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BOWL101g by Randy L. Stowe Copyright (C) 1988-90 All Rights Reserved No part of this document may be copied or reproduced in any form without the prior written consent of Randy L. Stowe. Although I have done my best to make this program as easy to use and error free as possible. I, Randy L. Stowe make no claims or implied warranties with respect to this program (BOWL101g.EXE Ver. 1.0), utilities included with the program or documentation. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and Randy L. Stowe assumes no responsibility for errors that may appear in BOWL101g or this document. BOWL101g was written in part with Prowindows, written by Daniel P. Stasinski. -1- Requirements and installation..............2 Starting BOWL101g and Tutorial.............2 - 9 Main Menu..................................10 FILES: Load.......................................10 Save.......................................10 Change Directory...........................10, 11 Delete files...............................10, 11 Shell......................................10, 11 Quit.......................................10, 11 INPUT: Weekly Scores..............................10, 11 Makeup Games...............................10, 12 Startup Data...............................10, 12 EDIT: Teams......................................10, 12 Bowlers....................................10, 12 Subs.......................................10, 12 High Games.................................10, 13 Startup....................................10, 12 Swap Sub/Bowler............................10, 12 Zero all Scores............................10, 12 Add or Remove a Sub........................10, 12 Split Season...............................10, 12 PRINT: Standing Sheet.(Screen or printer).........10, 12 Recap Sheet....(Screen or printer).........10, 12 Register BOWL101g..........................10, 11, 12 Documentation..............................10, 11, 13 OPTIONS: Change Main Color..........................10, 13 Change Help Color..........................10, 13 FormFeed Printout..........................10, 13 Convert To Proper Case.....................10, 14 Convert To Upper Case......................10, 14 Leave Text As Typed........................10, 14 Add Mild Sound.............................10, 14 Toggle Help Screen.........................10, 14 Utilities: Sort Routines..............................10, 14 What's next................................15 MISC: Tips.......................................16 Adding Or Removing Teams/Bowlers/Subs......17 One Disk Systems...........................17 Auto Lane Assingments......................18 Questions And Answers......................19 - 20 Reporting a problem or a bug...............21 -2- Requirements *************************************** * IBM compatible computer. * * Any printer. * * One or more disk drives. * * Any monitor, color, mono, Ega, Vga. * * and 384k of free ram. * *************************************** Make a backup disk of the original and place the backup in drive A. If you have a hard disk, you can make a directory for BOWL101g. Hard disk: C: <ENTER> CD\ <ENTER> MD BOWL <ENTER> CD BOWL <ENTER> MD THUPM <ENTER> This is where the data will be stored, you may use any directory name here. This one represents Thursday P.M. You may have more than one directory. You may now install BOWL101g to your working drive or directory now by typing... A:INSTALL <ENTER>. You may create the directories and install BOWL101g manually if you wish. COPY A:*.* <ENTER> You may enter a path name following BOWL101g if you want to store data on another directory and change the default background color. Example: All program files are on the C:\BOWL directory and you are logged to that directory and have created two directories called THUPM and TUEAM to run the program and place the computer on TUEPM directory and set the background color to red type in the following command... BOWL101g \BOWL\TUEAM 4 Where 4 is the background color. 0=black 1=blue(default) 2=Green 3=cyan 4=red. The computer will now run BOWL101g and change to \BOWL\TUEAM and set the background color to red. Another example.. BOWL101g B:\ This will load and save data on the B drive. You may also just run BOWL101g from the BOWL directory and use the Change Directory and change to the TUEPM directory from within BOWL101g. (You must be in the directory or drive that BOWL101g is in to start.) There are several files that BOWL101g needs to run. They are: Bowlhelp.hlp All of the help screens. Bowl.mnu Menu for BOWL101g. *lanes.txt Lane assignment data files If you try to run BOWL101g from another directory, i.e. A:\BOWL101g, you will get an error: "Insert disk with BOWL.MNU". -3- The program is looking for BOWL.MNU and can't find it. The first thing you will see is a screen that says No files, Select