August 1994 - SLO Bytes PC Users Group
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1. V oume Ten W hats N ew By B ob W ard S ecretary IT S NICE TO BE BACK from vaca tion Now the big push to get the newsletter out sometime before the next meeting While visiting relatives in Bellingham Washington didn t have the opportunity to even touch a computer keyboard To help with my computer withdrawal symptoms bought the August issue of Windows Magazine What did find Well page 287 brought things closer to home Here was a page called Superior Sharware where 10 Win dows programs were listed with a short explanation of each Now who do you suppose took up 30 of the column Our Prez George Campbell of course OsosSoft took 3 of the 10 softw are programs with Fonter 6 2 Rockford 3 5 and WinClip 3 5 Now you don t have to go very far to get these programs In fact why not download them from George s BBS at 528 3753 think we also have the latest on our BBS although wouldn t bet my life on it Last month we were lucky to have AskMe Multimedia demonstrate Super Show and Tell This is about the easiest program have ever seen for creating multimedia presenta tions Several lucky people walked away with a copy at the end of the presentation Perhaps those who won a package would take the time to review it for our newsletter Hey why didn t think of that This coming month Borland was tentatively scheduled to show Sidekick for Windows Check the N umber Eight calendar this2. Christmas Give a way J anuary 95 Peachtree tentative zA A of r Gr nT his ssue Shareware from Space Bill S chuette nininini 6 Make B B ob D V jolin nininini 6 Peachtree Part 2 Elan a e 7 Definitions C arol J ESSEN sasuseno 8 Club Info ssa deeded 9 T opT ens ByK athyY akal SLO B ytes WELL FINALLY got to go to another officer s dinner I m afraid there were so many people there that wasn t able to pay attention to what absolutely everybody was doing with their food guess maybe shouldn t have had that second glass of wine because it seems was seeing things I d have sworn that Sam OFFERED Bob Ward part of his dinner and Bob TURNED IT DOWN Sam claimed after dinner that it was true though and he was drinking iced tea so musta been Bob was leaving for vacation the next day so he must have been saving his calories Speaking of calories did anyone catch that little piece on CNN a few weeks ago about false packaging on supposedly lo cal food A woman had bought a snack called a Skinny Roll and felt like it tasted too good to only have something like 150 calo ries So she sent it into some lab where calorie detectives worked and they tested it It was closer to 500 calories The lab tested a bunch of other supposedly lo cal lo fat products and found the same thing What s a consumer to do Can we believe what we read on pack aging and believe it s true thin
3. but it is a very elegant and informative listing did have some trouble printing this the first time around was able to print about 45 pages and all seemed to be going well After that found I could only print about 10 15 pages at a time FontMinder would skip some fonts by printing boxes instead of the sample didn t try to exit and restart Windows so maybe resources were not being released after each printing Anyway got all 1700 samples printed eventually and this has been an invaluable refer ence one use every day BetterT hanA T M Even though you need to have Adobe Type Manager 2 5 or better for Type 1 fonts to work you will never need it to install fonts again FontMinder handles both ATM and TrueType font installation and does it better than ATM or the Control Panel in Windows T ech upport When I got this upgrade had a problem with it got an error message whenever tried to create the master library So rather than incur long distance charges de cided to live in the digital age and leave a message on America On Line since Ares has an account there described my problem in detail and a day later got a call from Dennis Harrington one of the authors of the program After determining that the problem was that had too many fonts he told me I had gotten version 2 0A and needed 2 0C This was a problem with the program as FontMinder can track 4 000 fonts It says So right th
4. So here are ten common sense suggestions that you probably already know but Bob told me I had to fill a lot of space this month These relate mostly to expensive productivity applications 1 If you re browsing at a computer shop DO read the back of the box 2 Do NOT let that perusal be your sole evaluation criteria 3 Read computer magazine re views say that not just to get you to support the magazines who send me my paychecks but because the reviewers have already tested the software for you 4 If you re looking at software that is expensive that will be used in your business and especially if the softw are will be used for bottom line matters like finances get the names of some people who ve used the product over a long period of time and talk to them In some cases the vendor will supply those names for you 5 If you re active online check out the support forums that vendors sponsor CompuServe has the most complete stable of software publishers but some of the other services have vendor forums Hop on and look around to see if C ontinued on page 3 L ibrary N ews ByBobW ard L ibrary M an OHHHH BOY HERE WE GO AGAIN Since I ve uploaded over 20 MEG s this past month thought I d take some of the choice programs from the BBS and pass them along to those who do not frequent the phone lines 612 CQWK140A amp B f you liked OffLine for DOS last month here s an offline BBS reader f
