A Project/Event Planner 1.1 (README.DOC - March 9, 1993) Copyright 1992-1993 Sapphire Software Inc. - All Rights Reserved ====================================================================== This file contains the following sections: 1. General Program and Author Information. 2. ASP Member. 3. Registration Requirements. 4. Description of Distributed Files. 5. Installation and Getting Started. ====================================================================== **************************************************** *** PLEASE NOTE NAME CHANGE FROM VERSION 1.0 *** ***----------------------------------------------*** *** A Project/Event Planner 1.1 replaces *** *** PlanView 1.0. Refer to VENDOR.DOC and *** *** RELEASE.DOC for additional information. *** **************************************************** ======================================================================= Section 1. General Program and Author Information. ======================================================================= Dear User: This program can be used for quick overall project planning, activity scheduling, and resource scheduling. You can assign income and costs to events (tasks) and resources to estimate a project's income and cost. You can define events that are tied to predecessors. For these related events, start and end times are automatically calculated. You can shift all events in a plan forward or backward in time. You can define multiple calendars and use different calendars for each resource. The program allows free-form drawing of events on a scale of days, weeks, months, or years. On-line help and sample plans are provided. It will handle up to a few hundred events in a given plan, but it is not suited for highly complex projects where thousands of tasks are defined within a project plan. This program requires Microsoft Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and a mouse (or a equivalent pointing device). (NOTE: Subsequent releases will require Microsoft Windows 3.1.) Thank you for trying this program. Layton Fujii Sapphire Software Inc. 6650 Hawaii Kai Drive Suite 219 Honolulu, Hawaii 96825 Phone: (808) 395-5587 CompuServe: 71223,3653 ====================================================================== Section 2. ASP Member ====================================================================== This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. ====================================================================== Section 3. Registration Requirements ====================================================================== This is a shareware program. If you find this program useful and find that you are using it after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment to Sapphire Software Inc. To register, use the program's "Registration" option in the "Help" menu or use the "register.doc" file. You are encouraged to pass a copy of this program (in its original form) along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. ====================================================================== Section 4. Description of Distributed Files. ====================================================================== 1. Informational Files: file_id.diz - Program summary information for BBS. freeoffr.doc - Description of a free registration offer. readme.doc - The file you are reading. release.doc - Information about the differences between this version and the previous version. register.doc - Registration information. Information is also provided in the "Registration" option of the program's "Help" menu. vendor.doc - Information for shareware vendors and BBS SYSOPs. 2. Required files for execution (may be placed in separate directory): aplanr.exe - The program executable. aplanr.hlp - On-line Windows help (not in text file format). 3. Sample data files (may be placed in separate directory): pvcal.dat - Calendar definitions file with sample definitions. pvidx.dat - Plan index file. pvrsc.dat - Resource definitions file with sample definitions. pvyymmdd.sss - These are plan files that use the following naming convention: yy = year, mm = month, dd = day, sss = sequence number. 4. Windows Files: aplanr.ini - This file is not distributed, but it is a Windows initialization file that is automatically created and maintained. It is located where Windows keeps its other ".ini" type files. ====================================================================== Section 5. Installation and Getting Starting. ====================================================================== 1. If upgrading from a previous version, refer to the RELEASE.DOC file. 2. To install from the standard distribution diskette received directly from Sapphire Software Inc.: a. Create a directory to place the program files. You may use the Windows File Manager or DOS. For example in DOS type: md c:\aplanr b. Copy all the program files from the diskette to the new directory. You may use the Window File Manager or DOS. For example in DOS type: copy a:\*.* c:\aplanr [NOTE: The above only applies to diskettes received directly from Sapphire Software Inc. Files received from bulletin boards or Shareware vendors will typically be in compressed format.] 3. How to run the program: The program executable is named "APLANR.EXE". You may execute it directly with the Windows File manager. If you want to set up an icon in a program group to execute APLANR.EXE, refer to the Windows Users' Guides for the appropriate version: Windows 3.0: See Chapter 3 "Program Manager" in a section titled "Changing the Contents of Groups" near page 89. Windows 3.1: See Chapter 3 "Program Manager" in a section titled "Working with Program Items" near page 78. Use the directory that APLANR.EXE is located in as the path for the default directory. 4. Upon starting the program for the first time, review the on-line help information that is available from the program's "Help" menu. You may print any of the help sections. 5. Look at the sample plans, resource definitions, and calendar definitions that are provided. 6. Refer to the RELEASE.DOC file for additional information regarding the current release. 7. By default, all data resides in the same directory as the program executable. You may place your data in another location by doing the following: a. Create the directory you want to store the data in. b. Use the "Directories" option of the "Options" menu to tell the program to use this directory for all data. ======= THE END =======