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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ...................................................... 1 Features .......................................................... 2 Distribution ...................................................... 3 Initial Setup ..................................................... 4 General Overview .................................................. 6 Help System ....................................................... 7 Field Editing Commands............................................. 8 Hot-Keys .......................................................... 9 Technical Support and Upgrade Policy .............................. 10 Kudos ............................................................. 11 License Agreement and Other Legal Matters ......................... 12 INTRODUCTION MY TIME v2.50 pg. -1- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to MY TIME! MY TIME is a complete personal information manager. The calendar section schedules and tracks important events such as business meetings, appointments, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. The Dialer Module organizes phone numbers and people lists. It allows you to create up to 200 directories with 100 entries in each. It will even dial the phone number for you, if you have a Hayes compatible modem set to COM1 or COM2. A Lister Module is available to accumulate historical data. Example uses include maintenance histories, charitable giving, inventorying valuables, coin and stamp collections, commission log, and many more. An extensive, on-line, context-sensitive, hyper-text, help system is always available by pressing (F1). A lot of thought and time went into MY TIME, I hope you find it as useful as I do. Many new features are planned for future versions of MY TIME. However, they can only be implemented with your support. The registered version of MY TIME does not require you to enter a 5-digit access code at start up and removes the ending screen. The cost of MY TIME is $25 (US funds). Include $5 shipping and handling for orders outside the United States. Add $5 if you require MY TIME on a 3-1/2" disk. A completed and signed order form MUST accompany each order. The order form is found in the file ORDER.FRM, or you can print one by pressing (ALT-O) within MY TIME. Master Card and Visa are accepted. Orders are processed as they are received. Generally, they are shipped within 7 days. However, please allow 2-8 weeks for delivery from the time your order is mailed. A lot of thought and time went into the design of MY TIME. I think you will find it both intuitive and easy to use. FEATURES MY TIME v2.50 pg. -2- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Major features include: - Event tracker (up to 250 events). You may store the following for each event: * Time (when the event starts - optional) * Duration (how long the event will last - optional) * Warning (number of warning days - optional) * Recurring (if the event happen at regular intervals - optional) * Description (mandatory) - Dialer modules allows you to track contacts (people, businesses, etc.) * Up to 200 different list * Each list stores up to 100 entries * Name, address, phone number and a memo can be stored for each entry * Auto-dialer (COM1 and COM2) * Search key - Lister module build lists of important information * Up to 200 different lists * Each list stores up to 300 entries * Date description and amount are stored for each item in the list * Ability to print lists * Ability to sort list by date, description or amount - Non-TSR. - User-defined colors. - Extensive, on-line, context-sensitive, hyper-text help system. - DOS shell hot-key. - Fast or exploding windows. - ...and much more. DISTRIBUTION MY TIME v2.50 pg. -3- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MY TIME is distributed as shareware. It is *NOT* public domain, freeware or "free software". You may evaluate MY TIME for 30 days, after which you must either register it or stop using it. Registration is required for use in a business, government or institutional setting. Unaltered copies of MY TIME's *original* shareware distribution archive may be freely copied and shared with others as long as no fee is charged to do so. It may be uploaded to local and national BBS's. Anyone desiring to distribute MY TIME by charging a per disk fee (i.e. disk vendors) must obtain written permission from the author, J.E. Smith, before doing so. MY TIME may be distributed via subscription BBS's as long as no inference is made that the subscription in any way pays for the use or evaluation of MY TIME. INITIAL SETUP MY TIME v2.50 pg. -4- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HARD DISK INSTALL ----------------- If your computer has a hard disk, make a separate directory for MY TIME off the root directory. This is accomplished by placing the MY TIME distribution disk in drive A and entering the following at your DOS prompt: C: (ENTER) CD\ (ENTER) MD\MYTIME (ENTER) CD\MYTIME (ENTER) COPY A:*.