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Welcome to ChxWrite!
This file:
1. Tells you what ChxWrite is and does.
2. Has enough information for you to give ChxWrite a trial run,
(so you can get a feel for the program without printing the
manual or wading through the .doc file).
I say,
"If you maintain a personal or small business checking account or
accounts and you either write checks by hand or are not completely
satisfied with your current software, you should try ChxWrite. It's--"
You interrupt,
"Oh, man! A user-supported checkbook balancing program?! Yeccch.
Gag me with a Commodore 64."
I say,
"ChxWrite? Just another program to help you write checks for a home
or small business?
"Well, it does calculate your checkbook balance.
"And, yes, it keeps a record of the payee names, amounts and so on
of your checks.
"And I admit that it prints checks and at the end of each session
gives you a nice little report on what you did.
"And it's true that you can use it to keep a `household budget.'
"And, yes, there are currently 45,000 programs available for the
PC (in the price range $0 - $795) that do some or all of these things..."
BUT WAIT!
If, instead of using one of "those", I use ChxWrite...
Can I print my checks on my antique Okidata Microline 80 (which no living
PC software supports), or, in fact, on any known or unknown printer being
fed any conceivable check forms which it can physically handle?
Yes.
Can I write a whole stack of checks by entering only the amount for each
because ChxWrite fills in the date, the payee name and address, and
account number for me?
Yes, I can.
Can I find that check I wrote six months ago for drapery refurbishing,
in two seconds, by typing the word "drape" and pressing one key?
Uh-huh.
Can I have an unlimited number of different check accounts and switch
between them at will, WITHOUT leaving the program, and overwrite old
records as well as append them, and easily correct any error, and make
my printer print my name under the signature on some checks and print
my phone number there on some others?
Yes!
Hmmm. Well then can I use it for a small business with, say, 30 employees,
that does manufacturing and retail re-sales and has a lot of vendors and
writes a LOT of checks (as well as for a small personal checking account)?
Yes, I do every day!
Can I have the great public domain data base program PC-File directly
read my check records and report on them, to tell me how much I spent
on deductible computer magazine subscriptions (when I'm doing my taxes)
AND then (for my own curiousity) report on how much I spent on the care
of my pet piranhas from 3/15/85 to 7/1/86?
AND can I THEN export the data to Lotus 1-2-3, and have IT tell me how
much more I would have spent if I had had 450 piranhas instead of 400
and fed them the 90% lean hamburger instead of the cheap stuff, and
print a graph and everything?!
AND THEN export the data to dBASE and (if I am the kind of person who
actually HAS a "household budget") create a Report of Domestic
Expenditures for the Fiscal Year 1987 which will make a CPA DROOL with
ENVY??!!
YES! Yes, I CAN! I CAN DO IT ALL WITH ChxWrite!!!
Does it cost $695, like one of those ancient, re-hashed mainframe
accounts payable packages, or $295, like One-Write Plus (TM), or even
$74.95, like Checks and Balances?
NO! IT'S FREE!! (free from BBS's, users' groups, etc. $10 for the
public domain version on disk. And $20 to become a fully registered
user, receive printed documentation, upgrade updates, other free
software, and more!!!).
Only ChxWrite can do all those things. So what doesn't it have (besides
a price)? Well, it lacks a fancy-schmancy, Mac'y Mouse user interface.
If you want icons, get an Atari or a book on Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Most of the development time of ChxWrite was spent thinking of ways to
make it,
A. powerful
B. genuinely easy to use
After I thought for a long time, planned and designed, and
redesigned, I started writing it. In C. It's a good program. You
can spend upwards of $700 dollars on software to print your checks and
keep track of your check records, and then spend a lot of time learning
to use it. Or you can use ChxWrite, combine it with PC-File or another
good program (ideally one which you're already familiar with) to
manipulate your data in any way you like, and have a better solution to
your check account maintenance needs, up and working in a couple of
hours, and at a cost of...
$0 to use this complete, fully functional public domain version
$20 to become a registered user, and receive...
* the latest version of ChxWrite
* printed documentation
* additional information about ChxWrite
* future updates on new versions
* more public domain software
It's supremely easy to give ChxWrite a trial run. Just type
"chxwrite" and answer the opening series of questions by choosing the
default values.
Just remember:
ChxWrite works essentially like a regualar paper-and-pen checking
account. You write checks, then you record the names of the payees
the amounts they were written for, etc.
The main difference is that, before you write a check, ChxWrite
asks you for the record number of an old check to use as a basis for
the new check.
So, to help you get started with ChxWrite, some sample files
("checks.*") have been included. These comprise a sort of fictionalized
checking account, a record of the financial transactions of Count Dracula
while he was vacationing in England recently. Use these to explore
ChxWrite's features. Then, if you decide to give the program a serious
try, print and read the manual in the file "ChxWrite.doc." Good luck,
and I hope you enjoy ChxWrite!
Michael D. Brown
6023 Kilgore Ave.
Muncie IN 47304