Startup or change directory. Press ENTER. Some options are not available right now so the cursor won't land on them anyway. These are under FILES, Save... You don't have anything to save yet anyway. Under INPUT, WEEKLY SCORES. You have to have data loaded in first. That will come shortly. EDIT and PRINT won't work now either. All options will work once you load some data in, or enter the startup data. Let's enter STARTUP data now. Place the cursor over INPUT and press <ENTER> You can also just press I and you will and open up the input menu. Now select STARTUP Data and press down arrow and <ENTER> or S and <ENTER> If you have any problems or need help along the way, just press the <F1> Function Key, and you will get a help screen relating to the option you are working on. Enter the data it calls for, League Name etc, until you get down to Mixed league (Y/N). Enter Y if you must separate male and female. Scratch League (Y/N/P) press <F1>. If it is a scratch league, then answer Y. If it is a handicap league press N. If it is a handicap league and you wish to show team standings without handicap then press P for Partial handicap. Match Point or Peterson point.(Y/N) If this is the type of league where the bowlers bowl head to head and wins and losses are determined by the highest bowler, then enter Y here. If not then enter N. Handicap. If you have a handicap league and the handicap is 80 % of 180 then enter .80 Next enter 180 for female <ENTER> and 180 for Male, unless you allow a different handicap for each, the enter the appropriate amount for each. Maximum handicap Male. You can limit the handicap for male and female bowlers. Example... You wish to limit the male bowlers to a handicap of 40 and the female bowlers to 60, Enter 40 for male and 60 for female. If a male bowler exceeds 40 for handicap, the their handicap will be dropped back to 40, likewise for female. If their handicap calculates to 65, the the computer will convert it to 60. -4- Minimum Handicap. This will normally be 0, but in rare instances the handicap is allowed to drop below 0. If this is the case then enter the smallest the handicap can be. If there is no limit then enter -99. If you decide of -20 for a minimum handicap, anything under -20 will be converted to -20. If you enter 0 here, anything under 0 will be converted to 0 Individual points. This is only for match points or Peterson points. If you have a 5 man team and allow 1 individual point, then can have a possible 5 points if all 5 bowlers won their game. Points Per Game. Normally this is 1. If you allow 1 point per win then you can have a possible 3 wins. Points Per Series. Some leagues allow points for high series. If this is the case, enter the number of points allowed for series. If you allow 1 point for game and 2 for series, then you will have a possible 5 wins, one for each game and two for series. 1+1+1+2. Maximum score. Making this program as flexible as possible, I have included a function to allow a score higher then the standard 300. FivePin bowling for example allows you to bowl a 450 game. This option only effects the data entry. If you exceed the amount entered here, the computer will beep and make you re-enter the score. Manually enter wins and losses. Some type of leagues are not supported by this program (YET!!). Example you use the difference between team handicaps. The program won't calculate the wins/losses correctly, so this option was added to allow more flexibility to the program. After entering the scores for the odd team, the computer will ask for the number of wins for that team. The losses will be calculated, the same for the opposing team, the wins and losses will be calculated based on the number of wins by the odd team. Remember Pressing F1 will explain each function a little better. Enter the number of teams and bowlers next. If you must keep the average for a certain number of weeks, then the next option will allow you to keep the average for up to 99 games. If you keep the average, you keep the handicap also. Enter 0 if you wish the computer to calculate the averages from the start. -5- Enter Week Number, this will load the proper lane assignment schedule. Position rounds to date. Enter 0 here if you don't use or haven't bowled a position round yet. This option adjusts the auto lane assignment by subtracting the number entered here from the week number to return the proper lane assignment. Now, press <ENTER>. Do you wish to start in mid season? That is so you won't have to enter all the scores up to this point, just enter the total pins and number of games and you are ready to start. If you start in mid season, then at a later date, you might want to go back and enter all of the scores from week 1. This will allow you to print an individual recap sheet at the end of the season. Next you will be asked for the team names. If you elected mid season then after you