* (ENTER) To execute MY TIME enter: CD\MYTIME (ENTER) MT (ENTER) Hard disk users should copy MY TIME into its own directory and define a PATH to that directory. By defining a PATH to the MY TIME directory you can run the program from any DOS prompt. Also, this will allow you to put the Quick Scan command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (see the "Hints" section in MY TIME's on-line help). An example of a simple PATH statement: PATH=C:\MYTIME; It is not necessary to define a path to the MY TIME directory for the program to function. See your DOS reference for more information on PATH and AUTOEXEC.BAT. FLOPPY/MINI DISKETTE INSTALL ---------------------------- Use a copy of the MT TIME distribution disk and enter from the DOS prompt: MT (ENTER) INITIAL SETUP MY TIME v2.50 pg. -5- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are using a color card (CGA, EGA or VGA) and a monochrome monitor, MY TIME will attempt to display colors. This may be difficult to read. To override the autodetect and force the program into monochrome mode, start MY TIME by typing the following: MT MONO (ENTER) ** WARNING! ** Since MY TIME allows up to 200 dialing directories and up to 200 lists, it is possible to fill up your disk storage. This is especially true on floppy disk systems. MY TIME monitors the amount of free disk space and will warn you when it is getting low. It is imperative that you heed this warning and take the necessary steps to free up an adequate amount of disk space before continuing on. Failure to do so could result in data loss. To free up disk space you should delete unused phone lists (files ending with the extension .DPL) and Lister data (files ending with the extension .DLS). If all the data files are valid and should not be deleted, you may choose to temporarily copy seldom used .DPL and .DLS files to a floppy disk and delete them off of your working disk. Later, when they are needed you can copy them back to your working disk. However, you may need to remove other data files to make room for them. GENERAL OVERVIEW MY TIME v2.50 pg. -6- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MY TIME is really three programs in one. The Calendar module handles time management, the Dialer module is like an address book and the Lister module tracks histories. After the opening screen you go directly to the Calendar module. It consists of three windows. A Calendar window, a Pending/Past Due window and an Events window. The Calendar window will display a calendar for each month from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2099. The Events window displays events for the highlighted day. You may enter up to 250 total events here. The Pending/Past Due window displays any event defined on today's date and back (past due), and any future event where today's date falls within its warning range (pending). To activate the Dialer module, press (ALT-D) while in the Calendar module. The Dialer module allows you to store up to 100 entries in up to 200 unique lists. If you have a Hayes compatible modem connected to COM1 or COM2, the Dialer module will even dial the number for you. The Lister module is activated by pressing (ALT-L) from the Calendar module. The Lister allows you to create histories of events that can be organized into its three field database (date, description and amount). Example uses would include: automobile maintenance log, salary/job history, sales commission log, charitable giving record, home inventories, hobbies such as stamp and coin collections, etc. Each of the three major modules has a pop-up menu with functions specific to that module. To select one of the displayed commands, activate the pop-up menu by pressing (/), position the highlight bar over the desired command and press (ENTER). Since the short-cut keys are shown next to the desired command, this is an easy way to use the program while learning it. Users of MY MONEY(tm) versions 2.0 and above can access MY TIME by pressing (ALT-A) from the MASTER MENU. The MY TIME directory must be included in the PATH statement for this feature to work. Upon exiting MY TIME you will return directly to MY MONEY's MASTER MENU. HELP SYSTEM MY TIME v2.50 pg. -7- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HELP SYSTEM MY TIME contains an on-line, context-sensitive, hyper-text help system. At any time, you can view a help screen relating to your specific position in MY TIME by pressing (F1). The importance of using (F1) throughout the program cannot be over-emphasized. MY TIME's help system is rich with specific and detailed information on all aspects of the program. Nearly as much time went into the help screens as the actual program. Much of this manual was compiled using information from the help screens. Presented below is a summary of the valid commands while in the help system. (ARROW KEYS) Select a topic by moving the highlight bar with any of the arrow keys. (ENTER) View the help screen relating to the highlighted topic. (ANY LETTER) Jump to the next selection beginning with that letter. (HOME) Move the highlight bar to the first selection. (END) Move the highlight bar to the last selection. (PGUP) Move the highlight bar 1/10 back in the list. (PGDN) Move the highlight bar 1/10 forward in the list. (ESC) or (-) Leave the help system and return to program. FIELD EDITING COMMANDS MY TIME v2.50 pg. -8- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- When entering certain text information, such as the description for a check, you may use the following field editing commands: (HOME) Move the cursor to the beginning of the line. (END) Move the cursor to the end of the line. (LEFT) Move the cursor one space to the left. (RIGHT) Move the cursor one space to the right. (CTRL-LEFT) Move the cursor one word to the left. (CTRL-RIGHT) Move the cursor one word to the right. (DEL) Delete one character at the cursor. (BACKSPACE) Move the cursor one space to the left and delete one character. (INS) Toggle between the insert and over-type mode. While in the insert mode the cursor's height will increase and new characters are inserted by shifting all remaining text one position to the right of the cursor. Toggling back to the over-type mode will restore the cursor to its normal size and characters entered will replace those at the cursor. (F5) Convert all the text to upper case. (F6) Convert all the text to lower case. (F7) Make the first letter of each word upper case. (F8) Reverse the