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******************************************************** MEAL-MASTER README! File --- Version 7.06 ******************************************************** This file contains some important information to help you get the most from Meal-Master. Please review this information before using the program. A NOTE ABOUT SHAREWARE ---------------------- Meal-Master is distributed as "Shareware." Shareware is not free software. It is a distribution concept that allows a "try before you buy" evaluation period of the software. Any fee you may have paid to a shareware distribution service was for their service and materials only, and does not provide any compensation to the author. After evaluation, you are legally required to either register the software you have with the author or discontinue using it. If you continue using the software then registration is not optional; it is payment for the software you have already received on a "try before you buy" basis. When registering Meal-Master, you also will receive the latest version, several utility programs, and a professionally typeset and bound 120+ page User's Manual with full descriptions and examples of all Meal-Master features, including a complete index. You will also receive a personal serial number for the program, which will record your registration, allow access to the additional Registered User features, and eliminate the request for registration from the title screen. To register, select the "R Registration" option from Meal-Master's main menu, then "O Order form". Fill in the blanks, use your Print Screen key to print the filled-in form, and mail with check or money order for the amount indicated to Episoft Systems at the address shown on the program's initial title screen. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING SHAREWARE! INSTALLATION - REGISTERED VERSION --------------------------------- The Registered Master disk includes a program named "INSTALL". Simply place the disk in your floppy drive, and type "A:INSTALL" (or "B:INSTALL" if using drive B:) at the DOS prompt and follow the on- screen prompts to install the program. All existing recipe files will be preserved for use with the new software. INSTALLATION - EVALUATION VERSION --------------------------------- The evaluation version as prepared by Episoft is a single, self- extracting archive file, "MM7.EXE". Simply type "MM7" at the DOS prompt and follow the on-screen instructions. A different procedure Page 1 may be necessary if you received your copy from a shareware distributor, time share service, or BBS system rather than Episoft. (Note: the INSTALL program mentioned above is not included nor necessary for the Evaluation version.) PROGRAM REGISTRATION PROCESS ---------------------------- When registering Meal-Master, you receive a personal serial number which must be entered into the program to activate its registered user features. To enter your serial number, start on Meal-Master's main menu and select "R Registration Menu". Then select "E Enter Registration Number", and enter your name and serial number EXACTLY as provided on the Registration Sticker in your Registered User's Package. The capitalization, spacing, and symbols must all be entered EXACTLY as shown on your Registration Sticker. Your registration information is recorded in a file named "MMREG.MMF". If you distribute copies of Meal-Master to other users, be sure NOT to include this file! Your registration information is for your personal use only! If you pass on a copy of Meal-Master for someone else to evaluate, be sure NOT to include your MMREG.MMF file. Record the information from your Registration Sticker in a safe place, like inside the cover of your User's Manual. Should you wish to reinstall Meal-Master on a new machine, or if your program should ever need to be reloaded from the master disk, you will need this information to again enter your registration information. (However, should you lose your registration number, Episoft will replace it at no charge.) THE SAMPLE DATABASE ------------------- If you are using Meal-Master for the first time, and want to try it out without having to type in a bunch of your recipes, you can use the sample database provided. From the Main menu, select "U Utilities" then "I Import" and specify "SAMPLE.TXT" for the file name. On the next menu, select "M Mode: Automatic" then "S Start Importing". The sample database of 35 recipes will be loaded into the program, and you can immediately begin trying the search, shopping list, index, and other features of Meal-Master. ADDENDUM/CHANGES TO THE PRINTED MANUAL -------------------------------------- Registered users should make note of the following, which was a "last minute" program addition and did not make it into the printed User's Manual. A "/EMS" command line switch has been added. Specifying "/EMS" on the command line when starting MM.EXE (or MMM.EXE) will cause MM to test for Expanded Memory. If available and