TourMiles

The USER MANUAL for the TourMiles mileage search software is in a file 
named TMDOCS.TXT

You can print a copy of the instructions directly from this diskette.  Just put 
this diskette in drive A: (or any drive), make A: the default drive by typing 
A: and press <ENTER>.  Be sure your printer is on and ready - enter the 
command:

			PRINT TMDOCS.TXT (press <ENTER>)

there are 18 pages of docs and city list


TourMiles is copyrighted 1990- Girard W. Landry.  This copy of the TourMiles 
MILEAGE SEARCH SOFTWARE is SHAREWARE and you are free to use it fore 
a reasonable evaluation period.  If you find the program to be useful and 
you continue to use it, you are expected to send a registration fee of $100.00 
to TourTech for continued support and information.  When you register, you 
will be sent a diskette without the shareware message,  and complete serial 
number status and printed user manual.  You will also be provided with our 
technical support phone number and will be automatically placed on our 
mailing list to receive update notices and special upgrading fee offers, as we 
are constantly improving TourMiles and expanding our product line.

Your registrations,  support our efforts to keep improving the software to 
better meet your needs.

For your convenience in registering, there is an Order Form in a file on this 
diskette.  You can print a copy of the Order Form by following the same 
instructions as for the User Manual except, use the following command:

			PRINT ORDER.FRM (press enter)

Before you do anything, Read this !!!!

The information provided in the user's manual is designed to help you to learn how to operate the 
TourMiles program.  You need to read it once through, BEFORE you activate the program.

When you enter city data and, at some point, have a "day off"(or another designation other than a city 
name), enter the name of the city the "day off" will be in.  That way, the program will allow for the "day 
off" and put a "0" in the mileage column.  Then, once you have exported  the TourMiles .WKB chart and 
retrieved it in LOTUS or EXCEL, you can change that city name to any designation you desire. 

Regarding the section in the manual that addresses the movement of data from the TourMiles program to a 
LOTUS_ or EXCEL_ file, or visa versa,  please take your time the first time, to get the feel for how this 
is done.  Going from TourMiles to one of the other spreadsheet programs is fairly simple: You save the 
TourMiles mileage chart as a "TMEXPORT.WKB" file (as the manual instructs on page 8); open your 
spreadsheet program and retrieve the export file;  and then you can change the name and data any way 
you wish.   

Moving data from a spreadsheet program to TourMiles is also simple, provided you follow the steps.  You 
will find two LOTUS (spreadsheet) files entitled "TMIMPORT.WKB" and "TMCITY.WKB" included with the 
TourMiles program.  These files are designed to take data from other spreadsheet or database programs 
and make a data transfer into the TourMiles program easier for you.  You format your data in the database 
to conform with the format in the "TMCITY" file, which automatically formats the data for import into 
"TMIMPORT".  After you have imported the data from the database to "TMCITY" and then to "TMIMPORT", 
you can open the TourMiles program; from the GET command, retrieve the "TMIMPORT" file; and then, by 
following the instructions in the user's manual, you can complete a mileage search.

There are, at the time of this printing, 114, 582 combinations of mileages between the 340 cities in the 
TourMiles' charts; and because of the massive size of these charts, adding shed (new) cities to them is a 
time consuming task,  i.e., looking up mileages from one shed (new) city to 340 cities.  However, we did 
add some cities (70 cities) by calculating the new mileages from the originating city to the nearest major 
city "plus" the mileage to the new city.  

For example, New York, NY, to Laguna Hills, CA (Irvine Meadows):  Laguna Hills, CA is 50 miles south of 
Los Angeles, CA.  The mileage is calculated from New York, NY, to Los Angeles (2794 miles) plus 50 
miles from Los Angeles to Laguna Hills, CA, for a total of 2844 miles.

Now, If you were traveling from San Diego, CA, to Laguna Hills, CA (77 miles), TourMiles would calculate 
the mileage from San Diego to Los Angeles (127 miles) plus 50 miles to Laguna Hills, CA, (total 177 
miles).  You would then subtract the 100 untraveled miles (to/from Los Angeles), for the total of 77 
miles.  So, depending on which direction you are traveling, you would adjust the mileages accordingly.   

