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The Checkbook/Credit Card Organizer
presented by
KSH Software
Copyright (C) 1990 Version 1.0
All Rights Reserved
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Required Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Optional Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3. Shareware/Copyright Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 Original Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2 Upgrading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. USAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1 Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2. Checkbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2.1. Adding Checkbook Records . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2.2. Editing Checkbook Records . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2.3. Balancing Your Checkbook . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2.4. Switching Checkbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3. Credit Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3.1. Credit Card File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3.1.1. Adding Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.3.1.2. Editing Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.3.1.3. Deleting Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.3.2. Card Transaction File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.3.2.1. Adding Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.3.2.2. Editing Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.3.2.3. Sorting Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4. Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4.1. Checkbook Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.4.2. Credit Card Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.4.2.1. Credit Card File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.4.2.2. Transaction File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4. REGISTRATION INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5. HOW TO CONTACT ME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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1. INTRODUCTION
This is the Initial Release of my Checkbook/Credit Card
Organizer program. This program was developed due to some
major financial problems that I went through. I lost track
of my Credit Card Accounts and my Checkbook went to hell--
desperate action had to be taken.
I am releasing this program as shareware to help other
people from getting into this situation (and to make me some
money [hopefully]). It will also help me pay my shareware
payments which I have been putting off. (Phil Katz, the
check will be in the mail).
The program was written in Turbo Pascal Version 5.5. I
know that the major selling point of 5.5 is OOP, but I have
not, as yet, had time to study OOP programming, so later
versions of this program may work easier.
I welcome any comments and suggestions on correcting
problems which you may have had with this program. See the
last section "HOW TO CONTACT ME" to, well, find out how to
contact me.
Version 0.5 Beta has many fixes over the earlier
versions. The file REVISION.DOC has a brief list of the
changes that I made. For the most part, the fixes were with
the sort option (in the credit card subsystem). I originally
had some placement problems, but I beleive those have been
repaired.
Versions later than V0.51 Beta have a more flexible
directory structure. The program no longer has to reside in
specific directories, however, the data files WILL reside in
a sub-directory CHKFILES. This sub-directory MUST be in the
same directory as the CHKBOOK program.
1.1. Required Equipment
I developed this program on a Tandy 1000 SL with 640K
and a hard drive. The program should work on other MS-DOS
based systems, as well as floppy only (do these still exist?)
systems.
The machine I used had a color monitor, I do not know
what the color scheme I picked will look like on a monochrome
monitor. If there are problems feel free to contact me (see
the last section).
1.2. Optional Equipment
The only optional piece of equipment that I can suggest
is a printer. The Print option is one of the better parts of
this program. When you make a print out, you will also get
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statistical outputs such as averages, deposit and withdrawal
balances, etc.
1.3. Shareware/Copyright Notice
This program is NOT FREE. This program is distributed
as shareware or user-supported software. I am asking for a
mere $15 as a registration fee to get me out of hock. Your
registration fee will put you on a mailing list that will
inform you of later updates. If you decide to keep and use
this program, I would greatly appreciate you sending some
form of reimbursement. (Less or more money will be accepted,
but it must be greater than $15 to get on the mailing list).
Please make checks payable to Sean Haynes.
Mail payments to:
Sean A.R. Haynes
46 Udine Street
Arlington, MA 02174-5756
This program is Copyright 1990 by Sean A.R. Haynes. This
program may be freely distributed among friends [or enemies
I'm not picky] and BBS systems under the sole condition that
all files included in this archive remain intact.
The following files are included in this archive:
CHKBOOK.EXE
CHKBOOK.HLP
INSTALL.BAT
CHKBOOK.DOC
REGISTER.FRM
GODIR.COM
UPGRADE.EXE
REVISION.DOC
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2. INSTALLATION
If you already have a copy of this program with a
version number earlier than 0.4, you need to run the upgrade
program. The data files of the earlier versions are somewhat
incompatible.
2.1. Original Installation
This program should have been delivered with a program
called 'INSTALL.BAT'. This program should automatically
create all necessary directories and files. (Make sure that
all the files have been de-archived).
The correct usage of INSTALL is as follows:
INSTALL targetdrive: sourcedrive:\path
Example:
C:\> INSTALL A: C:\CHKBOOK (This would install the
program on the A: floppy drive, using the files in
the C:\CHKBOOK directory.)
After typing in the above command, the following output
should appear on the screen:
C:\> echo off
1 File(s) copied
1 File(s) copied
Checkbook installed