Newsletter 1 - Fish and Hunting Expert Users Users of the Fish and Hunting Expert Programs recommend some interesting ways to use the Fish and Hunting Programs, and we pass them along to you. Professional fisherman keep a lot of records, and this helps makes them very successful. The logs bring the power and ease of the computer to this important activity. You accumulate successful trends and make better use of your time. Have a neighborhood, company, or church parish accumulate information in the logs. You really get a good scouting report which should enable everyone to do well in fishing and hunting. The group accumulates recipes and shares important safety information as well. Companies can put the fishing and hunting programs on a network (they do need a network license from us). The company then distributes the safety information, recipes, and scouting info to all employees. This helps employee morale tremendously as all company users accumulate and share hunting and fishing information. A father can easily pass along lake and other information accumulated over a lifetime to his son(s). Church parishes and firms also have a valuable pool information which they retain from generation to generation. Use of the F3 Search key in the logs and library gets you to a topic you want instantly. No more searching for that packing list and items on it. The training a youngster receives using the programs develops computer skills and knowledge he someday will need in his job or profession. By the way many hunting education instructors recommend out hunting program in their hunter education classes! Users really have recognized the importance of the scouting log in your hunt. Scouting is a vital activity and the log captures this information easily. When after big bucks you need to record the size of bucks visually sighted and their sheds of antlers to confirm the existence of that big buck you will get next season. (We plan to add substantially to the hunting program to cover more scouting technique) If you have a recipe log or a scouting log for an area and wish to share them, please send it along to us and we will make it available via this newsletter. In the logs turning off the INSERT makes entry easier sometimes. Turn it off or on by toggling the Insert key. Also use the TAB key to TAB over to certain areas. Convert some logs to check lists by turning the insert off and putting an X in the leftmost column If you use Compuserve or any other Computer Service which lists recipes or other messages, then you easily save important recipes and messages to the appropriate log using the F9 key to import the message or portions of the messages after having saved them from the Computer Service. For example, if you use Compuserve and access it using the TAPCIS program you save Outdoor Forum messages in a file called either Outdoor.msg or Outdoor.sav. Press the F9 Key after in a logs and give this file name (include any path); pick which portions of the messages you want using the F9 key at the beginning and end of the messages you want and you have easily saved and stored important messages for future use. You capture valuable information from hunting and fishing TV programs, videos, seminars, etc. by creating an added log from the extra or blank log. Then while or after you view a lecture or rented video, enter the key points in the log so you have the key points permanently at your finger tips. We updated the hunting data base for version 4 to include the latest information on whitetail hunting and it has much more information and some new conditions. ------------------ USER INPUT If you have a file you think would work well with the program, send it to us, and we will make it available to others and give you a free upgrade if we include it on our list. Tell us a new way to use the Program and if used we will give you a free upgrade. ------------------- FUTURE VERSIONS' PLANS - More types of fish, more patterns for a type of fish, more explanation for current patterns, and Graphics! When a pattern is given we include a graphic diagram as well. We are already planning the next versions and it will include more data base material in the expert system, more library information, and even more Log Applications (send us your idea for a Log Application Key and get a free upgrade if chosen). We also tentatively plan to use Microsoft Windows to give you some graphics uses. For Example, Hunting Maps, Lake Charts, etc.. Unfortunately we could not implement a graphics function in the current versions with high enough quality to make it really useful to you. ------------------