Assistant © Sage-Con ltd 

          Version 1.37, rel. Tuesday 12-September-2000 

Assistant is, as the name implies, Your Personal Assistant. A multipurpose 
program that will make your day at your PC a pleasure. Assistant has many 
functions, some of which are: 

    A Calendar with a daily note pad, reminders of anniversaries, other
    important dates and liturgical events, all of which can be modified to
    meet your needs. Even Mass Readings for any Feasts or Memorials
    may be shown. 
    An Alarm Clock to remind you of your appointments and other events,
    e.g. of television or radio shows. Also you may have the Alarm Clock
    automatically start other applications. 
    A Diary - an Appointment Book, Project Calendar and Telephone/Fax
    Message pad for making notes of telephone conversations or sending
    faximile messages. You may link any number of documents to each
    Diary event. 
    A Phone and Address Book with buttons to dial the person, send him
    e-mail or visit his home page, again with a possibility to link an
    unlimited number of documents to each person. 
    An Idea Bank for making immediate notes of your brilliant ideas as
    soon as they pop up into your mind. The ideas are grouped under
    categories and naturally you can link documents to them too! 
    A Database for your other documents with keyword search possibility.
    This with the previously mentioned document linkage methods will
    help you enormously in keeping track of your word processor
    documents, spread sheets and other files. Even documents on the
    Internet may be entered by prefixing them with "http://". You come
    up with a keyword and the document is immediately found and can be
    opened in the appropriate application for reading, printing or
    updating. 
    An enhanced Desktop for your most used applications. A hundred
    buttons reserved for your hundred needs. 
    A simple Money Manager to keep track of your expenses, bank
    accounts and cash. 
    A Calculator with 255 renamable memories and five foreign exchange
    buttons. You select which currencies you need conversion for and the
    exchange rates are easily updated. 
    Two Clock Displays, an Analog and a Digital, big enough to read from
    across the room. 
    Daylight-Saving Time changes at the right time, not when you next
    boot your computer. This function may also be used for your laptop
    when traveling to preset your computer to adjust the clock when
    crossing time zones depending on your itinerary. 

Other features will be added in future releases and may even be
suggested by you! 


INSTALL NOTES

If this is the first time you install Assistant, the only thing you have to do 
is to click on ASSIST.EXE. It will install Assistant in a directory named Assist 
under your Program Files. It will also make the necessary entries in your Start 
Menu. After the installation you may make shortcuts to your desktop and/or Task 
Bar if needed.

If you have used an earlier version of Assistant you should select File -> 
Backup Assistant and hit the "Backup All"-button. before installing the new 
version. Then you can restore the old version if there is a problem with 
Install.

Make sure that Assistant is NOT running!

Note, that Install overwrites AssCalc.tps, AssDays.tps, AssLit.tps and 
AssSaint.tps so if you have made any changes to these files, you may restore one 
or more of these files from the Backup. See the list of Database Files for their 
contents.

Install also overwrites Assistant.ini so you should select File -> Configure 
after installation. You may restore your old Assistant.ini from your most recent 
backup, but before starting the new version, open it e.g. in Notepad and delete 
all other sections except [Paths] and [Main].

If the new version Assistant reports File Access Error 47, make a note which 
file(s) caused the error. If the file doesn't have important data, just delete 
it, otherwise mail it to me for conversion. If in doubt, mail all your old *.tps 
files to sas@iki.fi. I'll convert your database and mail the files back to you. 

It is also recommended to select: File -> Rebuild Keys in your new Assistant 
after version change. 

Database Files:

AssNam.tps - Names & Organizations, Addresses, Phone Numbers
AssCount.tps - Countries, Abbreviations, Telephone Codes & Internet Suffixes
AssStick.tps - Stickers, Mailing Labels
AssDry.tps - Assistant Diary, Phone Messages, Projects, Minutes, Meetings
AssPro.tps - Projects
AssAlarm.tps - Daily Alarms
AssBirth.tps - Anniversaries
AssDays.tps - Special Days
AssLit.tps - Liturgical Days
AssSaint.tps - Memorial Days
AssNote.tps - Daily Notes
AssIdea.tps - Assistant Ideas
AssISub.tps - Assistant Idea Details
AssDCat.tps - Document Categories
AssDoc.tps - Documents
AssKWrd.tps - Document Key Words
AssPrg.tps - Programs, Applications
AssCalc.tps - Calculator Memories & Exchange Rates
AssAcc.tps - Money Manager Accounts
AssMoney.tps - Money Manager Transactions
AssReg.tps - Register Information
AssUsr.tps - User Names & Passwords
AssWav.tps - Sound Effects
C:\Ass_DLS.tps - Daylight-Saving Times

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Shut Down Windows accepts command line parameters:
/S for Shut Down
/R for Restart
/P for Power Down

VCS
Andreas
sas@iki.fi, 
http://www.iki.fi/sas/, 
+358-50-518 5320
Get the latest release of 
Your Personal Assistant at:
http://www.netti.fi/sas/assistant.htm
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