Product Installation -------------------- Financial Wonder ("FW") is designed for the IBM PC, XT, AT, 386, and compatibles with a hard drive, PC or MS-DOS 3.1 or higher, 640K available memory. The use of expanded and/or extended memory is highly recommended. FW will operate, and will print, across a network. However, there is no network file locking. This means that two users should not work on the same file at the same time. To install Financial Wonder for Small Business onto your hard drive, place the 6 ZIP program files FWSB30z1.zip to FWSB30z6.zip (Financial Wonder for Small Business Version 3.0) into the desired sub-directory on your hard drive (ex: C:\WONDER). Use PKUNZIP to uncompress FWSB30z1, then run INSTALL.BAT to install the program. Absolutely no changes will be made to either your autoexec.bat or config.sys file. FW must be installed on your system's hard drive. The program will operate from any lettered hard drive (ex:C,D,E) and from any directory, however, wherever the FW program resides must have a subdirectory named DATA and all SAVED files, required to be in this subdirectory, must reside there. Extra HP printer fonts need to be installed in the '\SLATE\FONT' sub-directory on the same drive as FW. This directory name cannot be changed. INSTALL.BAT will create this directory for you automatically. The following programs are included: ------------------------------------ FWDEMO.BAT This will run our demo program. This program will help you understand all of the menus, screens, and options available within Financial Wonder. MANUAL.EXE The complete manual may be viewed and printed. A table of contents is provided for easy access. FWSB.EXE The 'Financial Wonder for Small Business' version. (includes support for Open Systems Accounting Software 'OSAS' users). SLATE.EXE Program to load print drivers TESTDV.BAT Tests an installed print driver. Financial Wonder is a virtual memory spreadsheet. Spreadsheet files are stored in a combination of expanded memory, extended memory, and hard drive. Since the movement of file information to/from your hard drive is far slower than when using expanded and/or extended memory, we highly recommend that you operate Financial Wonder with at least 1 megabyte of expanded and/or extended memory. On-Line documentation is available from within the program (type "ALT-M" from within a spreadsheet screen). You may view or print-out individual chapters. The file names with the extension ".DOC" contain the on-line documentation files. These files may also be viewed within any text editor or word processor. The entire manual (except for screen pictures) is included. Run the MANUAL.EXE program to view the table of contents. You may view or print-out individual chapters. The file names with the extension ".MAN" contain the on-line manual files. These files may also be viewed within any text editor or word processor. In order to view the *.DOC and *.MAN files, your MS-DOS PATH command must include the directory containing your COMMAND.COM file, which is usually in either C:\, or C:\DOS. We suggest that you first load one of the two budget example files, then pull-down the "screens" menu and select data entry to start. From this point you can press ALT-M for detailed documentation. The "listing of commands" will help you move about Financial Wonder. If you are familiar with Lotus 1-2-3 and with pull-down menus, you will find Financial Wonder a joy to work with. The ESC key will generally abort a process, and the "/" key calls up the pull-down menu. F1, F9 and F10 are used often throughout the program. Only a few keys are used regularly and there is no formula building such as in an ordinary spreadsheet program. Financial Wonder is a relatively easy program to operate; however, its tremendous power will progress you to a new level of financial understanding. Financial Wonder may be operated as an MS-DOS application under MS Windows 3.0 and 3.1 in either the standard or 386 enhanced modes. Modify our example Windows PIF file to allocate expanded and/or extended memory resources from your Windows environment. Both the virtual memory management for swapping code, and the virtual memory management used for swapping spreadsheet data are compatible with MS Windows 3.0 and 3.1. Financial Wonder may be also be operated as an MS-DOS application under OS/2 2.x. Modify your DOS settings for expanded memory use. Getting Started --------------- To Load Printer Drivers ----------------------- After installation, go to C:\WONDER, type SLATE, and press ENTER. Print drivers may be installed one at a time until you choose to end the install. The install program may be run at a later date in order to install new or additional drivers. The main FW program will allow you to change your active printer to one of the other installed printers and will allow you to change typefaces. Only install the drivers needed. Installing too many drivers will slow actual printing. Printer drivers will be installed in the "WONDER" directory in the file SLATE.PDB. Chapter 33 of the manual provides details on the use of SLATE. IMPORTANT --------- All data files must reside in the \WONDER\DATA directory. In addition, FW requires a full 640K in order to operate, therefore TSR's (Terminate and Stay Resident programs) should not be used unless they are relatively small. For example, Sidekick would severely restrict the memory needs of FW, whereas a Screen Saver program should operate without concern. FW will take advantage of the memory manager "Memory Commander," to expand available DOS memory space to 800KB or 900KB. HIGH MEMORY MANAGER ------------------- FW can make use of expanded and extended memory. To use extended memory either HIMEM.SYS or a compatible driver such as "QEMM" or "386 to the Max" needs to be installed. (Do not install HIMEM.SYS if another driver providing XMS support is already in use.) If needed, detailed instructions are included in Chapter 2 of the on-line manual. Memory Commander ---------------- Financial Wonder is fully compatible with Memory Commander from V Communications Inc. With an 80386 computer and 512KB extended memory, Financial Wonder can operate with as little as a 4KB video area, and 8KB across a network. This allows Financial Wonder to operate with over 900KB of contiguous DOS memory space, using Memory Commmander. Starting Financial Wonder ------------------------- 1. Go to the C:\WONDER directory. 2. Type FWSB, then ENTER or RETURN - FW for Small Business Check the README file and the manual for further details on configuring the program once installed.