enter each team, you will be asked for some scores. Just follow the computer's lead. Press <F1> if you need help. Now you will be asked for the bowlers name and scores. Remember if you elected to keep the averages for a number of games you will have to answer "1" to calculate average and "2" if you wish to keep this bowlers average. If you don't have a bowler just enter Blind for his name, this way the program will keep using the score you entered for him the first week. The computer will automatically change this 2 to a 1 as soon as the bowler bowled the number of games you told it to keep the average and start calculating the average after this. If you started in mid season, you will be asked for the high team games, hi team series and the individual bowlers high game and series. You only have to answer the questions for the scores that apply to your scoring system. If you have a scratch league, you won't have to fill in the scores for the handicap bowlers and teams. The same applies if you are not a mixed league, just enter the scores for for the male bowlers even if it is an all female team. When you are all done, you will be asked if you wish to save as START.BWL. Answer Yes here and all the names and scores will be saved to disk. If you want to take a little break now, we can come back at another time. You may shut down the machine if you wish; all data will be on the disk waiting your return. -6- Okay, you are back. Good. If you are using a hard disk. C: <ENTER> CD\BOWL c:\bowl\tuepm <ENTER> if not then just enter BOWL101g <ENTER> or BOWL101g [path] [color] <ENTER>. <ENTER> You are on Files. <ENTER> You are on Load. <ENTER> There is one file called 00START.BWL and the cursor is on it. If not, just use the arrow keys to move over it and press <ENTER>. Now the data is loaded and you are ready to start. Press the right arrow key and Highlight INPUT and WEEKLY SCORES. A little calender pops up to help you with the date. Enter the date they bowled. You can use any format for the date, it is just for display on your printouts. Next is the week number. This will start at 1 and continue unless this is not the first week. Starting lane: If you start on lane 1, then press <ENTER>. If you start on another set of lanes, enter the lowest lane you bowl on. Now, depending on several variables here is what will happen. If you have the data files on the disk called lanes.dat with the number of teams on preceding the filename such as 6LANES.DAT and you are within the 36 weeks, the auto lane assignment routine will automatically engage and you will be asked to check that the teams are paired properly then press <ENTER>. If this is a postion round, press P and enter the lanes each team bowled on. If this is not the case, you will be asked to pair the teams by entering the lanes each team bowled on manually. Now you will receive a list of the bowlers for the first team and the computer wants to know how many subs. If you don't have any for that team (no sub bowled), then press <ENTER> to accept the default of 0 subs. If you did have a sub or two, then enter the number of subs here. You are allowed up to 10 in this Shareware version. Several things may happen here. You may be asked for the sub's name if you don't have any subs in the computer yet, or you will receive a list of subs the computer is keeping for you. The list may be larger than the window, and if so, just move the cursor down and the window will scoll up. Highlight the sub's name and press <ENTER>. -7- If the sub isn't on the list, then highlight New Sub and press <ENTER>. This will prompt you to enter the name of the sub and add him or her to the list. It may ask you if it is a male or female and whether you calculate of keep the average. If it asks you 1=Calculate 2=Keep, then enter 1 if you wish to have the computer calculate the average or 2 if you wish to keep the average until the number of games you entered in Number of games to keep average has been reached. If you entered "2" then you will be asked for the bowlers average. If you entered Y for Match or Peterson points, then you will move the position of bowlers to match the position they bowled in. Select bowlers and subs in the order they bowl by using the up down arrow keys to highlight the first bowler and press ENTER. Highlight the second, etc. Select only the number of bowlers bowling. Press ESC after the last bowler. You only have to do this if you are using one or more subs. Next you will be taken to the input screen. Here you enter the handicap if any and scores for the 3 games. You will only be asked for the handicap if the computer doesn't know it yet. Enter the bowlers scores next. If a bowler didn't bowl or just bowled one or two games, enter the scores that they bowled. If they didn't bowl, then give them a zero or a blind score. The computer can figure things out if a bowler bowled one game and