Windows Shopper
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Windows Shopper is a home shopping utility that allows you to create and maintain
a database of items you purchase, the stores from which you purchase them, and the
prices you pay.  From this database you can print Master and Store Shopping Lists
and Item and Store Price Comparisons.

Windows Shopper is a full-featured Windows shareware application which requires:

	
	- Microsoft Windows 3.x in Standard or Enhanced mode.
	
	- EGA or higher
		
	- Mouse

	- Approximately .78 mb of hard disk space


Upon registration ($29 + $3 S/H), you will receive: 	

	- a disk with the current version of the program

	- a printed manual


To install Windows Shopper from a diskette in Drive A:

	1. From the Windows Program Manager, choose "Run" from the File menu.

	2. Enter "a:\setup" as the command line and choose OK.

If you are installing Windows Shopper from a hard disk directory, substitute the
directory drive and pathname for "a:" in the command above.

Should you desire to de-install (oh no!) Windows Shopper, perform the following:

	1. Remove the Windows Shopper icon from its group: select it and press
	   the DEL key.

	2. Remove the Windows Shopper program group: after all program icons
	   have been removed from the group, select it and press the DEL key.

	3. Use File Manager to delete the directory (normally C:\SHOPPER)
	   containing the Windows Shopper files.

	4. If you chose to install them in your Windows system directory and
	   no other applications on your system require them, remove the
	   libraries installed with Windows Shopper:

		WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VBRUN100.DLL
		WINDOWS\SYSTEM\COMMDLG.DLL
		WINDOWS\SYSTEM\THREED.VBX

Release Notes
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V1.1
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Bugs Fixed:

    1.	Deleting a price sometimes left incorrect rankings among the remaining
	prices.

    2.	Display of lists sometimes failed (due to improper VScroll property
	initialization).

    3.	Store selection for Store Shopping List display displayed asterisks (*)
	to indicate the stores configured to be included on the Store Shopping
	Lists; the asterisks weren't supposed to be there when selecting the
	single store to include on the Store Shopping List display.

New Features:

    1.	An item may now be marked as "preferred to be bought" at a given store,
	even if it's price at that store is not the best (cheapest) one.

    2.	An option has been added to Store Shopping Lists to disable sorting of
	items on the lists by aisle number within the store.  This is helpful
	when your favorite merchant decides to rearrange the whole store and
	it's necessary to find the right aisle numbers again.

    3.	An option has been added to the Edit Menu (a corresponding Speed Button
	has also been provided) to search the list of items for a matching
	string.

    4.  The installation program now allows you to optionally install the DLL's
	in the Windows system directory (the default is in the same directory
	that you specify for Windows Shopper itself), thereby simplifying
	de-installation.

V1.11
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Bugs Fixed:

    1.	Modified data table sizes (changed via Edit Configuration) were not being
	written to the new configuration file.

    2.	The "Sort by Aisle" selection for Store Shopping Lists didn't always
	work correctly when the program was first loaded.

    3.	The cursor for the main form remained an hourglass after a printer
	setup error instead of being returned to the normal (arrow) shape.

New Features:

    1.	When the program is initiated, the main screen now appears before
	loading of the data file takes place.

    2.	Data table operations have been made more efficient.