Money Smith for Windows Home/Small Business Accounting System Program, Documentation, and Examples Copyright 1991 by Bradley J. Smith Member of Association of Shareware Professionals Release Notes: Version 1.2 (with ASP statements) Requires: Windows 3.0 running standard or enhanced mode and a Mouse Files in this release: setup.exe - Installation program - run this to install setup.inf - Setup information file smith.exe - Money Smith executable smith.hlp - Money Smith Help File (Windows format) smith.wri - Users Manual - use Windows Write to view/print vendor.txt - Sample feature review and distribution rules readme.txt - This file register.txt - Registration/licensing form for individuals. invoice.txt - Registration invoice for businesses. home.act - Homeowner accounts example renter.act - Renter accounts example business.act - Business accounts example smitharc.exe - Self extracting archive of above files (360k disk version only) Release Policy: The shareware version of Money Smith can be freely distributed as long as you abide by the terms of the license and don't charge a fee or otherwise profit from distribution. See vendor.txt or the license for sample reviews and for-profit distribution terms. Printing this file: Use the notepad to view/print this file or just use the DOS PRINT command to print it as in. c:> print readme.txt Looking at the manual: Use the windows program manager to bring up the Write Application that comes with windows 3.0. It is usually under the 'Applications' program group. Use the File Open command in Write to open the file smith.wri. Use the File Print command in write to print it. Installation using the setup program: If you took the plunge and registered Money Smith, you will have a program on the distribution disk called "setup.exe" which will create a directory of your choice on your hard drive and step through copying the files to your disk. Choose the File Run command from the menu of your program manager and type in 'a:\setup' or 'b:\setup' to run the Money Smith setup program from your drive. Setup will fully install Money Smith including installation in the program manager. From the shareware source: Odds are pretty good you downloaded this from a bulletin board or copied it from a buddy. Odds are equally good the program is compacted in some way. The most popular file compaction programs follow: Self Extracting Archive example: smith.exe - you need to run smith.exe PKZIP format: example: smith.zip - you need to run pkunzip smith.zip PKARC format: example smith.arc - you need to run pkunpak smith.arc LHARC format: example smith.lzh - you need to run lharc x smith.lzh You can get all three of these shareware unpacking program from your nearest bulletin board or a local users group. Other packing programs are popular, so ask the person you got the program from what to use. Once unpacked you can use the setup.exe program to setup Money Smith. See the instructions for above to run setup.exe. Licensing: The license terms are online accessible from the Help menu of Money Smith. They are listed at the end of the smith.wri documentation file. Money Smith is shareware and not free. You have 30 days to try it. The shareware version is provided completely AS IS with no warranty either express or implied. You take the risk for using it. If you are a registered user you get full mail support for 90 days and preferential treatment for unsupported replies after the 90 days. Registration: You are granted a 30 day trial license to decide if Money Smith is for you. After that period you are expected to register Money Smith to continue using it. Registration costs $29.95. You can print the register.txt file to register. Site licenses are also available: just write Money Smith Systems, P.O. Box 333, Converse TX 78109 for more information. Benefits of Registration: - A disk (720k or 360k) including the latest version of Money Smith. - A coupon for a free upgrade to the next version if you postmark your order before Dec 31, 1992. Two versions for the price of one! - A 90 day limited warranty with mail support. (see license for details). - All of the annoying reminder dialogs are removed. - Notification and nice discounts for later versions. Money Smith Version 1.2 Features: - A complete double entry accounting system with arbitrary accounting dates. You can look at just the data you're interested in. - A toolbar with the most frequent functions on it. - Powerful automatic transactions. - A full suite of Reports and Graphs that change as you update data. Naturally you can print them as well. - Investment support for stocks, mutual funds and securities. - Several bug fixes in printing, register mode, etc... - Press and point help - just press the '?' button on the toolbar or the Shift+F1 keys then press the selection you want help on. - Question mark buttons provide context sensitive help in most dialogs. - Full command help documentation and a users manual online with complete hypertext links. - Check printing that works with most tractor feed printers. Reaching Me: You can reach me at the registration address or write to me on the Prodigy service. [ VTDW36A ] I am also available on Compuserve [70324,1077] and part time on Channel 1 [Bradley Smith]. Your comments and questions are always welcome, but I may not be able to respond to every single message depending on my workload at the time. Registered users get preference, of course. Registered users - PLEASE include your registration number with your letter or message. Online services will get you the quickest answer! Money Smith Systems P.O. Box 333 Converse, TX 78109 ASP Ombudsmen Statement: If you're having trouble with me you can always contact the ASP ombudsmen. They won't give you technical support but they do help mediate differences between user and shareware authors. See the ASP Ombudsmen statement in the license for specific information. Have fun using Money Smith!!! Bradley J. Smith Author and President, Money Smith Systems Association of Shareware Professionals Member --------------------------------------------------------- RELEASE NOTE: INSTALLATION PROBLEMS ON 360k VERSION ONLY A few users with small amounts of memory on their system have had problems installing the 360k self extracting version of Money Smith. The problem arises when the setup program tries to run the self extracting archive (smitharc.exe) and finds there isn't enough real memory left to run it. Fix as follows from DOS: Process: Commands: Make a directory: C> mkdir c:\smith Copy files to it: C> copy a:*.* c:\smith Change to it: C> cd \smith Extract archive: C> smitharc Delete archive: C> del smitharc.exe Now you can either install it in your program manager from there or run setup from the hard disk to permanently install Money Smith for you. We plan to remedy this problem with the next release.