a sub bowled two. Just enter the scores as they are on the sheet. If you have to use a blind score, just enter it as a negative number. That is for a bowler with a 165 average and you drop it ten pins for his or her blind score, simply enter -155 -155 -155. Now the computer will know that this is a blind score and give the team the proper scores and leave the bowlers scores alone. You may back up with the UP ARROW, you may press ESC wherever you are in the data entry field and the computer will drop to the bottom and calculate all scores for you or you may press Page Up and enter the number of subs again. If you made a mistake and need to ask for subs or the team handicap again, just press PAGE UP and the computer will ask for the number of subs and team handicap again. Now do the same for the rest of the teams and bowlers. When the last team and bowler are entered, you will be taken back to the MAIN MENU again. Select FILES again and SAVE DATA. This time choose a filename that reflects the date. If the date is September 4th, then enter SEP04 and the computer will supply the .BWL extention. -8- The computer will add the filename to the week number and make it 01SEP04.BWL. This is used to print the individual stat sheets. Now that everything is safe on the disk, move over to the PRINT function and print the standing sheet and the recap sheet. Make two copies of the standing sheet if you wish and you will have one for your records and one for the bowling alley. You have room for 5 lines of comments at the end of the printouts. Pressing <ENTER> with no text will terminate this function. If you see a problem with any score. you may edit any team, bowler, subs name, or score with the edit option. If you find an error with an individual game bowled, it may be better to re-enter the scores again. This will keep the high games correct. Just load in the previous weeks data and enter the data again. While editing a bowler or sub, you may page forward and back with PG UP and PG DN to edit more than one bowler. This keeps you from having to go back to the menu if you have more than one score to edit. You will notice you don't have any option for the handicap. This is because it is calculated for you when you edit scores. Just change games bowled or number of games and the handicap will re-calculate for you. Note: If you change the average and the option calculate keep = 1 then the computer will recalculate the average. If keep = 2 and the number of games bowled is smaller than the number games to keep the average. Then it will keep the average you enter. I would like to make this program do everything, but we know that this is impossible. I wrote it so it will easy to use and easy to expand. I know it won't do everyting now, but I plan to keep adding to it with your help. If you want something added, drop me a line, please be thorough in your explanation. Include copies of printouts or anything else you think may help me. -9- Menu Options ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │Files Input Edit Print Options Utilities │ ├──────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬───────────────┬─────────────┬──────────┤ │Load │ Weekly scores│ Team │ Standing sheet│ Main colors │Sort rout │ │Save │ Makeup Games │ Bowlers │ Recap Sheet │ Help colors ├──────────┘ │Change dir│ Startup Data │ Subs │ Registration │ Formfeed │ │Delete fil├──────────────│ High Game│ Documentation │ Pcase │ │Shell dos │ │ Startup └──────┬────────┤ Ucase │ │Quit │ │ Swap Sub/Bowler │ │ Leave │ └──────────┘ │ Zero all scores │ │ Sound │ │ Add/Remove a sub│ │ Help Screen │ │ Split Season │ └─────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ This is the main menu. Here is a brief description of each selection. Pressing the F1 key anywhere in the program will bring up a help screen related to the menu option or the input field you are on. Use the arrow keys to get around in the menu, LEFT/RIGHT moves along the top of the menu, down arrow or <ENTER> opens up the highlighted menu selection to show more options. UP/DOWN arrow changes selections. Press <ENTER> to select an option or press selector letter and ENTER. LOAD. Loads previous week into memory, new data is added to this each week by selecting INPUT and then WEEKLY SCORES. Place the cursor over last weeks filename and press <ENTER> This will load previous week into memory. New data is added to this each week by selecting INPUT and then WEEKLY SCORES. You may load in any week's score to print data for that week. All data is saved making it possible to print standing sheets or final average sheet for any week that has been saved. Selecting this option also opens up the menu selections that were disabled. SAVE. This option saves the data in memory to disk. This will be the data you will load in next week and append to. If you fail to save data and try to exit, the computer will issue a warning reminding you to save your data. Use a filename to help you remember the date such as JUL07 for July 7. Don't use spaces in the filename. -10- The computer will place the week number in front of this filename and add the extention .BWL to make it 01JUL07.BWL You must load this data in next week and then use INPUT WEEKLY SCORES. This will load in all names and scores from last week and now you will add to these scores. CHANGE DIRECTORY. Lets you change drive or directory to load or save data to another drive or directory. Place the cursor on this option and press <ENTER>. You will now be asked for a new directory or drive. To change to a new drive, just enter the drive letter such as B: or A: A one drive computer, you may insert the data disk before pressing ENTER. You will be prompted to return the program disk when data is loaded or saved. Just follow the prompts with your program disk and data disk. Delete files: This is to remove duplicate or practice files only, all files are needed for the individual recap sheets. Select files to delete and press ENTER to delete that file. Press ESC to exit this function. Shell to dos: This option will allow you to exit temporarily to dos if you have enough memory. You can format a disk, do a directory or other dos functions. Type EXIT <ENTER> and you will be returned to BOWL101g QUIT. This option is the only way out of the program. QUIT lets you end the program, and checks to see that you have saved your data. If not, it will issue a warning to that effect. INPUT WEEKLY SCORES. This is where you enter each week's data. Startup or Load data must be used before this option. If you have made some changes prior to entering the data, the computer will issue a warning that your data has not been saved. It is not necessary to save the data unless you plan to quit. It is just a warning letting you know that you have been in the edit mode. All data will be carried over to the INPUT scores routine, you may save them when you are done. -11- MAKEUP GAMES. You may now makeup games without having to enter all the data for each week. Simply load the data prior to the makeup week to get the number of games bowled. Now load in the makeup week. This will load in the scores of all bowlers but not over write the games won and total pins. Now select the week number and lane assignment. The scores for all bowlers bowling that week will be plugged in for you. It will even tell you the number of Subs you had. You will have to supply the subs names but the computer will supply the scores except for the makeup teams. This routine is exactly like the input scores, but most scores are provided for you, use the score sheets to check your progress. You may press ESC to total the scores instead of stepping over them. You will be prompted to save the data again when each week is completed. Filenames will be provided. Enter each week until you have completed the final week and then press ESC to end this function. It might not be a bad idea to backup your data files before using this function. STARTUP DATA. This will be the first option you will use to enter the team names and other data for the league. You may use this option at any time to step through all of the teams, bowlers and subs to make changes, such as increase the number of bowlers. EDIT TEAMS. This option will let you edit any team score. Just pick the team you wish to edit and change the scores needed. EDIT BOWLERS. Select the team the bowler is on and then select the bowler. The handicap is calculated for you after changing the number of games or the average. The option 1=Calculate 2=Keep is if you have chosen more than 0 weeks to keep the averages in Startup. If you entered more than 0 then you must tell the computer if the bowlers average will be calculated or kept to the number of games selected. If you choose to keep this bowlers average, then enter 2 here if not, enter 1 and the computer will calculate the averages from now on. EDIT SUBS. This is almost identical to the editing the bowlers. -12- EDIT HIGH GAMES. This is where you may edit HIGH GAMES. All HIGH GAMES may be edited here, team or bowlers. EDIT STARTUP. Sometimes you need to edit the number of teams or bowlers or things like that, you can edit those here. SWAP SUB/BOWLER. If a bowler quits and is replaced with a sub, you can use this option to drop the bowler down to a sub and move the sub up into his or her place. This routine can be used to trade bowlers from one team to another by borrowing a sub to make the change. ZERO ALL SCORES. You may use this option to start a new league or start over. This will zero all scores but leave team and bowlers names. ADD/REMOVE SUB. You may add or remove a sub with this option. Just remember Subs that have been removed will not be part of the final average sheets. This option is mainly to add a sub. SPLIT SEASON This will zero the team