This is the read.me file for E-Teller Version 1.3
1994-04-24

E-Teller is a shareware bank and credit card account management program.  
In this archive, you will find:

	E-Teller.exe		- Main program
	ET_Month.exe		- External program
	E-Teller.ico		- E-Teller's icon
	Bank.ico		- Bank account icon
	CCard.ico		- Credit card account icon
	EThlp.txt		- Text-based help file
	whats.new		- what's new and fixed in 1.3
	read.me		- this file
	vrobj.dll		- Watcom's VX-Rexx DLL
	FILE_ID.DIZ		- BBS file description

To run E-Teller, you need, aside from E-Teller.exe, Watcom's VROBJ.DLL and Rexx support.  To use the fixed monthly transaction feature, you need ET_Month.exe.  To use the calculator feature, you need an external calc. program, like pmdcalc.exe.

Installing:
	Put the above named files in a directory devoted to E-Teller's 
exclusive use.  This is important, because the account files are actual 
ini files.  When E-Teller first loads, it looks for all ini files (excluding 
E-Teller.ini, ET_Fix.ini, and ET_Fixed.ini) and adds them to the Accounts 
container.  If you install E-Teller in a directory which contains other ini 
files, the likelihood that there is information contained in the non-account 
ini which E-Teller can use is pretty slim, and the results are sure to be 
undesirable.
	Put the dll in a directory specified by the libpath statement in 
config.sys.  If you already have a copy, you may delete the one contained 
within this archive *ONLY* if the dates correspond.  E-Teller requires 
version 2.0 of Watcom's VX-Rexx dll.
	You can delete the Bank.ico and CCard.ico files if you don't care 
that the accounts all look alike in the Accounts container.  If the files are 
found when starting E-Teller, then the various accounts will use the icon 
appropriate to the type of account it happens to be; otherwise, it will use 
a boring file icon.
	ET_Month.exe is an external program which processes fixed 
monthly transactions.  It must reside in the same directory as E-Teller, 
where the account ini files and ET_Fix.ini and ET_Fixed.ini are located 
(the last two are used exclusively by ET_Month).  ET_Month is intended 
to be run when you startup your system, and so put a shadow of the original 
program in the Startup folder.  If it finds any account entries to process 
(based upon the current system date), then a window will appear in which 
will appear the name of the account to which a fixed monthly transaction 
is being added and the day of the transaction.  If you don't startup your 
system every day, not to worry - ET_Month looks for all entries in ET_Fix 
which are dated either earlier than the current day or bear the same day 
as the current day.  If it finds one (or more) item, it adds the item(s) to the 
appropriate account file and then moves the item(s) to ET_Fixed.ini.  At the 
beginning of a new calendar month, it looks for any remaining entries in 
ET_Fix.ini, processes those remaining entries, and then renames 
ET_Fixed.ini to ET_Fix.ini, at which point the process begins all over 
again for the month.
	*NOTE* If you are a previous user of E-Teller, you will have to
remove the number.dat, payee.dat, and credit.dat files (or transfer their
contents to the appropriate file listed below.  E-Teller now uses the following
6 files to maintain information:

	cnumber.dat	<-	contains # and Info data for credits
	dnumber.dat	<-	contains # and Info data for debits
	b_credit.dat	<-	contains Info, Amount, and Memo data for bank
				account credits
	b_debit.dat	<-	contains Info, Amount, and Memo data for bank
				account debits
	c_credit.dat	<-	contains Info, Amount, and Memo data for credit
				card account credits
	c_debit.dat	<-	contains Info, Amount, and Memo data for credit
				card account debits.

The first two, cnumber.dat and dnumber.dat, follow the same convention:
	NUM~Info (note that there are no spaces on either side of the
			~ character).

The last four files follow a slightly different convention:
	Info$Amount~Memo (note that there are no spaces on either side of the
				$ and ~ characters).

If you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements, send an e-mail 
message to:

	Paul Caron
	G9026163@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA