VERSION 2.6C 1. ALLOWS EXPORT BY CATEGORY. 2. ALLOWS BLANK AMOUNT TO BE OVERWRITTEN WITHOUT REPEATEDLY PRESSING DELETE. 3. WHEN ADDING RECIPES, QUICKING SEARCH IS NOW OPTIONAL. 4. WHEN ADDING OR IMPORTING NEW RECIPES, A CHECK IS DONE FOR DUPLICATE RECIPE NAMES. IF ADDING AND A DUPLICATE IS FOUND, THE USER CAN ACCEPT THE NAME OR CHANGE IT. IF IMPORTING AND A DUPLICATE IS FOUND, THE RECIPE CAN EITHER BE IMPORTED OR SKIPPED OVER. 5. RECIPE SELECTION WINDOW NOW ACCEPTS PARTIAL NAME FOR RECIPE SELECTION. 6. CATEGORY SELECTION WINDOW NOW ACCEPTS PARTIAL CATEGORY FOR SELECTION. 7. PRINTING NOW FUNCTIONS EVEN IF QUICKING FILE IS MISSING. 8. INCLUDES EXTERNAL UTILITY FINDDUP.EXE TO SEARCH FOR DUPLICATE RECIPES IN DATABASE. 9. CORRECTED MINOR BUG WHICH DID NOT RESET CALORIE CALCULATOR TOTAL VALUES WHEN BROWSING FROM DIRECTIONS WINDOW. 10. CORRECTED MINOR BUG WHICH ENTERED GARBAGE AS SUB-CATEGORY WHEN ESCAPING FROM SUB-CATEGORY SELECTION WINDOW. VERSION 2.6e 1. ADDED RECIPE SEARCH BY SUB-CATEGORY. 2. ADDED F10 (DONE) KEY TO EXIT COLOR SELECTION SUB MENU. 3. DURING RECIPE ADD OR EDIT, SYNTAX WINDOW NOW INDICATES WHETHER AN INGREDIENT OR HEADER TITLE IS BEING ENTERED. 4. WHEN ADDING HEADER TITLES, CAPS LOCK IS FORCED ON. 5. QUICKING FILE IS NO LONGER SEARCHED WHEN ENTERING HEADER TITLES. 6. CORRECTED BUG THAT CAUSED A RUN TIME ERROR WHEN IN WORD WRAP MODE, ON LINE 1, CHARACTER 1, AND BACKSPACE WAS PRESSED. VERSION 2.7b 1. ADDED ABILITY TO MARK INDIVIDUAL RECIPES FOR LATER USE. 2. ADDED NEW SEARCH OPTION, SEARCH BY MARKED RECIPES. 3. ADDED NEW UTILITY, GLOBAL MARK, WHICH ALLOWS MARKING AND UNMARKING OF RECIPES BY CATEGORY OR SUB CATEGORY. 4. MARKED RECIPES CAN BE CHAIN PRINTED, DELETED, EXPORTED, OR USED TO BUILD THE SHOPPING LIST. 5. ADDED DELETE/EDIT PASSWORD PROTECTION FOR RECIPES. 6. ADDED "PROG DEFAULTS" OPTION TO CONFIG PROG MENU. THIS ALLOWS CUSTOMIZING THE OPERATION OF QUICK ENTRY WINDOWS, QUICKING SEARCHES, AND OTHER PROGRAM FUNCTIONS. 7. RETURN OF 2 COLUMN INGREDIENT PRINTOUTS (DEFINED BY PROG DEFAULTS, ABOVE). 8. CATEGORY UPDATE NOW USES F10 KEY FOR DONE (INSTEAD OF ESC), BEING MORE CONSISTANT WITH PROGRAM OPERATION. REMOVED "ARE YOU SURE ?" PROMPT. 9. SHOPPING LIST BUILDS ABOUT 40% FASTER THEN PREVIOUS VERSIONS. VERSION 2.7b2 1. CORRECTED MINOR BUG. WHEN EDITING RECIPE NAME, RECIPES DID NOT SORT IF F10 KEY WAS USED TO EXIT TO MAIN MENU. SORT WILL NOW OCCUR. 