compatibile, MM will use this memory to store program overlays, which speeds up Page 2 some program operations and may free additional conventional memory for certain program operations.. FILES PROVIDED TO ALL USERS --------------------------- These files are distributed to users of both the Evaluation version and the Registered version of Meal-Master. MMQUICK.DOC For unregistered users, the MMQUICK.DOC file contains a short manual with enough information to get you started trying out Meal-Master. Registered Users do not need to review this file, as this information is included in the 120+ page printed manual supplied with their registered master disk. PRODIGY.DOC Provides information on using Meal-Master with the Prodigy (tm) service. Many Meal-Master users are active on Prodigy's Food and Wine forum, and post recipes Exported from their Meal-Master database for others to capture and Import into their database. This is a great way for family and friends to share recipes, as the electronic transfer requires no re-typing of the recipe by those receiving it. (Prodigy is a registered trademark of Prodigy Services, Inc.) IMPORTF.DOC Provides a specification of how a file must be formatted to Import into Meal-Master. Although the Import function is designed to accept recipes that have actually been Exported from Meal-Master, many users are interested in using their Word Processors (and/or Meal-Master's built-in Import editor) to reformat recipes from other sources into a format that Meal-Master will Import. This file gives the "rules" which a file must follow for it to import properly. MM.EXE The main Meal-Master program file. README! The file you are now reading. MM706.DES A short description file used when posting Meal-Master on electronic bulletin board systems for distribution. CONVERT.EXE Utility program to convert CompuChef (tm), Micro Cookbook (tm), and Micro Kitchen Companion (tm) files for Import into Meal-Master. (CompuChef is a registered trademark of Hillstepper Software, Micro Cookbook is a reg. trademark of Virtual Combinatics, Micro Kitchen Companion is a registered trademark of Craftsbury Software, Inc.) SAMPLE.TXT Sample Meal-Master Database, in Meal-Master Export format. To use these recipes with Meal-Master, start Meal-Master and access the "U Utilities" screen. Select "I Import", and enter "SAMPLE.TXT" as the file name. On the next menu, select "Mode: Automatic", then "S Start Importing". This Page 3 will load the contents of the sample file into the Meal- Master database. *.MMP Assorted printer driver files. FILES PROVIDED TO REGISTERED USERS ONLY --------------------------------------- The following files are "bonus" programs for Registered Users only. They will not execute without a personal registration code provided by Episoft to Registered Users, so are not typically distributed to unregistered users in order to save file size and downloading costs. CHGCAT.EXE Utility program to manipulate category names in the database. This program will scan all recipes, collecting and organizing all category names. Each unique category is listed, along with information about how many recipes contain that category and whether it is on your personal category table or not. A new category name can be specified for any of the existing categories, and the update will be applied throughout the database. MMSTAT.EXE Utility program to analyze database usage. This program reports statistics about how many recipes are in the database, maximums and averages of ingredient and direction usage per recipe, and remaining capacity based on current averages and available disk space. MMCOLOR.EXE Utility program to set custom colors. Meal-Master allows background and foreground colors to be selected for Normal, Medium Intensity, High Intensity, and reverse video. TITLES.EXE Utility program to mass update the format of recipe titles throughout the database. Especially when importing recipes from multiple sources, some titles will be in all capital letters, some in all lower case letters, and some in a mixture. This utility lets you pick the way you want your titles to be stored, and updates the entire database using that style. MMM.EXE Menu "shell" program. This program provides an integrated menu from which the Meal-Master main program and all the utility programs can be accessed with a single keystroke, rather than exiting and starting each program from the DOS prompt. Page 4 DIRECTORY OF THE REGISTERED MASTER DISK --------------------------------------- The registered master disk contains an installation program, two archive files containing all the Meal-Master files, and a small utility used by the installation program. Each file is described below. INSTALL.EXE Meal-Master installation program. Place the master disk in drive "A:" and type "A:Install" (or "B:Install" if using your B: drive) at the DOS prompt to start installation. MMDC.UTL Decompression utility used by the INSTALL program. MM7P.ZIP Archive containing "MM.EXE", "README!", and assorted printer driver