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- Welcome to ChxWrite!
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- 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).
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- 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--"
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- You interrupt,
- "Oh, man! A user-supported checkbook balancing program?! Yeccch.
- Gag me with a Commodore 64."
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- 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..."
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- BUT WAIT!
- If, instead of using one of "those", I use ChxWrite...
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- 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?
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- Yes.
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- 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?
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- Yes, I can.
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- 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?
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- Uh-huh.
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- 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?
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- Yes!
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- 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)?
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- Yes, I do every day!
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- 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?
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- 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??!!
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- YES! Yes, I CAN! I CAN DO IT ALL WITH ChxWrite!!!
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- 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?
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- 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!!!).
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- 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.
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- Most of the development time of ChxWrite was spent thinking of ways to
- make it,
- A. powerful
- B. genuinely easy to use
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- 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...
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- $0 to use this complete, fully functional public domain version
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- $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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- Michael D. Brown
- 6023 Kilgore Ave.
- Muncie IN 47304
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