2. CORRECTED BUG (IN VERSION 2.7b ONLY) THAT CAUSED RUNTIME ERROR 103 UNDER RARE CONDITIONS. THIS ERROR ONLY OCCURRED IF F10 KEY RESELECTED THE RECIPE SELECTION WINDOW, AND ESC WAS PRESSED. THEN, IF RECIPE SELECTION WINDOW WAS LATER REDISPLAYED, AND ESC HIT AGAIN, THE RUNTIME ERROR 103 WOULD OCCUR. THIS HAS BEEN CORRECTED. 3. ON PROGRAM END, MAIN SCREEN IS DISPLAYED UNTIL ALL FILES ARE UPDATED AND CLOSED. PREVIOUS VERSIONS CLEARED THE SCREEN WHILE THIS CLEANUP OCCURRED. 4. QUICKING EDITOR NO LONGER ALLOWS FIRST OR LAST "DO NOT DELETE" ELEMENTS TO BE EDITED OR DELETED, AS THESE ARE NEEDED AS REFERENCE POINTS FOR THE FILE SORT. VERSION 2.8a 1. CONFIGURABLE SHOPPING LIST ALLOWS 2 DIFFERENT LISTS. NOW THE SHOPPING LIST CAN TOTAL INGREDIENTS WITH LIKE MEASURES, OR CAN LIST INGREDIENT DESCRIPTIONS ONLY. ENHANCED EDITOR CAN NOW EDIT SHOPPING LIST AMOUNTS AND MEASURES. 2. PRESSING ESC OR F10 IN RESPONSE TO ANY OF THE CONFIGURATION PROMPTS (UNDER PROG DEFAULTS OPTION) WILL SAVE ALL OPTIONS AND EXIT THE CONFIGURATION SCREEN. PREVIOUS VERSIONS REQUIRED ANSWERING ALL OF THE PROMPTS BEFORE EXITING WAS POSSIBLE. 3. FORMATTED IMPORT NOW AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNIZES 3 DIFFERENT FILE FORMATS. THEY ARE MEAL-MASTER, COMPU-CHEF, AND, OF COURSE, THE RECIPE PROCESSOR. 4. ADDED GLOBAL CHANGE FOR RECIPE CATEGORIES AND SUB-CATEGORIES TO THE EDIT OPTIONS. YOU CAN NOW CHANGE ALL RECIPES FROM ONE CATEGORY TO ANOTHER. EXAMPLE: YOU WANT TO CHANGE ALL RECIPES FROM THE CATEGORY OF CAKES TO THE CATEGORY OF DESSERTS. 5. ADDED ABILITY TO ESCAPE FROM "ADD INGREDIENT TO QUICKING FILE" PROMPT WHEN QUICKING SEARCH IS ACTIVE AND INGREDIENT IS NOT FOUND IN THE QUICKING FILE. 6. CORRECTED BUG THAT REMOVED THE SPACE BETWEEN THE LAST 2 WORDS WHEN SWITCHING FROM WORD WRAP MODE TO EDIT MODE. 7. PRINTER INITIALIZATION CODES (UP TO 15) CAN NOW BE DEFINED FROM THE PRINTER MENU, PRINTER OPTION. VERSION 2.8b 1. ADDED ABILITY TO PUT THE SYSTEM DATE INTO RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS ON LINE 1, BY USING THE F9 FUNCTON KEY. 2. ADDED CONFIGURATION OPTION TO AUTOMATICALLY PLACE SYSTEM DATE IN RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS WHEN ADDING RECIPES. 3. INCLUDES EXTERNAL UTILITY IMPUTIL.EXE, WHICH WILL AUTOMATICALLY IMPORT RECIPES FROM THE COMPUTER CHEF PROGRAM, AND FROM THE MICRO KITCHEN COMPANION PROGRAM. VERSION 2.9 1. ADDED "NEWSPAPER DISPLAY" OPTION FOR INGREDIENTS. THIS OPTION CAN BE SELECTED UNDER THE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS. 2. ADDED RECIPE COST TRACKING TO CALORIE CALCULATOR. COSTS ARE STORED IN THE QUICKING.CST FILE. 3. QUICKING EDITOR UPDATED TO ALLOW ENTERING AND EDITING OF INGREDIENT COSTS. 