                              Financial Manager 2.1
                                Evaluation Version

                 Copyright(c) 1991-2001 by Michael Rolfsmeyer
                            All Rights Reserved.

Introduction
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Financial Manager is a freeware beta test program designed for simple
account bookkeeping. A "digital checkbook emulator" if you will. F.M.
started as a hobby, and does not rival commercial financial packages
(like Quicken). It may, however, give home developers some ideas for
their own applications. Best of all, it's FREE!

F.M. was written in Clipper, and uses dBase III+ files with the .DBF
extension. Let me know if you want the source code. Unzipping FM21.ZIP
will yield the following files:

                      FINANCE.EXE
                      FINANCE.DOC
                      FORMAT.DBF
                      README.TXT
                      THE_STREET_STREET.CML
                      SIMTEL.HTM
                      FINANCIAL_MANAGER V2.1.PML


In order to run Financial manager, you need to create a directory called
c:\finance\accounts which contains the FORMAT.DBF file. Then simply type
"finance" at the DOS prompt or click on the "finance" program icon if your
using Windows.


What's new for 2.1
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Hello again, as with all true entities, Financial Manager has grown again. 
Offering a new Accounts Summary Screen for your amusement, adoration,
and accounting purposes. You can now view the modified date and time, file size,
number of records, and balance of all accounts in any folder. Totals are 
listed at the bottom. No changes have been made yet to the Help manual
...sorry.

Again a brief word of thanks to our private, public, and religious 
institutions that have made this work possible. 
-MLR 06.19.2001

Change Log
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06.19.2001

    Account Summary Screen added
     
02.05.2001

    Help Manual now included (I thought the day would never come). Written in Microsoft Word          for printing.  

09.24.2000 

    (1) When "New" option or "Retrieve" option chosen, and the current account 
        in memory has been changed, save message was changed from: 
                              "Save account to disk (y/n)?"  to
                              "Save current account to disk (y/n)?" 

    (2) added introductary screen with copyright information  
            

07.18.2000 

    (1) Made changes to remedy the following problem: When a "Change"
        action was followed by an "Add" action, and the entry screen 
        wasn't full (i.e. less than 12 transactions), the "Add" entry 
        row would overwrite existing transactions. 

    (2) Made changes so that the number of transactions would always be 
        displayed, and each time a transaction was added, the counter 
        would be updated at the top of the screen.
 

07.13.2000 

        Typo "Transcations:" at top of screen changed to "Transactions:"


04.11.2000

        Added logic to ensure directories with more than 18 files (accounts) 
        were processed correctly during a "File" + "Retrieve" menu action.
        The effect ensures these accounts will scroll properly in the File
        Retrieve Window.                                   

