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               PC/BILL - Time and Billing System
             for Attorneys and other Professionals 
                  Version 3.4 - June 1993
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                    Charles W Radcliffe
                    571 Silverado Drive
                    Lafayette, CA  94549

                 Telephone: (510) 283-6678
                  Messages: (510) 283-1528
                       Fax: (510) 283-1528
                       (Call first to allow setup
                        of my FAX modem program.)     

PC/BILL is a time and billing system for attorneys or other 
professionals who bill by hourly rate or flat fee for services.

PC/BILL is designed for use by an office with a maximum of 20
timekeepers. Bills can printed in several formats. Extensive activity
reports, alphabetical client lists, and auditing of data entries 
for hours, fees, costs, and payments by client or category are included. 

The programs are designed for the small office with a "checkbook"
accounting system where the user desires a stand-alone time and
billing system which is not linked to a general-purpose office
accounting system.

PC/BILL will be useful to a wide variety of professionals including: 
attorneys, accountants, consultants, and others.

PC/BILL is a mature system which has been in use for over ten years.  It 
has proved to be a FAST and SIMPLE system to use with no special require-
ments for color displays, data base software, or a link to an office 
accounting or book-keeping program.

Minimum hardware required is an AT class IBM compatible computer with at 
least one high-density floppy drive (1.2mb or 1.44mb) and 512 KB memory.
A hard drive is highly recommended for speed in data sorting.

If a two-floppy system is used one of the drives must be a high-density
drive.  Either a 1.2 mb or a 1.44 mb DS/HD drive will be large enough to
store the .EXE files for the system.  A 360 kb DS/DD drive is adequate
for small data files only. Two high-density drives are recommended.

The system has been used successfully with dot-matrix printers, Diablo
1620 and 1640 daisy wheel printers and HP Laserjet II and III printers.
It should print to any system printer with output directed to PRN.
 
When using a dot-matrix or daisy wheel printer continuous fan-fold paper
or a sheet feeder must be used.

A non-formatted version of the instruction manual can be printed from
the ASCII text file PCBILL.DOC.  For a formatted copy of the manual
print PCBILL.WP2 (from Wordperfect Version 4.2).

 
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               Installation of the PC/BILL system
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1. Create the directory in which PC/BILL will be installed using
   the DOS command   mkdir \pcbill (or any other directory name).

2. Insert distribution diskette #1 in a floppy drive A: (or B:).

3. Change to  the drive with the distribution disk. Usually drive A:.
   If you have a second floppy drive insert any disk in it.  The 
   installation checks for the existence of a second drive but will
   not write to it.

3. The install command syntax is:   install 1 2 3

             where 1 is the drive with the distribution diskette.
                   2 is the drive where PC/BILL is to be installed.
                   3 is the directory name or full path to sub directory.

   The three entries are separated by spaces.

   Examples:   install a: c: \pcbill  (install in directory C:\PCBILL)
               install a: d:     (Install in root directory of drive D:)

