4. QCONVERT.EXE UTILITY ADDED TO UPGRADE OLDER QUICKING.ING FILE TO THE NEW QUICKING.CST FILE. VERSION 2.9a 1. ADDED BUILT IN MOUSE SUPPORT. 2. USER NAME OPTION IS NOW CALLED "DIR TITLE". IT NO LONGER APPENDS THE WORD "RECIPE'S" AT THE END OF THE USER NAME. THIS NOW ALLOWS NAMES OR DIRECTORY TITLES TO BE USED. THE USER CAN KEY IN THE WORD "RECIPE'S" IF DESIRED. 3. NEW OPTION IN PROGRAM CONFIGURATION ALLOWS THE USER TO KEY IN THEIR NAME TO PERSONALIZE RECIPE PRINTOUTS. PREVIOUS VERSIONS USED THE SAME NAME AS THE DIRECTORY TITLE. 4. WHEN PRINTING, THE USER NAME CAN BE CHANGED FOR EACH PRINTOUT, OR OMITTED IF DESIRED. 5. THE LEFT/RIGHT ARROW KEYS ARE ALTERNATE KEYS FOR F4/F5 ZOOM. 6. THE UP/DN ARROW KEYS ARE ALTERNATE KEYS FOR F1 INGREDIENT/DIRECTION DISPLAY. 7. ENHANCED GLOBAL MARKING WITH MARK AND UNMARK BY INGREDIENT. 8. ADDED ABILITY TO MARK/UNMARK RECIPES FROM THE RECIPE SELECTION WINDOW. MARKED RECIPES ARE INDICATED BY A CHECK (û) AT THE END OF THE RECIPE NAME. PRESSING F8 WILL TOGGLE THE RECIPE MARK. 9. ADDED THIRD RECIPE DISPLAY OPTION, SPLIT SCREEN. THIS DISPLAYS INGREDIENTS IN THE LEFT HAND COLUMN, AND INSTRUCTIONS IN THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN. EACH COLUMN CAN BE INDIVIDUALLY SCROLLED. 10. ADDED CONFIGURATION OPTION TO MAKE SPLIT SCREEN DISPLAY THE DEFAULT IF DESIRED. 11. ADDED CONFIGURATION OPTION TO AUTOMATICALLY SWITCH TO SPLIT DISPLAY WHEN BROWSING, IF DESIRED. 12. CORRECTED BUG WHICH LOCKED UP PROGRAM WHEN TRYING TO REFORMAT TEXT. LOCKUP ONLY OCCURRED WHEN CURSOR WAS BEYOND LINE 57 AND F3 (REFORMAT) WAS PRESSED. 13. CORRECTED MINOR BUG THAT ALLOWED A BLANK FILE NAME TO BE ENTERED WHEN EXPORTING RECIPES. 14. CORRECTED MINOR BUG THAT PLACED GARBAGE ON THE SCREEN WHEN ADDING/EDITING DIRECTIONS ON LINE 58 OR GREATER AND DELETE LINE OPTION WAS CHOOSEN. VERSION 2.9b 1. ADDED "MOUSE BYPASS" FEATURE TO TURN OFF INTERNAL MOUSE ROUTINES. IF INTERNAL MOUSE ROUTINES ARE NOT DESIRED, START THE PROGRAM WITH THE "NOMOUSE" PARAMETER. EXAMPLE: RP NOMOUSE 2. WHEN SEARCHING OR MARKING RECIPES BY CATEGORY OR SUBCATEGORY, ONLY THE CATEGORIES ACTUALLY IN USE WILL BE IN THE CATEGORY SELECTION WINDOW. WHEN EDITING CATEGORIES/SUBCATEGORIES OR ADDING RECIPES, ALL CATEGORIES IN THE DATABASE ARE DISPLAYED IN THE CATEGORY SELECTION WINDOW. 3. ENHANCED GLOBAL MARKING WITH MARK/UNMARK BY WILDCARD. THIS ALLOWS MARKING RECIPES BY PARTIAL MATCHES TO RECIPE NAMES. 4. ADDED WARNING AT END OF PROGRAM IF CONFIGURATION WAS CHANGED AND NOT SAVED. 