(c) Copyright 1985,86,87 by Remarkable Enterprises Ltd THE GENERAL LEDGER ------------------ The General Ledger requires an IBM PC or PC compatible, running MS/PC DOS 2.0 or greater, minimum of 512k bytes RAM and at least two disk drives. TGL can be run using one of four combinations 1/ System disk in A: drive Data disk in B: drive 2/ System installed on to the Hard drive with Data disk in Floppy drive 3/ System disk in Floppy drive and data on the Hard drive 4/ System and data on the Hard drive. Combinations 2 and 3 would not normally be used unless there where problems with Hard disk space. Combination 4 provides the best performance. FLOPPIES ======== Installation ------------ When running from floppies no installation is required. The master disks should all be copied then stored and the copies used. The same system disks can be used for different ledgers. For example. You require 3 Ledgers, Copy the SYSTEM DISK once and write protect it. Make three copies of the MASTER DATA and then write protect the orginal. This now gives you one data disk per ledger. You are now ready to run TGL and create your ledgers. Running TGL from floppies ------------------------- Place SYSTEM DISK in drive A:, and the required ledger data disk in drive B:. At the A drive prompt type TGL B: On a 4.77 mhz IBM XT TGL takes about 1 min 15 sec to start. If there any any problems starting TGL see the section called Problems which is after the section Running TGL on a hard disk. Now see the section on creation of your first ledger. HARD DISK ========= Hard disk installation ---------------------- There is a batch file on the SYSTEM DISK that will install TGL onto a HARD disk system. To invoke place the SYSTEM DISK into drive a: switch to the A: prompt and type INSTALL C: where C: is the letter of your Hard disk. IF you have three floppies and your Hard disk is D then type INSTALL D:. Follow the instructions in the install procedure and when it has finished TGL will be installed on your Hard disk. Running TGL on a Hard disk -------------------------- The TGL installation inserted a small batch file into the root directory of the hard disk called TGL.BAT. All the rest of the TGL files are in the TGL directory which was also created by the install procedure. To start TGL, you must either be in the root directory or have your path set to the root directory. To Run TGL just type TGL and wait. It will take approx 1 minute for TGL to start completely. Now see the section on creation of your first ledger. Problems -------- If after 2 or 3 minutes nothing has happened it is likely that there was not enough memory left to enable TGL to start. Reboot the machine and use CHKDSK to check on how much RAM you have. if the figure is less than 460000 then either you have less than 512k of RAM or you have some memory resident tasks loaded that require memory. If you have more than 460000 bytes of RAM free and still can't get TGL to run then please see the section on support. CONFIG.SYS ========== DOS has a limit on how many files can be opened at any one time, This limit is set in the boot file CONFIG.SYS, for TGL to run the limit must be set to its maximum of 20. At the same time to enable the disks to run at their fastest buffers should be set to 15 or greater. (For TGL you don't need more than 20) The config.sys file must be in the root directory of the boot device. If you install onto your hard disk the installation procedure will attempt to provide a config.sys for you. FILES=20 BUFFERS=15 The values can be greater. If you find while running TGL that you get a DOS ERROR 4 then this means that the system has not been booted with FILES=20. DOS ERROR 2 means that a file is missing, check that the TGL data disk is still inserted in the other drive. Online HELP =========== At any time during the running of TGL you can request HELP by typing the F1 key. Creation of your first ledger ============================= The first screen of TGL is the date screen, this defaults to the system date but it can be changed. Enter a date within the first period of the ledger you want to create. Return steps you into the ledger creation. New Ledger - Ledger Title. This is just the name you want to give this ledger. Once a ledger title has been entered TGL will create all of the ledger database files. The next screen is the END-OF-PERIOD DATES. This is used to determine how your accounting periods are set up. TGL provides 5 different types of accounting periods, either Weekly, Fortnightly, Monthly 4 Week, Monthly End of Month or Monthly on a specifed date. Once you have determined what type of period you require you are asked for the first end of period date. In the case of Month end of the month it will always be changed by the system to the end of the specified month. Note that for Monthly on a specified date the date must always be less than 29 (Because of Feb). You will be asked now for the number of periods you want the ledger to run over. For example if you wanted a ledger to run for one year and you have requested weekly you would specify 52, Fortnightly - 26, Monthly 4 Week - 13 (13 * 4 = 52), Monthly End of Month and Monthly on a specifed date - 12 periods. Once the file creation has finished You noe have an empty ledger and can start to enter data. SUPPORT======= Support can be obtained by contacting Remarkable Enterprises. Either by Phone, Fax, Telex or letter. Our office hours are 9:00 to 17:00. All queries and problems about TGL should be directed to LAURENS MEYER. Address: ATTN: LAURENS MEYER REMARKABLE ENTERPRISES LTD (COMPUTER DIVISION). PO BOX 1415, DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND. Phone: (+64)(24) 775-464 Fax: (+64)(24) 772-948 Telex: 5406 REMPAR SUPPORT=======IN USA and CANADA Address: Gordon Group 1425 Koll Circle, Ste 102 San Jose, CA 95112 Phone: (408) 280-0743 Fax: (408) 280-1012 SUPPORT=======IN EUROPE Address: Strategic Systems Technology 63 Hemstal Road London NW6 2AD United Kingdom Phone: (01) 625-4265 Fax: 8951182 Distribution Notice =================== Written permission must be obtained from Remarkable Enterprises to distribute this software for ANY fee including, but not limited to, distribution fees, copying fees, access fees, rental fees, and or consulting fees. This software program may be GIVEN away but not sold or distributed without prior written permission from Remarkable Enterprises. (c) Copyright 1985,86,87 by Remarkable Enterprises Ltd REL 28-4-87