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CATraxx
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CATraxx 2.60.00 - Mar 1, 1997

Developed by

FNProgramvare
Storgt. 22
N-1531  Moss
Norway

E-mail: fredrik.nordbakke@ostfoldnett.no
World Wide Web: http://www.prodat.no/fnp/catraxx.html

We appreciate and encourage all comments, suggestions, 
and bug reports. Both your registration and your comments
will help improve CATraxx and keep it on the leading edge.

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Description

CATraxx is a quick, efficient, easy-to-use program for 
organizing your music collection. CATraxx is developed 
BY record collectors FOR record collectors to ensure 
that you get all the features you need.

With CATraxx you can register and look up information 
about such things as: 

  - artist, album title, format, release date, 
  - company, label, catalog number, 
  - condition, playing time, purchase price and current 
    value, 
  - song titles, songwriters, producers, 
  - studios, musicians, instruments. 

You can add personal comments for both albums and tracks. 
Twenty special fields enable you to customize your catalog 
and the database of information. You can even store a bitmap 
picture of the album cover.

CATraxx includes a loan module that lets you keep track of 
albums on loan, who has borrowed, when they were borrowed, 
when they are due back and how many times they have been 
borrowed. 

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Distribution

CATraxx is distributed as shareware. This means you are 
welcome to give copies of CATraxx to your friends and 
colleagues. For a list of files that need to be distributed, 
please see VENDINFO.DIZ. Do not, under any circumstances, 
distribute CATRAXX.MEM. This file contains the serial number, 
and with this information we can trace the copy back to you. 
When CATRAXX.MEM is not present, CATraxx runs as an 
unregistered shareware version.

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Installation

NOTE!
  If you downloaded this package from the Internet, please 
  read this paragraph very carefully: A file called 
  VBRUN300.DLL needs to be installed on your computer before
  SETUP is run. To save space, this file was not included 
  in this package. Please check your SYSTEM directory 
  (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) to see if you already have this
  file (this is very likely). If not then download, unzip and 
  copy the file to the SYSTEM directory. It is very important
  that you do this before SETUP is run!

  VBRUN300.DLL is available from most file servers, 
  including:
       
  ftp.cdrom.com/.1/simtelnet/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.ftp.hkstar.com/.2/simtelnet/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.demon.co.uk/.d5/simtelnet/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.uni-paderborn.de/ftp/disk1/SimTel/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.bitcon.no/pub/simtelnet/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.chem.eng.usyd.edu.au/dropbox/pgrad/utils/win31/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.edu.tw/Chinese/ifcss/software/ms-win/misc/vbrun300.zip

To install CATraxx, follow these steps:

From Diskette

  1. Insert diskette number 1 into your diskette drive.
  
  2. If you are running Microsoft Windows 3.1, from the Program 
     Manager File menu choose Run.
     
     If you are running Microsoft Windows 95, from the Start 
     menu choose Run.

  3. In the text box, type the path to the installation program, 
     for example A:\SETUP, and choose OK.

  4. When requested, specify the directory where you want to 
     install CATraxx. Unless you specify a different directory 
     the application will be installed in C:\CATRAXX.

  5. Choose OK to start the installation process.

From Hard Disk

  1. Ensure that all CATraxx installation files are in the 
     same directory, for example C:\CATTEMP.

  2. If you are running Microsoft Windows 3.1, from the Program 
     Manager File menu choose Run.

     If you are running Microsoft Windows 95, from the Start 
     menu choose Run.

  3. In the text box, type the name of the drive and directory 
     where the installation files are located, then type \SETUP 
     (for example C:\CATTEMP\SETUP) and choose OK.

  4. When requested, specify the directory where you want to 
     install CATraxx. Unless you specify a different directory 
     the application will be installed in C:\CATRAXX.

  5. Choose OK to start the installation process. 

If you have any problems with the installation, you may
install files manually by following this procedure:

  1. Start a "DOS-window" (In Program Manager double-click 
     on the MS-DOS icon).
  2. What you type at the DOS prompt depends on the file
     you want to install. For example, if you want to install
     THREED.VBX, follow these steps:

     - Insert the correct diskette (in this case diskette
       no. 1) into you diskette drive.
    
     - Type this command (you may need to substitute A for
       the letter of your diskette drive, for example B)
      
         EXPAND A:\THREED.VB_ C:\CATRAXX\THREED.VBX  <Enter>

       THREED.VBX is unpacked and copied to the program
       directory.

     Normally, files with the extension VBX or DLL should be 
     installed in the SYSTEM directory (usually 
     C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM). Do not copy files to this directory 
     yourself. If, however, you do, please make a copy of the 
     original file first. You might overwrite a newer version, 
     and as a result some other application might not work.

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CHANGES
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2.60.00 - Mar 1, 1997
          - A new loan module that lets you keep track of albums 
            on loan, who has borrowed, when they were borrowed, 
            when they are due back and how many times they have 
            been borrowed. There are four new reports that are  
            linked to the loan module: By Borrower (albums borrowed 
            grouped by borrower), By Title (albums borrowed grouped 
            by title), On Loan (albums currently on loan) and Statistics 
            (counts the number of times each album has been borrowed).
          - The windows Active Album 1 and Active Album 2 are 
            merged into one window (Active Album). Tabs are 
            used to group the fields: Basic, Library and Special.
          - The field Memo is split in two: Comments and Reviews.      
          - The Cover field can be included in the Line-report.
          - The length of the Album Title field is now 150 characters.
          - There is no limit to the number of artists per. album/track.
          - Fixed problem with compression.

2.52.04 - Jan 30, 1997
          - Fixed problems import.

2.52.03 - Jan 20, 1997
  	  - Fixed some textual mistakes in dialogs.

2.52.02 - Jan 16, 1997
          - The "Blank line" option in the list-report now works.

2.52.01 - Dec 29, 1996
          - Fixed bugs in the Statistics report.

2.52.00 - Dec 4, 1996
          - Fixed some minor bugs.
          - Fixed some textual mistakes in dialogs and in the
            help file.          
          - Added VENDINFO.DIZ to the files distributed.

2.51.00 - Oct 31, 1996
          - You can now import tracks.
          - It is now possible to save the export layout.
          - It is now possible to save the import layout.
          - You can now specify separator when importing more
            then one artist, songwriter, producer, mixer or
            studio linked to the same album/track. 
          - The CD Player is now a separate application. You do 
            not need to start CATraxx to play CD's.
          - Is is now possible to specify a fixed size for the
            window Cover.
          - Added a new command to the browse-list popup-menu:
            Update Sort Order.
          - Capacity for all memo-fields increased to 32.000
            characters.

2.50.02 - Oct 21, 1996
          - Added the section "User's Guide" to the help file.
          - References to "Added" changed to "Registered".

2.50.01 - Oct 14, 1996
          - It is now possible to remove a link to a CD. Choose
            Remove Link from the Album meny to do this.
          - Added an automatic reminder if you have forgotten to 
            link the album to the CD. Please note that this happens 
            before you add the tracks. Choose Preferences from the 
            File menu and check Notify if not linked to CD (Data 
            entry tab) to activate this feature.

2.50.00 - Sep 23, 1996
          - Version 2.5 released.