5. he gets too mad at me I ll have to pour the water from that big 5 gallon jug into the coffeemaker myself If he decides I m not taking my columnist position seriously enough he ll make me do more presentations at the meeting And we don t want that When George was recovering from encephalitis he came over to our house and helped reas semble the office which had been completely taken apart so the electricians could re wire after the lightning He doesn t keep bugging me about why kept my name after married George even though it seems kinda goofy to him He s one of the most enthusiastic COMDEX attendees know And the number one reason why should stop insulting Bob is He s the editor of the newsletter and he can change my copy in any way he likes He can also put bad pictures of me in the new sletter Next month Top ten reasons why SLOBYTES columnists should have to take their columns seriously X K athy Y akal C ampbell is so flattering wouldnt change one word of this column unless my spelling checker or thesaurus told me to do so T his sounds like a peace gesture to me or is she just after my french fries at the next pig sig af ter the meeting 11 keep you posted B ob T heK athy B ob blood fued brings out the beast in G eorge C ampbel a PageN umber 3 G ot P roblems PC911 to the Rescue by B ob W ard DO YOU RECALL our speaker a couple months ago
6. quantity sold to determine the Cost of Goods Sold W C ontinued on page8 PageN umber 7 P eachtree Continued from page7 oo cece eee eee F inale Written reports on how the orga nization has performed and how it stands financially are the end products of an accounting system After enter ing all the data correctly you rely on the computer to produce accurate re ports Peachtree comes with a slew of reports already builtin and also allows the user to design their own custom reports and forms Font selection in reports and forms including TrueType is supported found that printing reports to the screen was a helpful way to learn more about the program and see the results of my actions When first tried to print to the screen there was a software glitch and it wouldn t work left a help message on CompuServe in the WINAPD forum and got a useful an swer within a couple of days The package comes with a small Conversion Guide manual that walks you through the process of converting and importing Quicken files and data into Peachtree tried itand was some what successful but it s not a clean procedure because Quicken is a check book based system and the program made many assumptions when setting up the chart of accounts vendor and customer lists and accounting periods Another pair of features is the Col lection Manager and the Payment Man ager The Collection Manager allows you to analyze the out
7. Well if you missed the meet ing with CyberMedia then pay close attention to this review If you have ever had problems with your PC either after adding a card or updating software then you should probably have this program guess the best way to describe PC911 is to call it a Doc in the Box If your sick it should diagnose the problem and make you your computer well again After installing PC911 it creates a configuration file unique to the PC on which it was installed It records all the important information about your computer including the CMOS CONFIG SYS AUTOEXEC BAT WIN INI and adapter cards This record is maintained and updated automatically every time you boot your computer If there is a change in hardware software or configuration a notice comes on the screen If the change is in a software configuration file AUTOEXEC BAT etc a split screen shows you the before amp after of the change At this point you can accept the change and add notes as to what was changed A permanent record is kept of this change You can always go back later and load any old configuration from the time you first installed PC911 PC911 looks at your hardware cards and reads the IRQ and DMA channels of each card and records the placement of the dip switches if there are any Version 1 0 does a remarkable job at this considering all the cards in existence The next version will even do more with hardware have been told by a representative