files. Will be automatically expanded by the INSTALL program, or you may expand it manually if you have a utility program for ZIP format files. MM7U.ZIP Archive containing Meal-Master utility, documentation, and sample database files. Will be automatically expanded by the INSTALL program, or you may expand it manually if you have a utility program for ZIP format files. CAUTIONS/COMMON PROBLEMS ------------------------ If you use the EMM386.SYS memory manager with its NOEMS option, and you run Meal-Master under Microsoft Windows, and you specify the "/EMS" switch when starting MM.EXE, then you may receive a "violated system integrity" message. There are four ways to correct this problem: 1) Do not specify the /EMS switch when starting Meal-Master, OR 2) Remove the NOEMS option from the EMM386.SYS line in your CONFIG.SYS file, OR 3) Create a PIF file for MM and specify zero for the "EMS Limit" and "XMS Limit" entries, OR 4) Buy a third-party memory manager such as QuarterDeck's QEMM (which will not only fix this problem, but provide much better memory management capabilities than EMM386 does!). Some monochrome displays driven by color adapter circuitry (particularly prevalent on inexpensive laptop machines) often do not provide sufficient gray scale contrast to differentiate between the text colors used by the unregistered version of Meal-Master. If you encounter this problem with the unregistered version, try using the DOS command "Mode BW80" immediately before running Meal-Master (the MODE command is found in the DOS directory). Registered users can use the MMCOLOR program to set the specific color combinations that work best on their machine. You must have the file CONFIG.SYS in the root directory of your boot disk, and it must contain the statement FILES=xx, where xx is a number that is at least 15. If this file is missing, does not contain the FILES= statement, or specifies a value less than 15, Meal-Master may not perform all functions. If you are using any sort of "task switching" software, such as Microsoft Windows or the task switching utility provided with DOS 5, a minimum of 30 is recommended. Page 5 If you have been using a version of Meal-Master prior to 6.05, and you have been using the Utility/Import function, there may be some category names that will not be found correctly by the Search function. To correct this, run the CHGCAT program and select the "Check/Fix Corrupted Categories" option. Full documentation for this utility is found in Chapter 10 of the printed user's manual. The PARM.MMF and CATFILE.MMF files created by some very old versions of Meal-Master is occassionally incompatible with a newer version. If you receive a "runtime error" when trying to start MM, try deleting these files and then restarting the program. This will initialize new files that are compatible with the current version. If you have been using a version of Meal-Master (or Meal-Meister) with a version number less then 5.01, you must delete the old program files, MM.COM and MM.000, before running the current version. If these files are present, when you type "MM" to start the MM.EXE program, the MM.COM program will be executed instead. Type "DEL MM.COM" and "DEL MM.000" at the DOS prompt to eliminate these files. CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE -------------------------- Version 7 is the result of suggestions from many users, and everyone who wrote to suggest new features deserves credit for this version! Special thanks go to the following people, who were especially helpful by not only providing many new ideas for the program, but also putting in many hours helping test the preliminary versions: Thanks to Barb Day, Jo Labrecque, Gaye Levy, Karen Mintzias, Dee Penrod, Elaine Radis, Ken Robie, Robbie Shelton, Terry Toedt and Jodi Welliver for all your help! VERSION 7 RELEASE HISTORY ------------------------- 7.00 - Initial release of version 7. See below for details. 7.01 - Corrects a problem with the "Special: MMMMM" export format used to exchange recipes on BBS "echo" systems 7.02 - Adds support to the CONVERT.EXE program for the "Micro Kitchen Companion - Windows Edition v1.3 and v1.4" products. 7.03 - Corrects a problem when exporting with "Decimal Fractions" set on the Maintenance menu. In previous versions, doing this exported blank quantities as "0.00", which would not import. Adds a blank line between exported recipes, which reportedly will help formatting on some time share services. The "Title:", "Categories:", and "Servings:" lines have been moved one position to the right, as some time share service software was combining the lines when "Categories:" began in position one. Adds support to the CONVERT.EXE program for the "Micro Kitchen Companion for DOS - Version 6.0" product. Page 6 7.04 - Previous versions always tested for and used EMS memory if present. Version 7.04 will only attempt to use EMS if the "/EMS" command line switch is specified. Under certain circumstances, the MMSTAT program would report disk space available as "-1" instead of the actual value. This has been corrected. 