standings and allow you to bowl a split season. PRINT TO SCREEN OR PRINTER. All of the print functions may now be directed to the screen or the printer. This will allow you to preview the printouts. PRINT STANDING SHEET Print standing sheets with this option. Print two, one for your records. PRINT RECAP SHEET. Shows all scores for bowlers and subs that bowled that night. Prints most pins over average or series at the bottom. MAIN COLORS. This will let you change the color of the main menu and input screens in the program. HELP COLORS. This will change the colors of the help screens within the program, not the ones called up with the F1 key. CHECK FOR SNOW. Some older color monitors flicker when the screen updates. If you see snow or the screen flickers, try using this option. Just press <ENTER> on this option, it will toggle the snow on or off. FORMFEED. Places a chr$(12) at the end of the printouts and ejects the paper after each printout. -13- PCASE. This converts the text you type in to PROPER CASE. When the text is entered and you press <ENTER> the text will be converted. If you press <UP OR DOWN ARROW> then the text will remain as you typed it in. UCASE. Converts all text entered to UPPER CASE. LEAVE TEXT AS TYPED. Leaves the text as typed, no conversions are made SOUND. Toggles a small SOUND on and off. HELP SCREEN. This will remove the HELP SCREEN from the main menu. SORT ROUTINES. You can sort on team or bowler's series with this option. UTILITIES in the registered version. Prize fund. You may print labels with the amount each bowler gets for prize money or pin money with this option, it will also determine the number of 20's 10's 5's 1's etc needed to fill the envelopes for each bowler. Individual recap sheet. A complete listing of all team, bowler and subs activity will be generated with this option. Score sheets. Print Score sheets with bowlers name, average or handicap, your option. Final average. Prints a final average sheet in alphabetical order. -14- In the works..... The following are some routines I am working on now and will inform you when they are complete. Most pins over average after x number of games. Number of 200, 250, 300 games. Number of 600, 700 series. Saving final average to a delimited file. This will be nice for the people putting together the average books. Tournament games, such as BVL. Difference between team handicaps scoring system. Database for names addresses and WIBC and ABC card numbers. Bookkeeping accounting database to track charges. Fourth game capabilities. Print Season Schedule. More sort routines. Save data to disk in a format where the end user may use and write their own routines using data generated by BOWL101. Add numlock status. Add printer codes for customized printouts. Add pause between pages on printouts. Popup window to show any bowlers stats. Recap on any one bowler or picklist of several bowlers or teams. -15- SOME HOT KEYS AND TIPS...... F1...........Will always bring up a help screen, unless you are printing data. F2...........Brings up a calculator when you can see the cursor. UP ARROW.....Takes you up in a menu selection or back on an input field. Using the UP or DOWN arrow will let you keep the text as you typed it into a field and you have selected UCASE to convert text to UPPER case, Pressing <ENTER> after entering McDonnald will convert it to MCDONNALD, pressing UP or DN ARROW will keep it as McDonnald. DOWN ARROW...Moves you down as the up arrow moves you back. PAGE UP......Scrolls to previous team, bowler, or sub while editing. For example... You are editing a team and need to edit another. Instead of returning to the menu and selecting that team, just press Page Up to scroll to the previous team. The computer will beep if you try to go below team 1. PAGE DOWN....Same as scroll up but moves to next team, bowler, or sub. It will not allow you to go beyond the last team, bowler, or sub. ESC..........The ESCAPE key will always return you from a function such as editing or any function where you don't want to be, or all done with. It will not let you escape from the Input scores routine but will exit from the Input routine and caluclate the scores, then return you to the "Is this correct Y/N" prompt at the bottom of the screen. If you press ESC here, it will ask you if you wish to abort. In the data entry screen, pressing ESC will total scores for you. If you had to go back and edit any score. Press ENTER on the last score you changed then hit ESC, this will take the cursor through the rest of the scores and total them much faster than stepping over them with the enter key. CTRL U.......This key will restore a field as long as you remain on that field. If you accidentally erase a field, press Ctl U and it will restore it for you. Hold down the CTRL key and press U. CTRL Y.......This deletes the data in the field. Pressing any alphanumeric key at the start