character's case at the cursor. (PGUP) Enter control character (i.e. ALT-027, ALT-007, etc.) (PGDN) Reverse all changes and continue editing. (ESC) Reverse all changes and quit. (ENTER) Accept all changes and quit. In some instances, the input line will appear with text already in it. This is either the default or the last entered text. Pressing any character will erase the line and allow you to enter new text. You may choose to edit the text by first pressing a control key. A control key is any valid non-alphanumeric key such as (INS) or (LEFT). HOT-KEYS MY TIME v2.50 pg. -9- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hot-Keys are key combinations that are available to you anytime MY TIME is waiting on a key to be pressed. Valid Hot-Keys include: (F1) Context-sensitive help. (see HELP SYSTEM) (ALT-M) Available memory and other key information. (ALT-S) Shell to DOS, return to MY TIME by typing EXIT. Presented below is detailed information on selected Hot-Keys: (ALT-M) SYSTEM INFORMATION Key system information is available to you anytime by pressing (ALT-M). The following information is displayed. NEAR FREE Amount of free memory on the near heap. This number is really not useful to you, since you cannot control it. FAR FREE Amount of free memory that MY TIME and other programs can use. When you shell to DOS or MY TIME runs other programs, this is the memory that is used. NEAR/FAR HEAP Test to check the near/far heap. (ALT-S) DOS SHELL Pressing (ALT-S) will allow you to shell to DOS without exiting MY TIME. This allows you to perform DOS related functions such as formatting disks, copying files or any other needed activity. When you are finished just type EXIT and you will immediately return to MY TIME exactly where you were when you shelled to DOS. TECHNICAL SUPPORT AND UPGRADE POLICY MY TIME v2.50 pg. -10- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions or comments about this product should be directed to: Jim E. Smith Channel 8250 344 Observatory Drive or Conference #42 Birmingham, AL 35206 205-744-8546 Internet: jim.smith@the-matrix.com I also monitor several national networks such as ILink, U'NI Net, etc. You may leave me mail, addressed to JIM SMITH, in the Shareware Conference of any of these networks. In addition to the above, registered users are provided with my home phone number for immediate technical support. UPGRADE POLICY - Open-ended promises are easy to make, but difficult to keep. In the end, the user usually feels cheated. - I want to offer free updates as long as it is economically feasible and other circumstances do not preclude it. - By "economically feasible", I mean, for example, as long as enough new orders are coming in to cover the cost of continued development. - By "other circumstances do not preclude it", I mean, for example, if someone hacks and distributes the key file scheme, it will have to be changed and new key files mailed out on a subsequent upgrade. In this example, the registered user would have to pay a small upgrade fee to cover the postage and handling. - In addition, all registered users are eligible to beta test the latest version. This will give the loyal supporters first crack at anything new, and provide me with an experienced pool of MY TIME users. Betas versions can be downloaded from: Channel 8250 (205)-744-8546 conference #25 The Matrix (205)-323-2016, 300-2400, 13 nodes, conference #372 (205)-323-6016 9600+ HST Dual, 7 nodes On Channel 8250, leave a comment to the Sysop and request access to the SPEED beta conference. You may access the SPEED conference on your first call to the other BBS's. I reserve the right to withdraw this at any time, with no forewarning. KUDOS MY TIME v2.50 pg. -11- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- No successful program is the result of only one person's labor. This program is no exception. I would like to thank all the people who have registered MY TIME. If you had not done so, MY TIME would have ceased to exist. I would like to give a special thanks to the registered users who chose to help beta test the latest version of MY TIME. LICENSE AGREEMENT AND OTHER LEGAL MATTERS MY TIME v2.50 pg. -12- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MY TIME LICENSE AGREEMENT MY TIME (the software) is licensed to you. The author, J.E. Smith, retains sole ownership of the software. The program may only be used by the individual named on the opening screen (the licensee), on a single computer. At no time should more than one set of records be kept with the same licensed program. One program, one computer and one set of records. You, as licensee, are permitted to make a backup copy of the software for your own use in case the original disk becomes defective. All other copies are prohibited. You may, and are encouraged, to routinely backup your data files. Data files end with the extension .DTA. You may NOT alter, decompile or disassemble the software or any of the supporting files other than what occurs during the natural use of the program. You may NOT assign, sublicense, or transfer the programs or any rights under this License to anyone else. This License Agreement is NOT transferable and can only be revoked, by the user, if he or she destroys ALL copies of the program. DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY MY TIME IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THE PRODUCT. THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY DEFECT IN, OR USE OF, THE SOFTWARE. OTHER Throughout this document mention is made of other companies' products and trademarks. This is for reference purposes only. In no way does the author of MY TIME imply any relationship to these companies or trademarks. The trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.