7.05 - With large databases and small available memory, the title index would sometimes cause a system lockup. This has been corrected. 7.06 - The "/x" command line switch did not affect listings as described in the manual. This has been corrected. The time on the main menu was displayed as "AM" between Noon and 12:59pm. This has been corrected. The export screen now displays the number of recipes currently in the database. The CONVERT program sometimes dropped the first character of some continuation lines when converting CompuChef (tm) recipes. This has been corrected. The CHGCAT program would sometimes fill the screen with garbage when jumping to a particular entry. Also, when the filepath was changed some erroneous entrys occassionally appeared at the top of the list. These have been corrected. The "mixed" capitalization logic in the TITLES program has been refined; words like "of", "and", "with", and so forth are now excluded from capitalization. Also, words which follow a special character, like a hyphen or parenthesis, are capitalized correctly. CHANGES IN VERSION 7 -------------------- The following is a list of the major changes in version 7 of Meal- Master, as compared to version 6.41 released in January 1992. A new install program replaces the old procedure of DOS copy commands, making installation easier. Ingredient entry and editing is now done on a "Fill in the blanks" entry form. The previous requirements to press "I" before each new ingredient and to press F1 to edit each ingredient have been eliminated. All ingredients in a recipe can be simulaneously converted from Metric to English, or from English to Metric, with a single command. These conversions had to be done one ingredient at a time in previous versions. Page 7 The Quantity and Unit of Measure fields can now be blank. Existing ingredients with "1 x" designation are automatically displayed with blank quantity and unit. Lengthy ingredient names can now be entered by using a "continuation" line. The "x" unit of measure, previously combined with a quantity of 1 for "as required", now has a new meaning when used with a quantity greater than 1: "per serving". This is especially useful for tracking nutritional information, since items such as "300 x Calories" or "10 x grams fat" can be entered in the ingredient section. Several recipes (a meal, or a day's meals, for example) can then be marked, and the "shopping list" function will add together the per-serving nutritional information for total meal or total day's intake. Several new units of measure have been added: lg (large), md (medium), sm (small), ct (carton), sl (slice) and bn (bunch) are now allowed. Units have been resequenced on the pop-up list to place all English units together, and all Metric units together. An all-new directions editor has been added, with word processing commands including insert/overtype modes, word left, word right, reformat, etc. After performing a search, listed recipes can now be highlighted using arrow keys. Pressing Enter views the highlighted recipe, "M" marks it, "E" exports it, "P" prints it, and so forth. There is no need to enter the recipe number! The "dual-column" ingredient format can now be sequenced in a "down- then-across" method as well as the "across-then-down" method. Previously, the "across-then-down" format meant that the first ingredient was in the left column, then the second in the right column, the third in the left column, and so forth; causing a "zig-zag" effect that many users did not like. With the "down-then-across" format, the first half of the ingredients are listed downward in the left column, then the second half are listed downward in the right column. Category Selection has been improved. Selecting from the pop-up list can be done with up/down/left/right arrow keys, and typing a character "jumps" to the first category that begins with that character. New flexible Import feature. Completely re-written, Import allows many new options and has a built-in editor. When an import error occurs, it can be fixed "on the spot" or sent to an error file for later processing, so that the import can continue. Recipes with duplicate titles can be skipped, or sent to a duplicate file for later review. Direction lines can optionally be reformatted automatically as part of the Import process. Duplicate checking has been enhanced, and allows viewing of potential duplicates to ensure correct import action. When exporting multiple recipes (marked or range), each recipe can be automatically written to a separate file. A new export format has been added which eliminates the hyphens in the header and footer; this provides compatibility with BBS systems that Page 8 could not use hyphens. Indexes and Shopping lists can be printed to a DOS file. New options on the Title index allow creation of an index containing only marked recipes, and creation of an index without the alphabetic subtitle breaks. The current database path