of a new field will also erase the contents of the field. The arrow keys will let you scoll in the field if you wish to edit just one character. Hold down the CTRL key and press Y. -16- Adding a team or number of bowlers. You may add teams or delete teams if you wish. Just edit the startup and routine and enter the number of teams or bowlers. If you enter less than the number of teams now in memory, you will lose the last two teams. Entering additional teams will open up new team spaces and allow for new teams. You may enter the startup and step over the teams that are valid and enter the new team names when you reach the proper team number. Pressing Page Dn on the team name will bypass the input score routines if you don't need to change the scores. You may press escape at any time and be returned to the main menu. One drive computers You may swap a data disk for the program disk if you only have one drive. The only problem you will have is that you will need the program disk in the drive too. The menu and help files are needed while the program runs but you can select SAVE or LOAD data and before pressing enter, replace your program disk with your data disk. Now press <ENTER>. Your data will be saved and when the program tries to load the menu again it won't find it on the data disk and ask you to place your program disk back in the drive. You will have 3 tries before the program aborts. Just replace the program disk back in the drive and press <ENTER>. Easier done than said. You may even trick the computer into thinking you have two drives, depending on which Dos version you have. Tell the computer to change to drive B: If it does what I think it will do, it will prompt you to insert your data disk in drive B. and prompt you again to put the program in drive A:. This may mess up the display. I don't have one drive to test this theory on but I would be interested in hearing your response on this. You may restore the display by selecting a print function and the aborting it. This will chain to the util program and upon returning, will restore the screen. -17- Auto Lane Assingnemts It even allows for position rounds. Position rounds will be entered manually, just answer P to is this correct when the teams are paired. Now you will be asked for the lanes bowled for each team. This will also adjust the lane assignment by subtracting the number of position rounds from the week number to give you the proper lane assignment. Files on the disk with the number of teams and the LANES.TXT are the files the computer uses to assign the lanes. If you are bowling with a 12 team league then the only file you will need is the file 12LANES.TXT. If for some reason of another your lane assignment is different than this one, you may edit the file to match your needs or delete the file and the computer will have you manually enter the lanes the teams bowl on when you enter Weekly Scores. You have 36 weeks of data for the auto lane assignments. If you need more, just add the lane assignment to the data with any word processor that can handle straight ascii, that is no control codes or printer codes embedded. You may also build a datafile for lanes more than 16 lanes using the same format for each file. Number of teams first followed by the lanes for each week on a seperate line three spaces for each lane. Everything must line up properly. Example of what the data file 12LANES.DAT looks like. 12 <-------- Number of teams 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 <-------- Week number 1 4 5 6 2 12 3 9 11 1 7 10 8 <-------- Week number 2 9 3 1 10 11 4 5 12 8 2 6 7 <-------- Week number 3 7 12 5 8 9 2 10 4 11 6 1 3 continues 11 8 9 7 1 5 6 3 10 12 2 4 . 10 6 11 1 3 8 12 2 7 4 9 5 . 5 7 4 12 2 10 1 9 6 8 3 11 . 12 9 10 5 7 11 4 6 2 3 8 1 . 6 1 2 11 8 12 3 5 4 9 7 10 3 10 8 9 4 1 2 7 5 11 12 6 Allow 3 places for each lane. 8 4 7 3 6 9 11 10 12 1 5 2 6 5 2 1 12 11 4 3 8 7 10 9 3 12 5 4 8 10 2 6 11 9 7 1 This is like a grid, the 4 11 3 9 7 6 10 1 12 5 2 8 row of numbers are the lanes 2 9 12 7 3 1 8 5 4 10 6 11 the columns are the weeks. 5 1 8 11 4 2 7 9 3 6 12 10 So the first row of numbers 8 3 6 10 5 9 1 11 2 12 4 7 are week 1 and lanes 1 2 3 etc. 10 2 7 5 11 3 12 4 9 1 8 6 -18- Questions and answers. Question... Total wins and losses don't compute properly. Answer..... You have not set the number of points per game and series properly Edit startup and enter the proper number of points for each game and series. If you enter 1 point per game and 1 for series, you will have a possible 4 wins, 1 for each game and 1 for series. Question... In the second week, I found an error in a bowlers score that wasn't caught when entering the data for week 1. How do I fix this. Answer..... You can edit the scores but you will have to be careful and watch the high games. Another way which is sometimes faster is to load in the week prior to the error