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CATBooks
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CATBooks 3.20.00 - Feb 15, 1997

Developed by

FNProgramvare
Storgt. 22
N-1531  Moss
Norway

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

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

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Description

  CATBooks is a quick, efficient, easy-to-use program for 
  organizing your book collection.

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

  - author, title, release year, publisher, country of origin
  - condition, category, type, location,
  - edition, printing, pages, ISBN, 
  - purchase price and current value.

  You can add personal comments for every item. Thirteen special 
  fields enable you to customize your catalog. You can even store 
  a bitmap picture of the book cover. 

  CATBooks includes a loan module that lets you keep track of books 
  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

CATBooks is distributed as shareware. This means you are 
welcome to give copies of CATBooks 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 CATBOOK.MEM. This file contains the serial number, 
and with this information we can trace the copy back to you. 
When CATBOOK.MEM is not present, CATBooks 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 CATBooks, 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 CATBooks. Unless you specify a different directory 
     the application will be installed in C:\CATBOOK.

  5. Choose OK to start the installation process.

From Hard Disk

  1. Ensure that all CATBooks 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 CATBooks. Unless you specify a different directory 
     the application will be installed in C:\CATBOOK.

  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:\CATBOOK\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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3.20.00 - Feb 15, 1997
          - A new loan module that lets you keep track of books 
            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 (books borrowed 
            grouped by borrower), By Title (books borrowed grouped 
            by title), On Loan (books currently on loan) and Statistics 
            (counts the number of times each book has been borrowed).
          - The field Memo is split in three: Comments, Synopsis 
            and Reviews.      
          - New fields: Sort by, Purchased Where, Personal Rating 
            and On Loan.
          - The field Book ID is renamed to Catalog Number.
          - You can define a fixed size for the Cover window.
          - Fixed problem with compression.

3.10.03 - Jan 22, 1997
          - Fixed some minor bugs.

3.10.02 - Dec 4, 1996
          - Fixed some textual mistakes in dialogs and in the
            help file.  

3.10.01 - Nov 2, 1996
          - The size of "Advanced Search" and "Advanced Filter"
            dialogs are now correct.

3.10.00 - Oct 28, 1996
          - Version 3.1 released.