5. CORRECTED MINOR BUG WHICH DISPLAYED GARBAGE FOR FIRST INGREDIENT WHEN RETURNING FROM EDITING INGREDIENTS AND IN SPLIT MODE OF DISPLAY. 6. ADDED REMINDER AT END OF PROGRAM TO BACKUP THE RECIPE DATA FILES. VERSION 2.9C 1. ADDED MACRO KEY ABILITY, ALLOWING 26 MACROS OF UP TO 70 CHARACTERS TO BE ASSIGNED TO THE ALT KEY PLUS A-Z. MACRO ENTRY CAN BE USED ANYWHERE IN THE PROGRAM EXCEPT FOR Y/N AND NUMERIC ONLY INPUT. MACROS CAN ALSO BE USED TO EMBED CONTROL CODES TO THE PRINTER IN THE RECIPE DIRECTION TEXT. 2. MACRO KEY DEFINITION CAN BE HOT KEYED DURING DIRECTIONS INPUT BY PRESSING THE ALT, CTRL, AND P KEYS AT THE SAME TIME. 3. CORRECTED MINOR BUG THAT ALLOWED THE USER TO ENTER A VALUE OF ZERO FOR SERVES. SERVES MUST NOW BE A NON ZERO VALUE. 4. CORRECTED BUG IN CALORIE CONVERSION ROUTINE THAT CONFUSED THE MEASURES PINCH AND PINT, CAUSING INCORRECT VALUES TO BE CALCULATED FOR MEASURES OF PINT. 5. CALORIE CALCULATOR NOW TREATS MEASURES OF PINCH AS ZERO. PREVIOUS VERSIONS TREATED A PINCH AS 1 OUNCE. WHILE STILL NOT PERFECT, IT IS MORE ACCURATE THEN BEFORE. 6. CALORIE CALCULATOR NOW DISPLAYS PERCENTAGE OF FAT PER SERVING. 7. INPUT ROUTINE FOR DIRECTIONS NOW ALLOWS MANY SPECIAL CHARACTERS TO BE ENTERED BY PRESSING ALT AND NUMERIC KEY CONBINATIONS ON KEYPAD. THESE CHARACTERS CAN ALSO BE ASSIGNED TO MACRO KEYS. 8. OPERATION OF INSERT MODE DURING EDITING/ENTRY HAS CHANGED. ONCE INSERT IS TURNED ON, IT REMAINS ON UNTIL THE INS KEY IS PRESSED AGAIN. PREVIOUS VERSIONS AUTOMATICALLY TURNED INSERT OFF WHEN MOVING TO ANOTHER LINE. 9. WHOLE AMOUNTS CAN NOW BE AS LARGE AS 65000 (PREVIOUSLY WAS 100). THIS MAKES THE USAGE OF GRAMS MORE PRACTICAL. ANY CONVERSION RESULTING IN A WHOLE NUMBER GREATER THEN 65500 WILL DEFAULT TO 65500. 10. CHANGED VALUE OF "CAN" TO "GRAMS" IN QUICK ENTRY FOR MEASURE. VERSION 2.9.1 1. ADDED METRIC SUPPORT TO MEASURES QUICK ENTRY. 2. CONFIGURATION MENU NOW HAS PROMPT TO ENABLE METRIC MEASURES. 3. ADDED SUPPORT TO CAL CALCULATOR FOR METRIC. 4. ADDED ON LINE HELP, AVAILABLE BY PRESSING . HELP CAN BE OBTAINED FOR EACH ITEM ON THE MAIN MENU, THE SHOPPING LIST, RECIPE DISPLAY, AND WHEN ENTERING OR EDITING RECIPES. 5. ADDED STATUS REPORT FROM MAIN MENU BY PRESSING . THIS DISPLAYS MEMORY USAGE, AND DISPLAYS STATUS OF PROGRAM CONFIGURATION OPTIONS. 6. ADDED INDEX CARD OPTION FOR PRINTING RECIPES. THIS ELIMINATES UNNECESSARY LINES IN THE RECIPE PRINTOUT, ALLOWING AN EASIER FIT ON AN INDEX CARD. 7. IMPROVED WORD WRAP TEXT ENTRY. WHEN THE LAST CHARACTER ENTERED ON A LINE WAS A SPACE, THE LAST WORD WOULD WRAP TO THE NEXT LINE, EVEN THOUGH IT FIT. NOW (CORRECTLY), A SPACE AS THE LAST CHARACTER WILL NOT WRAP THE LAST WORD. 8. ADDED ABILITY TO MARK RECIPES BY MULTIPLE INGREDIENTS. 