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**              For Your Information Technologies             **
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**                http://www.ForYourInfoTech.com              **
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**                    Jason Wiliam McCombie                   **
**                  fyit@foryourinfotech.com                  **
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**                         PO Box 305                         **
**                     Cresson PA,  16630                     **
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It is definitely recommended that users read this entire document before installing and using the Electronic Recipe Manager.  It's not THAT long!


1.  Thank You
2.  Installation Instructions
3.  Functionality Included in this Shareware version
4.  New functionality available in the Registered version
5.  Why should you buy the Electronic Recipe Manager?
6.  Expected future enhancements
7.  Order the Electronic Recipe Manager




1.  Thank You

Thank you for using the Electronic Recipe Manager (ERM).  We promise that ERM will be the most user-friendly and fully functional recipe organizer that you have ever seen!  If you don't think so, e-mail us with questions, comments or suggestions at questions@foryourinfotech.com and we'll do our best to change your mind!




2.  Installation Instructions

FULL INSTALL CD FROM FYIT:
Step 1.  Put the CD in the CD Rom (if program doesn't automatically start, run ERM.exe)
Step 2.  Choose the first option to install the software
Step 3.  Exit the Setup Utility and Run ERM from the start menu

ZIP FILE FROM WEB:
Step 1.  Unzip the file ERM021.zip
Step 2.  Run the setup.exe file included in the download
Step 3.  Download the Visual Basic Modules from Simtel (if necessary)***
Step 4.  Install mdac_typ.exe (if necessary)****

***Steps 3 & 4 are not required for all users.  If ERM is installed from a CD then they are not required at all.  Even when installing from a downloaded zip file, please try to run the Electronic Recipe Manager immediately after Step 2.  If it works, great!  If not, then you will need the rest of the files.

**The Reg_ERM.exe file included with this install will add the DSN for the database assuming you installed the software to the default directory of c:\Program Files\ERM.  If you changed the path for the database, you may need to manually go in an select the path to the database.  This is done from the ODBC Data Sources on the Control Panel.  

You will simply have to go to the System DSN, click the COOKBOOK entry and then click the Select button.  Then choose the path to the ERM database.


***The VB6 runtime files needed for this program can be found at this URL:  http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/win95/dll.html

The present listing is:

simvb6-5.zip 1.5M   VB6 Runtime Modules (Simtel). Self-installing 24-Jun-99

And its contents:

Archive:  /simtelnet/win95/dll/simvb6-5.zip

  Length     Date   Time    Name
 --------    ----   ----    ----
      887  06-24-99 15:15   Readme.txt
     2462  11-25-98 08:18   Readme2.txt	<- How to create a VB6 install
					   w/o VB6 runtimes
   139776  03-26-99 00:00   setup.exe	<- Installs a demo program,
					  and the VB6 runtimes.
     1054  06-24-99 14:10   SETUP.LST
  1367750  06-24-99 14:07   Simtlvb6.cab
  --------                   -------
  1560329                   5 files

And details on the actual VB6 runtimes:

NAME		DATE			SIZE	VERSION

VB6STKIT.DLL    3/26/99 12:00:00 AM     101888  6.0.84.50
COMCAT.DLL      5/31/98 12:00:00 AM     22288   4.71.1460.1
STDOLE2.TLB      3/8/99 12:00:00 AM     17920   2.40.4275.1
ASYCFILT.DLL     3/8/99 12:02:26 PM     147728  2.40.4275.1
OLEPRO32.DLL     3/8/99 12:02:26 PM     164112  5.0.4275.1
OLEAUT32.DLL     3/8/99 12:00:00 AM     598288  2.40.4275.1
MSVBVM60.DLL    5/10/99 12:00:00 AM     1384448 6.0.84.95


**** It is also necessary to have mdac_typ.exe installed to connect to the database.  However, it is a rather large file and we didn't want to make users download it unless it was necessary.  Even without the database, users will be able to run the program and view all of the screens, getting a good demo of the software.  If you like what you see, but got the error message starting the program warning you about database connectivity, you can either download mdac_typ.exe from MicroSoft at one of the following URLs:

http://www.microsoft.com/data/mdac2.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/uda/mdac21/mdac_typ21.asp
http://www.diderot.univ-lille1.fr/an2000/Microsoft/Corrections/MDAC.asp
ftp://ftp.integrade.com/updates/mdac/mdac_typ.exe

Any of these sites should have mdac_typ.exe or some setup package that will install it, but if you can also just order the full installation CD from FYIT, which will include this file and much more.  The full CD will actually automatically install mdac_typ.exe on your computer for you.