8. c programs or even files Another new feature is that you can pass font packs to your associates along with the file that needs it if they have the same fonts on their system those fonts will be loaded when they use that file As nice as the ability to associate a font pack with a file is you can only associate one program or file per font pack hope that Ares in the next version will allow more asso ciations The work around is to duplicate font packs under different names and associate each one with a different file but this gives you a long list of font packs to choose from and takes up disk space not much but some M yO fficeS till U ses P aper As said before you can print type samples five different ways and a sixth option which has been available since version 1 lets you print a font list with files names and paths One of these ways is to print a Character Set which is helpful for dingbats and odd fonts another is the Font Summary which is a one page sample of the font that includes font information sample text in a variety of sizes a paragraph of text and a character set The option chose was to print out pages of one line samples You get nine fonts per page with the font name printed in that font a sample line that is the alphabet in caps and lower case along with numbers and some symbols In small type in Arial under each listing is the path and file name of the font This format is fixed
9. cles 2 50 per article and 1 50 think for abstracts There are many valuable re source people at the user group your fellow members George and Bob and Bob and Gus and Sam and Marilyn know a lot about some kinds of software but there are people sitting next to you at the meeting who have long term experience too with various programs Ask around or raise your hand during question and answer during the early meeting and ask anyone who knows something to meet with you during the break Call the publisher and ask if they have a cheap or free demo available A ugust 19 9 4 9 If you have very specific require ments and can t find out whether the product meets them by your other research call the company or sign on to a forum and ask before you buy 10 Find out what the company s return policy is in case you find out that it really doesn t meet your needs after you buy it Some vendors do offer a money back guarantee W ell enough serious stuff The Top Ten Reasons Why Should Stop Insulting Bob In My Column 10 He s basically a decent sort of fellow 9 Without him SLOBYTES wouldn t be around in its current incarna tion 8 He s usually so busy setting up before the meeting that he doesn t swipe more than a cookie or two Of course you should see him when there are leftovers 7 If he fires me l Il have to get a new job Wait a minute don t get paid for this 6 If
10. company called Skylink is currently transmitting shareware programs on a subcarrier over several satellites located in geosynchronous orbit 24 000 miles above the equa tor Anyone who has a satellite dish computer and a low cost demodulator can subscribe and receive these transmissions Skylink began its operation about two years ago in conjunction with a satel lite transmitted computer shop at home network Demodulators are sold for 130 during the call in program along with subscriptions that currently run 94 annually was intrigued with the possibility of receiving shareware files from outer space without the associated phone charges live in a rural area and down loading shareware from bulletin boards over long distance phone lines is costly Since already own a Satellite receiving station and computer leapt at the opportunity to access this new and cheaper source of shareware installed the equipment and have been filling up my hard drive with megabytes from space for the past two years The Skylink company transmits error free DOS based computer files at around 9600 baud Each series of files is sent several times during any 24 hour period allowing ample opportunity to receive them A special header code is located at the beginning of each file which informs the computer what kind of file is being sent its length name a brief description and which subdirectory to place the file into A new subdirectory is automatically cr
11. e Also you may state a customer s dollar credit limit and apply finance charges There is a notes field that works like a simple word processor so you can tie brief notes to each customer The Inventory Item database in cludes an item s sales price so all you need enter on the invoice is the item ID number and quantity sold Peachtree calculates the invoice amount debits the customer s Accounts Receivable subsidiary account for credit sales and prints the invoice on either plain paper or a pre printed form Later when you receive payment from a customer bring up the Receipts dialog box select the customer by ID number and the program will display a list of that customer s open invoices for you to choose the one against which to apply the receipt A ugust 199 4 By imBorland SLO BytesPCU G Purchases and P ayments The first step is to input your ven dor information The Maintain Vendors dialog box is very similar to the one for Maintain Customers There is a place for the terms and discount you receive from that vendor a Tax ID field if you want to send them a 1099 form a field for the General Ledger purchase account number and a field showing your current balance ow ed to this vendor In the Purchases dialog box select the vendor select from the inventory item list the items you are purchasing and the program will credit your Ac counts Payable and adjust the Quan tity on Hand there is also an opti