9. ADDED ABILITY TO PRINT A LIST OF RECIPE NAMES FROM THE RECIPE DISPLAY WINDOW THAT ARE CURRENTLY DISPLAYED IN THE RECIPE SELECTION WINDOW. 10. CORRECTED VERY MINOR BUG THAT ADDED AN EXTRA SPACE WHEN JOINING 2 LINES IN TEXT EDIT MODE. 11. ADDED "MORE/END" INDICATOR TO CALORIE INGREDIENT LIST. 12. IMPROVED ON LINE HELP. ADDED UP/DN ARROW KEYS TO SCROLL HELP TEXT A LINE AT A TIME. HELP CAN NOW BE CALLED FROM SUBMENUS AS WELL AS FROM THE MAIN MENU. VERSION 2.9.2 1. WHEN MARKING RECIPES FROM RECIPE SELECTION WINDOW WITH F8 KEY, HIGHLIGHT CAN BE CONFIGURED TO MOVE DOWN ONE ITEM OR REMAIN WHERE IT IS. 2. EXPANDED STATUS REPORT TO DISPLAY MACRO KEY DEFINITIONS BY PRESSING F1. 3. CORRECTED BUG THAT CAUSE RUN TIME ERROR IF TOTAL CALORIES FOR RECIPE WAS ZERO. 4. ADDED WARNING NOT TO POWER DOWN OR REBOOT DURING DELETE OR COMPRESS OPTIONS. 5. CHANGED COMPRESS DEFAULT FROM 'YES' TO 'NO', MAKING IT HARDER TO START COMPRESS BY ACCIDENT. 6. IMPROVED TEXT REFORMAT (F3) TO REFORMAT ALL TEXT IN ONE PASS. 7. CORRECTED BUG IN MOUSE INTERFACE THAT CAUSED VERY SLOW KEYBOARD RESPONSE WHEN USED WITH MICOSOFT MOUSE DRIVER VERSION 6 AND ABOVE. 8. ADDED MARKED RECIPES INDICATOR TO MAIN MENU SCREEN. 9. CALORIE CALCULATOR NOW RECOGNIZES MEASURES OF CP (CUP) AND PKG (PACKAGE). PREVIOUS VERSIONS DID NOT RECOGNIZE CP, AND TREATED PKG AS KILOGRAM (KG). VERSION 2.9.4 1. CORRECTED BUG THAT LOCKED UP PROGRAM WHEN QUICKING SEARCH IS ENABLED, AND A BLANK INGREDIENT WAS ENTERED. 2. IMPROVED INGREDIENT ENTRY. IF QUICKING SEARCH IS ENABLED, AND INGREDIENT IS NOT FOUND IN QUICK FILE, USER CAN NOW VIEW AND SELECT INGREDIENTS FROM THE QUICK FILE IF DESIRED. 3. WHEN EDITING OR ADDING INGREDIENTS, THE END KEY NOW PLACES THE CURSOR AT THE LAST CHARACTER IN THE INGREDIENT, RATHER THEN AT THE PHYSICAL END OF THE STRING. 4. ALTERED ENTRY OF FAT FOR THE QUICKING FILE. A '?' CAN NOW BE ENTERED FOR FAT IF THE VALUE IS UNKNOWN. PREVIOUS VERSIONS SUBSTITUTED A ZERO FOR THE '?' IN THE QUICK FILE. 5. ADDED TEMPORARY PRINTER REDIRECTION AT TIME OF PRINTING. THIS PROMPT IS CONFIGURABLE AND CAN BE DISABLED UNDER "CONFIG PROG" IF DESIRED. 6. ADDED PAGE LENGTH CONTROL TO PRINTER INITIALIZATION SCREEN. THIS ALLOWS BETTER CONTROL WHEN USING INDEX CARDS AND PAGES SMALLER THEN 8 1/2 X11. VERSION 2.9.5 1. ADDED PROVISION TO STORE AND RECALL UP TO 12 PRINTER CONFIGURATIONS, MAKING IT EASY TO SWITCH BETWEEN DIFFERENT SIZE FORMS.