 0.1E
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- Lord Sutch Productions
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- A CanDo Endeavour from Len Platt
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- Released - October 9, 1991
- Revised - November 25, 1991
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-
- * DISCLAIMER *
-
- I have tested this program thoroughly and have not found any bugs and also
- find it didn't harm my Amiga. Therefore I take NO responsibilty for problems
- incurred on your computer. You use it entirely at your own risk.
-
- * DISTRIBUTION *
-
- Home Manager is freely distributable and copyrighted. You may upload it
- wherever you choose, but you are not allowed to sell Home Manager for
- profit, or include Home Manager on a disk which is sold for profit, without
- the permission of Len Platt. The ONLY exclusion to this is the Fred Fish
- Library.
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-
- Main Course
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- This is the final realization of what was originally called Home Sweet
- Home. I have gone a few steps further in this program and it now contains
- an Appointment Scheduler, ToDo List, Notepad, Home Inventory database, an
- Address Book (with Dialer) and an Important Phone Number List (with
- dialer). Obviously, for the last two, you need a modem attached to your
- Amiga's serial port. The dialer supports Tone Dialing. If you have Pulse
- Dialing, the program can be changed when it is registered. Just put a note
- in with your registration application and I will give you a 'pulse' version
- of the program.
-
- I have also decided to go with a more graphical interface instead of
- the "Workbench 2 look" that a lot of people are hung up on. The Amiga is a
- great colour and graphics computer, so why not have programs that take
- advantage of that interface.
-
- There are Help files in the program so I will not go into a long explanation
- here. Each area of the program has Help files that can be accessed by
- pressing your Help key or by clicking on the Help icon on the screen. If
- you wish to have a printed copy of the Help files, just do a graphic screen
- dump with one of the many on the market.
-
- The are two functions not mentioned in the online Help files and they are
- in the Address Book and the Important Phone Numbers areas. In Address Book
- you will see a small telephone beside the Home number and the Work number.
- Click these to dial the number to the left of them. In the Important Phone
- Numbers area, to dial the number in the lower left box, just click the
- telephone. In either case, you must then pickup up the phone within 15
- secondsor there will be a disconnect.
-
- Other than that, I only have the following items to mention.
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- When the program first runs you will see a the opening screen with a closed
- book graphic. There is a Help icon which will give you a screen of text
- explaining what to do. If you click on the pic of Lord Sutch, you will get
- the rundown of the Shareware fee and where to send for registratiion.
- This is (ALMOST) a fully running version of the program. Everything works
- except the print functions. Registered users will get the full print
- functions. Sorry, I didn't want to cripple it in any way but with previous
- programs I have done I have yet to receive any Shareware fee for those
- fully functioning programs. The program is in Hi-Res Interlace mode and I
- might do a Medium Res version but that depends on the response I get.
-
- One other item is using your Escape key. If you use it in any listing or
- editing section, it will iconize the program. Just click the icon to return
- to the program. Also the Screen Title of each area can be clicked with the
- mouse and it will iconize the program. This frees up about 130k of memory of
- the minimum 600k needed to run the program. I suggest you have a one meg Amiga
- before attempting to run this program. If you happen to run into a
- requester asking for a particular IFF file, just assign HOME: to whereever
- you have put it on your drive.(I'm sure I have fixed this now, my testing
- has shown it doesn't happen anymore....BUT....:).
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- File Setup
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- Home (Main Directory)
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- Home
- Home.info
- Home_Manager.Docs
- Home_Manager.Docs.info
- Readme.Home (Latest update info, etc)
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- Resources (Sub-Directory)
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- Home2.iff \
- Addressopen.iff \
- Addressopen.hlp \
- Appointments.iff \
- Appointments.hlp \
- Blatant.iff \
- Inventory.iff |
- Inventory.hlp |
- Notepad.iff |
- Notepad.hlp |- You must have these for the program
- Opening.hlp | to run properly.
- Phone.iff |
- Phone.hlp |
- ToDo2.iff |
- ToDo.hlp |
- TD.bru |
- OnHook.bru |
- OffHook.bru |
- HM.bru |
- AP.bru |
- Warning.bru |
- Alarm /
- Bad /
- Expand /
- SerialManager /
- Search /
- Search2 /
- Search3 /
- Req /
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- Data (Sub-Directory)
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- Addresses.DAT \
- Phones.DAT \
- Inventory.DAT |
- Business.DAT |
- ToDo.Per.DAT |------ Your various data files
- ToDo.Bus.DAT /
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- Macros (Sub-Directory)
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- HM.Macros \
- F1.Txt \
- F2.Txt \
- F3.Txt |
- F4.Txt |
- F5.Txt |------ Optional files you set up.
- F6.Txt |
- F7.Txt |
- F8.Txt /
- F9.Txt /
- F10.Txt /
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- You MUST have the following in your C: directory for HM to function;
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- Rename
- Run
- Assign
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- The Topaz font (sizes 8,9,11) must also be in your fonts directory.
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- Features to be added:
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- Multi-Label printing facility.
- Shopping List (Someone else already did this, so I might not bother)
- Budget Balance (Ditto to above)
- Receipt Form (Just fill in the blanks)
- Improved NotePad
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- *****************************************************************************
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- Be sure to read the file Readme.Home on the disk. This file will give you the
- latest updates and instructions that may not be in this documentation file.
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-
-
- Well, that should cover just about everything. I hope you enjoy this
- program. If you have any questions, ideas, suggestions or just want to
- talk, I can be reached at the following;
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- Canada Remote Systems - (416) 798-7730 (In the Amiga Conference)
- GENIE - L.PLATT1 (Email)
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- or
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- On the InterLink and NANET echoes.
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-
- * Shareware *
-
- If you find you like this program and continue to use it,
- please send $15 + $3 S/H to the address below.
-
- Please Money Orders Only!
-
- Len Platt
- 97 Garden Ave.
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- M6R 1H8
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- Make money order payable to Len Platt.
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