is shown on all major menu screens. All menus have been updated for better consistency and ease of use. Printer handling has been greatly expanded. Multiple setups can be created, stored, and switched between easily. Printer command strings can now be up to 150 characters long, and both "setup" and "reset" strings are provided. A new Search option allows suppression of recipes flagged for deletion. Using this option, deleted recipes "disappear" immediately instead of waiting for the next Rebuild. The maximum number of marks has been increased from 250 to 350. The "Automark Search" has been improved. There is now a "continuous" mode which allows all matching recipes to be marked without pressing enter as each page is displayed. New ingredient search options provide a "full word" search option, use of both "and" and "or" logic in the same search, and a negative search capability. For example, searching for "chicken and cheese and -salt" would find only recipes containing both chicken and cheese, but no salt. Searching for "beef or chicken and onions" would find only recipes that contained either beef or chicken, and also contained onions. In addition to the "string" search in titles, a "partial word" search can also now be used. For example, typing "A.." as the Title Search criteria would display only recipes whose titles begin with "A". This technique can also be used in the Category Search criteria, allowing a search for "Bread.." to find recipes with category names like "Bread", "Breads", and "Bread mach". New options on the Utility menu allow a category name to automatically be added to, or deleted from, all marked recipes throughout the database. DOS text files can now be viewed from the Utilities menu, without leaving Meal-Master. The "high ascii" characters can now be used throughout the program, providing foreign language accent characters, degree symbols, and other symbols. For example, pressing "248" on the numeric keypad while HOLDING DOWN the ALT key will generate a degree symbol. Page 9 A new option on the Maintenance menu allows all measures entered as "t " to be displayed as "ts", and all those entered as "T " as "Tb". This option was previously available only as a command line switch. All reported "bugs" have been corrected. The manual has been rewritten, with over 120 pages of descriptions and helpful examples! CHANGES IN PREVIOUS VERSIONS ---------------------------- The following items are not new to version 7, but are significant enhancements in previous versions. They are listed here for users who have been using a version earlier than the 6.41 release, and want to compare to see what has been added since their current version was released. NEW UNITS OF MEASURE (v6.10) ---------------------------- Additional unit codes for volume and weight have been added, including full support for common metric measures. Metric units now include milliliter (ml), cubic centimeter (cc), centiliter (cl), deciliter (dl), liter (l), milligram (mg), centigram (cg), decigram (dg), gram (g), and kilogram (kg). Common U.S. units now include teaspoon (t or ts), tablespoon (T or tb), fluid ounce (fl), cup (c), pint (pt), quart (qt), gallon (ga), ounce (oz), and pound (lb). Automatic conversion between unit types is provided, including conversion between English and Metric units. Additional item units have also been added. Item units now include each (ea), can (cn), package (pk), pinch (pn), drop (dr), dash (ds), and "as required" (x). When entering or revising an ingredient, the unit of measure can now be selected by highlighting the desired unit on a list. After entering the quantity, a window will be displayed with the valid unit of measure codes. You can cycle through the various codes using the PgUp and PgDn keys, and you can highlight individual codes using the Up and Down arrow keys. Once you have highlighted the desired unit, pressing return selects it. Of course, you can still type in the unit codes just as in previous versions, if you prefer. PAGE FORWARD/BACKWARD IN SEARCH RESULTS (v6.10) ----------------------------------------------- The list of recipes resulting from a search can now be paged forward AND backwards. Simply press the PgUp key to page backwards through the list, or the PgDn key to page forward. RETURN TO SEARCH RESULTS AFTER ACTION (v6.10) --------------------------------------------- After a recipe has been listed or revised, the program now returns to the search results list at the same point where the list or revise Page 10 operation was selected. This allows you to easily continue marking, listing, or revising other recipes on the list without having to reinitiate the search. RESTART OF INTERRUPTED SEARCH (v6.10) ------------------------------------- If a search is interrupted, it can now be restarted where the interruption was made. While interrupted, recipes found before the interruption can be listed, marked, cleared, or revised. The search can then be continued or terminated. SUPPRESSION OF RECIPE PAGE BREAK (v6.10) ---------------------------------------- An additional printing feature has been added to allow multiple recipes to be printed on a single page. Entering 999 as the number of lines per page on the Maintenance menu will suppress the automatic top-of- form normally sent at the end of each recipe print. RECIPE MARKS RETAINED (v6.10) ----------------------------- When recipes are marked, they now remain marked when the program is exited. Marks are cleared only when the Erase Marks option is chosen on the Search menu. SELECTABLE TEXT AND BACKGROUND COLORS (v6.10) --------------------------------------------- A utility program has been added to allow registered users to change the text and background colors. Place the file MMCOLOR.EXE in the same directory where you keep the MM.EXE program file. Type MMCOLOR at the DOS prompt to start the program. Use the function keys to select your choices for foreground and background colors, then press the "Q" key to quit the program. You will be given a choice of saving the changes you have made, or keeping the old colors. If you choose "Y" to save your changes, the next time Meal-Master is started it will use the colors you have chosen. SERVING SIZE CHANGE FOR LIST ONLY (v6.12) ------------------------------------------ A new option on the Maintenance menu has been added. Pressing "S" toggles between "As Stored" and "Prompted" modes for serving size on listed recipes. When set to "As Stored," recipes are always printed with the same number of servings. When set to "Prompted," an additional screen is displayed after selecting a recipe to list. This screen allows the serving quantity to be altered for the current listing only, without making any permanent change to the database. Page 11 SPECIAL EXPORT FORMAT FOR PRODIGY (tm) Users (v6.20) ---------------------------------------------------- A special export format has been added for users of the Prodigy (tm) on-line service. This format is compatible with direct upload and download for users exchanging recipes via the Prodigy service. The "Export Recipe Format" option on the Maintenance menu allows choosing the "Normal" export format or the new "Special *P" format for Prodigy. Using this format, recipes posted to Prodigy forums by others can be captured and imported directly into Meal-Master without any retyping. With the help of a shareware utility program called "ProUtil" from Royston Associates, you can also upload your own recipes directly to Prodigy (tm) for other users without any retyping. For more information on Pro-Util contact the author, Pete Royston, using the "Jump Royston" command. The procedures for exchanging recipes this way can be discussed on-line in the Prodigy (tm) "Food and Wine" forum. Jump "Food and Wine", select "Bulletin Board", then select the "Food Software" topic (note: forum names occassionally change on Prodigy(tm). This information is current as of 9/1/92). NOTE: PRODIGY is a registered trademark of Prodigy Services, Inc. CONVERSION UTILITY FOR COMPUCHEF (tm) RECIPES (v6.20), (v6.4) ------------------------------------------------------------- A conversion utility program, CONVERT.EXE, is provided to convert recipes in the CompuChef export format to Meal-Master import format. Recipes are first exported from CompuChef to form a CompuChef Export file. Next, the utility is used to convert that file into a Meal- Master import file. Finally, Meal-Master is used to actually import the file. (Originally introduced in version 6.20 as CC2MM.EXE; combined with other conversion utilities into CONVERT.EXE in version 6.4 release) Note: CompuChef is a trademark of Hillstepper Software. IMPORT FORMAT RELAXED, ERROR MESSAGES ADDED (v6.20, v6.21) ---------------------------------------------------------- For users that are using a word processor to prepare recipes that match the Meal-Master Import format, that format has been made easier. In addition, errors are analyzed and displayed on-screen to aide in resolution. See the file "IMPORTF.DOC" for import file specifications. OVERRIDE OF CATEGORY ERROR ALLOWED (v6.21) ------------------------------------------ Previous versions of MM would not allow entering a recipe category that was not on the Category list. Now an error message is generated warning that the category is not on the list, and a prompt is given with "Keep/Revise/Add" choices. If you choose "Keep", the category will be saved with the recipe even though it is not on the valid category list. "Revise" will place you back in the category entry field to make changes. "Add" will add the category to the valid Category list, and save the category with the recipe. Page 12 NEW EXPORT OPTIONS (v6.21) -------------------------- In addition to exporting recipes from the Utility menu, you can now export from the Search and Revise menus. Both menus now include an "Export" option for exporting single recipes to a DOS file. AUTOMARK SEARCH FEATURE ADDED (v6.30) ------------------------------------- A new search option has been added to the Search/Revise