and enter the scores again, this may be faster then having to check the high scores. Be careful when entering data, check the sheet against the score sheet. Enter Y only if they match. If you find you have major problems it may be easier to zero all scores and start with week 1 again. Zero scores will zero all scores and leave the bowlers and team names. Save data after each week. Question... My subs are not receiving recognition for high games bowled. Answer..... If your subs are eligible for high games and series, you must place them on the team as a member of the team. If you have a 5 man team, and allow 2 subs for each team, enter 7 for number of bowlers. If they do not qualify for high games then place them on the sub list. Question... I discovered an error after pressing ENTER while entering scores. Answer..... Easy, just press up arrow to back up. Press PG up if you want to change the sub information or manually reenter team handicaps. If you found the error after you left that team and are on the next team, you can't back up you must start again. Press ESC at the first bowlers scores and ESC when it asks is this correct. You may abort this function, but the program will re-run itself to clear out any stray scores. Load in last weeks data again and reenter the scores. I found it quicker than trying to edit mistakes. Question... Lane assingments are not correct the teams don't match up. Answer..... You may be using a different lane assignment that is in the LANES.DAT File. You have two options. 1. Load the LANES.DAT you are using into a word processor, if you have 12 lanes then the data file will be 12LANES.DAT and edit the lanes bowled on. Across are the lanes bowled on and down is the week bowled. Be sure to keep the spaces as they are. Allow 3 places for each lane. The second way is to delete the file from the disk. If the file does not exist then the program will ask for the lane each team bowled on. Question... Not much disk space, what files do I have to have to run BOWL101g -19- Answer..... The files you have to have on the disk are BOWL101g.EXE, BOWL.MNU, BOWLHELP.HLP, and if you have 12 teams 12LANES.DAT. You should not save your data on the program disk, use an additional disk for the data. Question... It didn't ask for the average for a bowler I told the computer to calculate, but did for the ones I told to keep. Answer..... Right, the computer needs to know the average of the bowlers you wish to keep the average for. It will calculate the average for the others. It will ask you for the handicap for the bowlers that don't keep their average only for the first game, after this the computer knows the average and can calculate the handicaps for you. Question... All subs are eligible for high games and series but they are also allowed to bowl on other teams, they are on the team roster, how can they bowl for another team Answer..... For this you need to move this bowler to that team before entering the scores. Use the swap sub/ bowler option to move the bowler to the sub roster and then up to the other team. See docs for a better description. Question... I have several blank positions on the teams, is there any way to keep from having to give them the same scores each week? Answer.... Yes, just list these bowlers as Blind. When the program zeros out the scores before entering this weeks scores it will look for every bowler called BLIND. If such a bowler is found, it will keep the score you gave it the last week. Question... I have some names that are not handled properly when I have proper case set. Answer.... When the text is entered and you press <ENTER> the text will be converted to proper case or upper case which ever you have selected. If you press <DOWN ARROW> then the text will remain as you typed it in. -20- If you have a problem and wish to contact me, please include a printout of the startup data so I can see how you have the program set up. I am very interested in your comments and welcome any suggestions no matter how small or large. There isn't a week go by that I don't add or change something to improve the program to better suit your needs. When I get a collection of routines complete, I send out an update. This is free if you have just registered and I have already sent you a registered version within 3 months or less. Otherwise a small fee is required usually $20.00 but is subject to change. If you have special request and I think others may be able to use it, I will make the modification at no charge and send you that modification when complete and include this in a future update. I am going to try to complete an update every 6 months. Please!! when you request a modification include as much information you think necessary for me to understand your request. Include printouts and examples. You will be notified of these updates by mail. Randy Stowe 1229 Newburg Road Fortuna Ca. 95540. -21-