Home or Away Version 5.2
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 CFB Software.

http://www.cfbsoftware.com.au
info@cfbsoftware.com.au

All Rights Reserved
(Last updated: 1 May 2000)

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CONTENTS

 1. OVERVIEW
 2. ADVANCED FEATURES
 3. WHAT'S NEW IN V5
 4. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
 5. INSTALLATION
 6. DOCUMENTATION
 7. FREE LIMITED EDITION
 8. REGISTERED VERSION
 9. HOW TO ORDER
10. REFUND POLICY
11. LIST OF FILES

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1. OVERVIEW

Do you organise sporting competitions?

  Use Home or Away to schedule your teams in a round 
  robin competition at lightning fast speed. Create a basic
  schedule in just a few minutes. Just enter the names of 
  the teams, press the generate schedule button and print 
  the schedule. Home or Away does not force you to enter 
  any information that it does not need or cannot work out 
  for itself. 

  The schedules produced by Home or Away are 
  balanced. As long as the number of games scheduled
  represent a number of complete rounds the schedules 
  produced have the following qualities:

* Teams play all teams the same number of times 
* Teams play all teams before any rematches
  * Each team has a fair mix of home and away games

Are your schedules more complex?

  Use Home or Away for advanced schedules as well. 
  Schedule competitions for as many as forty teams 
  in each division with these features:

  * Dates, Times and Locations

  Specify date ranges, holiday periods, playing days, 
  number of games at each time etc. with powerful
  date functions. Enter details of available times and 
  locations and assign preferred home locations and
  playing times.

  * Modify games manually

  Manually modify the games that Home or Away 
  schedules to handle exceptional situations. Home or 
  Away preserves your changes and optionally 
  reschedules the remaining games.

  * Summary

  Summarise the schedule to see at a glance how well
  Balanced it is and to highlight any problems. 

  * Optimisation

  Optimise the schedule to reduce the total number or
  distribution of home or away streaks.

  * Presentation capabilities

  Customise the printed schedules by selecting font 
  styles, sizes and page orientation. Export the information 
  to spreadsheets, database managers and word 
  processors (e.g. MS Excel, Access and Word) to exploit
  their extensive data sorting, report design and formatting
  capabilities. 

  * Internet-ready schedules

  Publish your schedules on the Internet or view them with
  a Web Browser by exporting them in the web page HTML 
  format.


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2. ADVANCED FEATURES

  * Two Scheduling Methods  

  When generating a schedule you can choose from one of
  two different scheduling methods. 

    Share Locations / Minimise Streaks
    - very fast  
    - pairs of teams can share locations
    - minimal home / away streaks

    Auto-balancing

    If you have manually modified a schedule so that two 
    particular teams play each other on a certain day, the 
    schedule will be rebalanced to ensure that each team
    still plays each other team the same number of times.

  * Separate Optimisation

  After a schedule is generated it can be optimised to 
  reduce the number of home / away streaks. 

  * Options Menu - Days Between Games

  Specify a minimum number of days break between games.
  e.g. if you want to ensure that no team plays more than 
  once on the same day set the value to 1. 

  Home or Away does not change the timeslots that you 
  have entered, it attempts to reorder the games so that
  they are further apart.

  * Options Menu - Skip Byes

  Byes, by default, occupy a timeslot. Check the Skip Byes
  option if you only want timeslots to be occupied by actual
  games for the current schedule.

  * Options Menu - Save as Default

  The current options settings are save and used as the 
  default values when a new schedule is created. 

  
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3. WHAT'S NEW IN V5

  * Size of Location and Team Names

  The number of characters that can be used for team
  and location names has been doubled from 20 to 40.

  * Schedule Sorting

  The schedule can be sorted by any of the columns by 
  clicking on the column header.

  * Schedule Appearance Options

  Any schedule column can be hidden and the title of any 
  column can be changed. Any changes to the width of 
  each column is remembered between sessions. The 
  way the date is displayed can be changed.

  * Location Scheduling

  Locations can be automatically assigned to games so 
  that each team plays a similar number of games at each 
  location. Alternatively, locations can be assigned in 
  sequence to each game.

  * Location and Team Filter

  The schedule can be filtered to show only the games 
  being played at the selected location and / or by the
  selected team.

  * Location Summary

  The number of games played at each location by each 
  team is summarised in a separate window. Double- 
  clicking on part of the summary shows the games for 
  that team / location combination.

  * Print Preview

  Printouts can be previewed on the screen before being 
  sent to the printer.