menu. The "Automark" option, selected by pressing "A", works exactly like the "Search" option but automatically marks each recipe found in the search (up to the maximum mark limit). IMPORT WITH DUPLICATE REJECTION IGNORES CAPITALIZATION (v6.30) -------------------------------------------------------------- When importing with duplicate checking, duplicate titles are now recognized regardless of whether capital or lower case letters are used. Previously, a recipe with the same words but with different capitalization were considered two different recipes, and not rejected as a duplicate. RANGE OPTION ADDED TO BATCH PRINT (v6.30) ----------------------------------------- The batch print screen now allows automatic printing of a range of recipe numbers. CATEGORY INDEX OPTIONS ADDED (v6.30) ------------------------------------ When requesting an Index by Category from the Utilities menu, two options can be selected. First, the index can be restricted to a single category, or opened to include all categories. Second, the index can be based on all five category codes for each recipe (same recipe listed under five different categories in the index) or only the prime (first) category code (recipe listed only once under its first category). The sort has also been enhanced so that capitalization makes no difference in sequence. TITLE INDEX CAN BE RESTRICTED TO RANGE (v6.30) ---------------------------------------------- The Title Index can now be restricted to an alphabetical range. For example, an index of only those recipes with titles that start with "A" through "D" could be prepared, then another with only those starting with "G" through "H", etc. The sort has also been enhanced so that capitalization makes no difference in sequence. Page 13 NEW CONVERSION UTILITY (v6.4) ----------------------------- The existing conversion utilities (CC2MM.EXE, MC2MM.EXE, and MKC2MM.EXE) have been replaced with a single program, CONVERT.EXE. This provides a menu-driven interface (previous programs were command- line driven), and provides consistent conversion options for all three types of conversions. During conversion, recipe titles can be updated to all upper case, all lower case, or left as is. A log named "CONVERT.LOG" can be generated which lists each recipe name converted, along with any quantity or unit of measure adjustments made during the conversion. Type "CONVERT" at the DOS prompt and select the "P Program Information" selection for more information. MENU EXIT CONSISTENCY (v6.4) ---------------------------- The standard way of exiting a sub-menu in Meal-Master is the "X" key, but a few sub-menus used the "Q" key instead. The Batch Print, Export, and Import sub-menus have been revised to use "X" as their exit key to be consistent with the rest of the program. The "Q" key is used only on the main menu, to "Quit" Meal-Master and return to DOS. SWITCH TO DISPLAY "T" and "t" UNITS AS "tb" AND "ts" (v6.42) ------------------------------------------------------------ When starting MM, a "/T" command line switch can be used to force display of tablespoons as "tb" and teaspoons as "ts". The switch affects all display, printing, and export operations, but does not change the way ingredients are actually stored on the database. Starting the program without the "/T" will result in display, print, and export of units exactly as input to the database. To use this feature, simply specify "/T" on the command line when starting Meal-Master (for example, "MM /T"). This feature is especially useful for sight-impaired users who are using a speech synthesis package to "speak" screens to them, as the "T" and "t" ambiguity is eliminated with "tb" and "ts". These users will also want to use the "/C" switch, which eliminates direct screen writes and sends all output through normal "BIOS" routines, where speech synthesizer packages can intercept them. LEGAL STUFF and LIMITED WARRANTY -------------------------------- Meal-Master (tm) is a trademark of Episoft Systems and Scott Welliver. All rights are reserved. Copying of the Evaluation version (without registered user utilities or a registration serial number) is allowed by not-for-profit organizations such as user groups. Anyone wishing to distribute Meal-Master in a for-profit enterprise must contact Episoft Systems for permission. Episoft and Scott Welliver disclaim all warranties, either express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to Page 14 this software and any accompanying written materials. This limited warranty gives you specific legal rights. You may have others, which vary from state to state. In no event will Episoft or its suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business reputation, business interruption, loss of business information, or other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use of or inability to use this Episoft product, even if Episoft has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. Wow, no wonder lawyers charge so much. *** END OF README! FILE *** Page 15