12. eated for each type of file The software program that comes with the demodulator allows subscribers to read the brief descriptions that are sent with each file just as on a regular bulletin board and mark selected files for reception As data is received from the demodulator via the serial port of the computer transmission errors are cor rected and the marked files are dumped onto the hard disk Dow nlinked files are changed every two or three days and consist of current shareware applications such as games utilities communications desktop fonts graphics demos and virus checkers to name a few Recently Skylink has added several other features along with their regular shareware transmissions They provide a software program called TV Agent which is similar to a TV guide All programs transmitted on satellite channels including network and cable channels are listed along with brief descriptions of each program or movie These listings are updated daily For those interested in meteorology several weather satellite cloud photos are downlinked each day along with weather maps and temperature charts for the entire United States Information is updated every several hours As with most BBSs Skylink also transmits current QWK packets covering such topics as genealogy shareware Windows OS 2 radio amateur news ecol ogy and press releases from the White House A standard bulletin board is also available to subscribers who wish to upl
13. ere in the book S ummary liked the first version of FontMinder even though there were some shareware programs that printed font lists But with version 2 of FontMinder Ares has gone far beyond making cosmetic changes or adding just a few minor improve ments and calling it an upgrade In addition to catching up with the best of similar utilities they ve added truly useful features that you didn t even know you needed but that increase your productivity can t imagine how they can improve this further but I m sure they will el A N oteF romT eri F ontM inder2 0 is one of the most useful programs have ever owned highly recommend It to all my D esktop Publishing students amp clients S ince this article was written V ersion 2 5 has been released with even more wonderful features including support for A dobe s M ultipleM aster technology P rice of upgradefrom version 2 0 is only 14 95 PageN umber 5 Copyright 1994 by Madison PC User s Group P O Box 2598 Madison WI 53701 All rights reserved This file was originally printed in the January 1994 Bits amp PC s a publication of the Madison PC User s Group and may be reprinted only by not for profit organizations Please give proper credit to the author and Bits amp PC s Sharewarefrom Outer Space By Bill Schuette Sauk County Chapter of Madison PC User s Group SHAREWARE FROM OUTER SPACE It s not as far out as it sounds A
14. from CyberMedia This makes life easy if you have ever had to pull the case on your computer find the documentation of a peripheral card and try and figure out what all the dip switches mean and are they in the right position Documentation is only 8 small pages It s so transparent and simple to use you don t need it By typing PC911 you get the 5 switches that come with 911 PC911 c amp r scans the cards in your computer while v give you a verbose listing did run across one problem that came to light as was completing this article It s a real fluke and probably easily corrected It occurs only if PC911 is already loaded on your computer and you are using Windows for Workgroups 3 11 on a drive doubled by Stacker 4 0 A little about Stacker first With the issuance of Stacker 4 0 the problem probably occurs in earlier versions also Windows for Workgroups 3 11 can not use 32 bit disk access Stac Electronics was made aware of this almost immediately and has been busy creating a solu tion to this problem The fix appeared on Compuserve just the other day It was given to me and immediately installed on the club computer Now every time boot the com puter PC911 comes up with an error message about a mismatch in the configu ration files suspect since the STAC files have changed PC911 was never ready for it How was CyberMedia to know Stacker would be changing their files something that should