  * Print Contents and Layout

  The contents of the printed schedule, column titles and
  widths, filters and sort order match the way the schedule
  is currently displayed on the screen. Adjust the 
  appearance of the screen display and the changes are 
  reflected in the printed schedule.

  * Exporting Data

  The contents of the exported schedule, filters and sort 
  order match the way the schedule is currently displayed 
  on the screen. The schedule can now be exported in 
  tab-delimited as well as comma-delimited text.
  
  * Resizable Windows

  All of the main windows are now resizable. The window 
  sizes and positions are remembered between sessions.


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4. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    MS Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4
    Intel Pentium 100 processor
    VGA display, 8Mb RAM
    Windows compatible mouse
    2Mb Free disk space

  A bubblejet, inkjet or laser printer is recommended.


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5. INSTALLATION

  Home or Away is distributed as a Zip file HOMEAW32.ZIP
  Use WinZip, PKUnzip or compatible program to unzip the
  contents:

   SETUP.EXE
   README.TXT
   LICENCE.TXT

  into a temporary directory (for example C:\TMP).
  
  Install it as follows:  
 
  1) Press the Start button and select Run from the 
     Start Menu.
  
  2) Type the full name of the file (for example, 
     C:\TMP\SETUP.EXE)

  3) Press the Enter key, and follow the prompts.  

  4) When the installation program completes you can run 
     Home or Away by:

     a) selecting it from the Start menu or
     b) clicking on HOMEAWAY.EXE in Windows Explorer


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6. DOCUMENTATION

  All of the documentation is contained in the online Help
  file. When running Home or Away, press the F1 key for 
  context-sensitive help or select Help from the menu.


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7. FREE LIMITED EDITION

  The Limited Edition of Home or Away allows you to use
  ALL of the features for an unlimited time, to create 
  schedules for as many as eight teams in each division. 
  
  You are free to distribute the Limited Edition.
  It may be given away to anyone, included on CD-ROM 
  libraries, uploaded to WWW pages, ftp sites and bulletin 
  boards, etc. as long as it is distributed in its 
  complete original form. 


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8. REGISTERED VERSION

  If you purchase the registered version of Home or Away 
  you will be able to create schedules with as many as 
  forty teams in each division.

  Registration also gives you the following benefits:

    * Notification of new versions by e-mail
    * Discounted upgrades for new versions
    * Technical support via email

  NOTE: DO NOT distribute registered copies of Home or 
  Away without the expressed written consent of the 
  author.


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9. HOW TO ORDER

  You can order the registered version of Home or Away 
  online by credit card. Go to the CFB Software Web 
  page at: 

      http://www.cfbsoftware.com.au

  Click on 'Home or Away' and then select 'Registration' 
  from the menu.

  Once your order has been authorised the registration 
  details will be sent to you via e-mail. This usually 
  happens within 24 hours.

  When you have received your registration details, 
  start Home or Away, select Help | Register from the 
  menu and enter the details.  


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10. REFUND POLICY

CFB Software's products are provided as trial versions
for download directly from our site. Use these 
'try-before-you-buy' versions to ensure that they are
compatible with your computer systems and satisfy all
of your requirements before purchasing a registration
key. 

All sales of registration keys are final. Once a 
registration key has been issued it cannot be 
cancelled. Thus we are only able to provide refunds 
for accidental duplicate orders.


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11. LIST OF FILES

  The Home or Away package consists of the following files:

    SETUP.EXE       Installation program
    README.TXT      This file
    LICENCE.TXT     Licence agreement
    SETUP.INI       Installation support files
    SETUP.INS
    SETUP.PKG
    _INST32I.EX_
    _ISDEL.EXE
    _SETUP.1
    _SETUP.DLL
    _SETUP.LIB
    DISK1.ID

  The package may be freely distributed as long as all 
  of the above files are included in an unmodified state.

  After running setup the following files are created in the
  directory that you specified:

    HOMEAWAY.EXE    Main Program
    HOMEAWAY.HLP    Help file
    HOMEAWAY.CNT    Help contents file
    README.TXT      This file
    LICENCE.TXT     Licence agreement
    _DEISREG.ISR    Uninstall support files
    _ISREG32.DLL
    DEISL1.ISU             

  The sample files are created in the Samples subdirectory
  of the Home or Away directory:

    EXAMPLE.HAD          Sample Schedule
    EXAMPLE.TXT          Sample Exported Schedule
    EXAMPLE.HTM          Sample Internet WWW Schedule


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