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Landscape Plant Manager Version 1.xx
Thank you for obtaining a copy of the Landscape Plant Manager. I
hope the program will be of use to you in your work.
The Landscape Plant Manager is a plant selection program
developed for use by students in ornamental horticulture
curriculums, members of the landscape industry and homeowners.
Through various menus within the program, one can store and
retrieve information on plants used in the landscape. The main
feature of the Landscape Plant Manager is the ability to find
plants in a data file based on 1 to 24 different criteria
including such characteristics as form, height, spread and
hardiness zone. Depending on memory and disk storage capacity, a
Landscape Plant Manager data file can hold from 500 to 5000
different landscape plants.
This shareware software currently requires an IBM PC or true
compatible computer with a minimum of 128 kilobytes of memory and
one 360 kilobyte floppy disk drive. A memory capacity of 256
kilobytes or larger is preferred with a hard disk or 3.5" floppy.
If you do find the program useful, I hope you can make a donation
to the OHT/Biology development fund. Your donation will go
towards the purchase of sorely needed hardware and software for
use in teaching and training our students about computer
technology and use in horticulture. Some of the money will also
be used to further enhance the Landscape Plant Manager and to
develop other programs for use in the landscape industry.
To use the Landscape Plant Manager, please make a copy of the
original disk and use the copy. Please consult your Disk
Operating System manual on copy procedures. To avoid problems
and copyright infringement, the LPM distribution disk does not
have a copy of the disk operating system. The disk can be made
self booting by installing DOS on your copy disk before
transferring the LPM files to the copy disk.
The following files should be on your disk:
LPMREAD.ME This file you are currently reading.
LPMREAD.ME2 A list of current updates and notes.
LPM.BAT A batch file to start LPM.
LPMxxx.COM The LPM main program. Needs LPMxxx.000 to run.
LPMxxx.000 The LPM library. Needs LPMxxx.COM to run.
LPMDEMO.DAT LPM demonstration data file. Needs index files.
LPMDEMO.SIX Index to the LPM demonstration data file.
LPMDEMO.CIX Index to the LPM demonstration data file.
LPMMAN.TXT The LPM manual.
If any of these files are missing, you can request a complete set
of files from the author by sending a disk with prepaid return
mailer.
To print the manual, type the command: PRINT LPMMAN.TXT or TYPE
LPMMAN.TXT>PRN
The full manual is approximately 60 pages long.
You can also view the manual on the screen by typing: TYPE
LPMMAN.TXT then use Ctrl-S to temporarily halt scrolling and
Ctrl-Break to stop scrolling.
To run the Landscape Plant Manager, the following files must be
present on the same disk or in the same directory:
LPMxxx.COM The core program
LPMxxx.000 Additional program segments
'xxx' is the current version number. Both numbers must match
inorder to run the program.
At the prompt type: LPM to start the batch file or LPMxxx to
directly run the program.
Any files ending in .DAT, .CIX, .SIX are demonstration data
files.
Please consult the manual for further information.
The LPM program and related files are distributed under
shareware, please respect those concepts. Thank you.
I would appreciate any comments and suggestions on the program.
Sincerely,
Robert W. Boufford, Assistant Professor
Ornamental Horticulture Technology
Department of Biological Sciences
Ferris State College
Big Rapids, MI 49307
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
ROBERT W. BOUFFORD, FERRIS STATE COLLEGE AND ANY DISTRIBUTING
AGENT MAKES NO WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT
TO THIS SOFTWARE, ITS QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, OR FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AS A RESULT, THIS SOFTWARE IS DISTRIBUTED
"AS IS," AND YOU, THE USER, ARE ASSUMING THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO
ITS QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE.
IN NO EVENT WILL ROBERT W. BOUFFORD, FERRIS STATE COLLEGE AND ANY
DISTRIBUTING AGENT BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY DEFECT IN
THE SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.