15. has been moved to November So what are we going to do for September Well Kathy Yakal will be demonstrating two programs Crayola s Amazing Art Adventure and Art Studio She asked for a sound card so think we are in for some more multimedia She also asked for 24 MEGS of free space on the club computer Kathy you have it with 4 megs to spare as of this writing Of course this will diminish within the next day or two just can t stand to see an empty hard disk Have you ever thought of re viewing your favorite program for our newsletter Perhaps you have a couple Windows tricks or a utility you found on a bulletin board Since the purpose of SLO Bytes is computer education why not consider sharing some of your knowledge with the rest of us If you feel you can t write an intelligent column you might surprise yourself We will also be happy to edit your article if you wish Deadline for articles is the 15th of each month Ah come on surprise me a Va What s New BODWN Arican a 1 Top Tens Kathy Y akal ususse 2 Library News BOD W ard LM snus 2 Rescue PC911 B 0b W afd nininini 4 FontMinder 2 0 P aul D eMmitt niini 4 N ineteen H undred amp N inetyF our Y eeH ah C lub C alendar S eptember 4 Crayola Amazing Art Adventure amp Crayola Art Studio by Kathy Yakal 0 ctober 2 MySoftw are will present MySoftw are November 6 Borland s Sidekick for Windows D ecember 4 SLO Bytes s annual
16. k that last thought was supposed to lead into some train of thought on software marketing but then just remembered something else wanted to tell you For those of you who subscribe to COMPUTE Magazine and received the Septem ber issue that was the last copy of COMPUTE you ll ever receive General Media has announced that they ll stop publishing it and Ziff Davis publishers of PC Magazine Computer Shopper etc has acquired the subscriber list So you ll get a notice from Ziff inviting you to subscribe to their new consumer publications Family PC and Com puter Life which look to be pretty exciting magazines Ziff itself is up for sale though a definite buyer hasn t been announced yet PageN umber 2 But back to the marketing thing We ve all bought software that wasn t what we thought it w ould be remember when those early Com mode 64 games started coming out I d rip open the review copies eagerly when worked on the editorial staff at COMPUTE enticed by the oh so realistic pictures on the cover and find duh Blocky blurry little purple characters wobbling across the screen NOTHING like what was on the cover Of course many of you know that Commodore 64 graphics im proved tremendously over the years and the vendors were able to put actual screen shots on the cover eventually but you know what mean We have to be careful when we re buying computer softw are to make sure we know what we re getting
17. m left something out There didn t seem to be one utility that did it all Now along comes FontMinder 2 0 from Ares Software As attentive readers will undoubtedly remember reviewed the first version of this about a year ago Ed Note see January 1993 BugBytes liked it then except that it didn t print out samples of the fonts available on your system Not only has Ares taken care of that oversight they ve addressed it five different ways and added many other useful features to boot H ow F ontM inder M indsY our F onts Where to begin Just in case you missed my earlier article l Il recap FontMinder helps you to manage all of those fonts you ve accumulated by allowing you to load only the mini mum number on Windows startup and add others as you need then during your current session Now this sounds like pretty tame stuff and you might think Who needs it C ontinued on page 5 A ugust 1994 F ontM inder2 0 Continued from page4 oo eee eee eee ees Well you do if you have more than the standard Windows fonts loaded or if you use both TrueType and Type 1 fonts or if you re always looking at new fonts that you ve downloaded from bulletin boards Basically FM2 gives you the means to load the minimum number of fonts at Windows startup yet you can have any font of any type that s on your hard drive or even CD ROM available as you need it without restarting Windows FM2 creates a master librar
18. nstallation procedures When you are done simply type ASSIGN at the prompt and every thing will go back to normal Reprinted from Humbolt PCUG August 1994 N ew M embers Welcome to our new members who joined the club this past month Anthony Langston 541 6935 James Sohler 528 7735 Nancy Vrooman 541 4704 Michael J ones aaa A ugust 199 4 PeachtreeA ccounting for W indows 2 0 part2 THE TWO PRIMARY BUSINESS finan cial functions are to buy things and sell things hopefully at a profit and there are two ways of doing each cash or credit Peachtree handles these very well along with two other business fi nancial functions payroll and tracking inventory will cover each of these four separately S ales and R eceipts The required first steps are to set up your customer records and list ev erything you Sell products or services in the Inventory Items database The Maintain menu allows access to these features Your database of customer records contains all the usual biographical in formation Additionally under terms you can state that customer s net due number of days a discount percent age and the number of days within which they may receive the discount When you prepare an invoice for that customer the invoice date is used to calculate the due date and discount date The discount is applied automati cally if you enter a receipt against that invoice before the discount dat