In the user's manual, there is a list of shed (new) cities that have been added.  This list provides the 
mileages and direction from these shed (new) cities to the nearest major city that the TourMiles program 
uses in calculating mileages to/from these cities; so when you are preparing a mileage chart, you can 
adjust the mileages where needed.  

Now before you throw up your arms and say, 'What the hell," remember, this only applies to a limited 
number of distances.  This slight inconvenience is temporary.  We needed to do these calculations this way 
in order to get the program out to you; and we are now in the process of changing these mileages to direct 
mileages, but it will take a little time.

If you have to manually look up a 2-month tour, say, 55 cities, you will spend anywhere from 2 hours or 
more performing this task.  Now, even if TourMiles (in this case) only finds 45 cities of the 55 cities, and 
some are new (shed) cities and you have to look up the remaining 10 manually, you should be able to 
create a complete mileage chart, transfer the data to a spreadsheet file, make any changes and print a 
finished mileage chart in 30 minutes or less.  TourMiles just saved you a minimum of 1.5 hours.

The purpose of the TourMiles program is to assist you in preparing a national tour and to save you time in 
doing it.  This is the first version of a brand new program and a new idea, so, like all new products, it will 
continue to be improved upon; and as we add these improvements to this version, we will send them on 
along to you at "no charge."

Remember, that time saved is time in which you can do something else; and if you should decide that the 
TourMiles program does not fit your needs, there is a "Fifteen day money-back guarantee".  You 
send the program with all installs intact back to us, and we will send your money back!

When you are entering a list of tour cities and you have a few cities (like suburb cities or smaller cities) 
that are not in the "Master City List," and TourMiles prompts "City not found in master list. Accept? 
(Y/N)."  We suggest that you do the following, which will include three (3) runs through the TourMiles 
process:

	1.      Enter city data as manual instructs, when a city that is either, not found in the "Master City List" 
or you know it's a city in an outlaying area, Enter the closest major city to that smaller city, 
Example: Framingham, MA = Boston, MA - Johnstown, PA = Pittsburgh, PA.
So, let's say you are going from Chicago, IL to Framingham, MA to Johnstown, PA.  You would enter 
Chicago, IL to Boston, MA to Pittsburgh, PA, for the first mileage search.  Once you have entered the 
complete list of cities and have completed a mileage search, write down the mileages to and from the 
major city that you entered instead of the smaller city.  Then look up the mileage from the smaller city to 
that closest major city and add it to the mileage that TourMiles provided.  
Example: TourMiles will find Chicago to Boston 965 miles you will find  22 miles to 
Framingham, TourMiles will find Boston to Pittsburgh 571 miles you will find 69 miles to 
Johnstown.  You will want to write this mileages down for later input.

	2.      Use Edit command and move the cursor and change the city name from major city to the smaller 
city.  
Example: Boston to Framingham and Pittsburgh to Johnstown
once you have changed the names and have completed all entries, begin the second mileage search and 
follow the prompts as they appear.  This will put a zero (0) mileages in the column next to the changed 
cities, which you change in the next step.

	3.      Once you have completed the second search, return to the Edit command and move the cursor to the 
mileage column and the first zero (0) mileage that needs to be changed and enter the correct mileage 
(which you havw written down) and continue to the next one and so on until all zero (0) mileages have 
been changed.
Example: Chicago to Framingham (Chicago to Boston to Framingham) 965 +22 = 987 miles.  
Enter 987 miles
Framingham to Johnstown (Framingham to Boston to Pittsburgh to Johnstown) 22 + 571+69 = 
662 miles,  Enter 662 miles.
As you enter the new mileages, TourMiles will automatically change the travel times, adjusted mileages 
and times and the all totals.  We do how every recommend that you do a third mileage search.  TourMiles 
will perform all three steps in minutes and save you hours.

I am sure once you have performed these steps a few time you will find your own short cuts.

