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Thanks for trying The Better Diet Analyzer Version 3.01. This program is
designed to help you reduce your dietary heart disease risk, improve your
sports performance or lose weight. BDA tracks the caloric, protein,
carbohydrate, fat, cholesterol and sodium contents of more than 1,400
foods, including brand names and fast food restaurants. A built-in Database
Editor and Recipe Builder allow you to easily add your favorite foods and
recipes. The program is among the fastest and easiest diet programs
available.
The Better Diet Analyzer is copyrighted Shareware. You have a limited
license to evaluate the program for up to 60 days and freely copy it for
others to try, provided that you do not modify it nor charge for it. I am
confident that you will be pleased with The Better Diet Analyzer and that
you will register the program. For more information on this license,
consult the file MANUAL3.DOC. To register the program, print and fill out
the file REGISTER.FRM. Registered users receive full user support, a
professionally-printed 86-page manual, and discounts on future upgrades and
products. (For more specifics on user support, please consult the
MANUAL3.DOC). I urge you to register The Better Diet Analyzer and to
support the Shareware industry.
ZIP FILE CONTENTS
To make it easier to try The Better Diet Analyzer, the files are
compressed into 2 download files. BDA301.ZIP contains the minimum number of
files necessary to run the program. BDADOX.ZIP contains the program
documentation and utility programs necessary to maintain the program over a
longer term. The contents of these two files are as follows:
BDA301.ZIP:
README.DOC This file
REGISTER.FRM Order/registration form
BETTER3.EXE Main program file
BETTER.HLP Help file
FOOD.MDF Database of more than 1,400 foods
FOOD.MDX Lookup table
FOOD.MDK Lookup table
FOOD.RSC Database resource file
BDADOX.ZIP:
README.DOC This file
TABLES.EXE Utility for repairing damaged lookup table
CONVERT.EXE Utility for converting and importing the BDA Version
2.0 database
MAKERSC.EXE Utility for restoring a lost resource file
MANUAL3.DOC The on-disk manual
INSTALL.EXE Automated installation utility
INSTALL.DOC Instructions and error messages for INSTALL.EXE
REQUIREMENTS
The Better Diet Analyzer requires at least 384 kilobytes of RAM and
DOS 2.0 or higher. A hard disk is recommended, but the program will run on
systems with two floppy disks. Please consult the manual. For printer
output, the program produces plain-vanilla ASCII text which works on dot
matrix, daisy wheel and non-Postscript laser printers.
INSTALLATION
The installation utility INSTALL.EXE will automatically install the
necessary files on either a hard drive or a set of floppy diskettes. If a
prior copy of the Version 3.0 database (FOOD.MDF) is in the subdirectory
where you are installing BDA, INSTALL will save any entries you have added
to it. INSTALL will also correctly order the necessary files on diskettes
if you are using a floppy-disk-only system. Alternatively, you may copy the
above files to the subdirectory where you'll keep The Better Diet.
Floppy disk users may need more than one empty, formatted diskette.
All files will fit on one 1.2 M or 1.44 M disk. All but the manual will fit
on one 720 K disk. If you are using 360K diskettes, you will need three
disks. The files must be grouped in the following order or the program will
not run:
Disk 1:
BETTER3.EXE
BETTER.HLP
FOOD.MDF
REGISTER.FRM
Disk2:
BETTER.HLP
FOOD.MDK
FOOD.MDX
TABLES.EXE
CONVERT.EXE
MAKERSC.EXE
Disk 3:
MANUAL3.DOC
Note that the above file order must be observed for the program to
work correctly on a floppy disk system.
If you have added your own food records to an earlier version of The
Better Diet, use CONVERT.EXE to convert and import them into the new
version's database. Note that the new version tracks food protein and
carbohydrate composition in addition to the other values in the older
database. More information is in the manual.
Please use and enjoy The Better Diet Analyzer. Good luck with your
diet and your health. If you have any problems, comments or suggestions,
I'd like to hear from you. My address and phone number are in the manual.
Or contact me via CompuServe (72060,1556) or GEnie (J.Byrd7).
John Byrd
11/24/91