19. oad QWK messages or download appli cations however it is located in Tennessee and requires a long distance call So if long distance BBS calls are eating up your checking account or if you just want to be on the cutting edge of technology you might wish to check out this unique method of acquiring shareware and other computer files Anyone wanting further information on the Skylink program can write to them at Skylink Communications P O Box 1172 New port TN 37821 PageN umber 6 Make B equal A By Bob De Violini Boston Computer Society MOST PROGRAMS EXPECT that you will install them from the A drive though some will ask the name of the install drive and then will work from a B drive But what happens if the software is only on 3 5 disks your 3 5 drive is your B drive and the install operation insists on being in A drive Use DOS ASSIGN command How does that work you ask It s not very difficult though you will need to remember to unassign things when you are done with the installation First make sure that ASSIGN COM is in a directory in your PATH statement in the AUTOEXEC BAT file Then enter the following command at the DOS C gt prompt ASSIGN A B B A This will switch the two drives logically as you will see when you type A at the C gt prompt The light on the former B drive will come on and if you have a disk in it the A gt prompt will appear Then continue with your i
20. obes new Boton G iddyup amp G iddyupT hangs F onts S lo B ytes O fficers President Geo Campbell Vice President Sam Powers Treasurer Marilyn Jenkins Secretary Bob Ward Editors B Ward amp T Sorgatz r T reasurers R eport SLO Bytes PCUG Expenditures July 1994 Beginning Balance 1704 20 Expenses New sletter 07 94 125 64 BBS Phone Bill 07 94 8 88 Club Long Dist Chgs 07 94 26 07 Postmaster 200 00 Colorado 250 BBS 180 78 4 MEGs RAM Club Computer 168 87 Softw are Qmodem RIP Draw 111 34 14 4 modem club computer 112 94 Laser Toner Cartridge 100 57 Floppy Carriers 15 92 1051 01 Deposit 08 08 94 443 40 443 40 New Balance 1096 59 S lo B ytes B BS 805 528 6172 14 400 8 N 1 PC Files 9 000 and Message Section Floppy Disks 4 Sale at the meeting DSDD 360K Formatted Floppy Disks with labels tabs amp sleeves 55 Each DSDD 360K Formatted Label Over Floppy DISKS cece 45 Each Generic High Density Formatted Floppy Disks 5 25 X 1 2 Mb 70 Each Generic 3 5 X 720K Formatted Floppy DISKS cece 70 Each Generic 3 5 X 1 44 Mb Formatted Floppy DISKS 00 70 Each New Library DISKS ccce PERE E E E 100 Each All Disks fully guaranteed against defects PageN umber 9
21. on for you to print a Purchase Order Later when you make a payment choose the vendor and up comes a list of all outstanding invoices for that ven dor The amount due will automati cally take into account any discounts you are entitled to Select the invoices you wish to pay and type a brief description to appear on the check You can print the checks individually or wait and print a batch all atonce When you post a payment that takes a discount Peachtree deb its Accounts Payable for the full amount of the invoice credits the Cash Account for the amount of the payment and credits a Discounts Taken account for the difference Payroll The Payroll module will issue pay checks and print W 2 forms The two preparatory steps are 1 state the gen eral guidelines for processing payroll for the whole company by defining your default payroll fields and assign ing fields for W 2s taxes paid by the employees and taxes paid by the com pany and specify the account num bers to be affected by the various ele ments of a payroll transaction and 2 edit employee records to state the spe cific instructions for individual employ ees including pay information salary or hourly filing status number of de pendents and additional withholding Once everything is set up properly payroll processing is quite simple All you have to do is select the employee ID and type in the time worked that pay period The computer calcula
22. or Windows 6 13 SCRSHW17 ScreenShow 1 7 plays FLI and FLC files animation TPAINT15 Nice paint program supports many display types BSMAP12 all you BassTour fans disk 311 now you can make your own maps TRON10 fast action Tron light cycles game UNO uno how to play this game dono NEWOLF 2 You Wolfenstein fanatics here s 20 more levels Yuk 614 School s right around the corner For you educators try INTRALGB ntroduction to Algebra X Y Z GRDBKPWR Ya got an A record it in Gradebook Power USGEO10A amp B US Geography just as it says U pgrades The following upgrades are found on the McAfee s Virus Scan disk SCN 210E ZIP Both virus scan and clean now combined in one VSH 200 Virus shield TSR to protect you from all those computer bugs WSC 210E Virus Scan for Windows Notice the new filename structure for all McAfee s programs This is the way they will present their programs from now on ae A ugust 1994 T opT ens Continued from page oo scenes there are many complaints about a particular product but keep in mind that the single user prob lems are generally just a conflict in that user s system or they haven t read the manual So don t be scared off if you see lots of problem messages CompuServe also has a magazine database that you can cruise to find related reviews and articles This can get spendy if you download many arti