3.  Included in this version

The full version includes:

  *  over 150 Food and 150 Drink recipes for you to try
  *  the ability to add new Food and Drink recipes to the database
  *  a fully functional search engine that can search based on any ingredient, recipe title, cook time, prep time, category, etc.  
  *  the ability to search for only recipes that users have all of the ingrediens for (ingredients will marked off in users food and drink cabinets.
  *  the ability to change print settings
  *  the ability to export recipes to a file format that can be imported by other users
  *  create menus and recipe groups 
  *  use the menus and recipe groups to print recipe in a traditional cookbook style or use recipes to get a shopping list (Shopping lists are populated with items used in recipes that are not checked off in the Cabinet)


4.  New functionality Available in the Registered version
Also included, (disabled in the Shareware version)


Only the registered version of the cookbook will include
  *  hundreds more food and drink recipes
  *  use all functions of the cabinet 
  *  view / print mini cookboooks 
  *  ability to save anything viewed in the software as a Rich Text Box that can be easily opened in many word processors.
  *  resize recipes with the click of a button
  *  the ability to duplicate and change recipes (for similar recipes, a user can copy a source recipe and edit it to make a new recipe, rathar than re-entering the entire recipe!)
  *  the ability to view and print any recipe, recipe group, shopping list, etc.
  *  the ability to edit and maintain the cabinet
  *  the ability to import recipes from other users
  *  the ability to create an itemized Shopping list that shows every recipe chosen in a Menu or Recipe Group with a total amount for each ingredient (You can simply run this function with a group of recipes and go to the store and know exactly how much of each item to buy!  Items not marked in the cabinet will show up marked in this list so you know which items you are out of.)



5.  Why should you buy the Electronic Recipe Manager?

To get right to the point, the Electronic Recipe Manager is the most user-friendly software on the market.  We're not just bragging ourselves up either.  We have downloaded other cookbook software packages from the net and found complexity, complications, and missing functionality with practically all of them.  The biggest problem we found in other software was how hard it was to use.  That is why we used alternatives to get good feedback...

Why do we think we are the best?  Because we had our wives use the software while we developed it to give us suggestions on how to make it better!  What came out of this experiment is the best recipe manager on the market! 

With the Electronic Recipe Manager, users can easily learn to use all aspects of the software.  Entering recipes is straight forward, the searching is complete and works in conjunction with the cabinet, the cabinet is simply checking off ingredients you have, and the menu builder lets you build menus and recipe groups however you want them!

Even if you have problems understanding this software, don't worry.  We have a complete user manual that we can ship with the Electronic Recipe Manager to help you out.  

Also, FYIT is a startup company.  This means we need to keep customers happy to stay in business.  Our goal is to write software that is better than anyone else, and then sell it cheaper.  We hope you agree that the Electronic Recipe Manager fits our goal and buy our product for the low price it has.

If you do choose to buy our product, don't worry about losing any new recipes that you enter in this demo version.  All you have to do is use the Export function and select the recipes you have entered.  This will save all of the recipes you select to a file that is located on your hard-drive (make sure you know where it is by using the set function).  Once you get the registered version of the software, simply install it and import your recipes!  Then you will have all of FYIT's new recipes along with everything you have added yourself!




6.  Expected future enhancements
Depending on how popular this software is, We expect to have a homepage dedicated to the Electronic Recipe Manager.  This homepage will allow you to talk to other users and share recipes over the Internet.  We also are planning on adding more printing features to allow a user to print more recipes and in more of a traditional Cookbook style.  Also, your comments are appreciated.  We want to make this the best cookbook software recipe you can get, so send your questions, comments or suggestions to questions@foryourinfotech.com.  We look forward to hearing from you!



7.  Order the Electronic Recipe Manager

For Your Information Technology (FYIT) is a private software engineering company owned and operated by Jason William McCombie. 

To order the registered version of ERM, Send FYIT a check or money order for $15.90 (add $2.00 if you want the User's Manual) made out to Jason McCombie.

Price Breakdown:
 $12.85   Software Development
  $3.00   CD with software 
  $0.95   Tax 
+ $3.20   S&H
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 $20.00   Total Price for Software alone

+ $1.89   Manual 
  $0.11   Tax
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 $22.00   Total Price for Software and Manual


Please send the check or money order to:

For Your Information Technology
Orders: Electronic Recipe Manager
PO Box 305
Cresson, PA  16630

Or use the order form on the web at http://www.ForYourInfoTech.com


For information on other products by FYIT, questions, comments, or suggestions, Please e-mail:  

questions@foryourinfotech.com


As you can see, we're not overcharging for our software at all.  For a great price, you can have the best Electronic Recipe Manger out there!  Plus, you can make me feel better about spending all of the time I did writing it...

Please spread the word!


PS.  We're looking for investment capitolists.  We have plans for the future that our current budget cannot accomodate for.  If you like this software, you should see some of our other products and ideas!  

If interested in investing in FYIT or becoming a venture caplitolist, Please e-mail: 

business@foryourinfotech.com
