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Copyright 1993 CDRP/Chestnut CD ROM & BBS LEGAL GUIDE, INC.
OVERVIEW:
Welcome to the Complete Home & Office Legal Guide, Volume 1,
Number 1.
We are proud to present an industrial strength legal forms
generator and information library for your CD ROM. The Complete
Home & Office Legal Guide (let's call it "COMPLETE" for short)
offers you the ability to prepare well over 500 different legal
forms. COMPLETE offers you 3 different ways to generate legal
forms. First, you can use our menu driven document generator. Or,
if you'd rather "fill in the blanks" that's okay; some persons
like to take an already finished form and overstrike. If you want
to fill in the blanks, or, overstrike on a complete form, you can
do so in your own word processor-- COMPLETE instantaneously gives
you the document in the most popular word processing formats
(ready to run):
--> Word Perfect 5.1
--> Wordstar 5-7
--> MicroSoft Word 5.0
--> ASCII
[Is this a good time to introduce a side issue? We LOVE to hear
from our users. Need different word processing formats? Just let
us know and we'll try to include other formats in forthcoming,
updated and expanded issues. Our users are our boss, so let us
know what you would like to see in upcoming issues! This program
is updated thrice yearly, and we take requests!]
We think you'll like using our menu driven forms generator best.
Okay, we're prejudiced. When you use our menu driven document
generator, you can STILL export the completed form to your word
processor! But wait-- there's more..... COMPLETE also has a built
in editor and DOS shell.
Our forms are written, whenever possible, in plain language. This
is designed for everyone's convenience, comfort and sanity. (We
try harder to make the forms we can draft readable and clear, but
some forms like mortgages are prescribed by state law. These are
often written in abstruse language.) Additionally, attorneys,
paralegals and business experts have reviewed the forms carefully
to be sure that they are useful and legal.
A veritable cornucopia of legal information, with brilliant,
insightful and modest comments are interspersed within selected
US Supreme Court decisions, state laws, court rules and
regulations. Among the full text selections are--
The full text of the North American Free Trade Agreement; Model
Business Corporations Act; The Copyright Code; Uniform Commercial
Code; Uniform Probate Code and much more
You may view these items on screen or export them to your word
processor in ASCII, Word Perfect 5.1, MicroSoft Word 5 and
Wordstar 5-7.
A complete manual follows. Most computer users find that they can
run our program the first time it is loaded. All functions within
the program are menu driven, and a "navigator strip" on the
bottom of the menus lets you know all of your choices. It should
only take 10 minutes or so to skim the manual. It's worth it,
since there are many features. Each main menu also features a
complete help file.
INTRODUCTION
PLEASE READ ALL FILES WITH EXTENSIONS OF ".TXT" that came with
your program for important information and any last minute news
and changes.
SPECIAL NOTE: IN THIS MANUAL ITEMS TO BE ENTERED ON THE COMPUTER
ARE ENCLOSED IN ANGLED BRACKETS "< >". Follow the entry with the
ENTER key. Do not type the brackets as they are only place
holders for text to be entered by you.
1) System Requirements/Installation
2) Use of the program
3) Customer Satisfaction- Support
4) About our staff
5) Legalese-- warranties, trademarks, warnings
6) Index
SECTION ONE
INSTALLATION
Section 1-1
INSTALLATION
To install COMPLETE place the CD in your CD-ROM drive, and run
the INSTALL utility. The install utility MUST be run, or else you
will not be able to run the program! REPEAT: Run install.exe
first!
The command to install is, surprisingly enough,
<INSTALL>
Please follow the on screen prompts to complete the installation
process. The install should take you about a minute or so. The
install program will make a directory on the hard drive disk of
your choice for saving documents you write or outputting
statutes. In addition, if you would like to, the install utility
will also add the proper statement to your path so that you will
be able to run the program from any directory.
SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS
In order to operate this program, your computer must:
1) have an IBM PC compatible operating a version of M.S. DOS,
D.R. DOS or P.C. DOS of 4.0 or higher or OS/2, PS/2 with the
MicroSoft MS-DOS CD ROM extensions (also known as MSCDEX). This
program happily runs under Windows environments/Multi tasking
environments and also runs in "MS DOS EMULATIONS" in Open Desk
Top, and other systems that can run MS DOS programs.
[To find out which version of DOS you are using, please enter:
<ver>
and you will receive a cheery message such as
MS-DOS VER 4.01
In general this program will operate on XT compatibles, '286
compatibles (AT Class) and '386 compatible systems and '486
systems.
2) have a hard drive (fixed disk);
3) have at least 512 K Bytes of USABLE memory within the first
640KB. Many computer users have machines that are installed with
640K but install many Terminate and stay resident (TSR or "memory
resident" programs) which each use memory, dropping usable memory
to less than 512 K; if you cannot operate this program dump out
of it (the time honored process of giving the three fingered
salute--pressing Control, Alternate and Delete at once to "warm"
reboot) and at a system prompt type, exactly
<chkdsk>
Your machine should whirl and click and then announce something
like this:
655360 bytes total memory
610000 bytes free
if you have less than 512000 bytes of memory free, then you must
read the manuals for your memory resident software and delete
some of them so that you have at least 512000 free when you run
this program. There are utilities that "manage" terminate and
stay resident program advertised in your favorite computer
magazine. If you would like an operating environment that manages
memory and can make your computer stand on its head allowing
multitasking among many other great things, check out the great
products from Quarterdeck (tm) like DesqView.
4) Have a CD ROM drive.
IMPORTANT CAVEAT: Many computer users employ file management
shells like the Norton Commander(tm) or PC TOOLS (versions 6 and
higher) to help them manage their systems. These programs consume
memory when used. Often persons also load several Terminate and
stay resident utilities (T.S.R's) and a file manager. The likely
result is that you will be often reduced to less than 300k free
memory. This will S.. L.. O.. W.. down your system and cause
many programs not to load at all. Running COMPLETE directly from
DOS is simple and recommended!
There is no minimum requirement for graphics adapters or color.
The program will happily run on a text-mono system; and it looks
very great on a VGA system! Due to our design philosophy the
program will run on a system with NO color and no graphics
capability at all. We do recommend VGA color.
A printer is recommended so that you can fully use COMPLETE (You
cannot print out legal documents without access to a printer.)
SECTION 2
STARTING THE PROGRAM; USING THE PROGRAM
Section 2-1 START UP AND MAIN MENU
In order to start the program type:
<cdlaw>
and press the Return key. (This key is also called the ENTER key,
and is usually marked on your keyboard with a left descendi