23. remain permanent and static Even if try to reinstall a previous AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS the error message continues to ap pear suspect uninstalling PC911 and reinstalling it will solve the problem Un fortunately must get this article into the newsletter before we have the true answer As our government tells us trust me on this one have a call into CyberTech and will hear from them next week will report on the outcome in the next newsletter toor PC911 Pa CyberMedia Inc C 1800 Century Park East Suite 1145 Los Angeles CA 90067 310 843 0800 PageN umber 4 Font Minder 2 0 by Paul Demmitt Cent MD Computer User s Group February 1994 FONTS FONTS FONTS They re everywhere CorelDraw 4 comes with over 750 on CD ROM Mike Rutkoski sells a CD of over 1500 TrueType or Type 1 fonts at our meetings Computer shows offer collections plus your friendly local Egghead and CompUSA stores sell collections from type foundries for mere pennies a font Most word processing drawing and presenta tion programs include a few more Why after awhile you ve got about 2 000 fonts on your system and you didn t even do anything Of course you can t load all of these Windows wouldn t even think about starting What s an artist to do M anagingY ourF onts One thing to do is to look at some of the excellent shareware font management programs available know did but found that most of the
24. standing invoices owed you by customers receivables using aging brackets and the Payment Manager does the same for invoices you have with your vendors payables There is also a Cash Manager that dis plays projected and actual cash flow for any time period Definitions For Contemporary PC User s By Carol Jessen Sacramento PCUG Other features include bank rec onciliation the opportunity to group inventory items as an assembly and use it in transactions and the ability to define a job or project as a subset of the company and then track revenues and costs for that job project Also the program is multi user and network compatible right out of the box it is fast and it takes full advantage of the Windows environment and tools Using a computer to do your ac counting is wonderful because it elimi nates the drudgery of copying num bers from one form to another adding up columns of numbers summarizing those numbers checking for errors and performing complex tasks such as month end closings All the user has to do is enter the information and the computer does the rest Peachtree Accounting for Windows is a great pro gram that should be useful to many small businesses wishing to automate their financial functions CPU Cheap Program Upgrades Clever ruse by soft ware companies to keep users on a treadmill of buying RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing When you neglect to read the user s manual before
25. starting a new program B A Brain Atrophy FIRST DEGREE Unable to com pose a chatty social letter without a word processor and fancy fonts SECOND DEGREE Unable to buy a car without reams of comparative spreadsheets THIRD DEGREE Unable to fall asleep without count ing virtual sheep HARD DISK Spinal injury from sitting too long in one position MIPS Millions of Insults Per Second Measure of the stream of invectives unleashed when you realize that you just lost 3 hours worth of work with the press of a button SUN Workstation computer with a built in tanning lamp OIL OF OLAY Programming utilities that aid object linking and enbedding LOCAL BUS The Greyhound from downtown PENTIUM Antidepressant closely related to Valium and Librium MULTITASKING Doing your laundry while waiting for your tape to backup LAN Local Area Nitwit The guy who always crashes the network PageN umber 8 MILLI Itsy bitsy NANO Teeny weeny PICO Yellow polka dot bikini ICONS Cute brightly colored pictograms for people who can t spell IRS Infinitely Recursive Shutdown The state of your budget after every April 15 for the rest of your life a direct result of the usage of TURBOTAX UEA Urinary Emergency Action Desperate need to retreat to the restroom FLOPPY Condition of sore wrists after a day at the keyboard DATA COMPRESSION Crumpling up old spreadsheet pages before tossing them into the
