The Register

                                LIMITED VERSION

                               Denis L. Latkowski
                              417 Tantallion Court
                           Baltimore, Maryland  21212
                                  301-435-1544


                          System Requirements
     
                           DOS 2.XX , 3.XX 
                           1 DSDD drive
                           PC/XT or true compatible
                            (untested on AT)
                           192 K
                           mono or color graphic
                           RGB monitor recommended
                           printer (dot matrix recommended)


       LIMITED VERSION                   REGISTERED VERSION
      maximum 20 students               maximum 150 students
      maximum 24 grades                 maximum 66 grades
        - 8 50% grades                    - 22 50% grades
        - 8 30% grades                    - 22 30% grades
        - 8 20% grades                    - 22 20% grades


                               General Information

     Written in Turbo Pascal  (tm of Borland International Inc.) version 
     3.0 (using PC-DOS version). My thanks to Borland for the menu system
     and screen routines from their product "Turbo Editor Toolbox." 
     
     Written by a teacher for teachers and tested in the classroom. The 
     program is primarily intended for junior and senior high school 
     teachers; however, college teachers can find it useful also. These 
     instructors do not have to worry about the concept of working in 
     "quarters," nor will they be likely to use the progress reports; but 
     the computational parts of the program will prove useful.  

     Grades are entered as NUMBERS only. The program is not prepared to 
     work with letter grades. If you work with letter grades, you will have 
     to translate the numeric averages into letter grades yourself.  

    

                           FILES ON DISK
     
     INSTALL.COM .............  installation program; run this first before 
                                any other program. Will create file GR.ADE
                                which will be used by GRADE.COM. 
     GRADE.COM ...............  main grade program
     GRADE.000 ...............  overlay file that must be on current 
                                directory or subdirectory for HELP files to 
                                be available 
     NAMES.11 ................  list of student names and information for 
                                you to test the program 
     GRADES.111 ..............  list of grades for above students
     READ.ME    ..............  information on program and its use (this file)
     MANUAL.DOC ..............  manual 
                                can use your word processor to print this 
                                file out since it's stored on disk in ASCII 
                                format or use the TYPE command to send it 
                                to the screen or add   > PRN   for 
                                printing  (TYPE MANUAL.DOC > PRN)
     HARD.BAT ................  batch file to install and run programs from
                                a hard disk.
     FLOPPY.BAT ..............  batch file to copy files from drive B: to
                                drive A: and then run necessary programs.
     SAMPLES.DOC .............  sample screens
                                must have IBM compatible printer for printing.
                                -- view on screen with DOS TYPE command
     REGISTER ................  registration information and form


     NOTE:  Use the two files (NAMES.11 and GRADES.111) provided for 
     testing and trying the program. Delete names from the list, add names, 
     correct names information, add grades, correct grade entries, compute 
     quarter grades, obtain hardcopy results, assign final exam grades or 
     assign none and then assign final grades. You can also create your own 
     NAMES and GRADES files but you are limited to 20 students and 24 grades.


                           IMPORTANT NOTE
    
     It may take some getting used to, but grades must be entered as three 
     digit numbers; therefore, an 80 would be entered as 080, 66 as 066,
     0 as 000. Secondly these three-digit grades are entered in one long 
     stream without spaces. Example,
     
        GRADES:   76    55    0    99    92    78    55   100
        BECOME:   076   055  000   099   092   078   055  100
        ENTERED AS:   076055000099092078055100

     You will find that entering grades in one long stream to be easier 
     since you won't have to press return after each grade but only at the 
     end of one line. You must therefore be careful to enter a zero (0) as 
     the first digit, unless the grade is 100 -- don't add anything. If a 
     student's grade computes at higher than 100, you have probably entered 
     a digit other than zero. Use the Grade / cHange program to check if an 
     error has been made.