 OVERVIEW
 
   The Maintenance Reminder is used to create and customize service
   schedules for each vehicle and to log the services that have been
   completed. You can create services (maintenance operations) that
   are unique to each vehicle.
 
   The service interval time can be set for months or days (changed in
   the Set Defaults). This can not be changed for each vehicle so you
   will need to decide which method to use for all vehicles.  There is
   also a mileage interval if the vehicle is being tracked by odometer
   or a hour interval if it is being tracked by hours.
 
   There are no costs associated with the Maintenance Reminder.
 
   The Maintentance Reminder (referred to as MR from now on) is split
   into the following three components:
 
     Global - This area contains the "master list" of maintenance
       operations that can be transferred (extracted) to each vehicle.
       It is intended to cut down on the amount of typing if you are
       creating schedules for several vehicles.
 
     Reminder - This area contains the maintenance operations for the
       selected vehicle. These are services that you want to routinely
       perform at specified intervals.  You can create your reminder
       list by extracting all the Global operations and then deleting
       uneccessary ones and/or adding individual operations directly.
 
       If the MAINTENANCE REMINDER FUEL LOG OPTION (Set Defaults) is
       set to Y, then the Maintenance Reminder will automatically run
       whenever you enter the Fuel Log.  If due or overdue maintenance
       items are found, then a message will display at the top of the
       screen telling you to run the Maintenance Reminder program.
 
     Services - This area is a log of all the maintenance operations
       that have been done on the selected vehicle.  They are added
       from the Reminder screen.
 
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 GLOBAL
 
   Press G from the REMINDER screen to display or edit global mainten-
   ance operations. The operations are sorted by odometers (or hours).
 
     ADD
 
       Press the A key to add a record. Enter the operation, and the
       time and miles (hours) between services. Note that there are 2
       fields for the operation. You can use both areas or just the
       first one. There are also 2 areas for the description of the
       operation after it has been completed (--completed services--).
       The completed services description will be used when you are
       adding completed operations to the SERVICES. This description
       will usually be the past-tense of the operation description,
       for example:
 
                 --maintenance operation-- = Change Oil
                 --completed services--    = Changed Oil
 
       NOTE: You should include an unscheduled maintenance record in
             the REMINDER for each vehicle to use when adding services
             that unexpectedly come up (or are not planned for). Enter
             zeros for the interval months(days) and odometer(hours).
 
     EXTRACT
 
       Press the E key to copy all Global entries to the Reminder for
       the selected vehicle.  Use this option only once for each ve-
       hicle or you will have duplicate entries. After extracting, you
       need to add the date and mileage (hours) for the last time this
       operation was done to the selected vehicle. (refer to REMINDER
       - CHANGE).
 
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 REMINDER
 
   Press Q from the GLOBAL MR screen or W from the SERVICES screen to
   run the Reminder program options. The reminder operations are sort-
   ed by odometers (or hours).
 
     ADD
 
       Press the A key to add a record. Enter the the time and miles
       (hours) between services, the operation description that will
       print on the reminder report, the date and mileage (hours) of
       when this operation was last done and a service description
       that will show in the SERVICES area and print on the services
       completed report.
 
       You should have 1 reminder operation with zero months and odom-
       eter to allow for unscheduled maintenance.
 
       You can set the reminder to check only by the service interval
       months (by setting the odometer to 0), to check only by mileage
       or hours (by setting the months to 0) or to check for both by
       entering values in both fields. Entering both a month and odom-
       eter is recommended.
 
     CHANGE
 
       Press the C key to change an existing record. All records that
       have been extracted (copied) from the Global area will need to
       have the last date serviced and the mileage (or hours) added.
 
     NEW SER
 
       Press the N key to add a completed service record. Move to the
       entries to be added and (press Enter first) enter the serviced
       or done date and odometer or hours.  Press the Insert key when
       you are done. The service(s) will be added to the SERVICE log
       and the last serviced date and odometer on the reminder will be
       automatically updated.
 
     REPORTS
 
       The MR report will generate a maintenance reminder schedule
       that will tell you what and when services are due and which
       ones are overdue.
 
       NOTE: *** IN ORDER TO CREATE AN ACCURATE SCHEDULE,   ***
             *** THE FUEL LOG MUST BE CURRENT (UP-TO-DATE). ***
 
       If the schedule is run with blank FROM and TO dates, then all
       reminders will be listed with their next due dates and mileage
       (or hours), otherwise a schedule will be created showing items
       that need to be done within the FROM and TO dates.
 
       Any overdue operations will also be listed. A maintenance op-
       eration is considered to be overdue if the last odometer (or
       hours) plus the service interval value is less than the last
       Fuel Log entry. A * will print between the date and odometer
       for overdue operations.
 
       The MR schedule is listed in due date order which means that
       items may look out of order if you are only entering a service
       interval odometer and not the months.
 
                    (service interval)
         Reminder:   months  odometer
                     ══════  ════════
                        0         0     use for adding unscheduled
                                        operations to SERVICES
 
         Rem. Report:   0       > 0     checks only by mileage(hours)
                      > 0         0     checks only by dates
                      > 0       > 0     checks by dates & for overdue
 
       Printing to a file will place this report into a file named
       REM.TXT which will be created in the Program Directory (VRS90).
       This option will allow you to import this report into a word
       processing or a spreadsheet program if those programs support
       ASCII files.
 
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 SERVICES
 
   Press W from the REMINDER screen to display, change, delete ser-
   vices or to run a report. Completed services are indexed (sorted)
   by the dates.
 
     REPORTS
 
       You can run a report showing completed maintenance services
       for any period of time. The default dates assume you want a
       report showing all services.
 
       Printing to a file will place this report into a file named
       SER.TXT which will be created in the Program Directory (VRS90).
       This option will allow you to import this report into a word
       processing or a spreadsheet program if those programs support
       ASCII files.
 
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 W (SER) - W (REM)
 
   Press W to switch (window) back and forth between the REMINDER and
   the SERVICES screens.
 
 
 CHANGE
 
   Use this option to make corrections or to add items that were not
   included when the record was added. Position to the field you want
   to change, press Enter and make the change.
 
 
 DELETE
 
   Use this to remove a record. Deleted records will not be included
   in reports.  Deleted records are 'hidden' but remain in the file
   until it is reindexed.
 
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