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WINE CELLAR 2
NOTE: This is a SHAREWARE VERSION of WINE CELLAR Version 2.0.a
Give copies to your friends!
If you find WINE CELLAR to be useful, please send $25,
and your suggestions for improving WINE CELLAR to:
KCS SOFTWARE
927 Mears Court
Stanford, CA 94305-1041
Registered users will be informed of upgrades.
(C) Copyright 1986-1992
KCS SOFTWARE
927 Mears Court
Stanford, CA 94305-1041
(415) 493-7210 (Voice or FAX)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. ORGANIZING YOUR OWN WINE CELLAR
CHAPTER 2. GETTING STARTED WITH WINE CELLAR 2
CHAPTER 3. MAIN MENU
CHAPTER 4. ENTER DATA ON YOUR WINES
CHAPTER 5. CORRECT YOUR WINE LIST
CHAPTER 6. DELETE LISTINGS FOR YOUR WINES
CHAPTER 7. SEARCH YOUR WINE CELLAR
CHAPTER 8. PRINT A LIST OF YOUR WINES BY NUMBER
CHAPTER 9. CONVERTING DATA FROM VERSION 1.52 TO VERSION 2.0
CHAPTER 10. PRINTING ON A LASERJET PRINTER
CHAPTER 11. SUBJECT INDEX
CHAPTER 1. ORGANIZING YOUR OWN WINE CELLAR
You obviously enjoy good wines, and you want to evaluate your wines
when you drink them, and keep a permanent record of your evaluations.
WINE CELLAR is ideal for storing and updating records on your wines, and
more importantly, for searching and printing your records. With WINE
CELLAR you can search for any of the data fields, e.g., variety of wine,
color, vintage year, winery, etc. (see below for a list of all fields),
and print them to the screen or to a printer. The statistics for your
search (e.g., how many bottles found, total cost, etc. will also be
printed, or you can print the statistics for a search ONLY. You can also
print out the wine list by number (all or part of the list). Before a
party, just consult your own Wine List, and make the appropriate
selection.
The data fields and their sizes are:
Name of Winery (30 spaces)
Variety of Wine (30 spaces)
Color of Wine (R/W/B/RO) (2 spaces)
Vintage Year (as 85) (2 spaces)
In Cellar? (Y/N) (1 space)
Where Grown (25 spaces)
Where Bottled (25 spaces)
Cost (as 99.99) (5 spaces)
Percent Alcohol (as 12.5) (4 spaces)
Date in Cellar (as ??-??-YY) (8 spaces)
Comments (78 spaces) (Total spaces: 210)
A sample printout for WINE CELLAR is listed below. The first listing
is the wine bottle number (automatically assigned by the computer), the
remaining listings are for the data fields listed above. [The "??" in the
date field means to enter the style of date that you want.]
104 HEITZ CELLARS CABERNET SAUVIGNON R 67 N
MARTHA'S VINEYARD ST. HELENA, CA $8.50 12.5% 06-26-81
08-27-85, GOOD NOSE, ASTRINGENT, FULL BODIED, EXCELLENT
If there is some item of information about a wine that you want to
save, but it is not listed above as one of the data-field names, you can
enter it in the COMMENTS line. The SEARCH routine will find it there.
There are many ways to organize a WINE CELLAR, so let us explain how
this one is organized. Each bottle of wine is numbered consecutively.
Use permanent label tape or adhesive tape and a waterproof marker pen, and
label BOTH ends of each bottle, then you will still have a number on the
bottle when you remove the cork. You don't have to enter these numbers
into the computer, because the computer keeps track of the numbers for
you.
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After you drink a bottle of wine, write down the DATE and your
COMMENTS on that wine so that you can enter this information into the
computer when convenient. At that time you will also change data field
"In Cellar? (Y/N)" from "Y" to "N", i.e., the wine is no longer in your
cellar.
Since all of the wines are numbered consecutively, as you drink up
wines you will need to occasionally move your wine bottles up to the front
of the line to fill the spaces in your cellar so that you can buy more
wines.
There may be an interim time when you don't want to reposition all of
your wines to fill in the gaps in your cellar, but you need to put new
wines in your cellar. If you have a cellar with neat columns and rows you
can label the columns with letters and the rows with numbers (as in a
spreadsheet). Then, for example, you can put your new wine No. 605 in
slot A5, and then enter A5 in the COMMENTS line for wine No. 605. Now
when you print out the listing for wine No. 605 you will see that it is
located in slot A5. When time permits, you can reposition your wines to
be in proper numerical order.
WHAT IF YOU HAVE 200 BOTTLES OF ONE WINE? Sometimes you may buy ten
or twenty cases of an excellent "every day" wine, and you don't want to
enter every bottle of this wine into WINE CELLAR. We suggest that you
just enter a bottle into WINE CELLAR each time that you want to enter your
tasting comments, e.g., after drinking the first bottle, and again some
months later if your tasting notes change as the wine improves with age.
You can keep track of how many bottles of this wine are left in your
cellar by putting this number on the COMMENTS line of the first entry, and
correcting this number as needed.
WINE CELLAR holds the information on 100 wines in each data file
(called WC1.DAT, WC2.DAT, etc.). Each full data file requires 21,000
bytes of disk memory. The WINE CELLAR program (WC.EXE) uses 105,156
bytes. There are two small data files generated by the program.
WCTOTCLR.DAT (21 bytes) keeps track of the total number of wines on file,
the date the last entry or correction was made, and the color choices for
your monitor. WCVARIAB.DAT (121 bytes) stores the variables needed for
searching multiple files. A double-sided, double-density disk holds
362,496 bytes. Therefore, on a floppy disk you can hold the above working
files plus 11 data files on your wines, or a total of 1100 wines on a
disk. If you have more wines than this, you will need to install WINE
CELLAR on a hard disk, where the number of records that you can store on
your wines is almost unlimited. Alternatively, you can start a second
floppy disk and start numbering your new wines from 1-1100 again, perhaps
using a different color for the labels for numbering your new wines.
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CHAPTER 2. GETTING STARTED WITH WINE CELLAR 2
(1) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS.
IBM PC/XT/AT and PS/2 and compatibles.
Any monitor (color or monochrome).
Any printer.
A hard disk or a 3.5 inch disk is required for a large wine cellar.
DOS 2.1 or higher; 512K RAM.
(2) CONTENTS OF THE DISTRIBUTION DISK
WC.EXE WINE CELLAR program.
WC1.DAT Sample Data file for you to play with. You
should make a copy of the Distribution Disk
before playing with the data, however.
WCTOTCLR.DAT Data file for total number of wines on file,
the date the last entry was made,
and the color choices for your monitor.
CONV152.EXE Conversion program for people with Version
1.52. This converts the old data to the
new format for Version 2.0 (see CHAPTER 9).
WCMAN.TXT Manual for WINE CELLAR (17 pages). At the
DOS prompt type: PRINT WCMAN.TXT <RETURN>.
LJMARGIN.EXE Program to set the left margin on a LaserJet
printer (see CHAPTER 10).
NOTE: You only need to copy WC.EXE to use for your own wines.
WC.EXE creates its own data files automatically (see below).
(3) MAKE A WORKING COPY OF WINE CELL