26. t hardcopies if nec essary Disclaimer Neither SLO BYTES PC User s Group its officers editors or contributors to this newsletter assume liability for damages arising out of this publication of any article including but not limited to the listing of program ming code batch files and other help ful hints Reprinting of this Newsletter Articles from this newsletter may be reprinted by other user groups if credit is given to both the author and news letter from which it was taken Repro duction of articles with a specific c Copyright notice is prohibited without prior permission from the original au thor Advertising Commercial advertis ers request ad packet from Bob Ward Members may advertise personal com puter equipment or software for free Submit your ad to Bob Ward Direct all correspondence and newsletter submissions to a A BOB WARD SECRETARY 2100 Andre Ave Los Osos CA 93402 805 756 2164 A ugust 1994 M eetingT imes General meetings are held the 1st Sun day of every month unless noted oth erwise in the new sletter calendar at 2 45 pm in the Cal Poly University Bi ology Department Fisher Hall 286 Special Interest Groups SIGS meet at 1 00 to 2 30 pm General Information SIG Fisher Hall 286 New computer user SIG Fisher Hall 292 SA SS oS AVA s7 OSN MARSAN Q SA T his N ewsletter brought to you compliments of Teri A S orgatz C omputing A ssistance and A d
27. tes the gross pay all the deductions the employee s net pay and then it posts all those amounts to the proper ac counts and prints the paycheck The payroll fields work together with built in tax tables to automatically calculate common federal and state income tax deductions There are doz ens of current Payroll Tax Tables that come with the program and they can be modified as needed or you can sign up for the Peachtree Tax Service that notifies customers of all regulatory changes and sends periodic update diskettes You also can track 401K contribu tions tips employer taxes and vaca tion hours Additionally there are many payroll reports that show pay roll history and statistics T rack nventory As mentioned previously Peachtree uses its Inventory Items da tabase both at the purchasing and the sales end When you make a purchase or sell a stock type item you select the inventory item from a lookup box and all the proper data is entered into the appropriate fields Peachtree will then automatically update the proper ac counts for your transaction The pro gram also keeps track of all Inventory Items costs stock levels reorder quan tities vendors and sales prices Each time you make a new pur chase of an item at a slightly different price the program uses the weighted average method to recalculate the item s average cost When you make a sale of that item its average cost is multiplied times the
28. waste basket JOYSTICK Postit notes in the shape of smiley faces RAM Random Access Money Income from freelance computer consulting DISK CACHE Coinage pennies nickels dimes and quarters FUZZY LOGIC When you start discussing the fine details of C with your cat E MAIL Erroneous Mail Garbled names incomplete addresses and indecipherable messages SQL Spousal Query Language Honey when are you going to take out the garbage Reprinted from Humbolt PCUG August 1994 Originally printed in the Sacra Blue A ugust 199 4 C lub nformation HARD COPY is a monthly publication of SLO BYTES PC User s Group located in San Luis Obispo California Informa tion in this Newsletter is derived from both our own membership and other PC User Group Newsletters The pur pose of this publication is to inform our members of meetings and provide in formation related to the use of IBM PC s and compatible computers Membership Dues are 20 per year Newsletter only is 12 per year Full membership entitles you to our monthly newsletter full use of the pub lic domain software library and dis counts at local computer stores Article Submission Deadline for submission of articles is the 15th of each month Articles should be pro vided in ASCII format without any type of formatting from your w ordprocessor including tabs indents extra spaces or highlighting We prefer articles on disk but will accep
29. y list which you can export to a text format tab delimited text or dBase III of all of the fonts on your system It automatically searches all hard drives and sub directories but you can force it to exclude areas you don t want included in the master list You might want to do this if you maintain a temporary directory where you unzip the shareware fonts you find When FM first creates your master library it finds and notifies you of duplicate font files and lets you choose which one to use You have the option of deleting the unused font from your hard drive N ew and mproved V ersion 2 So much for recapping In the new version you can preview a font before you install it and you can display the text string of your choice Other new features include extensive management functions such as copying moving renaming and archiving fonts and groups of fonts Archiving is handy if you re tight for space and the compression is com patible with LHA version 1 13b Renaming a font is a good way to correct some of the goofy names that vendors come up with to avoid copyright infringement With FM2 you can also create font packs that are collections of fonts These can be all the fonts of a family Garamond for instance or a collection of all of your script fonts Other new features include allowing you to have TrueType and Type 1 fonts in the same pack and associat A ugust 199 4 ing font packs with specifi
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